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1980: Quarterback Eddie Poe led Portales past Eunice, 21-0, in high school football.

Poe scored a touchdown, ran for a two-point conversion and rushed for 96 yards on 14 carries, The Associated Press reported.

1950: Clifford Franklin of the Perry 4-H club had exhibited the grand-champion calf at the Roosevelt County Fair.

Fair officials were promoting the week-long event as the “biggest and best” county fair.

Perry was located in the extreme northwest corner of Roosevelt County, according to ghosttowns.com

It’s their business ...

1942: New Mexico’s state board of barber examiners were on the eve of announcing plans to establish state-wide minimum prices.

Those minimums would be 35 cents for a shave and 65 cents for a haircut.

“Forty barber shops in the state already have closed,” said board secretary Bernabe Romero, claiming rising costs had forced the standards.

— Editor’s Notebook is compiled by Editor David Stevens. Contact him at: [email protected] or find him on Facebook.