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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1959
Page
2
Tom C. Rhodes, Sal Rossgrade, has been elected band director of Marfa High School. Rhodes is in Marfa preparing for the 1958-60 school year by calling in all band instruments and uniforms for necessary repairs.
Father of Mrs Willie Wynne visits an Abilene hospital as her phonics and REMOVAL reading program continues. Mrs Ruth Beard fills in as substitute in Alpine while Eliseo Garcia, Morrison Little Leaguer, injures knee at Alpine Central Campus, receiving a stitch and tetanus shot. Accident insurance covers Morrison players. Lions Club notes a 1831 Philadelphia formation of First U S building and loan association.
E G Bledsoe spends weeks in Alpine. Mrs Karl Stadel heads to Claslin Kansas to visit daughter Mrs Howard Soeken. Dessert canasta hosted by Mrs George Miller and Mrs Monte Fitch with prizes for high, second, and low scores. Many local residents and visitors noted including Loretta Schmidt, Loretta’s Dallas trip, and plans for travel to Denmark. Big Bend Weekly Bridge Club met at Mrs Miller’s. Leo Park and Dean Robertson group visited. Sul Ross students Jan Smith and Jo Miller visited. Panther Junction gains new resident Mrs Newsome who will teach next year at San Vicente. Carlson departs Carlsbad after tour guiding stint.
Benson, a local, underwent surgery Monday and is resting comfortably at Brewster County Memorial Hospital. Jill McDaniel of Dolores has returned home after visiting her grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. R A Whiteside.
A Munro boy suffered second and third degree burns on his face arms and legs when a gas jet in a bathroom near a water heater ignited. He was taken to County Memorial Hospital for treatment after relatives tried to transport him from the Bird Ranch 18 miles south of Alpine. The aunt and uncle of Walter Alves of Guntersville are hosting him for the summer with Rev and Mrs Chas L Conder.
On leave from Camp Pendleton California Pfe John Hayslip visits his mother Ama slip. He reports July 15 for four months of Marine electronics training at Treasure Island California. Miss Mary Elen Gard, Seattle teacher, visits brother A J Gard and family. She will counsel at a Malibu British Columbia camp for a month then go to Tripoli North Africa to reach Wheelus Air Force Base. Rev and Mrs Fred Rogers of Franklin Tennessee visited Alpine friends. Mr Ig ers a former Presbyterian pastor here. Mr and Mrs M F Markward Worth visited daughter Mrs W E Thomson and family with Carol. Mrs Paul Forchheimer and Juliette returned from Tyler with relatives. Laurene Lighthouse assistant dean at Sul Ross returned from Houston after Texas Association of Deans of Women meeting. Lighthouse also directs Fersey Hall English instructor.
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