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Pages past - Jan. 7

On this date ...

1973: Portales residents had besieged local police with calls following the flyover of an F-111D jet that experienced a flaming "inflight emergency," according to the Clovis News-Journal.

Managing Editor Bill Southard wrote about the event in his daily column, "Memo from the Editor."

"The plane, heading for landing at Cannon, had a large amount of flame blossoming from it," Southard wrote. Happily, it landed safely with "the pilot and weapons systems operator unscathed."

1968: Twenty-two members of the Clovis High School chorus earned the right to represent CHS at the New Mexico All-State Chorus Clinic later in the month in Albuquerque.

The students traveled to Roswell to audition.

Wildcat singers who qualified for all-state included Susie Scott, Carola Moore, Gail Sanders, Bettie Fox, Nancy Gilchrist, Beth Abendschan, Shelia Harvey, Venita Widner, Alexa McCormick, Lynda Hardy, Gail Morrow, Kathy Beaver, Sara Nell Bergstrom, Johnny Dolloff, Lonnie Koeltzow, Bobby Stewart, Dicky Martin, Charles Alexander, Don Duncan, Greg Smithisler, Nancy Price, and Barbara Taylor.

Pages Past is compiled by Betty Williamson. Contact her at: [email protected]

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