Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1988: A torrential overnight storm brought twisters, golf-ball sized hail and up to 6 inches of rain to eastern New Mexico, leaving behind flood waters that drowned a Clovis man in the early morning hours.
Macario Lovato, 33, and three companions were in a vehicle that was washed into a drainage canal behind the Allsup's store at 21st and Thornton Streets. The other three made it safely to dry land, but "Lovato's feet were apparently caught in a culvert and he could not escape," the Clovis News-Journal reported.
Curry County Extension Agent Billy Dictson said the agricultural experimental station 13 miles north of Clovis had received 5 inches of rain with heavy hail.
In Roosevelt County, Extension Agent Floyd McAlister said he'd had a call from Bethel farmer Leland Pool that "his 6-inch gauge had overflowed."
1983: Les Leatherwood, 7, and his sister Lisha, 3, were signed up to compete in the Little Buckaroos Rodeo, the first event of the 1983 Curry Count Pioneer Days festivities.
They were photographed by the Clovis News-Journal with their dad, Dusty Leatherwood, as Wilma Fulgham, one of the rodeo coordinators, helped fill out entry forms.
The Little Buckaroo competition was limited to kids 12 and younger. Scheduled events included stick horse races, goat ribbon races, horse flag races, and a mother/daughter relay.
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