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1972: A Clovis man drowned at a lake near Fort Sumner.

Harold Dow Jr., 20, "was pulled from 12 to 14 feet of murky lake water" at Alamogordo Lake north of Fort Sumner.

He was rushed to a Fort Sumner hospital but died soon after arriv...