Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
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1974: Democratic state senator Jerry Apodaca, a businessman from Las Cruces, won the New Mexico governorship by a razor-thin margin over Republican Joe Skeen, a Picacho rancher, during the election Tuesday.
Apodaca scored 50.01% of the vote and won only 13 of 32 counties but scored big margins in the northern part of the state to offset Skeen’s lead in Albuquerque and eastern counties.
Democrats, riding a political tidal wave of scandal and fed by inflation and unemployment, swept nationwide elections and tightened their grip on Congress and in statehouses.
President Gerald Ford said he would work “wholeheartedly” with the new Congress to solve the nation’s economic problems and had scheduled a meeting with the House majority leader.
— Cindy Osborn and Gene Cox were crowned the FHA Beau and the FFA Sweetheart during the Halloween FFA-FHA Cakewalk in Logan.
— Mike Marshall, the Dodgers’ record-setting reliever, became the first fireman to win the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in the National League. Marshall appeared in a record 106 games while compiling a 15-12 win-loss record with 21 saves.
— The Odeon Theatre was showing “Juggernaut,” starring Richard Harris and Omar Sharif.