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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Oct. 17, 1960: Portales News-Tribune: Ray Sena Jr., nephew of Sen. Dennis Chavez, was visiting his parents here on a stopover between assignments in Beirut, Lebanan, and a new post in the American Embassy in Dacca, East Pakistan. Sena had been with the State Department for 12 years....
Oct. 18, 1953: The Portales Daily News: Jerry Dickson, Portales drum major of the Sul Ross State College Band, did a solo performance during half-time between Sul Ross and Southwest Texas State College....
Oct. 19, 1952: The Portales Daily News: For the third straight year, the Dora Coyotes were Roosevelt County baseball champs. They won that honor by beating the Floyd Broncos in the finals of the county at Dora, 12-5....
Oct. 20, 1953: The Portales Daily News: Jack Patton and Ira Bogard were named co-chairmen for the 1954 March Of Dimes, said Grover Ross, chairman of the county polio foundation chapter....
Oct. 21, 1960: Portales News-Tribune: Lt. Gov. Ed Mead, a Baptist deacon, wearing a Kennedy button on his lapel, was in Portales on a political missionary task that included not only the Democratic presidential nominee, but Gov. John Burroughs....
Oct. 22, 1953: The Portales Daily News: Roosevelt County farmers were concerned with the weather, as usual, but for a different reason. It was too wet and too cool. Typically the problem was the reverse....
Oct. 23, 1952: The Portales Daily News: Portales' two latest polio victims were both reported as somewhat improved, but still in serious condition. They are Dusty Bogard, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Bogard, and Jerry McCarty, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. F.M. McCarty....
Oct. 24, 1947: The Portales Daily News: Two chemistry students at Eastern New Mexico College escaped serious injury because of the quick action of laboratory assistants after a sodium explosion....
Oct. 25, 1953: The Portales Daily News: Pvt. John W. Berry, whose wife is Mrs. Altha Berry of North Star Route, Elida, was nearing completion of a 16-week training cycle in Fort Leofiard Wood, Mo., with a unit of the 6th Armored Division....
Oct. 26, 1952: The Portales Daily News: Miss Elza Ramsey and Miss Alva Ramsey were on hand Monday morning to greet the visitors to their clothes store, "Mode o' Day," next door to First National Bank....
Oct. 27, 1947: The Portales Daily News: Four Roosevelt County soldiers were among the first of the nation's World War II dead to be returned from Europe, aboard the transport Joseph V. Connally, which docked at New York's flower-strewn harbor Sunday....
Oct. 28, 1953: The Portales Daily News: Cliff Stevenson, Elida rancher and county commissioner, was learning to ride a new kind of vehicle at the General Hospital. He was recovering from severe injuries in a car wreck Sept. 1., and was finding his walker, loaned to the hospital by Veterans of Foreign Wars, a real help....
Oct. 29, 1947: The Portales Daily News: The Dora senior class was presenting the play "The Antics of Andrew," a three-act comedy, Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m. The play was presented in the Dora Auditorium....
Oct. 30, 1953: The Portales Daily News: Janet Peterson was one of 16 New Mexico 4-H Club members who had been named winners in the state achievement awards program to attend the National 4-H Congress in Chicago Nov. 29-Dec. 3....
Oct. 31, 1952: The Portales Daily News: Representatives of Portales civic organizations last night unanimously approved a move to bring a Red Cross mobile blood unit here to take whole blood for Korea....
Argen Duncan: Portales News-Tribune Brian Clark Jr. waits for a trailer to fill with peanuts Wednesday at Portales Select Peanut Company Inc. The machine separates dirt and debris from the nuts, which are then sent to be dried or, in this case, graded. The peanut harvest this year has brought in higher-than-normal yields and good-quality nuts, farmers and processors are saying. The recent lack of rain has also put the harvest on track to finish early. Roosevelt County farmer Craig Breshears estimated he was harvesting 10...
The effort to rescue 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground for 69 days was bound to attract attention, but the worldwide interest in the operation has made it a perhaps surprising global phenomenon. Perhaps people are hungry for a happy ending in a world in which unhappy endings are all too common. Perhaps people are eager to acknowledge competence and dedication in putting together an enormously complex operation that could have gone wrong in dozens of ways. In Chile we have seen what appears to have been a careful, thou...
Glenda Price The bossman bid on a fence building job along the right-of-way of a newly paved road in the northern New Mexico mountains. He didn’t tell the ranch hands about it until he actually got the contract in hand. All chores having to do with fencing — building, repairing, riding in search of problems — are WAY far down the list of jobs cowboys like, even below corral cleaning. Fences on most ranches are made of four-strands of barbed wire strung on cedar posts. This highway job, though, was different. T...
The effort to rescue 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground for 69 days was bound to attract attention, but the worldwide interest in the operation has made it a perhaps surprising global phenomenon. Perhaps people are hungry for a happy ending in a world in which unhappy endings are all too common. Perhaps people are eager to acknowledge competence and dedication in putting together an enormously complex operation that could have gone wrong in dozens of ways. In Chile we have seen what appears to have been a careful, thou...
Russell Anglin Sunday marked one of those rare instances when my nuclear and extended families could get together and relax for a minute or two. Having somehow awoke at a reasonable time Sunday morning at my grandma’s house in Dora, I had the chance to join my stepdad, little brother and grandpa as they made their morning rounds to my grandpa’s farms. George Patterson, my little brother, is 16 years old and managed to substantially outgrow me in the last couple of years. After nearly two decades of withstanding my con...
Jennifer O’Connor of Norfolk, Va., who describes herself as a writer for Animals in Entertainment and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is concerned about the petting zoo planned for this weekend’s Peanut Festival in Portales. Here’s what she had to say in an e-mail:...
An event that started as a wine and cheese tasting nine years ago has evolved to include New Mexico wines, beers, an olive bar, salsa bar and chocolate fountain. The food is part of the attraction at the annual Downtown Gala, which serves as the biggest fundraiser for Clovis MainStreet. Clovis MainStreet is a nonprofit that works to revitalize economic development and historic preservation in the downtown district. To do that, the organization uses grant money and money raised to bring the community together to keep the...
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Friday briefing. School business Monday is parent-teacher conference day for Portales Municipal Schools from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. There is no school that day. Information: Call the administration office at 356-7000 or call your child's school. Black eyes for Cannon Airmen of all ranks will be wearing black eyes today. It’s part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month activities by Family Advocacy at Cannon Air Force Base. Advocacy will be painting black eyes on volunteers. The p...
Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Friday briefing. School business Monday is parent-teacher conference day for Portales Municipal Schools from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. There is no school that day. Information: Call the administration office at 356-7000 or call your child's school. Black eyes for Cannon Airmen of all ranks will be wearing black eyes today. It’s part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month activities by Family Advocacy at Cannon Air Force Base. Advocacy will be painting black eyes on volunteers. The p...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tom Udall, D-N.M.,today announced that the Department of Defense has extended until Dec. 3 the deadline for active duty service members, veterans, and beneficiaries of service members whose service was involuntarily extended due to “Stop Loss” to apply for Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay. Under the 2009 War Supplemental Appropriations Act, compensation is available to service members of every military branch who had their enlistment extended or retirement suspended between September 11, 200...
