Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
On this date ...
1975: A man from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was apprehended 31 1/2 hours at a Tucumcari motel after he escaped arrest from police. He was jailed on $50,000 bail.
Frank Bloom and another Kalamazoo man, Ralph Mikorey, were charged with possession of marijuana, assault on a peace officer and flight from a peace officer after a stop on Intestate 40.
While an officer was starting to handcuff Mikorey, Bloom yanked the officer’s gun from him and punched him in the stomach.
The officer tried to pull the gun from Bloom, but Mikorey jumped on his back. The two took the officer’s car keys and gun, ripped away his radio microphone and fled.
Mikorey was captured at a grocery store a short time later.
— The Tucumcari Rattlers basketball team edged host San Jon 67-65 in double overtime.
Rene Maciel led the Rattlers with 19 points. TJ Parks scored 17 points, including two critical foul shots to tie it in regulation.
Larry Wallin led San Jon with 26 points but fouled out in the fourth quarter.
— Tucumcari Industries announced it would begin an expansion program with a second plant in the old Clothes Pin Dress Shop building in the Four Seasons Mall. The new plant would hire at least five sewing machine operators and open in February.
— Tucumcari Toastmasters Bill Bauerle and Lynn Burlbaw won the O.G. Betancourt Invitational Debate competition in Las Cruces. The duo defeated teams from Albuquerque and El Paso in debates about the Equal Rights Amendment and foreign power sources.
— Prime-time TV listings that night included “Lucas Tanner,” “Petrocelli,” “Bonanza,” “Tony Orlando & Dawn” and “Cannon.”