Calf shows high prize at Paso and CCC anniversary events
Keesey Kimball's calf won heavyweight class and reserve champion at the Paso show before being bought by Hotel Cortez for four cents per pound. The report notes CCC camp plans for an eighth anniversary program and lists local election candidates F F Weyerts Percy Wallace and J W Shepperd. It also mentions judging contests with 38 teams expected and Alpine FFA members across livestock, dairy, poultry.
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Avalanche
Keesey Kimball
Kimball and Son
FI Paso
Hotel Cortez
Betty Jo Crawford
Alpine Ffa
Eddie Scudday
Hal D. Smith
Bill Hancock
W. Wig
Earl Scudday
Billy Tom Meador
Harold Nichols
Willard Childress
Claude Garer
A. J. Bierschwale
Sheriff’s Sale Notice for Alpine Property in 1952 Auction
By order of the Brewster County District Court a tax sale was executed on Lot 6 in Block A-1 Famous Heights Addition Alpine Texas for taxes penalties interest and costs. The sheriff seized the described property on May 1 1952 and prepared for sale on the first Tuesday in June 1952.
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Brewster County
Texas
State of
Brewster
Alpine Independent School District
M.T. Wilson
Adant
Famous Heights
Alpine
District Court
Political Announcements for Local and State Offices
A list of candidates authorized by The Avalanche to announce their candidacies across district state and local offices. Includes sheriff tax assessor collector county attorney district attorney county commissioner justice of the peace state representative mayor council seats and congressional and state senate races with party nuances and required advertising payments.
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Avalanche
Richant F. Bowers
F. Creigh Jr
William H. Barney Bruce C. Sutton
C. Cooley
Thad Corkins
Sam Mather
Ralph Coe
Justice OF the Peace
Hallie Stillwell
Gene’ Hendry
Alpine
W. E. Lockhart
W. L.billy Winter
W. J. Newell
John W. O'Donnell
Kenneth Stucke
T. A. Beard
Alberto L. Rojo
R. G. Filiott
Malcolm McGregor
Paso County
Richard C. White
Corey B. Hardeman
Tom Green County
Texas gas industry roots traced to 1870 well gas
A Washington County farmer tapped natural gas in 1870 when gas emerged in a water well. Separately a Tasmanian native died in 1876, roughly a century after European discovery of the island.
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Texas
Washington County
Island
Alpine to Sell Property at Public Auction in Brewster County
The City of Alpine acting for itself and in trust for the State of Texas Brewster County and Alpine Independent School District will resell property at the court house door in Alpine on April 7, 1964 between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M. to satisfy taxes penalties interest and costs. Sheriff Jim Skinner authorizes the sale with deputy F T Powers Jr signing.
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Maine
Alpine
State of
Texas
County of Brewster
Alpine Independent School District
Maine Independent
Court House
Jim Skinner
Brewster County
F. T. Powers Jr
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Chisos
CCC
F. F. Weyerts
Percy Wallace
J. W. Shepperd
Dorothy Lee Anderson
Marfa
R. C. Anderson
Presidio
H. J. McBride
J. L. McBride
Eagle Pass
J. L. Langford
Hot Springs
Gene Parr
el Paso
Peyton Cain
O. E. Sperry
Ray McGrew
Myrtle Whiteside
L. E. Attwood
AAUW
Abilene
J. S. Hord
Myra Nelle
Olton
Hord
J. W. Anderson
Kate Nevill
J. J. Oliver
Oliver
Edinburg
Buddy Young
Corpus Christi
Vicky Young
San Angelo
John Young Sr
Macca
Sue Savage
Virginia Young
Glaydis Taylor
Dallas
Boquillas
Dorothy Roberts
Jack Roberts
Fort Stockton
Guy Crawford
Richburg
Merizon
Chas. Treadwell
Jal
N. M
Weer
W. L. Babb
Baby
Leroy Granger
del Rio
THE
State OF Texas
County OF Brews
Fil
Crawford
Agency
Eneral Insurance
Business and Service Guide
Trans-Pecos Abstract Company
Ellyson-Guarantee Abstract Company
Big Bend ‘Abstract Co
6Th St
F. J. Ellyson
Optometrist
Thomas L. Coats
Hill Bullamg
Topolobampo Tours
Via
Chihuahua
al Pacifico
Mexico
Big Bend
Storey - Whiteside Lumber Co
the Business
Tire Service
U. K
Tire Shop
C. Box
W. Holland Ave
Hopson Insurance Agency
W. Ave. E
Mae M, Ament
W. Ave
Alpine, Texas
First Savings & Loan Association
West Texas
First Savings
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