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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1955
Page
11
Fort Davis area saw renewed rainfall reviving grass and gardens with measurable amounts on Mount Locke. In town, weekly temperatures ranged from 46 to 88. Fort Davis Indians tied Sierra Blanca 13 to 13 in a rain soaked game. upcoming match with Dell City.
Port Davis events recap with Band Boosters first meeting last Tuesday and Latin American PTA meeting at Anderson School where no president has been chosen. District 15 PTA board session in El Paso featured state VP R D Bell as speaker. Fort Davis Study Club opened 1955 56 season with a musical program September 13 led by Mrs Wade Reid.
The Valen tine Independent School District released the 1955 56 faculty list. Names include Mrs. Alice Winder primer and first grade Mrs. Leona Hector second grade Miss Mary Lee Harper third and fourth grades Mrs. Jane Mills fifth and sixth grades Mrs. May G Humphris seventh and eighth grades and high school science Earl Gill high school English Mrs Bobbie Dee Moore high school mathematics and commerce Mrs Frank S Villareal high school social sciences and studies D C Moore is superintendent. Mrs Annie Lou Clark of Fort Davis to conduct the public school music program. Nurse Myrtle R Gray of Jeff Davis County to be on duty two days weekly at Valentine. Leona Hector, second grade teacher, also lives in Fort Davis. Celebrates sixth birthday Jacqueline Harvey six years old last Sunday September 18 honored with a birthday party on Saturday afternoon hosted by her mother Mrs Frances Harvey. About 25 children attended. Mrs Harvey served cake with candles and ice cream. The Japanese Peace Treaty was signed in San Francisco on September etc.
A long list of visitors from Sanderson Pecos Donna and Wink share tales of weekend guests including Jesse Fisher Jr Mrs Winfred Sims and families. Fort Davis Ojinaga baseball double header ends 8 2 and 4 3 with a post game barbecue. New polio vaccine doses arrive at Fort Davis Hospital and treatment begins for local children.
The notes recount Jean Pierre Blanchard making America's first balloon flight in 1793, and Samuel Archer King and William Black as early aerial photographers in 1860. It also notes that only the U S President and Massachusetts Governor bear the title Excellence and that the Army spent 3200 dollars to clothe and train a d indoctrinee in six months.
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