Pages past - April 12

On this date ...

1970: The Texico Volunteer Fire Department was preparing to host the Stamps Quartet in the auditorium of Texico High School.

Advance tickets were $1.50. Tickets at the door would be $2.

The Stamps Quartet, according to the Clovis News-Journal, was organized in 1924. It was “the first professional gospel music quartet.”

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