Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date …
1944: A Parmerton woman was recovering from an accident involving a pressure cooker. Mrs. G.H. Brock was cut by glass when a jar in the cooker exploded.
Several stitches were required to close the wound.
Parmerton was in central Parmer County, Texas, and was the county seat for seven months in 1907 before that distinction went to Farwell.
1946: Republican candidates had made “a strong bid for the veteran vote” at a rally in Portales.
Gubernatorial candidate Ed Safford “declared flatly that he favored the same tax exemption for World War II veterans as was given veterans of World War I,” The Associated Press reported.
“If it was a mistake 25 years ago, it will just have to be a mistake now,” he said.
Democrat Thomas Mabry won the election.
1959: Chilly weather and rain prevailed across the region and state for a fourth consecutive day.
Low temperatures were reported in the 40s in Clovis-Portales, while rainfall totals were close to 1.5 inches over the spell.
The Friona area also reported baseball-size hail, which did damage to cotton and feed crops.
A rain-slick highway was blamed in one death near Santa Fe.
1966: Owen’s Barber Shop had moved to Studio City at 2112 Thornton St. in Clovis.
A newspaper ad reported there were “4 barbers to serve you better.”
The barbers were Mike Green, Ellison Green, Darrel Smith and Heavy Owen.
1968: Curry County saw its sixth traffic fatality of the year when a Grants woman died from injuries suffered in a Sept. 24 traffic accident near Grier that also killed her husband.
Investigators said Mrs. Olen H. Jeffries was driving a pickup west on U.S. 60-84 when the vehicle went off the shoulder.
When she attempted to jerk it back on the highway, the pickup rolled and both occupants were ejected from the vehicle.
1975: Sports writer Bruce Williams predicted a see-saw battle when Muleshoe traveled to Portales in a high school football matchup.
“Army Salinas’ squad has the home advantage, so Portales 19, Muleshoe 13,” he predicted.
Portales won, 21-20.
1975: Area Key Club members were hoping to raise funds at the second annual “Teeter-Thon,” an event “in which members teeter-totter for as long as they can hold out.”
The endurance competition was scheduled to start following the Clovis High School football game on Friday and go through Sunday, “or until the participants’ teeter can no longer totter,” Clovis News-Journal Managing Editor Bill Southard reported.
1977: Clovis had opened a detoxification center for women.
The new facility, located at 219 Ross, “is fully furnished for its purpose of serving as a temporary home for female alcoholics,” the Clovis News-Journal reported.
Sharron Marrazzo, director of treatment services for the Curry-Roosevelt Council on Alcoholism, said the purpose of the detox center was to help female clients “through the withdrawal phase.”
“We expect to keep such women for about 72 hours” in the new center, Marrazzo said.
The council, headed by Larry Null, had been operating a detoxification center for men for several years at 705 E. Grand Ave.
1990: Gas prices had jumped 7 cents a gallon “almost overnight” across eastern New Mexico, the Clovis News-Journal reported.
Prices had been rising steadily since Aug. 2, and went from $1.31 per gallon to $1.38 in recent days.
But area prices were still lower than the state average — $1.42, CN-J reported.
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