Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
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1970: Mrs. Victor Arguello led her three small children to safety after their camp house at Randalls Ranch in Montoya caught fire. They could not open their front door and instead exited the burning home by breaking a window. The mother suffered a cut arm and singed hair. Firefighters said an explosion of a water heater caused the fire.
• David Cargo, who ends his four years as New Mexico’s governor at midnight, said he improved the “climate of government” during his tenure but came up short of a desired reorganization of state agencies. Governor-elect Bruce King takes office with the new year.
• The Odeon Theatre in Tucumcari was screening “Flap,” a film shot in New Mexico about a great Native American uprising. The movie stars Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Victor Jory and Shelley Winters. The theater also was advertising a “New Year’s Eve Whoopee Show.”