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No School for WilliamsWilliam John Cummins, 7 years old and in the high first grade, was a very shy little boy and told us that he particularly likes to play cowboy—doesn’t care much about the Indian part of it. William says that, though he can’t read comic books yet, he surely likes to look at them, and make up the stories. He plays with three other boys. William can’t go to the Negro school this fall, bacause there won’t be any. Last fall, the school lasted for five months.This school measures 8 by 10 feet. Inside are two single desks and two double desks. A coal-burning stove provides heat. Besides being school-house, the building is supposed to serve as community center and as church. It is an unpainted structure built way up towards the hill the lumber is evidently what no one else wanted to use.We walked out to the Alp Inti. Ada Davis, who has lived here for 12 years, works there as dishwasher. She is from Eagle Lake, Texas. Ada said, “I like any place where I can make a living.” Although the Baptist church no longer meets, Ada, a Baptist, continues to attend church—she goes to the Mexican meetings. She rents one room of a six-room house (the other rooms are similarly rented, to Mexicans).
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Alpine Skyline
Alpine, Texas, US
Wed, Aug 11, 1943
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