Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1960: Portales’ Lester Bayless returned home after a lousy weekend to some good news.
The bad news began on a Friday morning when he lost $100 in cash, somewhere between First Federal Savings and Loan and Compton’s Store for Men.
Bayless hoped his fortunes might improve with a weekend fishing trip, but instead he had car troubles in addition to a flat tire before returning home.
Things got better after Bayless read in the Portales Daily Tribune that four area residents had given a “good sum of money” found on the streets to the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office.
Bayless contacted the sheriff, reported he’d lost five $20 bills and gave the approximate location where the money had gone missing.
He was “in good spirits again” when the money was returned, the Daily Tribune reported.
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