Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1969: The front page of the Clovis News-Journal featured the following local news reports:
• Thomas R. Tucker, a Portales serviceman, had been presented a Bronze Star for heroic action in Vietnam.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Tucker was "credited with preventing his 50-foot patrol boat from sinking while on patrol on the Bo De River in the summer of 1968," CN-J reported.
• Charles Marlow Preston of Tucumcari had been killed in a single-engine plane crash 30 miles southwest of Fort Sumner.
Wreckage was found scattered over a wide area of pastureland belonging to John Trigg.
• Democratic lawmakers were critical of a Lincoln Day speech that had been delivered by U.S. Rep. Ed Foreman, a New Mexico Republican.
The speech, which failed to mention Abraham Lincoln, was delivered before the New Mexico Legislature. In his talk, Foreman criticized Congress for giving itself a 41 percent pay raise, blaming Democrats.
"They (Democrats) got a slick way of doing it," he said.
Critics said Foreman "abused the hospitality of the Democratic members of the Legislature" and "lowered the integrity of the Legislature" with his words, CN-J reported.
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