Editorial: Big Bend Belongs To All the People
The piece weighs Big Bend National Park as a federal achievement, arguing state ownership would limit development. It notes some roads and a tourist center exist but questions whether Texas would fund extensive improvements or national concessions, concluding federal administration benefits a national wonder.
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Texas
Big Bend Park
Stuart McGregor
Dallas Morning News
McGregor
Big Bend
Orgasion
Big Bend National Park
United States
Alpine School Lands Sold in Breckenridge County
About 15 000 acres of school land in the southern Breckenridge County were sold in a state sale reported by Land Office Commissioner Bascom Giles. Alpine Public School enrollment totals 783 pupils across Kinder garten to High School with names listed for football letters and sweater recipients.
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Avalanche
Bre
Land Office
Bascom Giles
Alpine Public School
Dick Bankhead
Central
Centennial
Fort Davis observes Washington birthday with Masons
Old Fort Davis hosts a Washington birthday observance sponsored by the Marfa Masonic Lodge drawing many Masons and wives. A year earlier a McDonald Observatory 82 inch mirror traveled from Alpine to Mount Locke for installation in the dome. Fort Davis plans a new 40 by 56 foot frame and stucco business building for Miss Alice Sproul west of Hotel Limpta on former service station property.
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Avalanche
Fort Davis
Washington
Marfa
McDonald Observatory
Alpine
Mount Locke
Alice Sproul
Hotel Limpta
Hendryx Rejects State Car Tags
Alpine legislator Gene Hendryx rejects state official license plates and buys county plates instead saying public officials should not have privileges private citizens lack. A Jeff Davis deed records 323 acres from George Grierson to Lee Sproul near Fort Davis on Highway 17. Rockefeller named as America's first billionaire.
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Austin
Gene Hendryx
Alpine
Hendryx
Jeff Davis County
George Grierson
Lee Sproul
General Grierson
Fort Davis
Sprouls
Alpine Avalanche community newspaper masthead and policy note
The Alpine Avalanche published Thursdays in Alpine Texas lists staff including James W Glasscock editor Jean Glasscock advertising and others. It provides subscription rates for Brewster Jeff Davis and Presidio counties and states correction policy for errors and offended reflections.
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The
Alpine Avalanche
N. 6Th St. Alpine
Texas
P.O
Brewster
Jeff Davis
Pre- Sidio
James W. Glasscock
Jean Glasscock
Tom Farris
Belen Uranga
IBM
Emmett O'Donnell
Hallie Stillwell
Phyllis Broyles
Big Bend Park
Sam D. Adams
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