Fall Weather Shifts Bring Rains to Big Bend Area
A west breeze and rising temperatures gave way to a Sunday evening shower as a fresh north wind brought heavy rains across Big Bend. Monday cooled and rained, with residents noting widespread rain in the lower Big Bend and local ranch reports of a 2% inch shower at Baker McGilvray Cow Creek Ranch. Charlie Hunter and family camping near Rio Grande Village were awoken by rain and hail and headed home as high water rose at Hackberry.
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Big Bend
Charlie Hunter
Rio Grande Millage
Big Bend National Park
Hackberry
Charlie
Lower Big Bend
Baker McGilvray Cow Creek
Rudolf Mellard
Alpine area drought talk and community notices
Ranchers report varying rainfall with 1% inches at a ranch near Marfa and showers elsewhere while roads washout. Ballots for the 1962 Soil Conservation committee election were mailed and must be returned by the 15th. a reminder to call for replacement ballots. Landscape architect Harry Smith departs for the Virgin Islands National Park after a farewell dinner at Government Springs. Seasonal Rangers Green Jones and Mitchell end their service this week.
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Marfa
Alpine
Bird Babcock
Daisey Mae Fulcher Adams
Study Butte
Jack McElroy
el Paso
Presidio
R. A. Boyd
The
Soil Conservation Office
1&H
Boyd
Soil Conservation
John Hall
California
Harry Smith
Government Springs
Smith
Alpine Chamber of Commerce
Stanley Joseph
Neill Thorne
Cecil Garrett
Mr. Smith
Big Bend Local Youths Move to Alpine Schools
Woodie Hitchcock leaves for Alpine to attend high school while Marty Ott enrolls at Alpine High. Emily Miller and others stage puppet shows at the Joseph residence with another program planned for the holidays. Mrs. Jack Raftery and Mrs. Mac Ott host a morning coffee hour. A shipment of about 6000 lambs from Alpine Marathon area heads to California feed lots, averaging 8 pounds each.
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Marty Ott
Mac Ott
Big Bend
Alpine High School
Stanley Joseph
Joseph
Little Stable Theatre
Emily Miller
Tillie Pinedo
Clinnell McLean
Mack Waters
Jack Waters
Erlinda Ybarra
Gary Ott
Jack Raftery
Henry Schmidt
Ott
Alpine-Marathon
California
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Virgin Islands National Park
Morris Green
Wylie Jones
Frank Mitchell
Ranger Department
Jones
Michell
BY Hallie Stillwell
Kate Greenaway
Pam Pittman
Rosenblatt-Kahn
Twin Peaks
James Stewart
Stooges
Suzie Wong
Bob Hope
Lucille Ball
the Tempest
van Heflin
Agnes Moorehead
Brad
Texaco
E. Holland
Woodie Hitchcock
National Parks Concessions
Wen, Ds Cy
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Dove
Coe It
Sada
AMI Gere i
Big Bend Area
Pia
Haddock
Peel
Schmidt
Tomato Juice Town House
Piedmont
Safeway
Turkey
Chuck Roast
Sobo
Shady Lane
USDA
Albine
Cowber
WWE
U. S
New Mexico
Zest
Prunes
Colorado
Romaine
Valencia
Bel Air
Lucerne
CIA
Safeway Stores, Incorporated
Tate Bros. Livestock
R. L. Tate
Bill H. Martin
Bil Martin
Sul Ross College
Midland
Texas
Ford
Casner Motor Co., Inc
Alpine, Texas
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