Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities

Pages past, April 28: Rough night in an overcrowded city jail

On this date …

1961: Inmates at the Clovis jail were trying to settle back into their routines after a night the Clovis News-Journal described as “stormy.”

Police Chief Ollie Damron said the trouble started about 2 a.m. when a fight broke o...