Trip to Big Bend Park described in Houston Post
Marie Lee Phelps writes of her Big Bend National Park visit with Eugenia Hunters and Wilmer B. She recalls riding Trigger 16 miles to camp, exploring Boquillas and Mariscal canyons, reaching Mount Emory at 7 855 feet, and admiring the Rio Grande, Santa Elena Canyon, and distant Mexican peaks. She notes park expansion talks and the need for private investment.
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Marie Lee Phelps
Houston Post
Big Bend National Park
Trigger
Roy Rogers
Chisos Mountains
Eugenia Hunters
Wilmer B
Texas
Big Bend Park
Houston
Big Bend
Mexico
Rio Grande
Glenn Burgess
Mexico City
State of Texas
Santa Elena Canyon
Boquillas’ Canyon
San Jacinto
Mariscal
Mount Emory
America
Old Mexico
Eugenia
Boquillas Canyon
Marvin Kay to present El Paso Lions charter weekend
Marvin Kay of Alpine district governor of Lions District 2-T-2 will be in El Paso this weekend to present a charter to a new Lions Club. Charter night is set for Saturday. Mr and Mrs Kay and children were in Fort Worth last week for governors council meetings and attended the Stock Show and Rodeo. He also announced the Van Horn Lions Club has been reorganized.
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Marvin Kay
Alpine
el Paso
Lions Club
Citation by Publication in Brewster County Texas
Public notice commands Gist Blair and L C Purnell heirs and unknown heirs to appear in Brewster County District Court Alpine Texas by 10:00 A M on March 21 1955 to answer W G Gulihur’s suit to reform a 1896 deed description and to recover title and possession of land described as the southeast quarter and southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Survey No 33 Block 230 Texas and St Louis Railway Company Original Grant. Plaintiff seeks title possession and damages for unlawful withholding.
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District Court
Brewster County
Texas
Alpine
W. G. Gulihur
W. G Gulihur
Gist ‘Blair
L. C. Purnell
Gach
Hove
J. W. Frazer
J. W. ‘Frazer
Alpine Youth On Texas A&M Meat Judging Team
The Junior Meats Judging Team from Texas A and M College won fourth place in the annual Meats Judging Contest at Fort Worth. They placed third in lambs and fourth in beef and pork. Alpine's Ken G. Killion is an alternate on the team.
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College Station
Texas A & M College
Fort Worth
Ken G. Killion
Alpine
Geographic claims on transport and mining cited
The National Geographic Society states that if all exported cars and trucks from New York Harbor were placed end to end they would reach from Manhattan to Indianapolis. It also notes a 130 foot shaft at Eldorado Beave Lake in northern Saskatoon on Canada’s uranium deposits.
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New York Harbor
Manhattan
Indianapolis
Ind
National Geographic Society
Eldorado
Beave Lake
Saskatoowan
Canada
Alpine Couple Welcomes New Resident Leo Craft
New Alpine resident Leo Craft, son of Mr and Mrs J L Craft, has recently been discharged from the Air Force and is now attending Sul Ross State College in Alpine.
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Leo Craft
Alpine
Craft
J. L. Craft
Air Force
Sul Ross State College
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el Paso Club
Aaron Jacoby
Tom Allen
FFA
San Antonio
Hunter
Gist Tsiah
Texas A&m
Henry Bailey Motor Co
Safeway
Nob Hill Coffee
Safeway Store
Alpine, Texas
R. K
West Texas Utilities Company
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