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1972: Tucumcari High School students stood outside the building and awaited permission from police officers to go back inside after another bomb threat was phoned to the school. Principal Bill Litchfield said the school received a call from someone telling him a bomb was going to go off in 30 minutes. Officers checked the building and found no bomb.

• New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Samuel Montoya and Joe W. Wood, chief judge on the state’s Court of Appeals, met with local attorneys, judicial officials and residents at a luncheon at the Pow Wow Restaurant. Both were seeking re-election to their positions.

• Jon Hale and Danny Young received word they were selected as part of 72 members of the New Mexico Olympic Marching Band that will tour Europe in August. Hale plays trombone, and Young plays tuba.

• The Museum of New Mexico’s traveling exhibition, “Sculpture of the Southwest,” was scheduled to make a stop at Tucumcari High School later this month.

• Boy Vigil, John Mares and Pete Mercado won titles in the Golden Gloves boxing tournament in Clovis. Vigil took the 125-pound novice regional championship. Mares finished runner-up in the high school 132-pound division, and Mercado was runner-up in the 139-pound high school class.