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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1959
Page
3
Miss Myrtle Whiteside who teaches phonics spelling and plain writing in the summer enrichment program will extend the date for ending her classes until Friday. She said she would end her classes Friday with an exhibition of students work at 9 30 a m followed by a party to which both parents and pupils are invited.
Herbert Kokernot Jr. and the Sophomore League president present FarL Halstead with a baseball scouting task. The report notes Halstead’s poor performance predicting outcomes for the Milwaukee Braves and the Cowboys.
Alpine and Maria are named on a Mexican National Labor Blacklist causing hardship for about 25 ranchmen needing extensions or new workers. Officials aim to lift the ban and continue ranch work amid rains and insect worries. ASC reports 1850 paid on wool incentives with ACP payments due in August.
The column recalls camp life at Big Bend country camps and notes recent rains that green hills and boosts pastures. It mentions visits by Mr and Mrs Morton and others from Fort Davis Marathon Alpine and Hovey, plus updates on Presley Bryant surgery and Gene Benson’s El Paso hospital stay.
Mrs RB Slight and Mrs Catherine Winton hosted a family get together at the old family home in Marathon with Winton and Hale relatives visiting from Alabama California and Texas. Visitors included Mrs Charlie Bright from Los Angeles and her sons Peter and John with connections to Brewster County and Princeton University.
Gene Benson underwent major surgery at Providence Memorial Hospital in El Paso. Mr. and Mrs. Benson hoped to be home this weekend. The text references J. W. Frazer E. L. Frazer Bourgoise and a note about the term common folk.
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