Pages of the Past - Sept. 11

On this date in 1974:

The New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office announced it received a letter from former Magistrate Judge Jess Goldston that confirmed his resignation from office and his removal from the ballot.

District Judge Stanley Frost suspended Goldston the previous month after he was arraigned on four counts of embezzlement and released on $10,000 bond. He was set to go to trial in October.

A shortage of $11,000 had been found in Goldston’s office.

Goldston later pleaded guilty to one count and was sentenced to one to five years in prison, with all but six months suspended.

— A motorcyclist from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was in fair condition after slamming into the back of a pickup truck driven by a Grady man near the Sheraton Inn in Tucumcari. The truck driver had backed onto the highway before the crash occurred.

— State police investigated a one-car accident west of Tucumcari that injured an airman from Holloman Air Force Base. He reached down to get something from the passenger side of his car when it went off the road into a median and struck an embankment.

— The Tucumcari Recreation Department was organizing the Quay County Super Star Tourney. It included competition in 10 events: pool, softball throw, field goal kick, 100-yard dash, free throws, golf, chess, tennis, horseshoes and a bicycle race.

— The Odeon Theatre was screening “The Great American Cowboy,” which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for its examination of the sport of rodeo.