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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1941
Page
4
A flurry of visitors and travel fills the week with familiar names. HG Watson browsed San Antonio business, Jackie Stallings visits Yeleta kin, and Miss Minnie Johnston tours from San Antonio. Local families host relatives from Abilene to Tyler, Fort Worth to Alpine, with weddings, baptisms, and reunions noted alongside travels to El Paso and Canyon.
Forty Alpine Rotarians and four guests heard Baylor University journalism head Frank E. Burkhalter describe the Waco Rotary clubs work with underprivileged boys. The Waco Boys Club has aided 6000 to 7000 youths since 1900. The event noted $350 raised locally, matched by $900 from Rotary and other groups. The group toured Texas sites en route to Carlsbad Caverns then back to Waco. Guests included Nelson Lee Sr. and others. The Rotary club averages and Alpine standings were noted, along with Miss Wyoma Boice’s hair collection hobby.
Washington July 18 The National service announced the Big Bend project is assured after Texas Governor W Lee O Daniel signed a bill appropriating 1 5 million dollars for lands on the American side This establishes the American section of the park as part of the international good neighbor plan along the Texas Mexico border Congress authorized the creation in 1995.
The final summer union service will be at the Methodist church Sunday at 8:18. Rev. Fred B. Rogers of the Presbyterian church will deliver the message. Sponsored by the local Ministerial Association with Sul Ross College for summer students. Singers from cooperating city churches will form the choir and sing a special anthem. All community members are invited. Government bonds and stamps are described as the safest investments on the market.
Dr Robert Le Sutherland rector of the Hogg Foundation at the University of Tennessee will visit Sul Ross College in Alpine for two days July 29 and 30 as a representative of the foundation in the field of mental hygiene and education. His talks target school administrators teachers and the summer session noting growing personality problems in school growth and development. The schedule includes a July 28 lecture for Sul Ross faculty on Mental Health for the Normal Person and a public Assembly July 30 Our Look in a Child Self. He will also conduct conferences with educators and give visual problem cases for life advice. The general public including practical workers lawyers is invited to attend the assembly and meet Dr Sutherland personally.
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