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IlTAflrlalHIGHWAY COMMISSION■ d«-Isaue Casaloun-URGED TO COMPLETE U. S. 67 G A P IMMEDIATELYlionel,1*0 InOfficers Elected By Big Bend PostAmerican Legionlining mom-c de-Na-i by• n dit ofrnu i BigImportance .Of Route As Military Road Is Emphasizedibrfneclub.highPOUflgmoral at •hall, n col-igo. rganl-c and I the Ipine,Prcsi-1 c e-•econd Lafar-rmijo; cport-IsCtonAt a regular meeting of Big Bend Pont No. 79, American Legion. held at the Legion hut last Saturday evening, at which some 49 member* were present, the following officer* were elected fot the ensuing year:A. E. Owen*, commander; J. W. Gillett, first vice commander Prank Wed in. second vice com mander; Hick* Gray, 3rd vice commander; Cecil Duncan, adjutant; Fell* Garrett, chaplain; M. L. Hopson, finance offkur, Oeorge Pugh, executive committeeman.The following were elected a* delegate* to the state convention to be held at Laredo August 19. 20. and 21: M. L. Hopson. George Pugh. Prank Wed in. Shelley Barnes. Eddie Wltwer.The local post is entitled to three vote* In the state convention. Interest has revived in Legion affair* because of the present strained world conditions and six ex-service men reinstated at the meeting. A membership com-; mittee was appointed to contact all the ex-service men in the county and ask them to reinstate ami bring the membership up to its full quota, approximately 165 members, of which Cecil Duncan was made chairman. Earl Fallas was appointed chairman of a committer to invite Legionairres of Marfa to a Joint meeting, at which the member* of the flying classes from Sul Ros* will be entertained with a barbecue and dance.A letter la every•T weiH. W.O. Atewa eatf.l. highwayweek Bpprocedure la brlaglag to the at-the aeceaaMy for of the Alp tan Portprove-school ed by ing to ir Av-R. F.Campaigning Proves A Little Strenuous For This Candidateim of or the » teleruction Is and Miscap-edeftsCD IN VISBy BARRY SCOBEE PL Davis CorrespondentHere's a story a candidate out campaigning for office told auto-biographirally. No use to mention his name, nor his county. Maybe it was Brewster or Presidio. Whatever. this writer can produce witnesses to the tale's truthfulness.The candidate arrived at a certain camp. He know two or three voters were living there. It was just at meal time. Quite a few people were sitting at an outdoor 1 table, some of them strangers. | The candidate did not know even the people who lived there. He ! had his little brown dog along ( with him in the car for company. When he opened the car door the dos surang out. There were threeThe letter was prompted by m-communication from Congreaamme. R. E. Thomason stating that who* tiw road had already been rtasig-nated as a military highway by the federal government, then* la no appropriation for military high' way* as such, but that they Mg go through the usual procud art of being initiated and approved by the State Highway rommiaake* and then come to Washington for final approval.Qutab Aetftan UrgadDr. Mo re lock. In his letter, aef out that he feels “It is highly important that people all along highway #7 Immediately urge the Texas State Highway commission to take initiative steps . . . and put into acceptable condition the section of highway 67 from Ft-Stockton to its intersection with* U. 8. 90 east of Alpine.I doubt seriously if the national government would give favorable consideration to highway 67 as a ‘military highway' until the question of the right-of-way and the condition of the n«d from Highway 90 to Fort Stockton in settled,” Dr. Morelock stated irs the letter. In caw of trouble at Presidio. Terlingua or Del Rio, aid would have to be routed over highway HO to Van Horn and then down highway 90. or by way of San Antonio. Now is our opportunity to get a first-class highway from Dallas to Presidio and I invite aggressive interest to ac»-complish what all of us have »eurn striving for over a period *d years.”Congressman Thomason states! in his letter that he has been aa-sured by the Director of Public: Roads, at Washington, that preference. and even priority, will bo extended to military highway*, when the War ilepartment s a y a they are in the interest of national defense.Two Mexican Youths
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Alpine Avalanche
Alpine, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 19, 1940
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