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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1949
Page
4
Frank McCollum visited Big Lake on Tuesday. Numerous local residents and visitors are mentioned in a sequence of short notes including surgeries, travel, and family visits. Names include Waldron, Pickering, Foster, Kreeman, Carnes, Middleton, Hale, Townsend, Blocker, Lewis, Bruner, Cotter, and Scott with ties to Terlingua Lufkin San Antonio Abilene and Hot Springs New Mexico and Houston.
In Austin on May 16 Colonel Oscar B Abbott announced Marfa will host an Organized Reserve Corps unit. The 4746th Induction Training Station HQ will be led by Colonel William R Irvin with Captain Albert L Logan commanding the new unit. Authorized strength is 8 officers 2 warrant officers and 40 enlisted men. This is the first Reserve unit formed in the El Paso area outside its city limits enabling Reservists from the Marfa Fort Davis Alpine region to join training meetings for pay purposes.
At 8 p.m. on May 22 the program lists a processional and invitations with speakers including Rev. John E Pickering and Rev. R L Wittner. HMohn Leonard Rose performs Invictus with Glen F Davis as accompanist. Valedictorian is Clay Cadet and Salutatorian is Joyce Johnson. Commencement set for May 27 with further announcements to come.
A covered wagon with two horses posed in town near the Catholic church for senior class pictures in period dress. Lettie Ann Colwell rode in front with four gun-armed escorts Alfonso Tercero led, others Jack Reynolds Ralph Bandon and Tommy Redford joined.
Private Paul T. Howell son of Mr and Mrs Jessie G Howell of Alpine Texas moves from B Battery 77th Field Artillery to Headquarters Battery of the same battalion in Koizumi Japan. He will perform wire and survey duties and has studied at Keio University in Yokohama. He joined the Army in 1948 underwent basic training at San Antonio and sailed overseas from Fort Lawton.
Dr. Robert E. Goodrich Jr., pastor of First Methodist Dallas, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon at Sul Ross College on May 29 at 8 p.m. He formerly directed the Centenary Mustang Band and later led SMU bands. he earned a Doctor of Divinity from Centenary College in 1933 and moved to Dallas in 1946. Civil Service openings across Texas offer positions from Carpenter to Laborer with hourly wages. applications available from Dallas regional office.
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