Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date …
1969: The Eastern New Mexico University Symphony was preparing to make its season debut at the annual Pops Concert Banquet in the Campus Union ballroom.
Symphony director was Arthur Welker. He planned to present selections from “My Fair Lady,” “South Pacific,” “Sound of Music” and “Carousel.”
The banquet menu called for prime rib, baked potato, fruit cup, a vegetable and dessert.
Admission was $2.75. That included the meal.
1970: The Portales Rams, fresh from a surprising 20-14 win over previously unbeaten Class 4A Santa Fe, were ranked third in the United Press International Class 3A prep poll.
The Rams, 3-1, had won three in a row after losing their season opener to West Mesa of Albuquerque.
1972: Newspaper Managing Editor Bill Southard offered an explanation for a helicopter that had been seen in the parking lot at Gebo’s in Clovis.
“When you have 10 stores in 10 different cities, the way to travel is by helicopter,” Southard wrote. “H.M. Gebo of Plainview has his own whirly-bird — he flies it himself — to make the rounds.”
The chain of agriculture supply stores was founded by Horace Gebo in 1959.
1976: The Luv-Way Adult Book Store in Clovis was attracting the attention of local law enforcement.
Assistant District Attorney Bill Bonem issued a statement reporting “(T)here is no existing (statute) or county ordinance which prohibits the operation of such a business.
“However, the New Mexico legislature in the 1973 session enacted a law prohibiting distribution of ‘sex-oriented’ material harmful to minors.’”
Bonem said the law required the district attorney to “review material offered for sale and to determine whether it is in fact harmful.”
Bonem said the DA’s office reviewed material being sold and determined it was harmful to those under age 18.
Sale of the material in question to a minor could result in a one-year prison term and $1,000 fine.
The Luv-Way was located at 2400 S. Prince, about a half mile south of the Yucca Theatre.
Newspaper ads for the store informed customers that “ID required to prove your age. You must be 18 to enter building.”
1982: Rosli Hussein, a 22-year-old freshman at Eastern New Mexico University “just off the plane from Malaysia” was making a name for himself as the new placekicker for the Greyhound football team.
Hussein, who had never even seen a football game before coming to the U.S., was on the national soccer team for his home country. In a visit with Wayne Gares, vice president for student affairs, Hussein was lamenting the fact that Eastern had no soccer team and said he was considering trying to transfer to a school that did.
Gares knew the Hounds were in the market for a kicker since theirs had recently been declared ineligible. He convinced Hussein to try out and “all doubts were erased as his booming kicks proved to be just what the doctor ordered for the Greyhounds’ kicking woes,” according to the Clovis News-Journal.
Pages Past is compiled by David Stevens and Betty Williamson. Contact:
