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May 31, 2018
50 YEARS AGO • MAY 16, 1968
McGOWAN’S LOT SITE FOR PLAINS POST OFFICE
The Post Office Department has accepted an assignable land option for the site of a proposed new Post Office building at Plains. The property is owned by the McGowan Commercial Co. and is located between the McGowan building and the First National Bank on the north side of Railroad St.
The proposed building will contain 2,538 square feet of interior floor space with a 216-square feet of parking and maneuvering area.
The McGowan Commercial Co. is expected to bid on the building. The lot at present is vacant.
The Post Office building mentioned above is now Gambles Hardware. In 1968 the Post Office was located in half of the building that is now Plains Drug. The first Gambles store in Plains was established by Fred Amundson in 1939 and was in half of the building that now houses Colleen’s Country Store. In 1993 Ed and Fern Diehl bought the Gambles Store from Alvin Amundson.
30 SENIORS TO RECEIVE DIPLOMAS MONDAY
Thirty members of the 1968 senior class of Thompson Falls will receive diplomas Monday night at commencement exercises in the high school gym. Members of the class are: Donna Highland, Don Heater, Barbara Repp, Steve Hart, Bill Scott, Jack Eggensperger, Barbara Marich, Mike Thurman, Jennifer Rohwer, Tim Smith, Marilyn Stephanson, Linda Bloom, Gary Stipe, Dale Gunderson, Roger Chisenhall, Eva Perry, Jim Inman, Nick Taylor, John Gallaher, Beverly Shoemaker, Bill Stotts, Janet Wollaston, Joe Miller, Chuck, Strout, Jane Bennett, Marilyn Britton, Larry Matthew, Jim Miller, Joe Blouin and Arlen Larsen.
Seventeen of the 30 seniors attended all 12 years here.
NOXON CLASS OF 1968 TO GRADUATE MONDAY
Noxon High School commencement exercises will be Monday at 8 in the gym. Gary Weber is valedictorian and Bill Harker salutatorian.
Other members of the graduating class are Sharon Groff, Darlene Sellmer, Gary Vanek, Sandra Wilson, Juanita McNeeley, Linda Behmerwohld, Mary Ballenger, Nancy Brooking, Rebecca Finnigan, Linda Burk, Robert Gerstenberger, Jim Harp, Douglas Helms, Russell King, John MacDonald, Preston Stover, Barbara Walker, Richard Swan. Another member, Steven Stone was killed Thursday evening in a logging accident at his home.
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