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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1963
Page
7
A reader recalls a Sunday trip to Fort Davis visiting Mrs. J. P. Potts’s nursery with a new greenhouse and expanded plant variety. The piece notes returning college students, local social updates, and family tales including swallows nesting on the front porch and a dog guarding children while outdoors.
Mrs. Vernon McIntyre held the high score with Mrs. Gerald Ogle hosting last week. Mrs. Marvin Pierce was second high and Mrs. Worth Frazer won the bingo prize. A dessert plate preceded the bridge games for the group including Vernon McIntyre Hugh White John Reininger Marvin Pierce John C Epperson Carl Shults W D Boreham and Worth Fraver. Mr and Mrs S M Swesrin gen of McCamey visited. Miss Dorothy Ligon of Albuquerque arrived to summer with her mother Mrs Worth Frazer. Douglas Glasscock, from the University of Texas, is home for the summer.
John Mitchell Marshall of Dallas and Carol Anne Hall of Longview wed May 12 at Preston Hollow Methodist Church in Dallas. The pair, both Austin College graduates, plan to move to Austin where Marshall studies psychology at the University of Texas and Mrs. Marshall will teach in the public schools.
Chris Lacy of Waco visits Kokernot 06 Ranch for three weeks then attends Culver Military Academy summer camp in Illinois. W E Gardner resigns Casner Motor Co post and leaves June 15 for Del Rio to run an auto supply store. Mrs Gardner to join later. Betty Vogt returns from Northwestern University to study voice then heads to Arrowhead Springs for two months with Campus Crusade for Christ. John Young III and family visit A R Ponton in San Antonio. Ponton relatives host Peggy and Jan Ponton. Holland Smith and family visit from Lubbock. daughter Kay to attend Sul Ross this summer.
The Pilot Club of Alpine receives the Governor's Banner as the district 8 Texas club is dubbed the Governor Club. At Corpus Christi district convention honoring retiring governor Mrs. Oliye Christopher the banner was presented to Miss Electa Wade who then handed it to Alpine. It will be displayed through 1963 1964 in honor of Governor Dorothy McBride of District 8 Pilot International.
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