Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1988: Brig. Gen. James M. Johnston, Tactical Air Command inspector general, had nothing but glowing praise as he announced the results of a week-long unit effectiveness inspection that had been conducted at Cannon Air Force Base.
A 128-member team was at Cannon from Jan. 19-26 evaluating 533 different areas.
Ninety-seven percent of the base units met or exceeded TAC standards, according to a release printed in the Clovis News-Journal, and 20 areas were highlighted as “the best seen to date” by the inspector general’s team.
“We on the IG team are supposed to train as much as inspect,” Johnston said. “But in this case, we are taking more ideas away than we brought to you. You’ve really taught us something, and we’re going to take the lessons we’ve learned and share them with our other bases.”
1968: New Mexico’s oldest living former governor, A.W. Hockenhull of Clovis, was the subject of a front-page feature in the Clovis News-Journal, a few days after celebrating his 96th birthday.
He was the 10th governor of New Mexico, holding the office from September 1933 to January 1935.
Hockenhull was elected lieutenant governor in 1930, and re-elected to that office in 1932, then became governor on Sept. 25, 1933, following the death of then-Gov. Arthur Seligman.
Seligman died of a heart attack after giving a speech in Albuquerque.
A Missouri native, Hockenhull’s family came to New Mexico in 1908 and homesteaded in Quay County. Besides serving in state leadership positions, during his lifetime Hockenhull was president of Clovis National Bank and served as postmaster of Clovis.
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