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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1959
Page
5
Sandra Thomas and Billy Bedford announce their engagement. Sandra will graduate high school this year and has been named salutatorian. Billy Bedford is a freshman at Sul Ross State College.
A Friday night costume ball in the Student Union Building featured prizes donated by local merchants for best costumes. Winners included Jane Perry as the best comic female, Elbert Echols as the best comic male, Bobbie Bilderback and Bob Wallace as the best couple, Lavern Meister as the best male, and June Partee as the best female. Other entries included Dan Schockey as Fidel Castro and Zona Thompson with John Crisnon as a senorita and senor. The event blended dancing and revelry with many costumes.
Joe Brady director of Old Spanish Trail Inc will attend a directors meeting in Tucson Ariz today. He will fly with John Dodson of Del Rio vice president of the organization. Officers will be elected for the period from June 1959 to June 1950.
The El Progreso Club installed officers for September with Mrs. Leroy Larsh as president, Mrs. Mark Jerring as vice president, and Mrs. Dean Robertson serving as secretary. Admitted were James H. Welch Alma Gibson Earlene Whitefield sn McCarson and Alberto Molinar. several members from Alpine and San Diego were dismissed. Arrivals include a girl Pamela Olean and a boy Eduardo born to Mr. and Mrs A V Neie of Alpine. A summary cited club achievements such as donations to Davis Mountain Federation Scholarship Alpine Community Center District Scholarship Professional Nursing Scholarship and Christmas aid to Terlingua families. Hostesses were Mrs. Tom Coats and Mrs. Dean Robertson.
About 60 delegates gathered for the Paisano Baptist Assembly spring meeting at the encampment grounds 11 miles west of Alpine. Don Littleton of Alpine was chosen to fill the late Crawford J. Mitchells grounds supervisor post and officers were left to be chosen at the encampment. Dutton R. Tennison moderated with Dr. Hershel Ford assisting, and the 2024 program was set to proceed under Mitchells long leadership.
Locals John Stuckwish Brewster County Memorial Hospital administrator attended the Texas Hospital Association convention in Houston last week. Mrs Virgil Miller visited Mr and Mrs Jack Maberry in San Antonio last weekend. An early note mentions camel naturalization efforts in the 1850s and a classified line ad seeks a new or used lawn motor. One reader offers to buy an Alpine Avalanche edition dated January 15 1959 for a dollar.
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