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1972: Most of the 30 to 40 business owners at a meeting of the Urban Development Board voiced opposition to an approved plan to build a closed mall in downtown Tucumcari. Merchants said they would rather have a main street with parking on front of their businesses.

Board Chairman Frank Baum noted public hearings had been held about the closed-mall plan and notices about them were published in the newspaper and broadcast on local radio. Only nine people attended a previous hearing on the issue. The merchants claimed they were unaware of the meetings and not notified.

• Broce Construction workers were laboring over 5.8 miles of a new four-lane highway near Glenrio to be a part of Interstate 40. The company also was working on a 1.3-mile stretch of road east of Tucumcari.

• The Weather Control and Cloud Modification Commission of New Mexico was scheduled to hold a hearing for an application from Irving P. Krick Inc. of Texas to conduct cloud-seeding operations over the northeast part of the state.

• The Odeon Theatre was screening Walt Disney’s “Song of the South,” along with a late showing of “Night of the Living Dead.”