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1977: Clovis edged Roswell, 45-43, in high school basketball.

“With the score tied 43 all, Nelson Franse had to fire up an off-balance 15-footer that hit the cotton at the buzzer,” Clovis News-Journal Sports Editor Mike Magda reported.

The win lifted Clovis to 12-4 for the season, while Roswell fell to 12-6.

Bill Patton led Clovis in scoring with 14 points.

1972: The “new, exciting capless wig” was on sale for $29.95 at Wig Chateau.

A newspaper advertisement proclaimed the wig offered “easy care,” was “ideal for frosting or tipping” and “you can pull some of your own hair through if you desire.”

The Wig Cheateau was at 21st and Thornton streets in Clovis.

1967: New Mexico Gov. David Cargo was under fire from Democratic lawmakers for a comment he made to the media about “girlfriends” of legislators.

Cargo, a Republican, had told reporters he was unhappy that “friends, relatives, wives and girlfriends” were being allowed on the Senate floor, when members of the press were barred.

Sen. President Pro Tem Ike Morgan, D-Curry-Roosevelt County, was among the governor’s critics.

Morgan said Cargo’s statement “points out the need to be more careful about statements issued to the press.”

Sen. Mike Alarid, D-Bernalillo, said he took “a personal affront to the governor’s implication that the Legislature embraces a collection of philanderers.

“And the implication becomes more serious when you consider that with but one or two exceptions, every member here is married.”

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