Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1973: A public memorial service was scheduled for the following day in Clovis for four Cannon Air Force Base pilots who had been killed when the two jets they were in collided in mid-air during a training exercise in Arizona.
Maj. Richard L. Brehm, Maj. William C. Gude, Capt. William T. Halloran, and Capt. David C. Blackledge were all F-111 pilots who lived in Clovis or on base. They were in Arizona on a training mission near the community of Holbrook when the fatal collision occurred.
The investigation of the cause of the crash was still under way. The memorial service, at the CAFB Chapel, was open to the public.
1968: Mrs. Max Hobbs of Portales narrated a spring style show for the Elida Women's Club, showing off fashions for 1968 from a Portales "ready to wear" shop.
The models - Mrs. Jim Love, Mrs. Lewis Cooper, Mrs. Berlin Barnard, Mrs. Richard Lambirth, and Mrs. Dab McDowell - appeared on stage one by one, first looking through a picture frame, then walking among wrought iron screens decorated with flowers.
The quartet tables were decorated with white scalloped paper, and each table held a single jonquil topped with a miniature spring hat.
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