Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date …
1965: The emergency room at Clovis Memorial Hospital was being misused as an extension to the physician’s office or as an outpatient clinic, the hospital’s administrator and board chairman claimed. They said the hospital saw 6,050 patients in its emergency room in 1964, but only 25 percent of them were “true emergencies.”
1954: Several Clovis families living on West First Street were evacuated from their homes after 4 inches of rain fell on the city in less than two hours. First Street was a river from Hull Street east to Prince, the Clovis News-Journal reported. The underpass on the Portales highway was filled with 10 feet of water — and under the water was an unidentified automobile.
1944: Maude Pierson found out how blue a blue Monday can be, a newspaper society columnist reported. “It seems her mother had found a moth in the clothes closet, so she awakened her daughter early to help empty three closets to air the clothes.” The unidentified “Up and Down The Street” columnist quoted Pierson saying, “Carrying all those clothes out to the line sure got tiresome.”
Price check ...
1961: Cashway Super Market at Seventh and Main in Clovis offered back-to-school specials: pencils 1 cent, rulers 5 cents, 8-count Crayola boxes for 10 cents. “As off to school we go, please folks … drive slow,” the grocery store cautioned in a newspaper ad.
Gone gone ...
Hollene, located 32 miles northeast of Clovis, had three general stores, a post office, a school, a blacksmith shop and more in 1907. The school consolidated with Bellview in 1940, the post office closed in 1953. Only a cemetery remains today.
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