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1974: The New Mexico Highway Commission was scheduled to hold its regular meeting at Tucumcari City Hall.

Tucumcari and Quay County also would host the highway commission for a dinner at the Pow Wow Inn.

Among the items on the commission’s agenda was a resolution regarding a highway access point nine miles east of Tucumcari and abandonment of a U.S. 66 right of way near Santa Rosa.

The commission also was scheduled to discuss setting speed zones on its highway system and removing illegal billboards.

— Some members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said they thought they found evidence on President Richard Nixon’s own audiotapes that he knew of the Watergate cover-up several days earlier than he insisted on learning of it.

— David Bollschweiler of Tucumcari, a senior majoring in petroleum engineering, made the honor roll during the spring semester at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro.

— An organizational meeting of the Christian Businessmen Luncheon was scheduled at the Ramada Inn in Tucumcari. Activities of the interdenominational group would include Scripture reading, prayer and sharing.

— The Odeon Theatre was showing the thriller “Macon County Line,” starring Max Baer Jr. The theater also scheduled a matinee of the Kirk Douglas film “Scalawag.”