Pages past - Aug. 16

On this date ...

1973: Workers began laying a foundation for the new La Casita Elementary School at Fifth and Reid streets in Clovis.

Page and Wirtz Construction Co. of Amarillo had been hired to build the school, which would cost $671,000.

The school was scheduled for completion in June 1974, in time for the 1974-75 school year.

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