Pages past — Aug. 14

On this date ...

1975: Texico had a new junior high school and multiple new administrators.

The school, still about a week away from completion, cost $275,000, the Clovis News-Journal reported.

New administrators included Superintendent James Pierce, and Principals James Harding, Kenneth Shaw and George Harrington.

Superintendent A.D. McDonald retired during the summer.

1960: Four Clovis men were fined $50 each, plus court costs, after pleading guilty to illegal possession of mourning doves.

Dove season was still two weeks away from its beginning. The men were found with two doves in their possession.

1955: The annual all-veterans picnic was slated for the Eastern New Mexico University campus in Portales.

All veterans and their families were welcomed to the basket dinner.

Free melons and snow cones were served.

In national news ...

1965: More than 250 “singing, chanting Negroes” marched on city hall in Springfield, Massachusetts, in protest of alleged police brutality, United Press International reported.

About 25 civil rights demonstrators were arrested on the steps of city hall when they refused to end a marathon campout, according to UPI.

Pages Past is compiled by Editor David Stevens. For more regional history, check out his weblog at:

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