Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1977: A number of eastern New Mexico women were in Albuquerque attending the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau's annual convention.
Mary Blakely, a Roosevelt County farm wife and president of the Farm Bureau Women, conducted a meeting that included a cardiopulmonary resuscitation class, noting it was a critical and potentially life-saving skill for rural families who were far from medical assistance.
Other east-side women who attended the meeting included Pauline Davis, Thelma Elliott, Evelyn Hadley, Helen Kelley, LeAnn Monroe, and Mary Qualls.
1972: John Kendrick, former president of an organization called Water Inc., had spoken at the annual meeting of Curry County Water Inc.
"There has always been a fight at the water hole," he said, "and I guess there always will be."
Kendrick, a Brownfield, Texas, banker, talked about a dream of establishing a trans-Texas canal to bring water to the High Plains from the lower Mississippi River.
"We are concerned with our depleted water supply," he told the group, "and we want to ensure that we people in Texas, as well as you in eastern New Mexico, will get our share of the Mississippi River water."
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