Pages past — March 28

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1976: Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan was feuding with network television executives who had refused to sell him air time.

Reagan said “the other contender” — President Gerald Ford — could get network time whenever he requested it.

ABC, CBS and NBC, Reagan said, should have given him equal time on air “in the interest of fairness and justice as well as the peoples’ right to know,” The Associated Press reported.

1976: Loretta Pool was woman of the year and the Rev. W. T. Perry was man of the year at the annual Farwell Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture banquet.

Tulia, Texas, artist Kenneth Wyatt was guest speaker for the gathering.

1951: Clovis High School coach Rock Staubus was in Memorial Hospital after suffering a second heart attack in less than two years.

He died two weeks later. He was 51.

Staubus was Clovis High’s only coach when he arrived in 1924. His 1927-28 football and basketball teams were undefeated.

Staubus’ basketball teams won 14 consecutive district championships (1927-1940) and claimed the state title in 1930.

The high school gym is named in his honor.

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

www.highplainsyesterdays.com