Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
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1973: Tucumcari Mayor King Aitken declared May 18 as Miss Bertha Parker Day in commemoration for her 40 years of teaching in the Tucumcari School System.
Parker was nominated as Teacher of the Year last year, and she never considered another profession. She was born on a ranch in Dodson when it still had a post office and “is probably the only Quay County woman to literally grow up and remain in area schools.”
Parker has been a teacher since 1932 and estimated she taught more than 4,000 children during that time, including many parents who now have children in the school district.
— Mountain Bell filed an application with the state corporation commission for selective rate increases. The increases, which would be effective July 1, would add $6.5 million in Mountain Bell’s annual revenue.
— A severe gust of wind deposited a tin roof onto the middle of College Street in Tucumcari. The roof, its origin unknown, scattered nails all over the street, caved in a car’s top and damaged the corner of a building.
— Hal McClure came up with the best rocket design during the recent annual Space Derby held by the Buena Vista Cub Pack 621.
— The Odeon Theatre was screening the Oscar-winning musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Gene Hackman and Kris Kristofferson film “Cisco Pike” and the Sean Connery 007 flick “Diamonds Are Forever.”