Fort Davis Enlists for Tex Defense Guard and School News
Fort Davis organizes a local defense guard with about 140 volunteers and plans for three or four squads. Major A. Tessieres will command the battalion with officers to be appointed, then noncoms chosen locally. Teachers at Fort Davis common schools re-elected. a school bus purchased for out of town trips. Sammie Dominguez serves in Fort Benning with armored artillery. Gareth Joiner wins extemporaneous contest at Marfa and advances to state meet. seven graduates listed for May 16 commencement. baccalaureate May 11 at Presbyterian church.
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Tex Fer
Alps
Alpine
Fort Davis
Sul Rose
A. KS. de Bessieres
Sul Ross
Mile High Club
Tessieres
Adjutant General of Texas
Fort Davis Common
BE. Coan
V. E. Smith
BE. B. Cole
Mabel Bloyr
Callie Holt
VE. Smith
Dorothy Hinds
Carrie Alvis
L. A. Singleton
Virginia Parry
Edith Hutcheon
A.V. Chapin
Uncle
Sam
Sammie Dominguez
Mr Inguez
14Th Field Artillery
Fort Benning
Georgia
Erc
Joiner
West Texas
Garreth Joiner
Marfa
Austin
D. M. Joiner
Emiles Bloys
Leo Fairchild Jr
Edgar Fisher
Clyde Joiner
Horace Cook
Malon Harvey
Presbyterian Church
Mark Burnett
April 30 Deadline to Render Property for 1741 Tax Rolls
Taxpayers are reminded that April 30 is the deadline for rendering their property for 1741, otherwise it will go on the unrendered rolls. Homestead exemptions must be claimed personally according to T. F. Skevington, deputy county tax assessor.
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T. F. Skevington
Eputy County
Texas draft boards assign quotas for May induction
General J Watt Page announces Texas 351 local boards will furnish men to meet an 208 army quota for 1000 trainees. Trainees, all white, to be inducted May 5 6 7 and 8. Texas has had twelve calls, with 23585 inducted since last November. About 4600 more are planned before July 1 to finish the first year quota. Brewster county lists 332 on its total, with a May call of two. State board reports only 527 appeals filed, three from Brewster county.
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J. Watt Page
Selective Service
Texas
Army
War Department
Brewster County
Draft Board
State Selective Service Board of Appeals
North Texas students return from Big Bend geology tour
Nine advanced geology students from North Texas Agricultural College Arlington led by Prof. S A Lynch returned from a five day 1650 mile trip to the Big Bend region and West Texas oil fields. They visited Jare springs Fort Stockton salt flats near El Paso Davis Mountains McDonald Observatory Guadalupe Mountains Carlsbad Caverns Terlingua quicksilver mines and Marathon basin observing lava flows and potash mines.
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Arlington
North Texas Agricultural College
Big Bend
Texas
S. A. Lynch
Park
Professor Lynch
David Lloyd
Bob Dalton
Frank Vernon
Robert Moore
Chester Lind
Dallas
Jimmy Brammer
Justin
Heaward Houston
Julian Hazarevich
Frankl Yates
Fort Worth
Port Stockton
Marathon Basin
Glass Mountains
CCC
Chisos
Davis Mountains
Clinic For Tubercular Patients Held April 10
The State Health department held a tuberculosis clinic at the Community Center on April 10 under director Miss Fulcerod with help from Miss Price Mrs Howard Hamilton and Mrs H R Gard. Of the 19 examined only one was positive.
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State Health Department
Nutrition Campaign To Be Launched Next Week
In cooperation with the National Defense program the Texas Nutrition campaign will launch in Alpine on Wednesday April 30 at 3 o'clock in the chamber of commerce office. Representatives from all local organizations are urged to be present.
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National Defense
Alpine
Chamber of Commerce
Cars Needed to Take Alpine Band to Regional Contest
Alpine high school seeks cars to transport band members to the regional contest at Kermit tomorrow. Anyone who can furnish a car should contact Charles Livingston at phone 261.
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Alpine High School
Kermit
Charles Livingston
Motion Pictures of Big Bend Shown in Austin Sunday
Color footage taken in the Big Bend of Texas by E. B. Ownsend curator of the Sul Ross museum Alpine will be shown Sunday afternoon in the geology alcove of the Texas Memorial museum. Dr E H Sellards director notes two showings at 2 30 p m and 4 p m Townsend explains the scenes drawn from 788000 acre proposed park area including canyons rivers mountains flowers antelope CCC ramp and other features from across the region.
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Austin
Big Bend
Texas
E. B. Ownsend
Sul Ross Museum
Alpine
Texas Memorial Museum
E. H. Sellards
Townsend
National
CCC
Sul Ross Faculty To Speak At AAAS Meeting
Two Sul Ross State College professors will present at the AAAS Southwestern Division annual meeting in Lubbock April 28 to May 1. V. J. Smith will discuss Some Unusual Basketry from Big Bend Caves on Tuesday, and Dr O E Sperry will describe Plants of Brewster County on Wednesday. Smith also serves as secretary of the West Texas division of the Texas Academy of Science.
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Sul Ross College
Southwestern Division
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Lubbock
V. J. Smith
West Texas Museum
Sul Ross
Big Bend
O. E. Sperry
National Park Service
Brewster County
Smith
West Texas
Texas Academy of Science
AAAS
Ranch-born Girls Are Experts With Rifles at Sul Ross
Sul Ross and Alpine received publicity in the Star-Telegram pictorial section with a full page on school activities. It showed girls at the college rifle range, lessons from Border Patrolman Harold E. Halsey, a student shooting from horseback, and Miss Connie Duncan of Alpine, state woman pistol shooting champion. The article discusses an option plan to fund purchase, delays, and potential legislative action, with Fort Stockton Senator H. L. Winfield expressing interest but doubt about timing. It traces land ownership near the fort, noting James’s 1854 survey work and continued ownership since 1886, and questions whether funds can be raised before the option expires.
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Sul Ross
Alpine
Star-Telegram
College
Harold E. Halsey
Connie Duncan
H. L. Winfield
Fort Stockton
Fort Davis
John James
James
Jefferson Davis
California
West Texas
Big Bend park purchase urged in Texas campaign
Citizens and officials push to buy park land for National Park Service. U S leaders back the measure with broad support from unions travel groups and school associations. legislators weigh pensions against the investment urging rapid action by urging friends to contact their representatives before a Monday telegram deadline.
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Texas
National Park Service
Federated Woment Prodragsiee
Big Bend Park Purchase
Big Bend Park
New Laboratory Demonstrates Light in Coal Plastics
Conti laboratory showcases a coal lime salt mix that resists oil. A corner light travels around a transparent plastic made from coal air and water. The demonstration highlights numerous other articles in this exhibit.
Roads for Defense Highlight Farm to Market Network
Officials stressed farm to market roads as vital to national defense at the 38th Roads for Defense convention in New York City. L. V. Belknap and other ARBA county highway leaders urged robust rural arteries to move food and supplies to defense forces, linking farms to national security across states and regions.
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Highway Information Service
Roads For Defense
American Road Builders’ Assation
New York City
L. V. Belknap
Arba County Highway Officials
Oakland County Road Commission
Pontiac
Mich
Paul B. Rynning
Jackson County
Medford
Ore
N. P. Lowrey
Board of County Commissioners
Miami
Fla
Manton Hannah
McLennan County
Waco
Tex
Belknap
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Big Bend Area
Science
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Interior
Harold L. Tekes
W. Lee O'Daniel
Bi Bend Park
United States
New Mexico
Nevada
Arizona
Canada
NOB Mill Coffee
Edwards
Sc Hada
Safeway
Peyton
Cherub
Cerra Eed
Molly
Raleigh Cigarettes
Rinso
Emerald Bay
Sunny Bank Loleo
Ore Houss
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