Fort Davis News Highlights Local Life and Sports
Fort Davis News reports on school progress as Tommie Jane Alkire graduates elementary, siblings advancing grades, and local families visiting from Merced, San Angelo, and El Paso. The Little Leaguers win 5-0 in Alpine, Rebels 8-3 at Casner’s, and a June 20 home game is planned. community events include meetings, visits, a white elephant sale, and a Terrace Supper at the Espy home.
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Rebels
Alpine
Ponies
Indians
Armando Granada
Oscar Medley
Tom Gray
Fort Davis
Casner
25 Years Ago In the Big Bend Davis Mountain Country
Heavy downpours of rain in Alpine flood streets and ditches delivering moisture to ranges across the Big Bend. Local officials note rainfall varying across town with hopes for continued precipitation. Listings include Hudspeth leaving office after 28 years in public service and resuming law practice, John Young Land Co leasing Hovey Ranch for five years, Lions Club officers elected, and local notes on hot springs trips, drilling a water well near Marfa, and residents’ activities in Alpine and Marathon areas.
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Alpine
John Young Land Co
Hovey
John Young Sr
Jackson & Harmon
The
Lions Club
Jack Edwards
Guy Crawford
J. M. Pouncey
L. W. Bridges
J. E. Yates
A. E. Owens
John Caldwell
Carl Thain
J. W. Frazer
J. D. Jackson
George Edwards
W. S. Blevins
Tom Yarbro
Lee Dragoo
Marie Simpson
T. W. Shely
Fred
Eddie Moore Jr
Scott
L. C. Brite Ranch
Marfa
Alpine High Summer Course Signups Reach Seventy Two
Seventy two children enrolled in Alpine High School summer enrichment courses with 21 in number sense 38 in arts and crafts and 13 in slide rule Arts and crafts offered 9 10 am 2 3 pm and 3 4 pm sessions Number sense 1 2 pm slide rule 2 3 pm Officials said registrations would continue for several days and urged interested parents to call 2415 A note said no children 16 or older attended the arts and crafts session but 142 Alpine children are already signed up for the program in time to vote in this year’s elections without poll tax if certificates arrive by June 2 at the tax collector’s office Also reports include a 1 17 inch fall in the higher country west and north of town a Sunday short dash and a Fort Davis visit by Mr and Mrs Lovell and son during which the baby gained one pound and one tooth say you saw it in The Avalanche.
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Ernestine
Chon Granado Jr
Valentine
Alpine
Fort Davis
Chon Granado Sr
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Alpine High School
Fcond
Robtai i
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Callie Holt
A. N. Alkire
A. P. Christen
Merced
Calif
McSwain Elementary
Tommie Jane
Bonnie Murrey
RA. Roberts
San Angelo
Jack Ladingham
Humble
Angleton
San Antonio
Uvalde
Mary L. Heyduck
Texas
J.R. Cook
Bill Maxine Lovitt
W. E. Smith
el Paso
Robert Knox
Houston
Felis Dominguez
Ben Jr
Ben Mendiaz
Mary Ann
van Horn
J. K. Miller
Sid Bouchette
John Bailey
Clyde
New Mexico
Colorado
Yarbrough
Mrs. Hartman
Paso
FR. Swartz
J. W. Merrill
Fort Davis Hospital
Elis
Frank Webster
H.C. Espy
Kathy Smith
Westminister Fellowship Group
Presbyterian Church
Kathy
As H. D. Smith
Louie Johnson
Vox Horn
Smith
Pablo Bercoma
Court House
Beatrice Woolley
Sam Grant
Kermit,Texas
Freddy
B. I. Grant
L. C. Miller
Bia
J. P. Weatherby
Weatherby
Lela
Cretary
Fred LaLanne
Farm Loan Association
RE. Franiken
Dot Grubb
Flaniken
Fair Oaks
Communist Health Committee
Rena Maverick Green
Laughter
Mary
Mrs. Green
R. D. McCready
Don A. Gaddis
J. C. Duncan, Jr
Balmorhea
Mrs. McCready
Floyd Johnson
Austin
Mrs. Gaddis
Calise
Charlotteenhauer
H. C. E Spy
Lana
Judy
Judy Espy
Bobby
Buddy Kelly
Tex Gross
Jim Beau Duncan
Mike Woolley
Mack McAfee
Lou Ann Dale
Linda Roach
Martha — Fenstermaker
Gene Sproul
Charlotte Bienhauer
Leslie Fawcett
Leslie Jr
Delta Kappa Gamma
D. KG
Sul Ross
Warhock
Mes
James Clara Gibson
8. M. Mims
W. Hi. Brennand
Annie J. Clark
E. H. Carlton
John McIntosh Bassett
J. W. Bassett
Mary Christine
England
van Aukin
Barry Scobee
Jeff Davis County
Enerey
Zum
Grahame
Big Bend
Davis Mountain Country
Anche
Claude B. Hudspeth
Congress
Nealon, Hudspeth and
McGill
L.C. Ritchey
Brewster County
Wrey
R. D. Lovell
A. Roach, JR
Twin Peaks
Gov. Shivers
America
tNalee
Lucy
Strategic Air Command
June Allyson
James Stewart
Glenn Ford
Anne Francis
Custom Assay
Shippers
First National Bank
le Maurice Manson
Alaine
Deluxe Tiros
Marla English
Kathleen Hughes
Sara John Bromfield
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