Serving the High Plains
August 1955
• Members of the Tucumcari National Guard attended basic training at Fort Ord, California. They included James L. Starr, Wayne Miller, James T. Dickinson, Martin C. Garcia, and Joe Martinez .
• Fourteen of the 57 remaining members of the original Roosevelt’s Rough Riders met in Las Vegas,they included Royal A. Prentice of Tucumcari .
• James Rudd resigned as Tucumcari’s head basketball coach after 15 years of coaching. Rudd would later take the position as athletic director for the junior high and high school.