Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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1975: He was a self-described workaholic. The Portales News-Tribune also reported he was a hang glider, chain smoker, avid golfer and Portales’ new city manager.
“At this point, I’m largely listening and observing,” Basil B. West told reporter Joanne Ray.
West had been on the job about a week and had already spent a day with city garbage collectors, met with Fire Chief Curley Smith, rode with a policeman on patrol and inspected work at the city cemetery.
“You can be part of a bureaucracy,” West told the newspaper, “but you don’t need to be cold and inhuman.”
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