New Texas Road Map Features Big Bend Color Photos
Texas unveils its 1955 official highway travel map with two color photographs of the Big Bend. The accordion wrap around design is new and maps are easier to read. Growth of the highway system requires more space for mileage and details. Maps are distributed by Austin and district highway offices and travel information bureaus at border stations, and mailed to license plate applicants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Big Bend
Austin Highway Department
Highway Department
San Angelo Rodeo Plans New Events For '55 Show
San Angelo announces a bigger 1955 Rodeo March 3 to 6 with five standard events plus new features. Highlights include wild cow milking square dancing on horseback Air Force Kadence Kadets Budweiser Clydesdale Horse Hitch Palmetto Polo Ken Boen the clown and a Club Calf Sale Saturday March 5 at noon. Ticket deals and sales points are listed. A. E. Cap Anglin improves at home after a recent heart attack.
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San Angelo
H.C. Noelke Jr
Additioo
Air Force Kadence Kadets
Ken Boen
Noelke
Cactus Hotel
Alpine Bru Store Promises 15 Minute Relief Trial
A local notice touts a money back guarantee for quick relief from eczema athlete's foot ringworm and poison ivy bites using a topical product from Alpine drug stores. The advertisement urges customers to try the remedy with a 15 minute relief claim.
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Alpine Bru
Marathon Boys Finish Second In District Tourney
Marathon high school completed a 10-34 season with a second place in the district basketball tournament. Cruz Me Guire and C. A. Haynes scored 17 and 14 for Marathon while Valentine’s Sfontemana and Baldwin topped with 14 each. The girls placed fourth and Presidio boys beat Marathon in the finals. Kathryn Graham led Marathon with 21 points in the girls’ game.
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Maria
Fwoekeena
Valentine
Cruz MeGuire
C. A. Haynes
Marathon
Sfontemana
Baldwin
Tsand
Presidio
Prest
Gehryn Graham
Smallwood
Pem
Shira Lace
Presidio Boys
Mustangs
Fort Dave
Anita
Valentide
Kathryn Graham
Valero
Winne’s
Odessa
Norman Gulihur
Ghariene ‘Smith
Allgirls
John Colwell Wins National Citizenship Award
John Colwell of the Safeway Store in Alpine is named a winner in the National Citizenship Award Program by the National Association of Food Chains. He is one of 27 Texas managers honored from about 2,000 nationwide. The award honors outstanding citizen service based on a Columbia University test and Carnegie study.
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Safeway
el Paso
John Colwell
Alpine
National Association of Food Chains
Colwell
Texas
Columbia University
Carnegie
Safeway official touts citizenship program as industry effort
The report notes eighteen questions measuring youth group work voting regularity and civic projects by Safeway officials and others. It states this industry wide program to recognize good citizenship is the first of its kind by any association or business group. Mr Colwell, with Safeway five years, member of Chamber of Commerce and Lions Club, is married with two sons.
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National Association of Food Chains
Colwell
Safeway
Chamber of Commerce and
Lions Club
Barges on Inland Waterways Aid Fuel Delivery
In 1952 American farms depended on barges on inland waterways to help deliver the bulk of four billion tons of tractor fuels consumed. The statement credits barges with enabling major fuel movement to farms nationwide.
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San Angelo Rodeo
A. E
Cap) Anglin
North Fifth St
Mr. Anglin
Mrs. Anglin
Crystal City
Eagle Pass
Marathon News
Itie V. CH
George Page
Buddy Granger
Overton Ranch
Sam Cavness
Charles Smith
Charlene ,Smith
Pat Rooney
Bill Donnell
San Antonio
Dodie
Louie Ritchey
Ritchey
Don Satterwaite
H. A. Springfield
New York
Harry Nielsen
Kansas
David Combs
Bishop Waney
Charles Hoppin
Amarillo
D. W. Collins
Hoppin
Amer. Pire
Alan
A. W. Haley
Victoria
R. R. Wilson
Ballinger
Delmar Collins
Jack Todd
W. T. Burnham
Babb
Adams
Sanderson
Tom Yarbro
Mary Jack
Mabel Arnold
Panama Canal Zone
Montique Bay
San Juan
Porta Rica
Havana
Miss Jean Higgins
Miss Higgins
Mrs. Arnold
Frank Wedin
George Washington
Dave Sublett
Tom Page
Tes- Inus
Tercer
T. and
N. O. Railroad
Ted Henderson
Wallace Chambers
Ojinaga
Mexico
Clarence Lee
R. E. Thompson
W. E. Rays
Study Club
Davis Mountain Federation Scholarship Fund
Margaret Buttrill
W. C. Donnell
W. C. Powers
B. L. Hampton
Bob Lemons
Galveston
Jim
Worthington
Houston
Missionary Societies
Lois McIntyre
Otto Lochausen
F. M. Roark
McIntyre
Alaska
North Star
Industrial Arts Dept. of
The
Business and Professional Directory
Bichholtz Construction Co
Bruce C. Sutton
Alpine, Texas
Marvin C. Kay
Dist. Mgr. ‘Fidelity Union Life Ins. Co. Real Estate
Fielder
Granada Theatre
BIG Bend Abstract CO
Helen D. Gibb
Brewster County Abstracts
Ralph W. Peters
General Building Contractor
Harris Cabinet Shop
W. Murphy Ave
T. A. Beard
Insurancie Trans
Septic
Safeway Store
Marathon High School
Mother
Dorothy Roark
Mrs. Sartin
Ella Mae McDonald
Atominta Hortensole
Doug Adams
Mazda
David Adams
Buldose Hortensole
R. D. Ayres
Wayne Lemmons
Charlene Smith
Rachel Field
Catherine Graham
Gail Coe
Mildred Miller
Darrell Cook
R. D._ Ayres
A. J. Gard
Luther Anderson
House OF Crafts
E. Holland
Winter Cleaners
Buick
Cory
Casner Motor Company
Holland & 7Th St
Uick Witt
Berle Stars
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