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1971: Frances Olsen was chosen as the new director of the Tucumcari / Quay County Chamber of Commerce by its board after its previous director, Don Long, resigned. Olsen, who manages the Leatherwood Manor motel in Tucumcari, also is president of the local Business and Professional Women’s Foundation club, secretary of the Main Street of America Route 66 Association and a member of the city’s Tourist Commission.

• The chamber of commerce also voted to begin preparations for the American Junior Hereford Association’s convention in mid-June, which is projected to draw 2,000 to 5,000 people to Tucumcari.

• Tucumcari received three inches of snow yesterday, but with a forecasted high temperature of 65 degrees today, it already had mostly melted.

• Mrs. Bruce Runyan of House and Mrs. Dave Pruett of Tucumcari were Quay County’s representatives among New Mexico 4-H leaders who were scheduled to attend the Western Regional 4-H Leader Forum in Reno, Nevada.

• The 4AAA boys basketball tournament was slated to begin tonight with the 0-10 Tucumcari Rattlers facing the 6-4 Sartans of St. Pius of Albuquerque. The other tournament matchup tonight was the Lovington Wildcats facing the Albuquerque Academy Chargers.

• Touting a film of “Love, Music, People,” the Odeon Theatre in Tucumcari advertised one showing only of “Woodstock,” an Oscar-winning documentary about the famous 1969 rock music festival in upstate New York.