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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1955
Page
4
Alpine student Ken Killion won reserve champion in the 1955 Southwestern Livestock show at Texas A M. He exhibited a hog and a mare, capturing titles in both hog and horse divisions. Grand champion was Ken Wesson of Goldthwaite.
Alpine High School news features student officers elected for Future Farmers of America and a detailed May 12 1955 school program including processional anthem and student oaths. The piece notes central reading program gains, and a Dallas clinic visit by Mrs Ida Mae Williams with reading controllers.
Jerrol G. Coates became Big Bend National Park’s first resident engineer arriving May 12 after entering on duty May 8. A 34 year old with prior Bureau of Reclamation experience from McCook Nebraska and Missouri River Basin work, he previously served with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in Virginia. The new post, authorized by the Bureau of the Budget, marks a park-first engineering appointment.
Bill Walsh, newly added Notre Dame coach, earned the nickname iron man for starting 27 college games at center from 1945 to 1948 and playing every Steelers game as an NFL center for six seasons.
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