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Portales
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Portales (pôrtăl`ĭs), city (1990 pop. 10,690), seat of Roosevelt co., E N.Mex., near the Tex. line; inc. 1910. It is the trade and processing center of an agricultural area. There is food processing, printing and publishing, and the manufacture of machinery, furniture, building products, and feeds. Oil wells are in the vicinity. Eastern New Mexico Univ. is in Portales. Cannon Air Force Base is nearby.


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Shaughnessy is currently Professor of Special Education at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico.
Each raised two flocks of thirty birds: a mixed flock of males and females of the standard variety known as the Bourbon Red obtained from Privett Hatchery in Portales, New Mexico, and males only of medium sized industrial line of broad-breasted white turkeys provided by British United Turkeys of America (BUT), based in West Virginia.
When Kysa graduated from Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico, with a master's degree in mass communications, she went back to Texas to live with her mother while she worked at the Houston Defender.
 
 
 
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