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Newspaper
Quay County Sun
Location
Tucumcari, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 2015
Page
1
The text notes a 6 p.m. Tucumcari City Commission meeting at City Hall and a Texas Walleye Association fishing tournament at Ute Lake State Park in Logan. It also lists office hours for The Quay County Sun as 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and during lunch.
Last week's poll shows 88 percent stay home and sleep with 4 percent party hearty and 8 percent quiet night with friends from 24 votes. This week's after the snow storm poll offers options stay indoors pushdila snowman and snowball fight cast votes at the page 11 obituary listings include Lester Levan French Car Ray Goen Lee R. Tex Keith Mary Meador and Glenna Morison Page 11.
In January 1953, J C Penney prices for corduroy jackets at 7.77, towels 0.68 a piece, Khaki pants 2.50, women's shoes 2, winter coats 15. Crescent Creamery offers a two cent trade in for milk containers. E N McBride buys Dickinson Motors and opens a business. Tucumcari Chamber officials Magruder Ellison Rivers lead protest at Santa Fe against Southern Union Gas rate hike totaling 1 379 000 affecting 22 communities.
Quay County woke to six to eight inches of snow with seven to eight inches in Tucumcari and House and six to seven inches in Logan. National Weather Service meteorologist Jason Frazier cited 7–8 inches in the area. Residents built snow sculptures and sledded while emergency radios issued stranded motorist alerts. State police logged 47 motorist assists and 15 accidents in District 9, with two injuries. Tucumcari police logged ten incidents.
Quay County Sheriff Russell Shafer took the oath four days early on December 29, with Magistrate Judge Joel Garnett and Chief Deputy Dennis Garcia swearing him in. He ordered an immediate inventory of weapons seized property and vehicles and outlined plans to restripe patrol cars, update uniforms, boost community presence, enhance traffic enforcement, and review policies to align with state statutes and ensure efficient county coverage.
Quay County Magistrate Judge Joel Garnett swore in four newly elected county officials in Tucumcari. District 3 Commissioner Franklin McCasland, County Assessor Vic Baum, and County Probate Judge Nelda Burson, along with Sheriff Russell Shafer and deputies, took oath in a packed Quay County Courthouse ceremony following the November election.
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