Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date …
1956: Glenda Parrish of the Rogers 4-H club had won the Roosevelt County cherry pie baking contest.
Ann Fraze of Dora was second and Dretha Franklin of Perry finished third.
Judges were from East Valley View, Bethel and KE-NM radio.
“The judges were impressed with the ease and handling Miss Parrish used in putting together her pie,” the Portales Daily News reported.
1956: Portales’ Tower theater was playing “Tiger,” promoted as “the happiest picture of the year,” starring Jeff Chandler and Laraine Day.
Tim Hovey played a 7-year-old imp with “outlandishly funny theories about the birds and the bees.”
The Tower was “scientifically cooled.”
1956: Portales’ Varsity Drive-In Theatre was playing “Come Next Spring,” about a reformed alcoholic trying to win back his family.
“We guarantee that your entire family will enjoy this movie,” the theater manager told customers in a newspaper ad. “We held a sneak preview of it last Tuesday at the Tower and everyone enjoyed it.”
1961: The Texico-Farwell Rotary Club had been chartered before an estimated 200 Rotarians from eastern New Mexico.
Clovis Rotarian Bob Brooks presented the charter to new Texico-Farwell club president Bob Tomlinson in a meeting at the Hotel Clovis.
Buck Doran was treasurer of the new club, Scott Levins was vice president and Bob Crume was secretary.
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