Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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1974: Clovis city commissioners took steps toward acquiring additional land for expansion at Clovis Municipal Airport and appointing an airport zoning board. Lack of zoning at the airport was holding up funding from the Federal Aviation Administration, city officials said. Area property owners had opposed zoning because it would set limits on heights of obstructions.
1967: A Clovis school board member expressed concern about a deluge of federal programs infiltrating the Clovis school system. “Every time a federal program comes out we jump on it … one of these days they’re going to own us,” said Dan Hardisty. His remarks came after the school’s cafeteria director asked the board to approve a pilot project under the Child Nutrition Act to serve breakfast to “economically deprived” students in three Clovis schools. The federal government had approved $37,000 for the project in New Mexico. “When are they going to serve supper?” Hardisty asked. Then he made a motion to approve the program, which passed unanimously.
1965: The Water Rights for New Mexico Landowners Association was preparing to fight the Portales Valley Project, which desired to drill 197 wells on 96 sections of land northeast of Portales. Some of the land in question was owned by ranchers and farmers in Curry and three other New Mexico counties, the Clovis News-Journal reported.
Animal attraction …
1959: Clovis city officials claimed at least 500,000 people visited Hillcrest Park and zoo annually and that 70 percent of cars at the park had out-of-state license plates. Efforts were under way to improve the zoo’s animal pens, which had been built in 1932 with Works Progress Administration assistance.
In-car heaters were provided …
1955: La Fonda Drive In Theatre offered a double feature — “Fallen Angel,” starring Alice Faye and Dana Andrews, and “Key Largo,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Adults were admitted for 50 cents.
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