November 1955

The Tucumcari Junior High School band was one of 60 parade entries for the “Boost Tucumcari Week” which promoted business in Tucumcari ... Police Chief R.E. Batten, Deputy Sheriff Newell Ramsey and Sheriff Pete Garnett investigated a robbery at the Blue Room Cafe. Cigarettes, valued at $50, were stolen with 25 records from the jukebox ... Currell-Neale lumber company, whose owners were Forrest Currell and U.R. Neale, held its grand opening at its store on East Gaynell Street. ... Tucumcari letter carriers W.W. Rouse, H.B. Creager, Charles A. Bowen and V.W. Newby marched to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ... Tucumcari police apprehended two suspects for kidnapping at the Tucumcari airport. Taken into custody were pilot Trygve Lovsto and Lodema Osburg. Police said Osburg had kidnapped her three children from her ex-husband and their stepmother and flown from Tulsa, Okla., to Tucumcari. The three children were returned to their father and step mother and both suspects faced kidnapping charges out of Oklahoma.