Serving the High Plains
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 airport.