Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
On this date ...
1973: The board of the Tucumcari/Quay County Chamber of Commerce voted during a special meeting to support a special mill levy to establish a branch community college in Tucumcari.
The levy, if approved, would permit the financial support of the school at a rate of $100 per full-time equivalent academic student and $400 per full-time equivalent vocational student.
The proposed college would offer courses to residents of the Tucumcari school district and allow them to participate in courses offered at High Plains Vocational School in Clovis.
— Max Best, president of the New Mexico FFA Association who hails from Grady, met with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz during a conference in Washington, D.C.
— A California couple passing through Tucumcari reported a fire at Jackson and Main streets that gutted a house. No one was inside the home at the time.
— Temperatures during the month of July reached the 100-degree mark and higher for seven days. Tucumcari received 4.59 inches of rain during the month — well above normal rainfall of 2.58 inches.
— Thieves stole a cash register from Warrick’s Shoe Shop while the owners were in the back of the store eating lunch. The register was found east of the building with $80 in paper currency removed, but the thieves left about $10 in change behind.
— The Odeon Theatre was showing two Walt Disney films: “The Aristocats” and “Song of the South.” It advertised the late showings of two horror films: “Baron Blood” and “Dr. Phibes Rises Again.”