Montgomery Ward to anchor Western Plaza in Amarillo
The major tenant for the $12 million Western Plaza Shopping Center in southwest Amarillo will be a new Montgomery Ward store, five times the size of Ward's present downtown location. Also notes Amarillo Police seek applicants for a new police school starting November 1 and city commissioners approve police personnel increase from 167 to 183. Colbert's to consolidate with Harry Holland store to form Colbert's-Harry Holland.
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Western Plaza
Amarillo
Montgomery Ward
Ward
Paul Kling
Plainview High to Add Four Vocational Courses
Plainview School officials announce four new vocational education courses at Plainview High School. They say the expansions would create one of the region's most extensive programs and boost student career preparation.
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Plainview
Plainview High School
Kashmir
New Silver Content Coins Prompt Greshams Law Debate
The article describes the 1965 coinage change reducing silver in dimes and quarters and half dollars, creating copper nickel sandwiches and altered intrinsic values. It notes coins will circulate alongside old ones while testing Gresham's Law, with varying public reactions and minting practices.
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Arthur A. Smith
First National Bank of Dallas
Gresham
Amarillo's 1970 promise sparks new expansion plans
Bob Lawrence of Kansas City heads Montgomery Ward real estate and predicts Amarillo will reach 222,000 residents by 1970, while local talk hints at further business announcements and expansions amid a national wave of development.
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Bob Lawrence
Kansas City
Montgomery Ward
Amarillo
War Toll Heaviest Two Weeks For U S Forces
US spokesman reports 226 wounded 111 missing and 96 Americans killed in 14 days of action. Four more Americans die in a Huey crash near Ben Cat as Marine and Air Force units push against Viet Cong forces. Ho Chi Minh vows defeat of the United States if fighting continues.
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Gunfire at Trade Winds Motel robbery wounds porter
A masked gunman robbed the Trade Winds Motor Hotel at 1001 N Pierce late Wednesday, fleeing with more than 500 dollars after firing on porter Louis Williams who was hospitalized. Police describe the assailant as a 30 year old Black man in a steel helmet, white shirt and dark pants.
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Trade Winds Motor Hotel
N. Pierce
Louis Williams
N. Adams
St. Anthony's Hospital
Williams
George Pearce
Magnolia
Pearce
Burglary Arrests After Store Intercom Alert
Three men from Lubbock charged with ip burglary at Shock Grocery Hale Center after intruders triggered intercom to home. George Alvin Tyler 28 former policeman Dwayne R. Millman 25 roofer Leslie Robinson Bond set at 2.50 each. all posted later. Police traced sequence from alarm to car pursuit and store exit.
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Lubbock
Shock
Hale Center
George Alvin Tyler
Brownfield
Dwayne R. Millman
Leslie Robinson
Spa
Justice of the Peace
J.C Lewis
A.M. Shook
Shook
Bill to Repeal 14th Clears Senate Group
Washington AP reports a Senate labor committee cleared a bill to repeal part of the Taft Hartley Act allowing states to ban union shop agreements. Vote 12 to 5. No date set for full Senate action, but a fight is expected before adjournment.
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Senate Labor Committee
Senate
Mike Mansfield
de Mont Fas
Congress
Whitey House
Bill de Moyers
Apologized Bribe Try In Singapore In 1961
Secretary of State Dean Rusk apologized to Singapore in 1961 over improper activities by US officials. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew released a letter and Washington confirmed the content. Lee said the US offered 3 million dollars to keep quiet about a CIA operative caught buying secrets, tied to an 89 million development offer from the US.
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Dean Rusk
Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew
State Department
Washington
Inteligence
CVA
John F Kennedy Lee
Singa
Hurricane Betsy Aims West Through Bahamas And Toward Cape Kennedy
Hurricane Betsy accelerated westward through the tropical Atlantic heading for the Bahamas and the southeastern U S. Space and military sites on Grand Turk Mayaguana Eleuthera San Salvador Grand Bahama and Cape Kennedy prepared for possible 100 mph winds and 6 to 9 foot seas. Officials warned small craft to seek shelter as the storm broke loose after a day and a half of relative quiet.
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Mayaguana Islands
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Caicos Islands
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Cape
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Western Plaza to Bring Montgomery Ward Center to Amarillo
A 12 million Western Plaza Shopping Center in Amarillo will house a Montgomery Ward five times the size of its downtown store. The 400,000 square foot complex on a 4k acre site near Western and I-40 opens spring 1967 with 40 shops, a second department store, supermarket, specialty stores, cafeteria, drugstore, and 3,000 parking spaces.
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Western Plaza
Mathe Hedgecoke Properties
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