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1976: Clovis City Commissioner Jim Jacobs had been unsuccessful in efforts to raise the rent on city-owned hangars at the Clovis airport.

His proposals, offered multiple times in recent months, were discussed as commissioners also considered plans to make about $200,000 in improvements to the airport.

Hangar rentals were $37.50 per month.

1971: Most area schools were back in session following a snowstorm, but several events had been canceled or postponed because of the weather.

Some rural counties were still reporting telephone outages.

The Clovis News-Journal weather coverage included a front-page photo of Cindy, a monkey at the zoo, claiming she "wears a resentful look as she wraps her long hairy arms around her body to ward off this morning's 20-degree chill."

Cindy and her longtime companion Lucy preferred tropical temperatures, the newspaper reported.

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