Alpine Man Opens Del Rio Sporting Goods Store
Gene Houghton owner of Houghtons Alpine announces a new sporting goods store in Del Rio expected to open around July 15. He will keep Alpine operations unchanged and his family plans to stay in Alpine. Also noted are Asa A. Jones and wife departing to San Antonio then Peru to visit their son. Italy faces water shortages as cost of aqueducts strains many towns.
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Alpine Man
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Gene) Houghton
Houghton
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Local social notes list visitors and travels across Texas
Mrs Cas Edwards spent several days in El Paso this week. Guests of Mrs Hally B Perry this weekend are Mr and Mrs Raymond Cook and children of Houston. Miss Mary Ellen Gard, formerly a Seattle teacher, returned home last Saturday. Mr and Mrs W John Newell and son David came back to Alpine from El Paso last Wednesday. George Pugh recovers from major surgery at a local hospital last Friday. Mrs B T Sanders spends the weekend in Austin with her husband studying at the university. Edith Caldwell and grandson Stevie Schroeder left for Austin vacation. Fred Slight of Chicago arrived Wednesday to visit Judge and Mrs R B Slight and kin. Mr and Mrs J Lawton Stone and son Lauren vacation in San Antonio and Port Aransas. Guests of Mrs Edith Smith are her sister Mrs Paul McFarland of San Bruno California and granddaughter Jannett Houser. Mr and Mrs T M Beckett were called to Pleasanton by the death of Beckett’s brother. Gene Hammond and children of Minneapolis are here visiting Edna Stack Miles and relatives. Mr and Mrs Gerald Henderson and sons Gary and Gerald of Houston visited Gordon Barrow.
Seek Aid For Disabled Veterans Family Here
The column lists local families visiting relatives and relocating across Texas, noting travels to Midland Abilene Fort Worth and El Paso. It mentions Loyd Milam and spouses, the Kirbys, Miller family in Washington and D C, Miss Marilyn Rousse, Sport Gunn moving to El Paso, and the Reeds with six daughters.
Pacific Fruit Express to Deploy New Mechanically Refrigerated Cars
The first 14 of Pacific Fruit Express Co. mechanically refrigerated rail cars are shipping frozen foods from Oregon, with 11 more due this month and 125 in service by early next year. PFE, owned by Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, calls these “super giants” with heavier insulation and zero degree capability powered by individual diesel engines, reflecting a doubling in frozen foods car loadings over the past five years.
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Pacific Fruit Express Co
L. B. Starns
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific Railroads
En Route to Japan Teletype Tech Visits Cheyenne Family
Gordine Barrow a teletype communications technician visits his parents and family in Cheyenne Wyoming en route to Japan after completing training at the teletype school at Francis E Warren.
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Gordon Barrow
Japan
Francis E. Warren
Cheyenne
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