Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
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1974: President Richard Nixon, cheered by 600 attendees of the Young Republican Leadership Conference in Washington, predicted the GOP would remain in the White House through 1984.
Nixon predicted there would be a Republican in the Oval Office “for the next three years and eight years after that, because we’re going to be there for a long time.”
Nixon, racked by the Watergate scandal, would resign from office in August. A Democrat, Jimmy Carter, would be elected president two years later.
— A slew of thefts was reported in Tucumcari, including a coin box taken from the Sahara Sands motel, a television from the Pow Wow Inn, two guns from a pickup truck parked on South Fourth Street, a set of tires from Hunt’s Trailer Park and two coin boxes from a car wash on Lake Street.
— The Methodist Women of the Center Street United Methodist Church were scheduled to hold their annual enchilada dinner. Tickets were $1.50 for adults and $1 for children.
— The House Cowboys boys basketball team was eliminated from the District 7AA tournament by Mosquero 62-57 at Rattler Gymnasium in Tucumcari. Santa Rosa and Logan each advanced in the tourney.
— The Third Street Grocery (with the slogan “The little giant is the working man’s friend”) advertised center-cut chuck roast for 95 cents a pound, three pounds of ground beef for $2.49 and one pound of Racorn bacon for 69 cents.