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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1983: Members of the Clovis High School drama department were putting finishing touches on "The Final Dress Rehearsal," a dinner theater fundraiser to benefit the Lyceum Theater restoration project.
Carolyn Toliver was the director for the group, and Les Hubby was lined up to cook the dinner for the event being held at Central Christian Church in Clovis.
The Clovis Junior Women's Club was sponsoring the event; tickets were $10.
1973: More than 3,500 Portales citizens turned out in a highly publicized election, voting by the narrowest of margins to keep Portales dry by continuing the ban on alcohol sales that had been in effect since 1918.
It took multiple recounts and days for the results to be verified, after the margin in the first count was only seven votes.
The voter turnout was the "largest ever for a prohibition repeal election in Portales," according to the Clovis News-Journal.
The city officially lifted prohibition in another election two years later.
Pages Past is compiled by Betty Williamson. Contact her at: [email protected]
