Fort Davis High School Music Program Yields Gypsy Theme Entertainment
A Fort Davis event featured Miss Leas Terri and students performing a two hour music program in the high school auditorium. Miss Irma Lee Batey from Sul Ross College sang Gypsy Love fone, with several pupils and readers including Doris Smith Eaton and Tyrrel DeVolin. A talk on the lure of Gypsy music was given by Mrs Scobee and Mrs F M Miller sang The Tambourines. Visitors from Marta offered performances including gypsy dances. Dorothy Jones and Lena Rivers Gray delivered solos, duets and readings. the program closed with Wrong Notes playlet featuring Betsy Rosse Smith and Tyrrel DeVolin.
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Leas Terri
s“Oyvey
Au| Aitortum
Irma Lee Batey
Sul Rose
College
Fone
Mariiss
Mise Weyerts
Wel Rose
Georgia Leo Jones
Elisabeth A Miller
Cecelia ‘Thompson
Doris Smith Eaton
Tyrell DeVolin
L. Robert
Withers
Betsy Rosse Smith
Mar
Doris Smith
Albert Truitt
Charles Bird
Jeanne Stewart
Tyrrel DeVolin
Moreau Miller
Scobe
Pvaryiow Smith
Hayden
Surfeprige
Dorothy Clark
Bohm
Brahms
Mim ‘Terrill
Lillian Grubb
Audrey Miller
Gersso
Lisat
Enthusiasm at Fort Stockton meeting for Davis Mountains Park push
Joel Jackson of Alpine led supporters at a Fort Stockton gathering advocating park purchase by the state of the Fowlkes ranch. Attendees from Fort Davis included J. W. Merrill J. W. McElroy W. B. Miller and Marvin Hunter Jr as funds and park plans were discussed.
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Davis Mountains Park
Park Association
Fort Stockton
Joel Jackson
Alpine
Fowlkes Ranch
Fort Davis
J. W. Merrill
J. W. McElroy
W. 8. Miller
County debates coyotes jackrabbit control policy
County commissioners hear ranchers defend continued hunting and trapping to curb jackrabbits while noting coyotes are not a major factor in jackrabbit extermination. Eddie Leon of the U S Biological Survey backs this view and urges disease-driven rabbit drives as more effective. Ranchers pledge support for paid predators crew for six months with federal and state funds.
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Eddie B. L Eon
United States Biological Survey
Jeff Davis County
Will Everett
Bill Smith
Turbulent Spring in West Texas Sparks Floral Colour and Tragedy
Reports from Alpine and Marta describe vivid bluebonnets and other blooms covering miles of Big Bend landscape this spring. A fatal tractor accident near Taylor killed eight year old It i w as the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Prade, sparking community grief. County officials attended an Alpine Chamber luncheon, while J. W. Merrill was elected Highland Fair president as plans for a large autumn fair advance.
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Big Bend
Marta
Lear Mall
A Fanley
Taylor
Alsen Prade
A. G. Prade
Port Davie
A. Raste
Prades
Iiade
Eighth Grade Courtroom Meets For English Lesson Event
Two days ago the eighth grade English room became a makeshift courtroom where students faced mock trials over honoring The Lady of the Lake. Paul Forchheimer prosecuted, Allen served as judge, and Daf Major and friends sat on the jury while Weyerts kept minutes.
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Prisotti
Paul Forchheimer
Bi Allen
Daf ‘Vid
Ramon Newman
Beard
Dorothy Bi Jane Boudreaux
Frite Bi Weyerts
County Employs Auditor T. Davis of Alpine
Alpine man T Davis is hired Monday by Jeff Davis county commissioners as regular auditor. He will be paid annually to manage county books and has just finished a four year audit for the county. Citizens asked $50 for building and bridge aid, a request approved, with prior visits noted to Terlingua and Presidio commissioners seeking bluebonnet fields.
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T. . Davis
Alpine
Jeff Davis County
Thin County
Joney
Bluebonnet Fields
C. B. Corning
G. W. Davister
Fapy Mille
Brtie Covington
Terlingua
Presidio
Alpine Junior High poster contest and chapel notes
Alpine Study Club offered two prizes for posters on conserving natural resources with first prize 1.50 and second prize 0. The judges praised Annie Blankenship for an honorable mention among the girls posters. Chapel on April 10 featured Reverend Sparks explaining Texas rivers and Sam Houston’s life and aims. Scout hike by troop 48 to Paradise Canyon occurred April 11 with Castle Rock climbed and the new assistant Dossey labeled a shark in Capturing the Flag.
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Alpine Study Club
Miss Wall
Annie Blankenship
Menton
Alpine Junior High School
Sparks
Texas
Sam Houston
United States
Paradise Canyon
Castle Rock
Dossey
Baseball Tournaments Open for Seventh Graders
The baseball tournaments have begun with boys and girls teams in seventh grade. Three girls teams and two boys teams compete. Captains are Inda Benson Wesselle Watson and Frances Cotter from the girl teams. Each team will play one other two teams while the eighth grade plans to join.
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Inda Benson
Wesselle Watson
Frances Cotter
Ch Dlons
Grand Canyon lesson blends myth and erosion tale
The piece recounts an April event where Benson's team beat Cotter's 10 to 7 and follows with a classroom talk on how the Grand Canyon formed. Elisabeth Myrick relays a chief and valley story, then a teacher notes nine million years for erosion and Colorado River carving, amid poems and an unveiling ceremony.
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Grand Canyon
Elisabeth Myrick
Colorado
New York
Colorado River
Cents Daily Makes Fat Healthier for Young Women
Nine young women on a meatless diet at 28 cents per day for four weeks were deemed fitter fatter and fairer by doctors. The regimen avoided meat butter and milk while including peanut products cottage cheese oranges and tomatoes. One woman’s bag was omitted but remaining meals supplied needed nutrients with leftovers at test end.
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Washington
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