Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date …
1931: Hundreds of family and friends had packed Clovis’ First Methodist Church, leaving the balcony and vestibule overflowing, to say goodbye to Walter Stalcup, 45.
Stalcup was well known throughout the community, serving almost 20 years as manager of the Barry Hardware Co.
Officials said he took his own life, a bullet from a pistol piercing his heart.
Funeral services were conducted by the National Guard. Stalcup was a veteran of World War I.
1956: The Grier post office closed, ending a 35-year run.
The community 11 miles west of Clovis on U.S. 60-84 began as Havener in 1910 and changed its name to Grier in 1921.
L.R. Rowell was the last Grier postmaster.
1961: A Clovis man had been awarded $400 in a court judgment after swallowing a fork full of spinach he said also contained a rock.
Walter Thompson’s petition to the court said the rock, about the size of a quarter, was “negligently, carelessly, wantonly, and recklessly packed into the can of spinach.”
He said the rock lodged in his throat, causing him to lose his voice for about a week.
He filed his lawsuit against the Consolidated Foods Corp., which manufactured Monarch spinach.
1971: An exhibit featuring the works of Stanley and Arlene Zekowski Berne, associate English professors at Eastern New Mexico University, was on display at the ENMU library.
The exhibit was titled “A Multi-Media Exhibition of Contemporary Literature, Woodcuts and Engravings.”
The Bernes had published multiple novels. Original manuscripts and woodcuts used in illustrating the books made up the exhibit.
The husband-wife writing team had been guest lecturers in Mexico City, Austria and Denmark and were featured in a New York Times literary supplement on avant-garde literature published in 1964.
Realtors and sugar beets …
1961: Officers for the Clovis Board of Realtors were Juanita Hancock, Myron Jones, Dean Eldridge, Buster Hawkins, Herb Tucker and President Allen Reid.
They posed for a newspaper photo at their January meeting, which also included a presentation from Hoyt Pattison, president of the Curry County Sugar Beet Association.
Cash Ramey also speak to the Realtors about ideas for attracting people to New Mexico.
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