Legislature Sets Aside College Fund for Year Round Swimming
The House approved a Sul Ross College appropriation increasing a pool enhancement by 50 000 to allow year round swimming for students. Rep Gene Hendryx led the push, saying Alpine weather limits use of an 80 000 pool. Total state spending in the bill totals about 1.2 million for the next two fiscal years with funds from general revenue and tuition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Ross State College
Heatly
Sul Ross College
Gene Hendryx
Alpine
Hendryx
Sul Ross
Van Cleef to Study at University of Wyoming
Dean of Men Ray C. Van Cleef receives a leave of absence for the 1963 64 school year to pursue a Doctorate at the University of Wyoming. Joe E Spencer Sul Ross faculty member becomes acting dean of men in his stead. Jack Perryman Mary Lou Davenport and La Marylis Oliver assist with campus social activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray C. van Cleef
University of Wyoming
Joe E. Spencer
Business Administration
Sul Ross
van Cleef
Jack Perryman
Mary Lou Davenport
la Marylis Oliver
Business
Dyke to Go to Pakistan Harlan Ford to Be Dean
Dr. Delbert A. Dyke dean of the college at Sul Ross State College gets a leave to head Oklahoma State University Pakistan Technical Education Program a Ford Foundation project. L. Harlan Ford will become dean on July 1 and Dr. Dyke travels mid June with family for a Pakistan tour of duty involving visits to Philadelphia New York Washington and Karachi previously on duty 1959 to 1961.
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Delbert A. Dyke
Sui Ross State College
Oklahoma State University
Ford Foundation
L. Harlan Ford
Alpine
American Society of Engineering
Philadelphia
New York
Washington
Oklahoma State
Pacific
Middle Tennessee
Sul Ross
Pakistan
June Dyke
The
Alpine High School
County Hikes Land Values in Brewster for 1964
Brewster County commissioners vote to raise land values effective January 1 1964 due to higher material and labor costs since 1951. Zone rates jump to 1.10 2 3 4 5 dollars per acre with current levels listed. Livestock valuations set as well. Court to meet June 10 as board of equalization to review 1963 renditions. Fos. Jack heads to Irving to attend Dallas Civic Chorus concert with granddaughter.
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Brewster County
Rex Ivey Jr
Vaiaaez
J. C. Cooley
Sam Mather
Felix McGaughy
Board of Equalization
Fred M. Jack
Irving
Dallas
Dallas Civic Chorus
Lloyd Plautsch
J. W. Patton
Midland Chamber hear tourism talk by Casner and park official
Casner Joseph president of Casner Motor Co. Alpine and Stanley Joseph Big Bend National Park superintendent attended a Midland Chamber of Commerce meeting of tourism and retail sales committees Tuesday. Casner and L M McAdoo Seagraves Texas Quality Automobile Dealers of the Year were honored by Cecil Elder. Joseph gave an illustrated talk on Big Bend Park Alpine and this area. Edward Lee Wittner of Lamesa visited his mother here this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Casner
Casner Motor Co
Alpine
Stanley Joseph
Big Bend National Park
Midland Chamber of Commerce
Casner
L. M. McAdoo
Seagraves
Texas Quality
Cecil Elder
Elder Chevrolet Co
Joseph
Big Bend Park
Midland CC
Baccalaureate and Merit Awards Slated at Alpine High
Alpine High School announces a Sunday baccalaureate at 8 p.m. in the High School Auditorium with speakers from local churches and a later acknowledgment ceremony on May 29. Graduates listed include Beatrice Adamson, Baeza, Chavez, Hutchinson, Cleveland, and many more. An eight week English course for Latin American children starts June 3 at Centennial School with enrollment at 8:30 a.m.
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Alpine High School
Clyde Chesnutt
First Methodist Church
Robert Bristol
First Christian Church
Clanton Newbill
Presbyterian Church
Pamela Sue Wilson
Paula Oates
Ida Mae Wiliams
Joe Wright
Bill Sohl
Joe Freddy Granado
Lucy Jo Hutchinson
Jo Marie Cleveland
Julia Cobos
Johnny G. Cordova Harold Douglas Cowell
Cheryl Louann Cox
Sammy Doyle Cunningham Sarbara
Lynn Davis
Margaret Elizabeth English
Alfredo L. Espinosa
William J. Foster Joe Freddy Granado Jouvenia
Anne Hegel and
Jerol Lane Heil
Aida T. Hernandez James Justice Ronald Jaye Killion Philip Roger Kimball
David Lee Kobernot Jr
Alicia Lopez
Ronald Alan Minica
Centennial School
Alpine School Board Names Burleson and Lewis to Faculty
J Burleson former Sul Ross Lobos star halfback was named assistant football coach under new head coach Joe Boyd at Alpine. Carol T Lewis daughter of Mrs Neil Gardner of Alpine was assigned to Central School teaching 6th 7th and 8th grade English. Burleson a Dell City High School 1959 graduate set a national 6 man scoring record and earned All Texas College honors in 1962. He and wife Charlene Watson Burleson have one son Jerry Kent.
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Carol T. Lewis
Neil Gardner
Alpine
Central School
Burleson
Joe Boyd
Lewis Wil
Central
Doris Burleson
Carlsbad
N. M
Dell City High School
Sul Ross
Charlene Watson
Jerry Kent
Ethel Rogers Buried Here
Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel Black Rogers 81 were held at St. James Episcopal Church with Rev. William A Anthony officiating. She died Tuesday morning at home and is survived by two sons Paul Rogers Corpus Christi and Carl P Rogers Jr Olympia Wash. Burial in Elm Grove Cemetery.
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Ethel Black Rogers
St. James Episcopal Church
William A. Anthony
C. P. Rogers
Hico
Texas
Paul Rogers
Carl P. Rogers, Jr
Jesse Rogers
Robert
Wichita Falls
Annie Lou Clark
Fort Davis
Elm Grove Cemetery
Geeslin Funeral Home
Pete Kennedy
Neville Haynes
Frank Newsom
James W. Glasscock
Peter Koch
Calvin Smith
Richard Bryan
Benjamin Wright
G Schaefer Promoted to Wire Chief in Midland District
Bruce Beard of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. in Lubbock is named wire chief in Midland, replacing Gene Schaefer who becomes plant foreman in Big Spring. The 13 year veteran began as a lineman in Lubbock and has held several posts. Schaefer moved to Alpine in 1962 from Shamrock where he led as wire chief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce Beard
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Lubbock
Gene Schaefer
Noth St
Big Spring
H. H. Redding
Midland
Telephone Company
Beard
Alpine Woman's Father Buried
Ben D. Wagnon, 80, father of Mrs. Cecil Hale of Alpine, died Friday in San Angelo. A longtime locomotive engineer, he retired from the Santa Fe in 1948 after 37 years in rail service. Funeral services were held in San Angelo Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Hale and son Richard attending. He was born November 19, 1882, in Palestine and moved to San Angelo in 1911.
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Ben D. Wagnon
Cecil Hale
Alpine
San Angelo
Santa Fe
Hale
Richard Mr. Wagnon
Palestine
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Wyoming
Southwest Texas State College
San Marcos
Colorado State
Greeley
U. S. Army
Ford
Fords
Bobby
Billy
First Baptist Church
Delbert Dyke
Casner, Joseph
Edward Lee
Wittner of
Lamesa
R. L. Wittner
Ana Sfrs. M. L. Parker
Tex
Jim Casner
Casners
J.burleson
Carol Lewis
Alpine School Board
Jerry Burleson
Sul Ross College Lobos
Rleson
Ethel Rogers
Leonard Hadley
Isse Yates
Gerald Hadley
Sul Ross State College
Yates
Gerald
G. Schaefer
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