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1971: City, county and state police officers were searching for a 1963-1965 Chevrolet car with two men who were believed to have robbed a Michigan trucker at gunpoint of more than $400 at the Newkirk rest stop. Because there were no phones in the area, the trucker drove to Tucumcari to report the robbery. The trucker, who was en route to Detroit, said he hauled new cars for television commercials around the country and was returning from such a shoot when he was robbed.

• A federal grand jury indicted a Tucumcari woman, who formerly was a tax preparer, on 32 counts of preparing false tax returns in 1967 and 1968. The indictment stated the woman knew that 32 tax returns she prepared were “false and fraudulent,” including entering deductions to which her clients were not entitled.

• A Tucumcari man was brought into the police station after he was accused of breaking into a woman’s house while drunk and sat on her sofa, playing her records about 12:25 a.m.

• Jerry Don Bollinger and Dwight Y. Byron, both of Tucumcari, enlisted in the U.S. Navy.

• The Odeon Theatre was screening the movie “Skin Game,” starring James Garner, Lou Gossett and Susan Clark.