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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1956
Page
11
The 10th anniversary of the VFW in Alpine will be marked with a Miss VFW 1956 selection at a June 9 dance at Peyton Cain Gym. Candidates are Mary Galindo, Mary Pallanez, Nora Hernandez, Margaret Cano, and Lucia Valenzuela, Alpine High students. Proceeds support VFW community service funds and a scholarship fund.
Local families including Mr. and Mrs. George Bevier and several Alpine youths traveled to Sacramento New Mexico for the Sacramento Methodist Assembly. Participants planned to return by evening and include counselors and chaperones. Mrs. W E Lockhart also journeyed to Austin for Girls State and UT housing prep with her children Lolly Joyce Billy and Mary Bell.
District Judge C. Patterson of Alpine was elected president of the newly formed Big Bend Shrine Club. Shriners from Alpine, Marfa, Fort Davis, Marathon, Sanderson and Fort Stockton organized the group with 35 members meeting at the Masonic Lodge. Directors include Dick Rogers as vice president and Jimmy Pate as secretary-treasurer.
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