Alpine Girls and Brother Die During Illnesses in Groesbeck
Alpine Woman's brother Wilmer Burney 61 and sister Mrs Lee Pierce 73 died within hours of each other after Mrs Lillie Phillips traveled to Groesbeck for their illnesses. Funeral services followed as Alpine High hosts Fabens Five in basketball with rounds and preliminaries detailed. Sul Ross students attended operas in San Antonio, and Raymona Talley of Sul Ross State College recovered after an emergency appendectomy in Pecos.
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Groesbeck
Lillie Phillips
Lee Pierce
Wilmer Burney
Sul Ross College
Winifred Slight
San Antonio
Manon
Raymona ‘Talley
Sul Ross State College
Pecos Hospital
Pecos
Buck B squad edges Marfa B team in season finale
The Buck B squad defeated Marfa B 39 to 36 as Earnest Fierro led with 18 points and Tino Valenzuela added 10. The Shorthorn B’s led 28-12 at halftime, ending the 1955 basketball season before first round regional playoff action in Ozona against Coleman.
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Auweee
Alpine High FTA Girls Head to State Meeting
Twenty seven Alpine High School girls in the Future Teachers of America accompanied by sponsor Miss Myrtle Whiteside left yesterday by bus for the state FTA meeting at North Texas State College Denton. They plan to return Sunday.
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Alpine High
Future Teachers of America
Myrtle Whiteside
FTA
North Texas State College
Denton
Theodore Roosevelt First Secret Service Guarded U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president guarded by the Secret Service after McKinley’s assassination in 1901. The change established a permanent federal protection effort for the presidency.
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Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
United States
Secret Service
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Herman Chandler
Dryden
Tex
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Pedro Torres
P. O. Box
Ysleta
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Tfe
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J. P. Colwell
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Poinsettia
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R. A. Whiteside
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Alcoholics Anonymous
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Elvie F. Williams
Fabeng
Alpine High Gym
Theseare Rankin
Presidio
Sanderson
Tourhey
Barstow
West Texas
J. R. Dillard
Russell McMeans
Alpine High Juniors
Leroy Roark
Raymond Talley III
Korea
Robert Cros
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Modoc
Calif
Crawford Insurance
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General Insurance
Automatic Sales CO
Olive ST
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