Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1945: Military and civilian personnel at Clovis Army Air Field were cutting back on cigarettes.
A more-stringent War Department system was going into effect that would cut the cigarette supply in half.
1946: The employees of Barnes Cleaners in Clovis had hosted a surprise chicken-fry supper at Hillcrest Park in honor of their boss, Buck Barnes.
Employees’ families and friends turned out to eat and play games on Barnes’ birthday.
1950: The Roosevelt County community of Lingo was home to 188 registered voters, up from 185 in 1948, County Clerk B.A. Cook reported.
Registered voters in Elida had dropped from 735 to 505 in the past two years.
1961: Eastern New Mexico University in Portales was making plans to inaugurate its third president, Donald C. Moyer.
More than 50 colleges and universities had pledged to send representatives for the ceremony.
Moyer, who served tours in the Army and Navy, graduated from the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago.
He was executive secretary of the New Mexico Board of Educational Finance before coming to ENMU.
He succeeded Donald MacKay and Floyd Golden as ENMU president and held the position five years.
1961: The Village Record Shop in Clovis was offering a sale on “grab bag” 45 rpm records.
They went five for $1.
1966: Montgomery Ward was selling 21-inch console color TVs for $449.
A “new-type tube with a rare-earth element” made colors brighter, according to newspaper advertisements.
1970: Eastern New Mexico University was preparing to host its 23rd annual Sunshine Music Camp with several hundred junior and senior high school students expected to attend.
Instruction was to be provided in dance band, orchestra, concert choir, music theory and more, officials said.
Guest instructors for the 10-day camp were to include Donald Moore, former director of bands at Baylor University.
1975: Amarillo and its surrounding communities were recovering from severe flooding and heavy hail after a night of tornado scares.
National Weather Service officials reported Groom, east of Amarillo, received 6 inches of rain, leaving water 4 feet deep across sections of Interstate 40.
Wheat crops around the region were destroyed by flooding and baseball-sized hail, officials said.
Tornadoes touched down near Midland, Big Spring and Hobbs, destroying a mobile home and a barn, The Associated Press reported.
Eastern New Mexico communities received only sprinkles.
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