December 1952

The Furr's food store held its grand opening and customers registered to win a new universal gas range stove. Customers also received a free Coca-Cola six pack with a ten dollar purchase. The stores managers were  J.A. Abeyta (manager), Charlie Ewell (assistant manager), Fred Johnson (produce manager) and Glen Wood (deli manager) ...

Tucumcari held elections for the Tucumcari Fire Department. Farrel Baston was elected as fire chief, Oscar Redhage as the assistant chief, John Smith as the second assistant chief and Melvin Davidson as the secretary and treasurer ...

Running for election for the city commission in district 2 were M.M. Justus and Robert Turner, and running for the district 5 city commissioner office were Sam Marsh and Richard L. Butler ...

The Tucumcari Chamber of Commerce announced their new directors. They were Sam Marsh, Lavarne Williams, R.B. Turner, C.L. Copeland and C.C. McNay.