Pages past — Aug. 25

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1966: Two Cannon Air Force Base airmen were listed in good condition at the base hospital after they ejected from their F-100 jet the day before near Floyd.

The jet crashed into a maize field.

The airmen said they bailed out after the plane developed engine trouble.

1946: Funeral services were being planned for a toddler who drowned in a stock tank near Causey.

Artie Lee Caviness, 1, drowned in the tank at her family’s farm, officials said.

She was rushed to Portales’ hospital after being pulled from 3 feet of water.

Family members said she’d been seen playing in the yard 10 minutes before she was located in the tank, which had a 2-foot concrete wall around it.

1941: The Clovis News-Journal asked area judges about the strangest wedding ceremonies they had performed.

Justice of the Peace W. E. McConnell said he married a couple on horseback at a riding academy and married a couple at the county jail just before the man was transferred to the state penitentiary.

Another couple was married in a Roosevelt County ditch, just before traveling to a Clovis church for music and a reception.

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

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