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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1954
Page
10
Weather summaries for Mount Locke show temperatures ranging from 4 to 77 degrees with mixed daily highs and lows. Red Cross meeting set for June 3 at the Crews hotel Marfa with luncheon at 1 50 and reservations due by June 2. Local attendance open to all 1954 members and directors.
The Rev. Garreth Joiner and family, Baptist missionaries from Quito Ecuador, plan a brief homeland furlough in early July and may visit Fort Davis. A New York clipping notes Houston portraitist Boleslaw Crvedokowski, once here, travels to Vienna to paint portraits of two grandsons of Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand, marking his fourth Habsburg commission.
Jimmie Granger and Chandler Davidson of Ysleta High School earned top state honors in journalism. Granger placed fourth in copy reading fifth in feature writing and fifth in news writing while Davidson took third in news reporting fourth in feature writing and fifth in editorial writing. The pair combined for 236 points to help Ysleta secure the season’s inaugural state Interscholastic League award. William Granger, Jimmie’s father and former Jeff Davis county judge, is a Fort Davis native who moved the family to Ysleta years ago. Mrs Eva Dominguez Carrasco of Pecos attended graduation and visited her relatives Chapo and Eva Dominguez.
TheSul Ross summer program will host a lineup of specialists from Tulsa Oklahoma and universities including Dr Lyman V Ginger from the University of Kentucky and Dr Walter Wittich of Wisconsin. Workshops cover elementary education school audio visual education and energy and water conservation with several state agencies participating. Spring exams concluded and 85 degrees were awarded at spring commencement with baccalaureate the night before. Summer commencement set for August 19.
Fort Davis resident Miss Cecelia Thompson will receive her Ph D from Iowa State University in Iowa City on June 11. Her research explored the history of amateur theaters in St Louis from 1860 to 1880, with work in city libraries and interviews.
Henry L. Bagley formerly with Sul Ross college joins Southwestern university Georgetown as publicity director and journalism head has won a Colorado University publicity fellowship. The award supports his doctoral work to be completed this summer. Mr and Mrs Paul Forchheimer and children left Monday for Carlsbad Caverns and other sites in New Mexico.
A mistaken price in Red Smith’s Furniture ad provoked laughter and ribbing in town. The gaffe, discovered by the pressman, led to jokes about price lines snapping, but ended with Red acknowledging the slip and urging greater care in the future.
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