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On this date ...

1969: Franklin Jackson, 14, of Porter found a nest containing three owl chicks in an area of his family’s barn where he was about to stack wheat. The mother owl apparently abandoned the nest and the 3-day-old hatchlings. The teenager feeds the chicks with hamburger meat and keeps them in a box above a water heater in a closet to keep them warm. The Jackson family asked for further advice on how to raise the owl chicks.

• Kim Evetts, wearing a Native American costume, gave an impression of the Legend of Tucumcari during a modern-dance performance at the National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association convention in Farmington.

• The newspaper posted a photo where one of the hoods of a traffic signal at the corner of First Street and Gaynell Avenue (aka Route 66) had been knocked off. The newspaper speculated a house trailer or large truck took the corner too sharply and struck the signal.

• The annual McAlister Community Reunion will be Aug. 10 in the community center, formerly the village’s schoolhouse.

• The Odeon Theatre in Tucumcari advertised the screening of a Sam Peckinpah movie “The Wild Bunch.” The Canal Drive-In theater in Tucumcari advertised a double feature, “Brides of Blood” and “Blood Fiend.”