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On this date ...

1962: Eastern New Mexico University theater students were gearing up to present the satire “Teahouse of the August Moon” under the direction of longtime theater professor R. Lyle Hagan.

Thirty-seven students were participating in “one of the largest casts ever assembled for a university theater production,” according to the Clovis News-Journal.

George W. McKinney designed the sets for the Pulitzer prize-winning comedy.

1952: Clovis police were alerted on two out-of-state stolen property reports, one from Littlefield and one from Muleshoe.

A Lamb County sheriff reported that a Remington adding machine had been nabbed, and described the car carrying the person or persons suspected of making off with it.

Meanwhile, a Muleshoe man called Clovis authorities to report that an accordion and a boy’s jacket were stolen from his car “while it was parked at a church house in Texico,” according to the Clovis News-Journal.

Pages Past is compiled by Betty Williamson. Contact her at: [email protected]