Cal Farley’s wartime bonds fuelled Boys Ranch legacy
The article details Cal Farley’s World War I service and key friendships with Gene Tunney Jack Dempsey and Eddie Eagan. It notes Jasper Baldwin’s postwar wealth and $4 million gift to Boys Ranch, enabling care for 500 boys, and frames war turning some men outward into lasting civic work.
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Cal Farley
Cal
Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Eddie Eagan
Boys Ranch
Jasper Baldwin
San Francisco
Go 0 6 This and That
Brief musings blend weather and events with remarks on Abe Martin and Jasper Baldwin legacy gifts to Boys Ranch, updates on the American Legion’s Paris 50th anniversary, and a note on Vietnam air support craft.
NCOs Offer Help to Clear Hazard at Martin Lake
The Golden Spread Chapter of the Non Commissions Officers Association volunteers 50 workers on weekends to remove hazards from three remnant lake sections at Martin Lake near North 15th Street and Martin Road. Sam Panger and George F. Benson propose filling the northern segment to a safe level and pumping drainage during rain, plus fencing to keep children away. City Manager John Stiff replies with appreciation.
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Golden Spread
The
Non-Commissioned Officers Association
Martin Lake
Sam Panger
George F. Benson
North 15Th
Martin Road
Amarillo
Panger
Benson
Nixon ties Vietnam stance to ABM plan during TV briefing
President Nixon told a television radio audience there is no prospect of U.S. troop reductions in South Vietnam due to the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong offensive. He reiterated that casualties could trigger action and outlined plans to push ahead with a minimum program to deploy the Sentinel anti ballistic missile system. He said he would confer with Melvin Laird and the NSC on the matter and promised detailed casualty figures next week.
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Washington
Nixon
Vietnam
U.S
White House
South Vietnam
Melvin R. Laird
National Security Council
Laird
Shamrock Festivities Amid Snowy St Patrick's Day Parade
Shamrock residents celebrate St Patrick's Day weekend despite heavy snow and slick roads. Downtown carnival atmosphere forms by afternoon with a ferris wheel and midway rides as the town holds a green themed armory banquet hosted by Mayor R L Roberts.
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Shamrock
R. L. Roberts
O’roberts
Wives Predict Phillips Strike Resolution
A Borger man correctly forecast that Phillips Petroleum Co. workers would return at midnight after observing wives of the midnight shift buying supplies for their husbands. He later confessed he saw the purchases in a grocery store and declined to name his inside source.
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Borger
Phillips Petroleum Co
Asset-minded talk opens 60th Tri-State Show in Amarillo
About 400 members heard Mildred Johnson urge wives to be assets and not liabilities to their husbands businesses at the Tri-State Hardware and Implement Association convention. The event marks the show returning to Amarillo for its 60th year with 3,000 expected farmers, and runs Thursday night through Sunday at the Amarillo Civic Center.
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Edward Gorrell
Leon Gorrell
Canyon
Greater Southwest Farm Show
Amarillo Civic Center
Tri-State Implement & Hardware Association
Villa Inn
Kansas City
Tri-State Hardware and Implement Association
Amarillo
More White Stuff Blows In Amid Farm Exhibit Cast
A Panhandle weather system slows work as a 12 inch snow covers the northern Tri State region. At the Civic Center a wage and hour seminar opens at 9 am with William R Noble of Washington DC speaking for the National Farm Equipment Association. Phillip Morris of Indianapolis discusses gun control to hardware dealers at 10 30 am. Glen Hensley of St Louis editor of Farm and Power Equipment speaks on You're the Man in Management.
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William R. Noble
Washington, D.C
National Farm Equipment Association
Phillip Morris
Indianapolis
National Retail Hardware Association
Glen Hensley
St. Louis
Farm and Power Equipment Magazine
Snow Drifts Close Roads As Liberal Sees Heavy Snowfall
A driver escaped injury after the vehicle mounted a guard rail on East Interstate 40 amid Friday snow. Liberal, Kansas records a foot of snow with continued heavy snowfall expected through the night, while the Panhandle anticipates moisture aiding spring planting.
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Interstate 40
Lora W. Brown
Clovis, N.M
Panhandle
Kan
Arizona
Bill to authorize parking improvement districts in mid sized cities
Sen Grady Hazlewood filed SB 634 to let cities with 90 600 to 200 000 population issue bonds for parking facilities. Tax levy capped at 50 cents per 100 value. Taxes paid by businesses in the district for downtown Amarillo style parking. residents outside district not taxed. City could build own operate maintain parking structures and related sites.
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Austin
Grady Hazlewood
Canyon
Hopper
Amarillo
CC. J. Taylor
Podunk Center Town For Sale Draws Global Bids
Podunk Center Iowa owner Homer Weeks reports rising bids for the one acre hamlet once housing a cafe filling station grocery and four unit motel. Interest extends to 25 states England Canada Bermuda with offers climbing from 7000 to 12000 and buyers planning visits this weekend. Some seek unusual aims including Ireland's steam engine memorial and a Bermuda tourist site.
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Podunk Center
Iowa
England
Homer Weeks
Weeks
America
Canada
Bermuda
New York
California
Los Angeles
Ireland
London
Winterset
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Air Force
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Leo Aikman
Ncos
John Stiff
City Commission
Lake
Tyler Vance
Ken Brodnax
Phil Duncan
Farm and Ranch
Allen
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Iren
By Steve Willbanks
Tri-State
Ron Marlow
Astro-Guide
Mr Mane
Clyde Walter Austin
Hick Town
Podunk
St. Anthony's Hospital
Polk Street
Tyler
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