CLOVIS, N.M. – Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ – a Tucumcari woman is trying to keep those memories rollin’ about the time five episodes of the television show “Rawhide” were filmed at ranches near Tucumcari in 1959.
Karen Alarcon, who works for radio stations KTNM and KQAY in Tucumcari, said she was talking about the classic TV Western on the air one day and realized, “We need to take advantage of that for our town,” she said.
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So Alarcon and co-worker Russell Braziel started working on a “Rawhide event.” It’s scheduled April 15-16 at the Tucumcari Historical Museum.
In preparation, they’re trying to locate cast members – including series star Clint Eastwood who played cattle driver Rowdy Yates – and family of cast members to invite them to remember that summer.
She’s already invited Eastwood, through his production studio, she said, but the only firm commitment so far has been from the daughter of Sheb Wooley; Wooley played the role of Pete Nolan, the scout for the drovers.
Since many of the cast members have died since the filming 56 years ago, Alarcon has a secondary idea for bringing back the past – she’s collecting stories of old-timers who remember the six weeks of filming around Quay County.
One of the best stories she’s heard so far involved cast members frequenting a bar at 508 E. Tucumcari Blvd. while they were in town.
She’s not sure about the bar’s name in 1959, but it became the Trails West Lounge and Alarcon owned it briefly about 15 years ago.
“We were kind of remodeling it,” she said, when an old man whose name she cannot remember walked in.
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“He said Clint Eastwood and the ‘Rawhide’ crew would come party there. And he said that Clint told (the owner at the time) that if he’d buy a piano, then ‘We’ll pay off your mortgage.'”
And so the owner purchased a piano, and Eastwood and Co. paid off the owner’s mortgage, Alarcon said.
Alarcon said she and Braziel are trying to secure entertainment and put together a parade to help mark the celebration.
Alarcon is collecting memories from the time “Rawhide” filmed in Tucumcari. Send stories to karena@majesticcomm
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David Stevens is editor of the Clovis News Journal. He can be reached at dstevens@cnjonline
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LIBERAL, KAN. – On Oct. 1, a gunman opened fire at a community college in Roseburg, Ore., leaving 10 people dead and a community asking questions.
The shooting was just the latest of several taking place at various schools across the country in the last decade, giving some locals cause to worry if such an incident could occur in Southwest Kansas.
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Umpqua Community College is located in a rural town about 180 miles south of metro Portland, Ore., and the community’s population and culture are similar to Liberal’s, with many working people and a family atmosphere.
With that in mind, Seward County Community College/Area Technical School’s dean of finance and operation, Dennis Sander, said officials with the school were already working on plans should something happen at SCCC/ATS, assuring students, faculty and the community that should a shooting take place, it will be handled promptly by campus security, law enforcement and emergency workers.
“We have things in place already,” he said. “It’s not any special response due to the incident in Oregon. We have an emergency crisis plan. It includes various scenarios, including an active shooter.”
Sander said the college has building coordinators in place should a situation arise, and each year, SCCC/ATS Security Director Dennis Mulanax provides incoming freshmen with an overview of the school’s safety procedures.
“Probably the number one thing he talks about is the idea that everybody’s a security officer in a sense,” Sander said. “Keep your eyes open just like you’re in your own neighborhood, like a neighborhood watch. If you see suspicious activity or if you see someone you think is acting odd or you’re frightened by it, contact security so security can be on alert and take action.”
At this time, SCCC/ATS’s security force includes Mulanax and several full- and part-time security guards watching the campus around the clock.
“We put them in uniform. They’re not armed,” Sander said. “Currently, we have, it’s not a billy club, but it’s like that. Just in case they’re hand-to-hand for any particular reason, they’d have something to overcome. We’ll look at that, too. We think about that. On campus, a student will know a security guard because they have security uniforms.”
In 2013, the Kansas Legislature passed and Governor Sam Brownback signed into law a bill allowing handguns in all public buildings in the state. Several public entities, including higher education institutions like SCCC/ATS, opted to get a waiver for four years.
The local college is currently in the middle of that waiver, and Sander said once the waiver expires, he thinks colleges across the state will be looking at where to go from there.
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