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On this date ...
1967: Barbed wire collector Vic Stout was profiled in the Clovis News-Journal as a local man who was “really hooked on his hobby.”
Stout had gathered 160 different strands in his collection, including three pieces of entanglement wire used by the Germans and Americans during World War II.
Stout’s earliest sample was three-strand machine-made wire, first manufactured in 1885.
He also had 18 types of Glidden wire, named for the rancher credited with inventing the fencing used throughout the west.
1957: Jane Burroughs was installed as the new president of the Portales High School chapter of Future Teachers of America in a candlelight ceremony conducted by Miss Mae Gilbert and Miss Ona Dodd, sponsors of the organization.
Other officers installed were Loretta House, vice president; Jim Bullock and Eddie Parker, treasurers; Kay Keene, secretary; Beverly Douglas, historian; Nan Burroughs, parliamentarian; Katherine Lehman, song leader; and Jan Stratton, reporter.
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