Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1973: Funeral services were scheduled for Portales Municipal Judge Melvin C. Saunders, 73, who had died at Roosevelt General Hospital several days after suffering an apparent heart attack.
Saunders, a longtime resident of Portales, owned and operated a hardware store for many years. He had worked as a sheriff's deputy in the early 1950s.
A charter member of the Kiwanis Club of Portales, he was also a veteran of World War I and a member of the American Legion.
He was survived by his wife, Novalee.
1968: Clovis city commissioners had voted to make the Carver Public Library at Eighth and Mitchell Streets a municipal institution.
The Clovis News-Journal article reported the action was a long-awaited move to bring Clovis' only public library "under government control where taxpayers' money can be made available for expansion."
At the time, the library was operated by a nine-member board appointed by the city and the Carver Estate.
The existing building housed 14,000 volumes in 1,860 square feet of floor space, which library board member George Murphy said was far too small for a community the size of Clovis.
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