Plan More Park Facilities Amblin Around Big Bend News
Readers discuss Big Bend climate and attractions. An Alpine weather recorder notes summer temperatures rarely reach 100, contradicting a Fort Stockton forecast of 110. Travel entries highlight Big Bend scenes and visits by Wally George and Dan Blocker, plus a family trip to New York and remarks on the Bonanza stars and Sul Ross ties.
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KFST
Fort Stockton
Big Bend
Midland
Presidio
Santa Elena
Boquillas
Rio Grande
Alpine
Marathon
Fort Davis
Marfa
High Mountain
Wally George
Sul Ross State College
Hollywood
Sul Ross
Dan Blocker
Wally
New Braunfels
Moore Adds Rambler Line at Moore's General Store
Moore's General Store becomes Rambler agent for Alpine area. A 26 by 35 foot addition on West Highway 90 will house a Rambler showroom and parts department. James Bow named Rambler salesman. An open house to introduce Rambler models will be held soon.
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Moore's
Rambler
Alpine
Eddie Moore
West Highway
James Bow
Moore
Alpine Riders Tie for Jr Rodeo Title in Alpine Oklahoma
Alpine and Duncan riders tie for all around cowboy saddle at the Junior Rodeo in Alpine with 337 points. Frances Greenwood wins all around cowgirl saddle with 530 points. Gay Shouppe is reserve champion with 418. 24 silver buckles awarded across multiple age groups and events in July. Quicksilver price rises to 285 per flask. Jimmy Wright visits family. Lt. Wright stationed at Dyess AFB in Abilene.
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Jimmy Poteet
Duncan
Okla
Ronnie Minica
Alpine
Halle Stillwell
Frances Greenwood
Carlsbad
N. M
Gay Shouppe
Tony Haberes
Buck Overturff
Odessa
Tony Clark
Eldorado
Angie Watts
Waco
Jon Sims
Winters
Larry Cohorn
Las Cruces
Paul Petska
Jimmy Wright
Joel E. Wright
Lt. Wright
Dyess Air Force Base
Abilene
More Motel Units Are Needed in Big Bend National Park
National Park Service and National Park Concessions officials say eight new Park Service housing units will rise near Big Bend. Concessions plans a large lodge and 10 motel units in the Chisos Mountains Basin to meet rising tourism. Occupancy in 1963 reached 65.8 percent as visitor numbers grew, with six month 1964 attendance at 55,492 versus 53,390 in 1963. A new Cas telon road from the western entrance is planned to become a top scenic route.
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Big Bend National Park
National Park Service
National Park Concessions
Park Service
Chisos Mountains
Rotary Club
Park Supt
Perry Brown
Gomer Hanson
Mammoth Cave
National Park Concessions, Inc
Hanson
National Parks
Rio Grande Village
Big Bend Park
Supt. Brown
Castelon
Storey Rites Held Friday
Mrs. George Storey 82 longtime Alpine resident died in Brewster County Hospital July 22 funeral at First Methodist Church with burial in Elm Grove Cemetery Rev Clyde Chesnutt officiated Survivors include husband two foster sons sister and brothers four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren Pallbearers ushers and organist listed Out of town relatives attended from Gonzales Devine and other locations
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George
Della) Storey
Alpine
Brewster County Memorial Hospital
First Methodist Church
Elm Grove
Clyde Chesnutt
Storey
Mooresville
Miss
George Storey
Travis
Roy Whiteside
Norman Beard
Gene Cowell
J. D. Holman
Carl Shults Jr
Paul Vogt
U S 90 West To Be Rebuilt In West Texas Plan
Sid Surratt Alpine engineer outlines U S 90 reconstruction from three miles west of Alpine for 14 miles through Brewster and Presidio Counties. The project adds four lanes where needed, removes the Paisano underpass for a new overpass, widens to 44 feet, and may call bids in September or October with right of way acquisitions and possible abandonment of old rights of way. Five survey crews work toward Heath Canyon with bids hoped in October or November.
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Alpine
Marfa
Sid Surratt
Paisano
Surratt
Highway Department
Brewster County
Brewster
Presidio
Swrratt
Heath Canyon
Rio Grande
Noted West Texas Attorney Alfred E Creigh Jr Dies
Alfred E Creigh Jr a prominent West Texas attorney and Alpine city attorney for 18 years died in a Dallas hospital at 5 p m Sunday July 26 after long service in law and the Army He leaves a widow a daughter six brothers and two sisters and was buried in Elm Grove Cemetery Alpine with a service at First Presbyterian Church conducted by Rev William Van Auken He had practiced in Alpine since 1943 and was active in Rotary and several legal and fraternal organizations.
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Alfred E. Creigh Jr
West Texas
Alpine
Dallas
First Presbyterian Church
William van Auken
Fort Davis
Elm Grove
Geest
Funer
W. T. Meriwether
Thad Corkins
Bob Corkins
Jim Skinner
Jack Williams
Ray Morrow
Charles Stringfellow
Walter Downie
Sanderson
Paul Vogt
Bill Winter
Chuck Stringfellow
Creigh
Margaret Lynn
Lindy
Edgar B
New York City
Charles S
Philadelphia
S. Finley
Clinton, Tenn
W. B
South Charleston
W. Va
Thomas
Rio Linda
Calif
L. Stuart
Ronceverte
John M. Alderson
Alderson
J. N. Wickert
Mr. Creigh
Greenbrier County
West Virginia
83Rd
France
Chateau Thierry
Muse-Sedan
Army of Occupation
United States
Washington and Lee University
The
Vashti
Mickie) Mixon
Denton
Texas
Rotary Club
Commandery No. 90
Blue Lodge
el Maida Shrine
Texas Bar Association
Trans
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David Wilson
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