Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date …
1975: Clovis High School band members harvested sugar beets to help fund a December trip to Los Angeles. Officials with New Mexico State University Plains Experiment Station north of Clovis invited students to top and load an estimated 12 to 15 tons of excess beets, worth about $40 a ton.
1971: Sixty-four area law officers were each presented with a Thanksgiving turkey in a brief ceremony launching “Area Law Enforcement Officers’ Week.” D.L. Ingram and Doc Stewart, Clovis men who initiated the recognition, passed out the turkeys. Mayor Chick Taylor Jr. issued a proclamation calling for the observance.
1964: Police were looking into two burglaries in the 100 block of Mitchell Street they believed were related. The El Monterey restaurant lost 20 dozen hot tamales, a box of cigars, 10 or 12 boxes of mints and 14 boxes of candy bars; Bill Moore’s plumbing shop in the same area lost about $500 worth of tools the same night.
Their business …
1967: Roden-Smith Rexall Drug at 400 Main offered a jumbo hamburger and thick malted milk for 49 cents at its fountain. Polaroid swinger cameras were $13.97. Broxodent electric toothbrushes were $12.95.
Famous from here …
John Burroughs, New Mexico’s governor in 1959 and 1960, helped build the Valencia peanut crop into a multimillion-dollar business in Roosevelt County. He purchased McCasland Roasters in 1945 and renamed it Portales Valley Mills, enlarging the facility into a modern processing plant for shelling, roasting and crushing peanuts. He died in 1978 at age 71.
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