Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1937: Ruby Hauenstein, whom the Clovis Evening News-Journal reported “has charge of the sheriff’s office,” had implemented a new system of records for prisoners in the Curry County jail.
Her record sheets showed name, date received, date released, days served, charge and disposition for each inmate.
1946: Clovis’ Hillcrest Park Zoo had two more potential lion kings.
Queen, a 6-year-old African lioness, had given birth to a pair of male cubs. The father was a 12-year-old black-maned lion whose name was not reported by the Clovis News-Journal.
Queen was born in the Clovis zoo. The black-maned lion had been obtained in a trade with a circus.
1956: More than a foot of snow buried eastern New Mexico in what some called the worst storm in at least 50 years.
High winds contributed to problems, which included road closures and the loss of livestock.
Clovis Air Force Base personnel helped one stranded motorist who was on her way to the hospital to give birth.
Iris Young, traveling with her husband from their home in the Quay County community of McAlister, had to be rescued from a snow drift. The baby was born, without complications, at the base hospital.
Military personnel reported they helped rescue occupants from 50 or 60 cars that became stalled in 10-foot snowdrifts.
1965: Two Clovis children suffered mishaps that required trips to Memorial Hospital.
Kenneth Harper, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harper, was treated for a cut on his face. Terri Nation, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Nation, ran into a moving car.
Both children were released after treatment.
1971: Clovis High School’s gymnastics team was preparing to host a triangular meet against Roswell and Pojoaque. The Wildcat girls were 4-4 in meet competition.
1973: Clovis High School graduate Judy Garcia was one of two women in the United States to be selected for the United States Navy Recruiter Assistance Program.
The daughter of Manuel and Mary Garcia of Clovis, Garcia had completed eight weeks of recruiter training in Orlando, Fla., and was back in Clovis to spend 10 days working with local Navy recruiters Chief Doug Rogers and Chief Robert West.
After her stint in Clovis, she was headed to Norfolk, Va., to work in the personnel department as part of her three-year commitment to the Navy.
1975: Sharon Taylor, Lorraine Oswald, Diane Shaw, Ginger Trimble, Debbie Swann, Sissy Echols and Debbie Blackburn were candidates for Clovis High School’s basketball homecoming queen.
Shaw, a senior, was selected the winner during halftime of the Clovis-Roswell Goddard game.
1976: Heavy fog hung over Clovis and Portales, limiting visibility to zero at times.
One automobile accident on West Brady in Clovis was blamed on the weather.
“The fog was too thick. I couldn’t see anything,” said Bernard Baca, who lived at 808 Pierson.
Baca was hospitalized in good condition, but the other driver, Forrest Howard of Clovis, was not seriously injured.
1983: Word was received of the death of Floyd Golden, longtime president of Eastern New Mexico University, who had died the previous day in Amarillo.
Golden served as president of ENMU from 1941 until his retirement in 1960. His involvement with the school began when it opened as the two-year Eastern New Mexico Junior College in 1934 and he was appointed its first dean for an annual salary of $3,600.
As dean, he helped in the selection of the school’s first president, Donald MacKay.
The university’s library was dedicated as Golden Library in his honor in 1977.
Golden was survived by his wife, Elsie.
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