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16: A Hobbs city patrolman and store clerk were shot to death by “a pair of hopped-up gunmen described by police as dope addicts,” the Hobbs Daily News-Sun reported.

Dead were Patrolman Robert Butler, 68, and clerk Ira Grantham, 63.

linkThe suspect...