Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
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1968: A Wheatland man, Frank D. Frost, 77, died instantly Christmas Day when his car was struck by a train three miles east of Tucumcari near U.S. 66. Witnesses and state police said Frost drove his car around a lowered railroad crossing barrier and struck the other barrier, turning his vehicle onto the track, where it was slammed by an eastbound Rock Island railroad train.
• The newspaper ran a photo page of images from big U.S. and world news events of 1968: the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., ongoing peace talks with the U.S. and North Vietnam, Soviet tanks quelling an uprising in Czechoslovakia, Chicago police officers beating antiwar protesters at the Democratic National Convention, and President Lyndon Johnson shaking hands with president-elect Richard Nixon.
• The United department store in Tucumcari advertised men's no-iron slacks for $4.88.
• The Odeon Theater in Tucumcari advertised the Jane Fonda movie “Barbarella.” It was “suggested for mature audiences.”