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On this date …
1970: New Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Eastern New Mexico University could keep teacher salaries secret, for now, if its board of regents promptly appealed a Roosevelt County District Court decision to make them public.link
ENMU student journalists Ernest Sanchez and Arthur Dula took the college to court, claiming its 280 teacher salaries should be made public.
1964: Teola Artman received a 25-year veterans award for service to area Boy Scouts. The El Llano Grande District of the Conquistador Council presented the award at its annual banquet.
Artman was also active in local Girl Scouts. She was instrumental in starting both organizations in Clovis in the 1930s.
1960: Eastern New Mexico University’s board of regents unanimously found the school’s business manager guilty of insubordination.
Leonard Price had written a memo, claiming university President Floyd Golden was “incompetent” and “unable to cope with the complexities at the university.” He wrote that the “entire administration should be removed and replaced with competent leadership.”
Price told the regents he was suffering from a severe headache when he wrote the memo and told them “there are implications in the letter which I did not intend.”
Despite his request to withdraw the letter, he was soon dismissed from his position and then hospitalized for “hypertension,” according to media reports.
Golden resigned three weeks later, but would become president emeritus after serving as a consultant to find his successor.
It’s his business …
1975: Dr. Jerry Gregory was relocating his office from 301 Third St. in Farwell to West Plains Memorial Hospital in Muleshoe.
Pages Past is compiled by Clovis Media Inc. Editor David Stevens. For more regional history, check out his weblog at:
