Clouds and rain showers skirt Big Bend region
Good clouds bring cool days with scattered rainfall across the Big Bend. Rain fell in the Black Gap area and Purnell country, with Measured showers in Ranger Canyon and nearby ranches. Ranchers report beneficial rains, plans for fall work, and note travel and local property changes as drought concerns ease.
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Black Gap
Purnell Country
Eliott Stewart
Sam Mather
Big Bend Park
Gussie Brown
Davis Mountains
Parr-Pate Ranch
Casner-Holmans
Vernon McIntyre
Alpine Long Distance Center Holds Cross-Department Meetings
City progress report notes monthly Alpine meetings include telephone company officials from Ft Worth to discuss long distance. Wire Chief Claude Austin and Western Electric Supervisor J K Balthrop attend. Calls counted by number and rates favor station to station calls at night and on Sundays.
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Big Bend
Tas Ft. Worth
Texas
Claude Austin
Western Electric
J. K. Balthrop
Brewster County ASC selects nominating committee
At a July 20 meeting Kay SCS Technician named Earl Clark Marathon Perry Cart wright and Cavin Woodward Alpine to form a nominating committee. It will pick 10 eligible ranchmen for the 1957 Brewster County ASC Committee ballot. Ballots will be mailed to ranchmen and must be returned by September 20.
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Fayette Yates
Alpine
Edwin Fowlkes
Presidio
Edwin
County Election Board
Frank Newsom
County Went
Patrick F. Sullivan
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Lose Ugly Fat In Ten Days Or Money Back
Diet hype claims a new DIATRON product curbs hunger without drugs, diet, or exercise. Users eat normally yet weight should drop as portions shrink, with a money back guarantee if the first package fails. Sold by Alpine Drug Store Alpine and by mail order.
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Alpine Drug Store
Alpine
Lobos Schedule Four Home Games This Fall Season
Sul Ross College basketball coach Al Milch announces four home games for the 1956 season with opener September 22 at Corpus Christi and a home clash October 6 against Sam Houston State in Alpine. The schedule lists opponents at various Texas locations through November 24, culminating with East Texas State at Commerce.
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Footbball
al Milch
Lobos
Corpus Christi University
Corpus
Sam Houston State
Corpus Christi A
West Texas State Canyon
Alpine
Southwest Texas State
San Marcos
Texas A&i
Sir Thomas Urquhart Dies in Fit of Laughter Over Charles II Restoration
Cromarty native Sir Thomas Urquhart, famed translator of Rabelais, resident on the Black Isle, reportedly died from a fit of laughter upon news of the Restoration of Charles II, reflecting a jovial response to a political turning point in Scotland.
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Thomas Urquhart
Scotland
Rabelais
Cromarty
Black Isle
Charles II
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