Pages past — Feb. 23

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1976: The widow of a Bovina farmer had donated a renal dialysis machine to Clovis Memorial Hospital.

J.D. Kirkpatrick used the kidney machine for more than a year before he died of a heart condition in 1974.

Mrs. Dillard Morris, Kirkpatrick’s widow, said she gave the machine to the hospital because “it was the least I could do after all they did for him.”

1956: Regents at Eastern New Mexico University had rejected bids for two proposed dormitories and a swimming pool.

Officials said the university had $875,000 budgeted for all three projects. The dorm bids alone were for more than $1.2 million, officials said.

1941: State police were warning truckers hauling feed that laws related to length and height of loads would be enforced.

The width limit was 8 feet; height limit was 12 1/2 feet, officials said.

Loads that did not conform, “will be halted,” police said.

Officials also said trucks had to be equipped with rear-vision mirrors on extension arms.

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