Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
On this date ...
1970: A Veterans Day ceremony at Tucumcari Junior High School honored Pete Dowell, a veteran of World War II and Korea and a teacher at the school from 1960 to 1970. Other veterans in the school’s faculty also were recognized.
• The Tucumcari school board approved a code of ethics for its members. The measure noted that members had no legal authority outside of school-board meetings and they should “resist every temptation to benefit myself or others, apart from the school district.”
• The Odeon Theatre in Tucumcari was screening a Disney double feature of “The Love Bug” and “Jungle Book.”