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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1951
Page
8
The excerpt notes Miss John hie Weyerts teaching math at ANS purchases visual aids for classroom use. A 28 inch blackboard protractor and three circles aid angles and area lessons, with students remarking on clearer understanding of using a protractor and circle relationships.
Readers learn of blackout curtains installed in several Centennial school rooms to improve projection visibility and reduce sun glare. Report covers student projects on campus beautification, pipe bursts and heating issues, plus the need for insulation to combat rapid heat loss in old buildings.
Sealed proposals for constructing 84 502 miles of seal coat along multiple Texas highways will be received at the Highway Department in Austin until 9 00 A M February 21 1951 and opened publicly. This is a public works project under Texas legislature acts with wage rates specified for each craft. The notice references Culberson and Davis counties with routes SH 118 166 Spur 78 and PA 3. The contractor must pay prevailing local wage rates.
A fragment describes a resident engineer Rowena in Runnels county and Milford in Ellis county with etymology hints. It mentions a legal holiday pay rate and Texas Highway Department governed norms. The text references Alpine and Austin, and a Bohemian word meaning level.
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