Two gunmen thwarted Farr's Supermarket hijack in Lubbock
A Friday morning holdup at Farr's No. 5 in Family Park Shopping Center failed after two masked robbers delayed awaiting managers Bobby Joplin and Gary Satterfield.店 employees White Smead Adams were ordered to the office as the pair demanded timing and the safe combination. The gunmen fled as managers arrived late, leaving with no loot. Police investigated the aborted heist and possible getaway details.
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Bobby Joplin
Gary Satterfield
Satterfield
Tom White
Family Park
34Th Street
Avenue H
White
Robert (Lavanche) Smead
Meat Department
Brown
Joplin
Denver
Gary
Mrs. Smead
Adams
Cotton Burr Fires Damage Gins and Homes Near Cotton Center
Two strong burr fires swept the Cotton Center area damaging the Martin Gin and the Cotton Center Co op Gin area. Firefighters from several towns battled the blazes amid thick smoke and wind, with several responders treated for smoke inhalation before being released. Estimated losses included a cotton loader and damaged buildings. cause undetermined.
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Cotton Center
Hi-Plains
Hale ‘Center
Joe McMennamy
Bill Terry
Crow
Kalamazoo Marine Seeks Wooden Shoes to Beat Mud
Kalamazoo Marine Sgt. Thomas W. Ryan of Company B writes from Kalamazoo Michigan about collecting klompen wooden shoes to construct a raft for crossing monsoon mud in Vietnam era service. The unit is the 9th Motor Transport Battalion.
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Kalamazoo, Mich
Kalamazoo
Klompen
Thomas W. Ryan
9Th Motor Transport Battalion
Kalamazoo residents send wooden shoes to Vietnam sergeant
In Kalamazoo last week residents of Dutch descent donated klompen for a sergeant serving in Vietnam. Letters reveal mud season memories from World War I and wartime gratitude. Mrs. Thomas Merlyn Ryan will include donor notes with each pair, hoping to hear from the troops.
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Kalamazoo Gazette
Europe
Kalamazoo
Ryan
Vietnam
Marine Keenan receives life sentence for village killings
UPI reports 20-year-old Pfc. Charles W. Keenan of Nitro West Virginia was given life imprisonment at hard labor for the shooting deaths of two villagers near Da Nang on September 22. He also received a dishonorable discharge forfeiture of pay and reduced to private. Two fellow Marines faced charges with one convicted of attempted murder.
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Danag
South Vietnam
UPI
U.S
Charles W. Keenan
Nitro
W.va
Chu
Lai
Saigon
Tri Binh
Quang Ngai
da Nang
Keenan
Ronald A. Piatowski
Trenton
N.J
John H. Reed
Southeast Asia
Urban Development Funds Approved for Brenham and Rockport
The Department of Housing and Urban Development approved advances and grants for Brenham Texas a $240000 loan to finance construction of two dormitories and Rockport Tennessee a $7200 advance for planning street and storm drainage improvements.
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Washington
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Brenham
Tex
Rockport
Tenn
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Mich
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Kalamazoo Marine
Marine
Portsmouth
N.H
Henry Keenan
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Mpletur
America
19Th St
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MGM Metro LP
Doctor Zhivago
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Thivago
Annie
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