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Ranch boy goes from peace officer to city manager

Don McAlavy: CNJ columnist

T his is briefly how Joseph C. Thomas, a ranch boy, from Norton in Quay Valley, some 25 miles southeast of Tucumcari, came to be in Clovis.

Isom H. Thomas and three of his sons, sometime between 1912 and 1913, came from Rog...