Marathon News Updates Bring College Plans And Local Events
Jim Taylor and Sam Holmig return from vacation and plan to attend Sul Ross and San Angelo State. Local families move for school as service members resume duties. Elm beetles threaten Marathon elms while the Chamber of Commerce installs new officers and hosts teacher appreciation.
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MT. Chrp
Jim Taylor
Sam Holmig
Ruidoso
Carlsbad Caverns
Sam
San Angelo State
Jim
Sul Ross
Eddie R Brown Becomes ASCS District 13 Director
Eddie R Brown assumed duties as ASCS director of District 13 covering 12 West Texas counties. He succeeds Richard H Alexander who moved to Denton. Brown, with 14 years in ASCS, previously managed offices at Sterling City Colorado City and Robert Lee.
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Eddie R. Brown
ASCS
Texas
Brown
Richard H. Alexander
Denton
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Robert Lee
Viece
Sterling City
Colorado City
Lake City Visits Steeped In Sightseeing And School News
Lake City residents visit with Mr and Mrs Joe Bridge and family while sightseeing in New Mexico. Bill Smith returns home from a summer in Van Horn where he directed youth at First Baptist. Debbie Hiller Osees Alaska visits with the Fredericks Rices before heading to Sul Ross State University as a freshman. School pictures will be taken Friday September 4. A few 69 70 yearbooks remain and may be obtained from Mrs Hughes. The annual staff is selling ads. those not contacted may reach Alberto Garcia.
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Bronte
San Angelo
Bill Smith
van Horn
First Baptist Church
Debbie Hiller Osees
Alaska
Frederick Rices
Sul Ross State University
Hughes
Alberto Garcia
Cook rites held here for Mrs Verta Cook and brother John Carrell
Mrs Verta Cook 87 died August 23 at home after a heart attack. Funeral services August 25 at Geeslin Funeral Home chapel with Rev Walter Esch officiating. Burial in Elm Grove Cemetery. Survivors include a sister Ada Russell and a Houston niece. Brother John A Carrell 57 died August 22 in El Paso. he was CB Truck Lines office manager. Burial in Coleman, Texas.
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Verta Cook
Geeslin Funeral Home
Walter Esch
Elm Grove Cemetery
Jack Bow
Pete Carrasco
Loli Drewry
Kirby Killion
Ralph Burleson
George Mills
Cook
Cooper
Alpine
Joe Cook
Ada Russell
Jack Culley
Houston
New Mexico
John A. Carrell
Homer Hudgins
el Paso
CB Truck Lines
Coleman
Texas
Pate Elected President of Far West Texas Soil Group
At the annual meeting in Van Horn on Monday August 24 Jimmy Pate of Alpine was elected president of the Far West Texas Association of Soil Conservation Districts for the coming year. Members from El Paso Van Horn Pecos Balmorhea Marfa Alpine and Fort Stockton attended the session.
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van Horn
Far West Texas Association of Soil Conservation Districts
Jimmy Pate
Alpine
el Paso
Pecos
Balmorhea
Marfa
Fort Stockton
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