Texans Reject Outsider Claim Texas Has No Scenic Beauty
An editorial criticizes Ted Lewis for denigrating Texas in a syndicated column about highway beautification. It disputes his claim that Texas lacks scenic beauty, defending Big Bend National Park and the Davis Mountains as national treasures and urging readers to consider Texas’s real grandeur.
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Texas
Lone Star
Ted Lewis
Lewis
San Angelo
Lady Bird
Johnson
Washington
Big Bend National Park
Davis Mountains
Rio Grande Valley
Texas Gulf
Chicago Tribune
Big Bend
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Mount Rainer
Alpine Letters Favor City Planning and Bond Route
W E Lockhart argues Alpine must choose between Urban Renewal with a $5,000 plan step or a $500,000 bond for matching federal funds. He favors a resident civil engineer path but insists on decisive voter approval or rejection to avoid wasted planning. He lists needed city projects including paving, sidewalks, sewer mains, a pool, airport, golf course, parks, and water rights.
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State Department of Health
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Alpine
Vacation Releases 2.5 Million Texas Children
Public service notice warns parents to protect children during summer. It urges supervision near pools buses and classrooms and encourages keeping kids safe for a return to school in September. The Alpine Avalanche prints the message for the Texas oil and gas industry.
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Texas
Texas Oil & Gas Industry
Alpine Avalanche
Alpine voters to decide 10,000 bond issue for air school
A city commission called a June 15 election to issue 10,000 dollars in bonds to buy one third of the land for an air training school awarded by the War Department to be built between Alpine and Marfa. The air force school would cost nearly 3 million. The May 29 notes also report local obituaries, college summer session, and community updates across Alpine Marathon and surrounding areas.
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Avalanche
Alpine
Air Training School
War Department
Marfa
Air Force Training School
Post Office Second Class Matter in Alpine Texas
Notice indicates Alpine Texas mailing address is registered as second class matter under the act of Congress dated March 3, 1879.
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Alpine Exas
Congress
Brewster County Hospital News Admits and Births Reported
A list of admitted and discharged patients from Brewster County Hospital includes C D Wood Onie Wright Justin K McClean Maria Gordon Rosa Garcia Maggie Lock Norman C Davis Maria Ma Coan Tomasa Serna Candelaria and others across Alpine Fort Davis Marfa Presidio Balmorhea and Marathon. New babies include a Alpine girl May 26 1965 weight 9 5 and a Alpine boy May 27 1965 weight 5 14 02 along with other births May 17 and May 23 1965.
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C.D. Wood
Onie Wright
Justin K. McClean
Maria Gordon
Alpine
Rosa Garcia
Maggie Lock
Norman C. Davis
Maria
Ma Coan
Fort Davis
Tomasa Serna
Candelaria
Enrique Chacon
Mexico
Walter Gardner
Alta Munoz
Marfa
Lou Walker
Mary Combs
Detroit
Texas
Fanny Igo
Laura Gose
Paris
Mischa Terry
Fl Paso
Alice Ross
Dryden
Lew Anderson
B.B
Manuel Sanchez
Celestino Fuentez, Jr
E.F. Rodriguez
Aline
Lewis Gordon
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Jesus Cobos Sr
Fort Stockton
Chihuahua
Sul Ross State College
Arthur E. Owens
Texas Defense Guard
Jarvis Robinso
A.T. Barrett
Paul Vogt
Cecil Duncan
J.F. Wright
L.C. Pone
Fred S. Rogers
Glenn Burgess
Presbyterian Young People's
Mitre Peak
Francis Juaniz
John D. Young
Lola Lee Young
John Gentry
Corpus Christi
John Holland
Bakers= field
Calif
Clay Holland
H.L. Kokernot Jr
Mary Ann
Smith College
Northampton Mass
Edward Davidson
Ed Davidson
Fort Worth
Coast Guard
Ruby Green
Shafter
D.F. McIvor
Ruth Ann
McAllen
E. Todd
Johnnie Rust
June
Jennis
Sierra Blanca
J.L. Shoemake
Roy Stillwell
L.C. Ritchey
Guy Crawford
Miss Hegelund
San Antonio
Our Lady of the Lake College
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Joseph Strasser
Sul Ross
F. L. McCollum
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Brewster, Jeff Davis
Presidio Counties
James W. Glasscock
Jean Glasscock
Hallie Stillwell
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Marathon
Terlingua
Butte
Sammy Hugh Stiles
James Arnold
the Moores
Lajitas
West Texas Press Associat Gy
Brewster County Hospital News
Electricut Contractors
Dorris Electric
First Savings and Loan Association
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