Clovis City Manager Don Clifton was proposing a 5 percent pay increase for city employees. Otherwise Clifton had asked city commissioners to approve only “necessary” requests – roof repairs at Potter Park pool and the youth center at Ned Houk Park and a typewriter for the Inspections Department. … Poor Boy’s Butcher Shop, 16th and Prince, offered cheddar cheese for $1.75 per pound. … And information specialist Melinda Adams of Clovis was born in Ardmore, Okla.