Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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1966: A state police probe continued into missing funds from Clovis parking meter receipts.
District Attorney Morris Stagner said $13,273 was missing from $89,840.94 that had been collected from Aug. 24, 1961, to April 22, 1966.
Wendell J. McCormick, city clerk and treasurer, was charged with embezzlement in connection with the case, but he was acquitted by a Clovis jury in December 1966.
McCormick testified in the trial and said the funds in question were used to replenish a number of petty cash drawers in city hall and there was never any money missing.
A Clovis jury deliberated for about three hours before finding McCormick innocent of the charges.
1959: The FBI had joined local authorities investigating how a stolen vehicle and suitcase full of narcotics came to be in a ditch near a farm about halfway between Clovis and Portales.
Officials said the car was stolen from Arizona. The suitcase found in the weeds nearby contained dexedrine, nembutal and other pills known as “goofballs,” plus two boxes of bullets for a Luger automatic pistol.
1951: The Lubbock Hubbers baseball team was making plans to host Muleshoe Night in honor of Hubbers Manager Don Moore, a Muleshoe native.
Hall of Fame pitcher and broadcaster Dizzy Dean was expected to attend the festivities and spend time in the public address booth.
Dean’s brother Paul was general manager of the Hubbers.
The Hubbers were playing the Clovis Pioneers, which the Dean brothers had previously co-owned.
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