Pages past, June 29: 'Freak' twister hits fruit market

On this date …

1942: A “freak” Sunday-afternoon twister was the talk of Clovis.

The Clovis News-Journal reported the twister hit the Williamson Fruit Market at 820 W. Seventh St. about 4:15 p.m.

The big wind “tore off an awning made of w...