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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1954
Page
6
Bridge club activities at the Parkway hotel are recapped with high scores, slam wins, and attendees listed. Other items include funeral attendances, visits by relatives, library donations, local plays, and Marathon PTA and school events.
A columnist discusses Professor Hunt’s views on ideal education aiming to raise superior individuals and competent citizens, critiquing how schools may fail to produce this outcome. The piece uses analogy of a brick wall and cites Hutchins on reading, ending with a National Geographic note on Basques trapping pigeons on the French Spanish border.
Sul Ross college drama department announces rehearsals for four one-act plays to be staged in April during the intra-mural contest. Miss Marlow at Play directed by Carroll Lassiter and Eva Mae Eaton features Peggy Brunson and others with promter Shirley Lancaster. Strange Road stars Lora Garretson as Mrs Kadan and Anne Talbot as Mrs Talbot with Donene Werner and Jeannine Cox in key roles. Stoney’s Brides directed by Wally Nell and Jerry Stoicheff lists Fred Herrington and Anne Norton among cast with promoter Lois Hastings. The fourth play directed by Jim Stoicheff and Hector Barrera features Harry Miles Jr as Jimmy Weston with Ann Lindley as his mother and Ruth Norman as prompter.
A fragment notes Boston as the largest capital city in the U S while Britannica cites lice on ancient Egyptian mummies, linking two distant facts. The passage presents contrasting details without a clear single event or conclusion.
SAN ANGELO The second quarterly meeting of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association will be held in Del Rio on Saturday March 13 with headquarters at the Roswell hotel. Walter L Pfluger president says members will get a full report on the new wood bill before Congress and note the bracero situation possibly in operation by meeting time. All TS&GRA members in Val Verde and adjoining counties are invited and urged to attend.
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