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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1954
Page
7
The Alpine Public Library invites families to celebrate the 36th National Children’s Book Week November 14 to 20. The aim is to give all children access to books, with staff ready to help find titles for all ages and tastes. Parents and teachers are urged to participate and bring children to the library during the week.
The note invites readers to contribute to the Children’s Book Fund and cites Ruskin to frame money as love. It emphasizes that giving benefits both the recipient and the donor.
The article discusses film aids for classrooms including schools using daytime screens, Alpine High and 7AA alignment with Monahans Pecos Crane and potential reassignment for 1956. Alpine enrollment history and possible district shifts are noted with a concluding Lincoln quote.
Homecoming day at Fort Davis High features the Indians vs Barstow game with band performances and a post game Mexican supper. Notables visiting include Mrs J P Weatherby and relatives from Marfa Odessa El Paso and Austin. Several residents returned from trips while others hosted guests and attended a Delta Kappa Gamma meeting in Marfa. Milk Fund volunteers raised funds for needy overseas children.
People visited Fort Davis over the weekend including Mrs. J. D. McNew and family, Mr. and Mrs. R. Vosatka of Midland, Mrs. E. W. Taylor, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rusk with Marcella Rusk. Supt. Herbert D. Smith began junior basketball practice as the team met Valentine in Valentine and plans a return game in Fort Davis. Johnny Whiteaker and Mrs. B C Neill took the school band to Kermit to hear the U S Navy band.
Richard K. Waldo, ex CAA chief economist and state department aviation aide, appointed manager of Convair's new market research section in the commercial sales division at San Diego. Waldo previously served with the U S Department of the Interior during 1941 to 1943.
Commerce, the War Production board and the Board of Economic Welfare joined Convair last October appointing Mr Waldo, a Pennsylvania graduate and prolific author on helicopter adaptation, to the position. His wife is Miss Alice Blucher of Alpine and the pair reside in Del Mar near San Diego.
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