Alpine Lions Candy Day Sale Set for Saturday
Alpine Lions Club hosts a candy sale this Saturday in Alpine to raise funds for Eye sight Conservation. Volunteers in yellow caps will sell candy rolls at the Post Office and local corners, with Dr Tom Coates offering vision checks at Safeway from 1 to 3p m using the club’s screening machine.
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Alpine Lions Club
Alpine
Alpine Club
So Smith
Roy Whiteside
McSherry
Jack Bow
Eyesight Conservation Fund
Lions Club
First National Bank
Holland Avenue
J. C. Penney
City Drug Store
Safeway
Tom Coates
Alpine Optometrist
Dre Coates
Marfa
Big Bend
Marathon
Fort Davis
Presidio
Valentine
Alpine Bucks Host Iraan Braves Friday Night at Buck Stadium
Alpine and Iraan meet at Buck Stadium Friday night as Alpine aims for a fourth straight win after a 23-0 shutout of Van Horn. Alpine sits amid a three game streak and heads into a 7-AA district slate following the Iraan game.
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Alpine Bucks
Iraan Braves
Buck Stadium
Bucks
van Yorn Eagles
Alpine
Culberson County
Grandfalls
Rankin
van Horn
Marfa
Sanderson
McCamey
Crane
Sonora
Stanton
Traan
Robert Lee Steers
Braves
Alpine Alumni to Meet for Third 5 Year Reunion
Alpine Alumni Association plans the third five year reunion on November 1 in Alpine. The event coincides with Alpine High School Homecoming and Sul Ross State College Homecoming. Registration starts 4 p.m. in Alpine Central School Cafeteria. tea and coffee will be served.
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Alpine Alumni Association
Alpine
Alpine High School
Alpine High
Maude Baines
Association
Alpine Central School
Sul Ross State College
Baines
Tests Set For 53 Alpine Juniors This Tuesday
A preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test will be given to 53 junior students on Tuesday October 15. The test, a junior level form of the College Entrance Examination Board, helps students compare results with peers from colleges they may attend and aids in making suitable college choices. Alpine High School Guidance Department, led by Mrs Jo Ann Ford, administers and interprets the tests.
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Alpine High School Guidance Department
Jo Ann Ford
Bids Called On Hospital Addition in Brewster County
County seeks bids for a 20000 dollar addition to Brewster County Memorial Hospital to add 15 beds, enlarged operating room, solarium, remodeled lobby, and expanded parking. Work due within 180 days, funded by county funds with federal match. old tennis court to be abandoned.
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Brewster County Memorial Hospital
Felix McGaughy
Ennis
Big Bend Soil District to Elect Zone V Supervisor
On October 14 landowners with agricultural property east of Highway 227 and Big Bend National Park will elect a supervisor for Zone V of the Big Bend Soil Conservation District. Incumbent C. F. Cox seeks re election. The poll opens at 9 a m and closes at noon at Tom Leary's Ranch in Marathon with Billy G. Hill as chairman and Tom Leary serving as secretary. Both ranchers and their wives may vote.
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Big Bend National Park
Big Bend
Tom Leary
Legion Meeting Draws 200 Plus Delegates in Alpine
More than 200 expected as the American Legion and Auxiliary hold district fair convention in Alpine. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday at the Legion Club and Community Center with registration opening at 9 30 a m. A luncheon honors guests, a 1 p m district meeting, and youth focused panels precede a Saturday evening dance hosted by local Legion and Auxiliary members. Sunday features a joint session at the High School Auditorium with welcomes, keynote speakers Miss Margaret Morrow and Jack W Hanks Jr, and a memorial service for State Rep Gene Hendryx followed by a barbecue at 12 noon.
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American Legion Auxiliary Loth
Fon
Henry Bailey
Alpine
State Department
The
Legion Club
Elvie Williams
Mmes
Sherman Newsom
Frank Snow
J. C. Roark
Werner Hollis
Patsy Taylor
Odessa
16Th District Advisory Board
Jack L. Whitson
Anne Hegelund
Sul Ross College
Hegelund
Girls State
Donna Mueller
Phyllis Avant
David Forchheimer
Bennie Wright
Helen Kitchen
Girls Nation
el Paso
Legion
Alpine Legion
Tom Coats
David Kokernot
Lawrence Krueger
San Antonio
A.W
al) Gee
San Angelo
James F. Lamother
Monahans
Krueger
W.I. Winter
Lamother
Margaret Morrow
Bluebonnet Girls State
Jack W. Hanks Jr
Midland
Boys Nation
Gene Hendryx
Decie Ranch
Donna Lynn Mueller Named Queen of AHS Coronation Candidate
Donna Lynn Mueller daughter of Mrs Gladys Mueller AHS senior has been elected student body queen She is National Honor Society Student Council vice president and FTA member She was chosen from five finalists with Margaret Morrow Linda Powers Barbara Jean Clark and Candy Weston Also campus favorites elected three boys and three girls with results due next week for the annual Coronation chosen by the Queen
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Donna Lynn Mueller
Gladys Mueller
AHS
National Honor Society
FTA
Miss Mueller
Donna
Margaret Morrow
Linda Powers
Barbara Jean Clark
Candy Weston
SPix Freight Derailment Near Alpine Causes No Injuries
Nineteen cars of a 53 car Southern Pacific freight train derailed about 1.5 miles west of Alpine just after noon Saturday. Seventeen cars were demolished while two could be moved onto racks. The east bound train carried copper and the cause was a bumped off journal cited by Pacific authorities. By 2 a.m. Sunday traffic resumed on a track rebuilt around 300 feet of damaged line.
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Pacific
Alpine
District 7AA UIL set dates for spring events
Supt Frost Principal Worley and Coach Boyd attended the District 7AA UIL meeting in McCamey to confirm spring dates. The schedule includes UIL literary meet April 11 at McCamey, One act April 2 at Sonora, Track April 7 at Crane, Volleyball March 19-20 at Stanton, Tennis April 10-11 at McCamey, Golf April 9 at Alpine. George Grounds elected director general of the UIL program and Crane coach Don Anderegg to direct track and field.
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McCamey
Alpine George Grounds
Crane High School
Don Anderegg
Sul Ross to Host Open House for New Computer Center
Sul Ross State College plans an open house for the new Computer Center at 7 p m on Tuesday in the Administration Building first floor. More than 300 invitations target bankers superintendents principals and college presidents from the Trans Pecos region. Dr Bryan Wildenthal will host with tours demos of business and mathematical applications and town nights coordinated by chambers of commerce and service clubs.
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Sul Ross State College
Trans-Pecos
Alpine
Chambers of Commerce and
Bryan Wildenthal
Sul Ross
Paul Kelch
Sul Ross Business Club
Mayron Shields
Department of Business Administration and Economics
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Idryx
A.W, Gee
James F, Lamother
Spix
Big Bend Players
Alpine Community Center
Bob Halpern
Gordon O'Dell
Nancy Price
Bobby Lee Shortt
Alfred Rochester
Katharine Boyd
Beth Francois
Becky Terry
Mary Jo Sohl
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