Alpine and The Avalanche echo Big Bend ties in biographical column
A long reminiscence from Mrs. David H. Keller recounts winters in the Big Bend region and Alpine life. Readers note editorial alignment with Buy at Home campaigns and Small Business concerns. local color includes school graduation corrections and sightings of flying saucers.
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Alpine
The
Avalanche
Daily Record
Stroudsburg
David H. Keller
Record
Alpine Merchants
Sul Ross Lobos Meet East Texas Lions In Final 1957 Drillin
Sul Ross and East Texas clash at Jackson Field in the season finale. East Texas carries a 5 1 record and eyes a Lone Star title share with Lamar Tech while Sul Ross seeks a last conference victory amid a tough schedule. Four seniors end Lobo careers with key roles including quarterback Seldon Hensley and center Bob Caraway.
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Sul Ross
East Texas Lions
Jackson Field
Lions
Lamar Tech
West Texas
Lobos
East Texas
Lamar
Howard Payne
Sam Houston
Texas A&i
Southwest Texas
Beaumont
Sully
Lone Star
Seldon Hensley
Walnut Springs
Bob Battlin
Caraway
Greenville
Bob
Dub Polson
Sam Potts
Checotah Okla
Death Takes Shirley Scales Alpine Pioneer
Shirley Scales a longtime Alpine businessman died Wednesday November 13 in Oklahoma City at 81. He lived at 305 NW 42nd St in Oklahoma City since 1956 and was buried November 15 in Norman IOOF Cemetery. He founded the Kandy Kitchen and later ran a drug business with R S Carnes and expanded to jewelry and appliances. He led the Alpine Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce and was a 32nd degree Mason. He is survived by his widow a sister and a brother.
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Shirley Scales
Oklahoma City
IOOF
Norman
Oklahr
Scales
Spurgeon
Pike County
Ill
Lettie Morris
Alpine
Kandy
R.S. Carnes
Otis
Shirley Seales
Alpine Rotary Club
Alpine Chamber of Commerce
Alpine Lodge
Af&am
Royal Arch Masons
Alpine Commandery
Knights Templar
el Maida Shrine
Mr. Seales
42Nd St
Clarence Burns
Elmhurst
Premont
Texas
Remodeled Holland Coffee Shop Reopens With Chef In Charge
The Holland Hotel coffee shop reopens after complete redecorating and a stainless steel kitchen overhaul. Frank Miranda, the new chef trained under Marcell at Edgewater Beach Chicago in 1937, leads with wife assisting. four children named Lourdes Eva Vernie and Bob. During hunting season hours start 4 30 a m. Alpine High Council says 150 pounds of clothes donated to Song Kwang Orphanage Taegu Korea per ex student Fermin Salas now in Korea.
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Frank Miranda
Marcell
Edgewater Beach Hotel
Chicago
San Angelo
Alpine
Lubbock Country Club
Alpine High School
Alpine Schools
Song Kwang
Taegu
Korea
Fermin Salas
Alpine High
Central Wins Rotary Bowl in Cold Night Clash
The Alpine Central football team defeated Van Horn 13 to 7 in a first Rotary Bowl game held Thursday night. Ronnie King scored two touchdowns for Central, with long runs featured though a late Van Horn rally fell short. Proceeds benefit the pee wee athletic fund as Rotary officials plan final ticket reports at the Holland Hotel.
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Alpine Central
van Horn
Central
Ronnie King
Crimson and Purples
Pee Wee Athletic Fund
Reg. Votan
Alpine Rotary Club
Rotary
Holland
Pioneer area rancher John D. Young dies after heart attack
John D. Young, longtime Big Bend rancher described as a pioneer, died of a heart attack last Saturday. He lived in Alpine and was survived by his widow Rennie MacSpadden and children including John Younger. Funeral services were held Monday at the Methodist Church with burial at Elm Grove Cemetery under Livingston Funeral Home direction.
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John D. Young
Brush Country
J. Frank
Debie
Alpine
John D Young Jr
McMallen County
Big Bend
Mr. Young
Rennie MacSpadden
Brewster County
Young
West Texas
Bob Hunter
Los Angeles
Meriden Garner
John Younger
Fort Worth
Harry Friend
Ozona
Cas Edwards
Frank
W. W. Young
Methodist Church
Elm Grove Cemetery
Livingston Funeral Home
First White Woman On Rio Grande Side Of Chisos Buried
Mrs Gertrude Trudy Kimball Moss 85 widow of Joe Moss was buried in Elm Grove Cemetery after dying Saturday in Big Spring. The longtime Central Texas pioneer helped settle the Basin of the Big Bend region and Green Gulch, ranching with her husband since 1892. Relatives note she was among the first ranchers to move cattle up the Basin and was recognized by locals as the first white woman on the south side of the Chisos Mountains. Graveside rites were led by Alpine Chapter 132 Order of Eastern Star.
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Gertrude
Trudy Kimball Moss
Rio Grande
Chisos Mountains
Elm Grove
Moss
Big Spring
Livingston Chapel
Gene Brice
Christian Church
Alpine Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
Porter Kimball
Pontiac Picks Casner's As Dealer In Big Bend
Casner's of Alpine has been chosen as the Pontiac dealer for the Big Bend Davis Mountains area. The 1958 Pontiac is now on display at Casner's, which also handles Chevrolet automobiles and trucks Buick automobiles and GMC trucks.
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Casner’s
Alpine
Pontiac
Big Bend
Davis Mountains
Forrest Walker
Pioneer Auto
Casner's
Chevrolet
Buick
GMC
Flora Daugherty Sells Water Rights By Installment Plan
Flora Daugherty of the Suan ny Glen area offered to sell her water rights or land section to the City on an installment basis. Through attorney Harold L. Sims she outlined two plans: a fee simple sale of Section 23 with water excluded as a mineral for 100000 dollars, 29000 cash upfront and five annual payments at 4 percent. or sale of water rights and easements for municipal use at 79000 dollars with 29 percent cash down and annual 4 percent interest.
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Flora. Daugherty
Daugherty
Suanny Glen
Harold L. Sims
el Paso
Hardie, Grambling, Sims & Galatzan
Flora Daugherty
G. H&s.a
Brewster County
Texas
Miss Daugherty
Houston Man Bags 1st Deer
Brven E Horton of Houston killed the season’s first Alpine deer a 9 point buck at 7 15 a m the 139 pound animal was taken on the Kokernot 06 Ranch Horton hunted with Dick Rogers president of the First National Bank of Alpine. Joe Hartnett Jr of Fort Davis brought in the first buck registered in the Big Bend Sportsman's Club contest a 7 point buck weighing 128 pounds with 83 points scored by Chief of Police Jack Johnson. Six deer were at Nelon Locker Plant by noon and the season runs through November 37.
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Alpine
Brven E. Horton
Houston
Post Office Exterior Repair Bids Open in Alpine
Bids were opened this week in Dallas for exterior painting and miscellaneous repairs to the Alpine Post Office. Postmaster Billy West announced the bid process and scope of work for the project.
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Dallas
Alpine
Billy West
Alpine Bucks and Ozona Lions Bi-district Football Clash
Alpine the 7A champion meets 8A undefeated Ozona in a Saturday night bi-district showdown at Alpine High with 7:30 p.m. kickoff. Injuries to Bake Turner and Manuel Espinosa hurt Alpine’s depth as both squads prepare for the expected capacity crowd and a split net after expenses.
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Alpine Bucks
Ozona Lions
Alpine
Ozona
Texas
City Drug
Model Cleaners
Alpine Drug
Big Bend TV
Sul Ross
Lions
Bucks
Speedy Bake Turner
Manuel Espinosa
Pete Bromley
Clay Cade
Turner
Espinosa
Fabens
Ruben Gallego
Pete Salgado
Freddy Valadez
David Ritter
Joel Brown
B. By Ingham
Billy Bob Holden
Mack White
Humberto Cervantez
Bobby Sutton
David Sikes
Edwin Reeves
Stanley Williams
Stockton
Fort Stockton
Iraan
Alpine Mayor Recuperating After Minor Surgery
Mayor Hugh S. White of Alpine underwent minor surgery at M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston earlier this week. He entered the hospital last Sunday for removal of an obstruction in his vocal cords and is expected to return to Alpine in a few days.
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Hugh S. White
Alpine
M. D. Anderson Hospital
Houston
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With Jim Glasscock
Mrs. Keller
Colonel Keller
Pinto Canyon
John Gillett
Mary Garnett
John
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Cecil Hale
Slim Walker
Alan Briggs
Athens News
Fred Williams
Sunny Glen
Jimmy Henderson
Glen Harris
New Holland
Charley Homes
New Holland House
James Roberts
FFA
Tort Stockton
Charley Babcock
Rain Ward
Gary Clay Ag
R. M. Brown
Joe Richardson
Jack Thee
Milter Smith
Hugh Noel
Big Spring Dee
Jackie Roberts
Walter Vick
Hunter
Death
Shirley
Holland Hotel
Pioneer Area
Joe Moss
Houston Man
Jim Poulos
Roy Peden
Don Edwards
Keith Long
John Ellis
Rontest
Poug Dorris
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