Lobos Triumph Over Lamar in Lone Star Tilt 27 13
Sul Ross Lobos won a hard fought home game at Jackson Field defeating Lamar Tech 27 to 13. Norman Cash led the Lobos with 111 rushing yards and potential Little All-American play. Lamar fumbled twice in key moments and Sul Ross capitalized with a 20 yard Skinner to Mullins TD and solid passing edge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sul Ross Lobos
Jackson Field
Lamar Tech
Beaumont
Cardinals
Lobos
Lobo
Norman Cash
Cash
Lamar
Raymond Meyer
Ray McGregor
Charles Ward
Sul Ross
Meyer
Jim Skinner
Stanfield
Ward
Tech
Skinner
Royce Mullins
Sul Ros
E. Texas
East Texas State
Commerce
East Texas
Southwest Texas
San Marcos
S. W. Texas
Texas
Sam Houston
Texas A&i
S. F. Austin
Alpine Faculty At State Teachers Convention Fort Worth
At least five Alpine faculty members attended the Texas State Teachers Association convention in Fort Worth during the Thanksgiving holidays. Attendees include Miss Myrtle Whiteside and Miss Sue B Mann from Alpine High and Mrs Catharine Jo Etheridge Mrs Berta Lassiter and Mrs Delphine Young from Alpine Centennial School. Several other faculty members visited friends and relatives over the weekend. Supt Peyton Cain was on the doubtful list due to roofing work on the Alpine Centennial school administration building and patching on the high school administration building roof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpine
Texas State Teachers’ Assn
Fort Worth
Myrtle Whiteside
Alpine High
Sue B. Mann
Catharine Jo Etheridge
Berta Lassiter
Delphine Young
Alpine Centennial School
Peyton Cain
Texans Tour Mexico City For Big Bend Park Talks
Local members travel by auto to San Angelo and a private plane to Laredo then a commercial flight to Mexico City to confer with Mexican officials on the Big Bend International park project. Participants include Lon Garrison Peter Koch J E Casner Paul Forchheimer Glenn Burgess and other state and federal officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Big Bend International Park
Auto
San Angelo
Laredo
Albino
Big Bend
Peter Koch
J. E. Casner
Paul Forchheimer
Glenn Burgess
Fred Husbands
West Texas DC
Frank D. Quinn
State Parks Board
Glenn Garrett
Texas Good Neighbor Commission
Presley Bryant
Port Worth
NPS
Improvements Planned for North Fifth Street Buildings
Work on renovating the C. G. Morrison Co. buildings on North Fifth Street began in late October and is progressing with additional plans not in the original notice. Mrs. Morrison states the old Alpine Mercantile Co. stone building will get a glass and perma stone front with interior and exterior renovations. The two story alley building used as a Morrison warehouse is near completion and also to receive a perma stone front. The rear sheet iron Alpine Mercantile warehouse is being razed. C. C. Cowell leads the contracting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. G. Morrison Co
N. 5Th St
J. C. Penney Co
Morrison Company
Alpine Mercantile Co
Fifth St
C. C. Cowell
Alpine corporal works lathe in Okinawa unit
Cpl. Carlos Torres of Alpine serves as a machinist with the 590th Engineer Utility Co on Okinawa. He joined the army in November 1953 and completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, before arriving on Okinawa last June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okinawa
Cpl
Carlos Torres
Alpine
590Th Engineer Utility Co
Army
Fort Leonard Wood
Band Students Launch Alpine Magazine Drive November 29
Alpine junior and senior high band students begin their annual magazine subscription campaign on Monday November 29 sponsored by Crowell Collier Publishing Co. Subscriptions offer bands up to 50 percent commission on some titles and 30 percent on others aiding funds and showcasing student salesmanship while limiting street solicitation for Alpine patrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpine
Crowell- Collier Publishing Co
Crane Rout Alpine 41 to 0 to end 1954 season
Crane Golden Cranes crushed Alpine Bucks 41 to 0 in Crane on Friday night. Blackie Russell starred for Crane while Alpine’s Vichy Hernandez left with a knee injury early in the second quarter. Freddy Davis Fidel Cano Dan Logan and Ernest Fierro led Crane’s attack as Alpine’s defense faltered and the Bucks suffered a season finale loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpine Bucks
Crane Golden Cranes
Crane
Blackie Russell
Alpine
Vichy Telo Hernandez
Hernandez
Bucks
Freddy Davis
Fidel Cano
Phil McGaughy
Davis
Dan Logan
Ernest Fierro
Buck
Kenneth Smith to Headline Tri County Concert at Sul Ross
Tri County Concert Alsa presents its second concert at Sul Ross College Alpine on Thursday December 2 at 8 p m. Bass-baritone Kenneth Smith will be the guest artist. Smith, British born and educated in America, has appeared in opera in Montreal Boston and New York and served as a B 24 navigator during four years of war earning the Distinguished Flying Cross Air Medal and Oak Leaf Clusters. He resumed singing after studying with Olga Forrar and has performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic New York Little Orchestra Handel's Acis and Galatea and Gilbert and Sullivan works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tri-County
Alsa
Sul Ross College
Alpine
Kenneth Smith
Montreal
Boston
New York
America
Leeds
Stamford
Conn
Manhattan School of Music
New York College of Music
South Pacific
The
Air
Olga Forrar
Rhode Island Philharmonic
New York Little Orchestra
Thomas Scherman
Lewisohn Stadium
Lehman Engel
Daland
Wagner
Buffalo Philharmonic
Wiliam Steinberg
Mr. Smith
Down In the Valley
RCA Victor
Concert Hall Society
Honegger
Jeanne d’Arc Au
Homing Instinct Of Horse Helps Injured Cowboy
C A Taylor, 67, survived a freezing night after the buckskin horse dragged him from a tree limb when he fell from his saddle during deer hunting. Sheriff Gray led a 40 person search. Taylor was found with a broken hip five miles from home and transported to Alpine hospital. He credited his horse for getting him home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barry Scobee
Fort Davis
C. A. Taylor
Taylor
H. L. Kobernot
Dawson and
Gilbert
Pecos
Gray
Ted Gray
Eokernot
Jim Espy
Clay Espy
Worth Evans
Pam
Foreman Gray
Valentine
Dorothy Foley
Alpine
Prize Deer Head Tea Date Checked
Twenty one mule deer were checked in the Big Bend Sportsmen's club contest by Wednesday noon with more expected before season end. Pat Beasley of San Antonio leads with 106.4 points from five head measurements. Emerson H. Johnson of Dassetta shows the heaviest deer at 192 pounds dressed weight and the widest spread at 29%% inches. Ed Dutchover of Alpine has the most points with 12. One hunter reported 26 points but was ineligible. A .270 Remington rifle will be awarded along with other prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Bend Sportsmen's Club
Pat Beasley
San Antonio
Chinati Mountains
Emerson H. Johnson
Dassetta
Ed Dutchover
Alpine
Rotarians Lions Joint Meeting Showings Film God of Creation
Alpine Lions and Rotary clubs held a joint noon meeting at the Holland hotel featuring a religious scientific film God of Creation. Rev. Glenn W. Bales read psalm 24 and Rev. Carl Lawson led prayer. Families of MSgt Cecil Duncan Jr and Mrs Duncan arrived for Thanksgiving visit from Harlingen.
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God of Creation
Alpine Lions
Rotary Clubs
Holland Hotel
Glenn W. Bales
First Baptist Church
Carl Lawson
First Methodist Church
Lions
Rotarians
Cecil Duncan Jr
Harlingen
Cecil Duncan Sr
Sul Ross Band Day Opens With Sousa Tribute Parade
Sul Ross Band Day featured a large downtown parade and a 600 member halftime show at the Sul Ross Lamar Tech game honoring John Philip Sousa born a century ago. Bands from 11 area high schools performed with massed ensembles forming SOUSA letters and playing Washington Post and The Thunderer. Mrs Royce Mullins crowned Sul Ross Football Sweetheart escorted by her husband and co captain Russell MecMeans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sul Ross
Sul Ross-Lamar Tech
Joe Bellamah
John Philip Sousa
Washington, D. C
Sousa
Washington Post
Bellamah
Royce Mullins
Russell MecMeans
Lobo
Sul Ross Band Half Time Show Described Nationally
The Sul Ross Lobo band half time show at the Sul Ross Trinity U game in Alamo Stadium San Antonio on November 7 1953 drew national notice in The Instrumentalist. E Joe Lee directed both Sul Ross and Alpine High bands and wrote the show description and script read over the stadium PA system. The Rosettes dance team is noted and a photo of Lee with a short bio accompanies the feature.
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Sul Ross Lobo
Sul Ross- Trinity U
Alamo Stadium
San Antonio
E. Joe Lee
Lobo
Alpine
Lee
P. A
Rossettes
Mr. Lee
Sul Ross College
Marathon High School
Sul Ross
Joe Bellamah
Army language school student from Fort Davis
Airman Third Class Carlos D Dominguez son of Mr and Mrs Esequier M Dominguez of Fort Davis entered the Army Language School at the Presidio of Monterey California for intensive Korean language and culture instruction He entered the Armed Forces last June and served at Kelly Air Force Base San Antonio He graduated from Fort Davis high school this year
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlos D. Dominguez
Esequiel M. Dominguez
Fort Davis
Presidio of
Monterey
Cali
Armed Forces
Kelly Air Force Base
San Antonio
Fort Davis High School
Robbery Suspect Held At Del Rio
Juan Vasquez, formerly of Shafter and now living in Houston, is held by Val Verde county officers in Del Rio for two robberies there and the Forchheimer store burglary here on Nov 15. Sheriff Skinner says Vasquez aided in two Del Rio robberies and four watches were taken from the Forchheimer store, one identified as missing. Vasquez had burglarized the Forchheimer store about seven years ago and was recently released from state prison. charges will be filed in connection with the latest robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juan Vasquez
Shafter
Houston
Val Verde
del Rio
Jim Skinner
Vasquez
Skinner
Forchheimer
Miss Brown Heads to South America to Teach in Venezuela
Miss Josephine Brown daughter of Mrs Geo A Brown sails from Houston to New Orleans and then Venezuela to teach at a Texas Petroleum Co school in Roblicito about 100 miles south of Caracas leaving Tuesday for the assignment.
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Josephine Brown
Geo. A. Brown
Houston
New Orleans
Venezuela
Texas Petroleum Co. Ca
Roblicito
Caracas
Local Legion Auxiliary fuels Texas cancer fight at Anderson Center
The Big Bend unit of the American Legion Auxiliary sponsors a three year fund drive for M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston. In 1953 they memorialized a four bedroom room with a $2000 donation and praise the center’s statewide free care. The facility includes a 310 bed hospital with 32 bed children unit, cobalt 60 and betatrons, extensive research space, and an outpatient clinic handling 300 visits each week. The drive seeks memorial plaques and scholarships to support cancer diagnosis, treatment, and education for physicians and nurses. The Alpine unit begins the campaign Monday with a cancer benefit slated for the week.
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Big Bend
American Legion Auxiliary
M. D. Anderson
New Texas Medical Center
Houston
Brewster County
Anderson Hospital
Texas
Texas Institution
Cancer Bulletin
United States
Texas Cancer Research Center
The
Legion Auxiliary of Alpine
Work Completed On Bank Building
Remodeling of the First National bank building is near finish with exterior painting in silver gray to match Perma-Stone veneer installed by local contractor C. C. Cowell. The Perma-Stone covers the first floor, while upper floors house part of the Holland hotel. interiors have been fully remodeled making the bank one of the most attractive quarters in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank
C. C. Cowell
Holland Hotel
The
Bank
Football Scores From 1954 Season For Alpine And Area
Crane 41 Alpine 0 Sul Ross 27 Lamar 13 Monahans 28 Pecos 21 Marfa 26 Wink 21 McCamey 40 Fort Stockton 20 Del Rio 16 Uvalde 13 Sonora 54 Ozona 19 Sanderson 33 Fabens 20 New Mex U 39 N M A&M 27 S W Texas 7 East Texas 7 Sam Houston 42 S F Austin 25 Texas A&I 20 Mex City College 13. In case of FIRE, dial 2555.
More Claims Are Filed In Big Bend Than In 20 Years
Rumors of uranium in Brewster and Presidio counties spur a surge in prospect permits and mining claim filings. Bascom Giles reports dozens of filings by Houston interests, with Alpine and Marfa offices seeing heightened activity. State land and Terlingua Lajitas districts dominate, while many filings face confusion and lengthy processing.
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Big Bend
Glenn Burgess
Brewster County
Presidio County
Marfa
General Land Office
Austin
Brewster
Presidio Counties
Bascom Giles
Houston
New High
Presidio
Tom Carney
Alpine
Nick Three
Bert Thompson
Arme
D. O'Neal
George W. Achterberg
Fort Stockton
Achterberg
Solitario Mountains
Lajitas
Carney
Hunters Pack Big Bend Area This Week For Mule Deer
In the Big Bend and Davis mountains a weeklong mule deer season ended with reports of an average kill. Groups from Houston Fort Worth and Shreveport hunted on Meriwether Kimball and Sohll ranches around Alpine. Vicky Young of Fort Worth led nine businessmen here. Alfred E Creigh and daughter Lindy visited San Antonio after the hunt.
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Big Bend-Davis Mountains
Vicky Young
Fort Worth
Interchemical Corp
Houston
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North Fifth ST
Andy Joe Keane
Rapid Cit . 8S. D
Vara Keane
Archaeology
Hallie Stillwell
Grandfalls School
Deer Head
South America
Auxiliary
Fight
Alpine High School
Alfred E. Creigh
Lindy
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