!mU|wL«Wisnteto5£*NO MORE WORKIN' OX THE RAILROAD R L Alexanderretired Dec. 1 after working for the Gulf Coast and Santa FeRailroad 38 vears. He worked five years for Frisco before that.was a section laborer, section foreman, and motor car '•perator Born and reared at Menard, he married Ada Mae Wagoner of Hext. They have nine children and 27 grandchil-%fcMstclh9dren. Their children arc James Cecil Alexander of Silsbee,LiA I) Alexander of Roswell, N. M., H. R. and J. W. Alexander | of Odessa. Mrs. Louise Plunkett of North Bend. Ore., Mrs. Charlene Brown of Odessa, Mrs. J. D. Wilson of Mexico, Mo., Mrs Fred McDonald of Crescent, Calif., and Miss Norma Lee Alexander, who lives at home, Alexander plans to “fish a little. hunt a little, visit my neighbors, and raise a garden and some chickens.” (News staff photo).sibdlrnni