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1972: Bill Rouse of Glenrio returned home after a brush with death due to apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. Rouse was taken by car to San Jon, where he was met by state police officer Arnold Olsen. Rouse told Olsen he couldn’t breathe and fell unconscious. Olsen said he felt no pulse and began giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. “I sure felt pleased when after a time the man gasped and started breathing,” Olsen recalled. Olsen worked with Rouse until an ambulance took him to Tucumcari to a hospital. The officer passed off the incident as “just doing my job. I was only doing what I was supposed to.”

• Gov. Bruce King today asked the New Mexico Legislature to approve a state budget of $290.4 million, with a heavy emphasis on economic development and law enforcement. The requested budget was $26 million more than the previous year.

• Sondra Pruett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.T. Pruett, was installed as a Worthy Advisor of Tucumcari Assembly No. 4, Order of Rainbow for Girls, during an installation ceremony at the Masonic Temple.

• The Odeon Theatre was screening “Doc,” a western about gunfighter Doc Holliday starring Stacy Keach and Faye Dunaway, along with “Midnight Cowboy.”

• Among the prime-time television shows being broadcast were “Perry Mason,” “The Man & The City,” “Mannix” and “Adam-12.”