Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
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 held in Tucumcari.
• New Mexico State Police officer W.C. Boarman confiscated over five kilos of marijuana during a traffic stop two miles west of Tucumcari on I-40. Two subjects were arrested and charged for the crime — Candance Nichols of Fort Myers, Florida, and Fred Fredrickson of Phoenix, Arizona.