October 1955

President of the Tucumcari Lodge of Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Sylvester Prentice, presented gifts to Andy Marquez for his retirement from the Southern Pacific Railroad after 44 years of employment as a warehouse clerk ... Tucumcari’s Anthony’s was selling men's leather jackets for the price of $27.50, a men's wool coat for $12.75 and a men's Rayon rain jacket for $7.90 ... Quay County Farm and Livestock Bureau appointed James W. Wall as the new Quay County representative of its service companies ... Tucumcari students up to and including the sixth grade consumed 10,293 half-pints of milk in the first 15 days of school. The milk break is a part of the hot lunch endorsed by the New Mexico State Board of Education ...