Alpine Chamber urges better service and clean up Alpine town
The Alpine Chamber of Commerce calls for improved hospitality as tourism grows in Alpine. It promotes clean up and paint up campaigns, highlights a 20 percent membership goal for 1961, and notes the first Centennial Invitational Relays and Lobos home game. It urges property owners to respond to rental housing surveys and asks sponsors to expand travel literature for Davis Mountains and Big Bend trips. It emphasizes hosting travelers well and funding printed materials.
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Davis Mountains
Big Bend
Chamber of Commerce
Alpine
Lobos
Three Companies To Use The Track Near Pecos
Frank E. Harper, president of Automotive Proving Grounds Inc, says the 9 mile circular track near Pecos will host tire tests for Armstrong Rubber Co, B F Goodrich Tire Co, and Sears Roebuck and Co. The firms plan their own testing programs and arrange facilities and services ahead of the track’s completion later this month.
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Pecos
Frank E. Harper
Automotive Proving Grounds, Inc
Armstrong Rubber Co
B. F. Goodrich Tire Co
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Harper
Birders to Meet Austin in Texas Ornithological Society Meet
The Texas Ornithological Society holds its annual gathering in San Antonio from March 30 to April 1. Headquarters are at the Wittee Museum in Breckenridge Park with several field trips arranged.
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Austin
Texas Ornithological Society
San Antonio
Wittee Museum
Breckenridge Park
Alpine High juniors take National Merit tests at Alpine
The March 7 report notes 23 Alpine High School Juniors sat for National Merit Scholarship Tests, down from 60 last year as the cost per student was one dollar. The piece lists names and discusses the importance of top ranks for college entrance and scholarships, plus notes an Army veteran visitor and local sports reflections.
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Alpine High School
Alpine
Alpine High
AHS
Darryl Mueller
Dianne Ritter
Woody Hitchcock
Dorothy Morgan
Janice French
Carole Holland
Judy Thee
Walter Friesen
Linda Reed
Dan Karvonen
Raymond Painter
Ann Estelle McBride
Annis Heil
Topper Thomas
Judy Smith
Bobby Gerbert
Phil Seymour
Bill Anderau
Jim West
Garrett Briggs
Marilyn Briggs
Kenneth Boyd
Barbara LaBeff
Armando Baeza
Korea
Armando
1St Battle Group
7Th Cavalry Division
Bobby Paffel
Detroit Tigers
Fort Sill
Big Bend Park News Highlights Local Social and Fire School
Park Ranger Bill Orr attends a forest fire control school in Columbia California. Castolon hosts a large Sunday celebration with speakers from the electric company and Alpine visitors. Masons and Eastern Stars honor members with 25 year pins. Panhandle area volunteers prune trees at Panther Junction and Rio Grande Village. Alpine schools to receive March per capita funds totaling 7,032 dollars.
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Bill Orr
Columbia, Calif
Stanley Fulcher
Park Service
Gilbert Henry
Castolon
Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, Inc
Bruell DeMunbrun
Supt. Joseph
T. J. Hurd
The
Electric Company
Hugh White
Alpine
Wayne Cartledge
Gene Cartledge
Panther Junction
Rio Grande Village
Park Service Region Office
Texas
Gilmer-Aiken
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Alpine Chamber of Commerce
Ee Rmn Ag
Ghent
Alpine Cemetery
H. F. Dallman
Ws N. 9Th St
EL Paso, Texas
Nia
Holland
United States
Sweden
Peyton Cain
Faye Reed
Slatan
Paul Poswell
Slaton
Nelson Rockefeller
Dartmouth
Mark Twain
States
Canada
Parkview
Brewster County
BIG Bend Abstract Company
Fort Stockton
Ellyson-Guarantee Abstract Company
Big Bend Abstract Co
N. 6Th St
Tel
Stewart Title Guaranty Company
F. J. Ellyson
Jean Rackley
Freida McFadden
Willard Matthews
Big Bend National Park
Marsbell Miller
Mrs. Fulcher
C. A. Printz
Bill Dyer
Jack Raftery
Raftery
Bill Wendt
Stanley Joseph
Henry Schmidt
Gordon Finney
Rod Broyles
Charles Shannon
Mac Ott
Robert Thorne
Seymour Beach
Vesta Franch
Hal Edwards
Harold Brodrick
Fulcher
Schmidt
Thorne
Lige Bledsoe
Mrs. Bledsoe
Robert Hill
Imperial and
Harris Smith
Mrs
Kurt Lange
J. L. McLean
Stanley Josephs
Henry Schmidts
Masons
Eastern Stars
Bledsoe
Vesta French
Snowey Nantz
Mammoth Cave
National Parks Concessions
Mrs. S. R. Meeker
WTA
Oak Creek Lake
West Texas Utilities Company
Chrysler
Newport
Graham Motor Co
Windsor
New Yorker
W. Holland
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