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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1959
Page
3
Lorraine Miss wins the Poetry Society of Virginia contest and receives a $5000 prize. She has also sold a poem to the New York Herald Tribune and reports first place in the Frances Dickinson Stearns page.
Heat waves parch Big Bend ranches as rain-green patches appear on Brown ranch near Alpine. Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association pushes screw worm control with a 200000 dollar allotment. Local hunting season meeting set at Alpine court house with interest rising for antelope and deer. Alpine visits include Marvin Harris family, Elmo Weston, Forrest Leary, and geology students at Leary ranch. Mrs Wedin tours noted.
The Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association will hold its summer quarterly directors meeting in Big Lake on Saturday, June 25, led by president Lucius M. Stephens. Directors and members will discuss wool and mohair marketing, lamb imports, ranch labor, and plans to ease the sheep shearer shortage, including county shearing schools.
About a dozen from the Marfa congregation will attend a four day Peace Pursuing District Assembly at the Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum in Fort Worth June 25 25. Presiding minister Richard J Rdody says most regular meetings will be suspended during the week except the weekly Watchtower study on Sunday. Those not attending the Fort Worth conference will hold their usual meeting.
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