Marchman Hotel becomes retirement club under Clampitt
J L Clampitt a Childress businessman and former Howard Payne College professor buys the 96 room Marchman Hotel for 175000 to operate the Marchman Retirement Club. The plan focuses on retired residents who may work to offset costs with possible later commercial dining. Open to 40 to 45 residents at start and up to 99 suites, near churches post office and library in downtown Wichita Falls.
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Marchman
Childress
Tex
J. L. Clampitt
Howard Payne College
Brownwood
Lyndon Johnson
Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
John Wayne
City National Bank
Clampitt
Childress Retirement Club
Childress Hotel
Marchman Retirement Club
Clampitts
Jaycee Ettes Plan Supper and Local Projects
The Jaycee Ettes met in City Hall to finalize a hot dog supper at Fair Park for members and families this Saturday. Plans include a car wash and a report on the Old Settlers Rodeo along with a vote to host an area meeting in October.
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Jaycee-Ettes
Fair Park
Gerald Holeman
Nick Christensen
Bill Blackburn
Holeman
Larry Grimes
Christensen
Charles Carter
Carter
Blackburn
Old Settlers
Texas Hospital Foundation
Waterloo Battle, Philadelphia Entry Mark Historic June 18
June 18 marks notable events from 1815 Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo to Philadelphia’s British withdrawal in 1778 and a US declaration of war in 1812. Other moments include Cherbourg captured in 1940 and Egypt proclaimed a republic in 1953, with later notes on White House gifts controversy and a 1960s safety incident.
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Associated Press
Waterloo
Belgium
Philadelphia
United States
Britain
Cherbourg
Egypt
Mohammed Naguib
Washington
White House
Sherman Adams
Louisiana
Earl Long
Baton Rouge
Tate Dean Rusk
Europe
Atlantic Alliance
Pope Paul VI
Middle East
Israel
Winston-Salem
N.C
Cuba
Paul McCartney
Richard Boone
God
Cervantes
Trade Insults Across Suez
Describes a tense ceasefire scene along the Suez Canal five years after a brief Egyptian Israeli war. Soldiers on both sides pass time with games and radios while occasionally exchanging insults across 200 yards of water. Egyptian jets and Israeli reconnaissance flights hue the quiet border though no fighting resumes.
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Suez Canal
Sinai
War ruins and aging vessels loom over Sinai canal scene
Fourteen ships remain moored in the Great Bitter Lake as the 1967 war lingers in memory. Elsewhere Egyptian ammo trains melt into desert sands while tanks and trucks rust along the waterway. In Texas, TLRT reports 127 new members 13 new 20 year members and 286 life members with nine women among the qualifiers.
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Great Bitter Lake
Lake Timseh
Skelton
Sinai
Negev
Houston
TLRT
Texas Association of Life Underwriters
Texas
Greenbelt
Wylie E. Boyle
Vernon
Joseph David Michie
Texas Leaders Round Table hits 914 members in 1972
The Texas Leaders Round Table, an elite life insurance underwriters group in Texas, reached 914 members for the year 1972. Ralph Wofford serves as president of the organization.
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Austin
Texas Leaders Round Table
Texas
Ralph Wofford
Women Independent With Their Drinking
Kenneth J. Peters of Austin Nichols & Co notes a decade shift as women increasingly buy and choose drinks. A industry survey shows 27% of bourbon, 25% of Scotch, and 31% of vodka consumed by women. He highlights milder proofs and growing female market influence.
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Tomhoge
Associated Press
New York
Kenneth J. Peters
Peters
Austin, Nichols & Co
Women shaping liquor stores with supermarket style displays
Women emerge as primary impulse buyers in evolving liquor retail. Supermarket look stores attract the female shopper with colorful labels and brochures, prompting questions and informed choices about wine and liquor.
International Jazz Festival opens in Costa del Sol
The Tivoli Amusement Park in Benalmadena Malaga hosts Spain's first Jazz Festival on the southern coast. It features Weather Report, Art Taylor Dizzy Reece Johnny Griffin Pony Poindexter Art Farmer Mal Waldren Sahib Shihab and the Kenny Clarke Francie Boland Big Band. Organized by Martin S Cramer.
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Spain
Benalmadena
Costa del Sol
New Tivoli
Malaga
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