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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1959
Page
9
Librarians from across West Texas attend Alpine for the Third Annual Workshop on May 6 and 7. Registration starts 9 39 am Friday in the Fine Arts Building. The program covers new American Library Association standards and school library service improvements.
From left bottom row, Marion Cowell, Charles Tuck, Carlene Hegelund, Cissy La Betf and Deen Ritter stand for a dedication event. The image highlights the participants and their alphabetical arrangement during the ceremony.
A drawing by Joan Axtell of the cotillo plant, displayed in Sul Ross Science Building, appears on four covers of The Southwestern Naturalist. This is her second botanical illustration, following a previous work of Dr. Marshall Johnston and Dr. Barton Warnock to appear in the next issue.
The Sul Ross commencement exercises will be held May 22 at 7 p.m. with 162 graduates receiving degrees. Honorable Richard F. Stovall will speak. Processional and recessional by Sul Ross Concert Band directed by W. E. Thomson. Special music by Rossonian Choristers and the band. A reception for graduates, parents, and visitors will follow from 4 to 6 p.m. at the President's home.
Gulf & Western Corp. announces Thomas Plant will resign as General Sales Manager of General Motors United Motors Service on May 1 to become president of Motive Parts America Inc. and to head four Gulf & Western subsidiaries with 31 stores in Texas and New Mexico. Plant will base at Houston offices and serve as director of Gulf & Western and chairman of the executive committee. The subsidiaries include Berd & Stone Electric in Houston with four Texas stores, Car Parts Depot headquartered in El Paso with 17 stores, Gulf Automotive Supply in Houston with nine stores, and Wood Tire and Supply in Huntsville with four stores. Alice from Dallas performed at Tarleton State College dance.
Principal D. E. Jones reports Alpine Central has filed the first completed inventory for Alpine Schools. The document accounts for all school property within the unit, ensuring oversight and accountability for assets.
Chemistry and geology instructor at Sul Ross College Hanson receives National Science Foundation support to attend the Seventh Annual Rocky Mountain Summer Chemistry Institute at Montana State College Bozeman. His five week session runs July 18 through August 19. Mrs Hanson, hospital nursing supervisor, gains a U S Health Service grant to attend an extended professional nursing training program at Marquette University Milwaukee beginning June 20 or 25.
Alpine Centennial school hosted Saint Ignatius von Soth on Saturday with boys basketball and girls volleyball. It marked the second year Alpine has competed against El Paso parish schools in this interscholastic event.
A fragment notes that the potato’s nickname came from a group of Englishmen who formed a society not originally connected to its use as food. The passage hints at a misattributed origin for the term spud and a Prevention of Unwhole Diet related idea.
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