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Herald nney-5 Telephone: 586-2121 VOL 64 NO I Sunday December 31 1967 Pasco Kennewick Richland Washington 96 Page COPY 20c Inc nas for opening by Ji otner evidence oTour continued faith in the future of the Tri-City PRIVATE BRAND new store will carry a full line of the company's private-brand PennCrest appliances including washers (fryers ranges freezers refrigera- Bid call is scheduled for April 1968 new full-line store in the 50-acre center will be constructed on two levels with mall and second-floor levels of 78044 square feet each plus an equipment penthouse ami out door-patio shop totalling 14190 square feet The auto center will be located near the main store and will have a 12-bay service garage It will offer tires batteries and auto accessories and brand of are pleased about this new store because it will enable to do a better job of bringing quality merchandise low prices and friendly service to the Tri-City said Kavanaugh new store is an- purchased 156 acres opposite Colorado Street to build an 180000-square-fbot Tri-Cities department store A Kavanaugh Portland district manager disclosed the land sale Saturday and officially announced will join Bon Marche in the Columbia Point Shopping Center new store will include a 9666 square-foot automotive center The Bon Marche Saturday congratulated on Its purchase and said the a i will enchance the and greatly increase the BID CALL The Bon Marche is expected to have its store completed and bars portable dishwashers air conditioners and dehumidifiers Also featured will be PennCrest television sets high-fidelity sets stereo phonographs furniture floor-care appliances typewriters sporting goods and paint and hardware departr ments The outdoor shopping area will be headquarters for the new line of lawn mid garden equipment Situated near Vista airfield and south of the intersection of Colorado Street and Highway 12 (formerly 410) Columbia Center will have parking for more' than 4000 cars ENCLOSED MALL The climate-conditioned cen-er will include 564842 square feet of retail buildings mid an enclosed mall of 51785 square feet Herald Offers Annual Edition Herald contains our annual yearend edition larger than ever before with stories pictures and charts on business agriculture and the communities of the Tri-Cities region Yearend stories will be found in sections A through pages 1-A through 32-A The Herald will wrap and mail this edition anywhere in the United States for 25 cents in coin or stamps Orders may be placed in person or by mail at The Herald's Kennewick Pasco and Richland offices Place- your order early No telephone orders please cility The center will include big new stores of The Bon Marche and Penney It is scheduled for completion in July 1969 This is an artist's conception of the 10-million shopping center being developed between Kennewick and Richland The view looks over Vista Field toward Richland Ground already had been broken for the fa Tri-City Business Climate Sunny More space is for lease in Allied Columbia Center The leasing program probably will be completed by July 1968 Boys west division construction engineer to Alliei Stores Corporation and in charge of Allied's expansion program said Columbia Point will have an of national regional and local merchants Richard Eichler leasing manager to -Columbia Center 200 Feared Dead In Brazil Floods Serving the growing Tri-Cities population with better rail and air transportation will be a major concern in 1968 and both proposed airline and railroad mergers are promising better service AIR TRAFFIC RISES Passenger traffic at the one-year-old Tri-Cities airport surpassed last total by 5500 when 33500 passengers passed through the terminal State Highway Commission approval of an Interstate 82 route through the Tri-Cities stirred hopes of better automobile and truck transportation in the future The December approval also brought hope to increased business and industry in the area' Agriculture one of the Tri-Cities fastest growing industries showed continued growth Columbia' Basin crop values totaled 876-million a 81-million increase over last year Next year's agricultural picture will be focused on development of the second half of the Columbia Basin Project Irrigation of the 531000 acres will involve a 8382-million federal investment with farmers adding another 8181-million in land im provements MORE HIRED Hanford industries showed an increase of 201 employes to 8754 despite shutting down of one reactor and tapering off of construction activities The emphasis is on research and development to 1968 and major projects include the 8875-million fast flux test facility and a new 85-million biology lab to be set up in the southeast corner of the 300 Area The Atlantic Richfield Co entered the area with pledges of diversified community development projects The Hanford contractor proposed a resort hotel a 8750000 cattle feed lot a 81-25 million pound capacity meat packing plant and a 875000 seminar series DEVELOPMENT Overall the emphasis was on new development in the Tri-Cities during 1967 that should give the impetus to continued growth in 1968 Announcement of plans to a 810 million Bon Marche shopping center in the Kennewick Highlands to be opened July 1969 buoyed hopes of burgeoning retail trade When complete the center will contain 600000 square feet of shopping space By KRISTI HENDERSON Herald Staff Writer The Tri-Cities business climate was a sunny me this year and business and industry too foil advantage of the growing season Forecasters predict an sunnier year ahead in 1968 Despite tight money bankers and builders saw 1967 as a gocx year Interest rates climbed to an unprecedented 7 per cent making money but bank deposits climbed to a new high of 33-8 million Building boomed in both Benton and Franklin counties with both residential and industria hniidingn pushing construction totals upward Kennewick am Pasco almost tripled 1967 building totals and bi-county permits valued at 8207-million an increase of almost 82-million Construction also keyed port development in 1967 A 115-million cold storage complex was completed on Kennewick port jroperty and a 84-million Collier Carbon and Chemical Co fertilizer plant will be constructed The fertilizer plant with facil-ties for barge transportation combined with increased slack- main street buildings were at one point completely covered by water Communications were out between Salvador the state capital and most affected areas The spokesman said Vianna Filho had asked for aid from the Brazilian government and from the US Embassy in Rio The spokesman reached by radiotelephone said there was no accurate official estimate of casualties but a report by amateur radio operators of 200 dead more or less close to the RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil (AP) Fifty thousand persons were driven from their homes by floods that ravaged the east cnast state of Bahia last week and as many as 200 may have been killed a spokesman for the state governor said Saturday The spokesman for Gov Luis Vianna Filho said rains had resumed Saturday afternoon and there was danger of the situation becoming worse He said 30 communities were hit by the floods Worst damage was reported at the towns of Belmonte and Itabuna where Lourdes Sets $736080 Surgery Uni? Route 410 Renamed Highway 12 Highway 410 which comes into the Tri-Cities across the Snake River Bridge from Burbank and extends on through Prosser is now officially US Highway 12 Fa the most part the highway roughty paraDels the trail of the Lewis and Clark expedition The highway running from Clarks ton to Grays Harbor completes the mid-west and western portion of an eventual route from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans US 12 formerly extended from Detroit to Lewiston Idaho proceeding west from Chicago Minneapolis South Dakota a corner of Noth Dakota the northern tier of Montana to Helena then southwest across the Lok) Pass to Lewiston co area and consequent demand for its services will be the key to the time-table for additional development after the new surgery unit the administrator said By KAREN ERICKSON Herald Staff Writer Our Lady of Lourdes is going to make it a threesome in the Tri-City hospital construction with plans to build a 8736000 surgical unit in 1968 Sister Anthony Marie Lourdes administrator said construction of the new building on property where a vacated church stands next to the present hospital will be the first phase in a long-term expansion and reconstruction of hospital-estimates cost of constructing the new unit for Lourdes will be 8736000 to four surgery rooms a central supply and a recovery room Preliminary plans to the new surgery unit are just the first sheet in a stack of architects' sketches Sister Anthony Marie has on her hospital desk FIRST PHASE new surgery is the first phase in our long-term expansion We intend to rebuild our complete structure and to phase out the she explained Population growth of the Pas who require updated facilities to their work and meet standards of good Today the 81-bed hospital is housed in the 1920 five-story main building a major addition completed in 1951 and a kitchen-laundry unit completed two years ago The site-which will be retained as different sections are replaced in future was purchased by the Sisters from the Northern Pacific Railway to 81 when the original building was erected in 1920 to $80000 SUNDAY and TUESDAY CLOSED MONDAY Snowdrift 3 59c surgery now is in our 1920 Sister Anthony Marie said explaining it i3 crowded and inadequate for present needs She said the hospital administration and its lay advisory board have decided to start Our Lady of rejuvenation with the surgical unit to two reasons: To attract specialists water navigation after the 1968 completion of John Day Dam should make Kennewick a ma-or Columbia River port POPULATION UP Population increases keyed an upward swing in business and the unofficial November es imate indicated a bi-county lopulation increase of 2100 per-i Greater THCSties popula-lon including Richland Pasco iennewick West Richland and liverview stands at 74000 New Years Truce Extended For Popes 1 Day Of Peace Weather Fog and low clouds today Highs about 25 lows in the High Friday 40 low yesterday 32 high yesterday 40 Normal for Dec II: high 38 few 24 the Pasco landmark Her announcement launches Lourdes on a building project as Kennewick General Hospital moves toward completion of its 8600000 remodeling and renova-ion and Richland's Kadlec Methodist is awarded a 8483000 grant towards construction of a new 845-million hospital (See other story page 12A) FINAL DECISION The final decision to begin construction at Our Lady of iourdes rests with the govem-ng body of the Order of Sisters St Joseph which has operated the Pasco hospital since its founding 51 years ago we ait working to receive the go-ahead now" Sister Anthony Marie said The Seattle architectural firm of Maloney Herrington Freesz and also employed by Kadlec to design its proposed No Herald On Monday The Tri-City Herald wffl not be published tomorrow Jan The Herald win be back on your doorstep Tuesday after- Paul's appeal of Dec 15 that Jan 1 be observed as a of throughout the There waa speculation that the truce extension was the subject of the urgent meeting Friday between President Nguyen Van Thieu and US Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker Thieu denied this He would not say what the subject of the Bunker discussions was other than it was SAIGON (AP) South Vietnam announced Saturday the New truce would be extended by 12 hours in response to Pope Paul appeal that the holiday be observed as a of throughout the winrlJ WOTKL The New Year's truce originally to 24 hours will begin at 6 pm today The Viet Cong's own three-day truce began at 1 sm Saturday but there was no agreement by the allies to ob serve it A series of engagements were repealed in the northern part of South Vietnam long after the Viet Cong truce had gone into effect This is the area of bitter fighting between Marines and North Vietnamese the past four days that left at least 70 Leathernecks dead The Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying the truce extension had been ordered the spirit of His Holiness Pope Inside Today Sections I 1- Page 72 Classified 3540 Comics 21 Editorial Page 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