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February 1961 • Tucumcari Assistant Postmaster Albert Lawrence demonstrated the new stamp machine that was installed in the lobby of the post office. The machine made stamps available anytime the lobby was open. • The Tucumcari Education Association honored Mary Wilms for 25 years of teaching and Mrs. Freddie Ratcliff for 20 years of teaching. • Kenneth Humphries was named the new manager of the Tucumcari Safeway groceries stores. • The Tucumcari Fire Department battled a blaze at the Addingt...
January 1974 • A Fort Worth, Texas man by the name of William Harvey Baker led the Tucumcari police on a vehicle chase that ended tragically. Baker was stopped on West Tucumcari Boulevard because the car he was driving had Texas dealership plates. The officers became suspicious with Baker's answers and had him follow them to the police station to clarify the matter. Baker veered across the median trying to escape and placed a .357 revolver to his head and pulled the trigger while three hitchhikers he had picked up earlier in the day watched i...
January 1965 • District three Quay County Commissioner T.G. Rose was elected to be the chairman for the Quay County Commissioners office. • Construction of the Trigg Memorial Hospital was still ahead of schedule and should be completed by the summer. • The frame work of the new Tucumcari Elementary school on South Ninth Street was underway. The new school is being built by the Ballard and Bates construction company out of Carlsbad. • Tucumcari and New Mexico State Police apprehended three men after a high speed chase. The three men, William...
November 1958 • Romnie B. Mathiews Jr. was appointed as the foreman for the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. local office in Tucumcari. • Associate director of the Museum of International Folk at in Santa Fe spoke at the Tucumcari city library about being part of the scientific expedition that solved the mystery of the construction and placement of stone heads on Easter Island. • George Vourazeris found a molar and incisor teeth of a Wooly Mammoth found near San Jon. The molar was more than four inches wide and the incisor was six i...
October 1957 • The First National Bank gave the Tucumcari Public Library an oil painting of an Indian waving, which was hung in the library room. •Ernest Copeland of Nara Visa posed with a prize-winner, Dandy named reserve grand champion in the medium heaviest class in the State Fair big Junior Fat Calf Show. Copeland, 17, was a member of the Nara Visa 4-H Club. • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Conchas Dam reported inflow of 3,749 acre-feet of water into the reservoir. • Wayne Owen of San Jon accepted the local chairmanship of the Friends...
Oct. 1947 • More than 600 men, drawn from Quay, Guadalupe, San Miguel, Harding, Mora and Union counties, were at work on Conchas Dam. • W.M. Phipps opened a new filling station selling Phillips 66 products at New Kirk. • Assistant District Attorney J. V. Gallegos attended district court in Fort Sumner. • Mrs. R. D. Marshall and children returned from Tres Ritos where they summered in their cabin. • Robert Rowley passed flight training tests at Fort Sumner, bringing the total to 25 men who have completed the ex-GI training program at the local...
Oct. 1969 • Pam Reid of Tucumcari was crowned the Pinata Queen as part of the Fourth Annual Pinata Festival. • Mayor Kenneth Schlientz proclaimed Oct. 5-11 to be observed as National Pharmacy Week. • Mr. and Mrs. Barney Miller are presented a gold Cadillac they won from the Elks club of Tucumcari by Exalted Ruler Bob Sanders. • San Jon schools hosted the District 9 FHA convention 160 members from San Jon, Santa Rosa, Logan, Fort Sumner, Melrose, Grady, and Tucumcari. — Compiled by QCS Staff...
Oct.1963 • The Olympic torch passed through Tucumcari East on Route 66 en route to Detroit, Michigan promoting the 1968 Summer Olympics. • Work continued on the new eye clinic of Dr. J.R. Mcausland the new building contained an office, waiting room, work room, two refractory rooms and a frame room. • An U.S. Army Sikorsky H-37 helicopter landed at Tucumcari’s municipal airport to refuel while en-route to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the H-37 was at the time the Army’s largest helicopter in use. • Tucumcari’s Animal Clinic owned and operated by D...
September 1971 • Jean Tillman of Quay County met Country Music star Charley Pride at the New Mexico State Fair. Tillman was a contestant in the State Fair Queen Contest. • J.R. Nunn was presented a certificate of appointment to a FHA advisory committee by Carroll Hunton, FHA State Director. • Martha Garcia was crowned the queen of the Quay County Credit Union. • Governor Bruce King spoke at the New Mexico Municipal League and Urban Renewal Association luncheon held in Tucumcari. • Kim Evetts was crowned as the 1971 Pinata Queen at the Quay...
September 1971 • Area women enter Miss Pinata Pageant they were: Barbara Jean Burgess, Marry Helen Betts, Sandra Prado, Martha Sylvia Garcia, Dora Sisneros, Dorella Kim Evetts, Rose Ann Alarcon, Karen Elaine Hennig, Barbara Dominguez, Teresa Ann McMenamy, Annabelle Blea, Jolene Ann Broce and Cynthia San Roman of Tucumcari and Brenda Kay Young of Mcalister and Janice Marie Paris of Bard. Kim Evetts would later win the contest. • New Mexico Governor Bruce King spoke at the New Mexico Municipal League and Urban Renewal Association luncheon hel...
July 1960 • A tourist information center opened in Tucumcari managed by Bob Field. • Six Tucumcari Boy Scouts attended the National Boy Scout Jamboree in Colorado Springs. They were John Dunn, Billy Jackson, Allan Isbell, Terry Turner, John Funk and Larry Williams. • Evans Foodway advertised two-pound packages of Campfire bacon for 98 cents, rib steaks for 59 cents a pound, three dozen eggs for $1 and 10 pounds of sugar for 98 cents. • Nita Re Parker and Leroy Howard, Quay County 4-Hers, were awarded a trip to California from the Talent...
April 1946 • Claude Moncus and Bert Jennings were two of the candidates for Democratic nomination for Quay County Sheriff. • G. M. Benson, Forrest Currell, Tom McCart, R. O. Sandusky, Walt Sullins and Ed Hadley were elected members of the board of directors of the Tucumcari Rotary Club. • After 16 years of service in the courthouse, Irene Kearns resigned as district court clerk for a position the Arch Hurley Conservancy district. • F. E. Atkinson, Conchas District Scout executive, was the guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Lions c...
January 1965 • Tucumcari and New Mexico State Police apprehended three men after a high speed chase. The three men, William Randolph Amy, William Warren Naler Jr. and Mike Jerry Watson ran a road block set up on the west side of town. The three men refused to identify themselves and their addresses to officers. The three men were wearing clothing from the Orange County Branch Jail in Santa Ana, California, and were believed to be escapees. • Construction of the new Trigg Memorial Hospital was still ahead of schedule and was scheduled to be com...
December 1969 • Four armed robbers were captured by the New Mexico State Police and Quay County Sheriffs office for robbing the Cedar Hill Grocery store 16 miles east of Tucumcari. The men pulled a razor on store owner Charlie Murrary and tied him to a bed in the back of the store. The four men took the cash from the register, two shotguns, two hand guns, silverware and stole Murrary’s car. They were spotted near the Caprock, where state police began to chase the stolen vehicle. The chase exceeded 100 miles per hour at times, but the four men...
December 1966 New Mexico drivers will start receiving visual screens when they apply for their driver’s licenses. The program will use Keystone Telebinocular machines equipped with Snelling visual screening charts. Mrs. J.A. Koehler, chairwoman of the committee to find locations for the Community Action Program and the senior citizen facility, will meet today with the county commission. — Compiled by Senior Writer Thomas Garcia...