Christmas Projects Reported Successful Here
Christmas projects by the American Legion, Legion Auxiliary, 40 & 8, and Pilot Club of Alpine raised over 3768 gifts for retarded students at the State School in Austin, with wreaths to be an annual project. Donations came from clubs, private individuals, and merchants. Additional items and a future Easter box plan were noted, along with gratitude to all contributors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
the Legion Auxiliary
The
40 & 8
Pilot Club of Alpine
State School
Austin
America Legion
A Legion Auxiliry
Lefor
Auxility
Texas Association of
San Antonio
Mestrad
Jo Ella Livingston
Smith Furniture
Smit
State Mental Hospital Development Assn
Odessa
Pilot Club
Black Gap Expanded to Ninety Nine Thousand Acres
The Texas Game Commission has expanded Black Gap Wildlife Management area to about 99,000 acres from its eastern edge at Big Bend National Park to the Rio Grande. The latest 19,000 acre purchase, costing $152,000 from J. M. Lea of San Angelo at $8 per acre, adds roughly 20 miles of Rio Grande frontage between Heath and Reagan Canyons. The Pitman-Robertson program provides 75 percent federal aid for acquisition and development, with managed hunting of surplus game allowed since 1955 via a public Austin drawing each October for a 640 acre section north of Big Bend’s Persimmon Gap.
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Black Gap Wildlife Management Area
Big Bend National Park
Rio Grade
Texas
J. M. Lea
San Angelo
Texas Game Commission
Rio Grande
Heath
Reagan Canyons
Pitman-Robertson
Trans-Pecos
Austin
Centennial Hosts Sanderson Teams
Centennial hosted Sanderson Junior High left no doubts, defeating the Sanderson junior team 32 3 after last year’s 34 3 loss. Carmen Orozco Rubin Parras and Elisio Leyva led scorers. Damon Orozco topped the Pee Wee with 18 as Centennial routed 31 4. Pee Wees stay undefeated. Junior Boys slip to one defeat by Marfa Elementary. Centennial heads to Marfa for a conference game against Blackwell.
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Centennial
Sanderson
Carmen Orozco
Rubin Parras
Elisio Leyva
Damon Orozco
Pee Wees
Marfa Elementary
Marfa
Blackwell
Texas Governor’s Mansion Born 1953 Noted as Unmarried Governor
The Governor’s Mansion in Texas dates to 1953, two years older than the state capitol. Hardin R. Runnels, governor from 1857 to 1859, remains the only Texas governor who never married.
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Texas
Hardin R. Runnels
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David E. Daniels
John Wight
Brewster County
Big He National Park
Act of Congress
Department of the Interior and News Agencies
Russel
Wilton Key
Dorothy Mc
Bride
Mary Eliza Wade
American Legion Auxiliary
Whiteside
Membn Vdl
Kelvinator
Charles Chambers
Chambers Appliance CO
Black Gap
Persimmon Gap
Persimmon Gap Park
Dallas
Houston
Arcadia
Charleston
Boston
Winter Cleaners
Washateria
DOVER
Dante Wich
Eaey
Wgnin
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