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The Greater Pan-American Hereford Exposition will be judged by D. Burns, general manager of the Pitchfork Land & Cattle Co.

The Alpine Centennial School juniors had an undefeated season in Big Bend Junior conference play. Amassing 26 points in comparison to their opposition who amassed zero points, the juniors had only one scoreless tie game to blemish their record. Led by Coach J.R. Dillard on the left and Coach Leonard Wardlow on the right the juniors are shown here with their coaches. Bottom row is manager Urbano Rios, Leno Robledo, Joe Sanchez, Armando Terrango, Alberto Jacquez, Freddy Valadez, Armando Leyva, Willie Hernandez, and Lionel Lara , manager. On the back row is Jose de La O, Palo Reyes, Manuel Espinosa, Ruben Gallego, Pilar Hernandez, Charlie Valenzuela, and Frank Leyva.

Dear Neil: We applied the pre-emergent as you recommended last spring. It helped a great deal with this year’s lawn through the summer (until the drought). We intended to apply it again two weeks before the average date of the first killing freeze this fall, as per your book, but we had an early first freeze and never got it down until recently. Have we wasted our money?

The Granada Theatre lists their lineup of popular movies they will be showing including Variety Girl with appearances from Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, as well as Gary Cooper. Also showing were a couple of westerns, where once again Gary Cooper graces the big screen and another that featured Smiley Burnette.

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In what activities did you participate in high school? I was a member of the marching band, so I spent a lot of time at football games. I am also in solo and ensemble in band and I will be playing tennis soon.

HEAD OVER MEALS We now find ourselves 24 days from Christmas. Where did the year go? It seems as if just yesterday we were ushering in 2022, in hopes that it would far surpass the chaos and mayhem of the previous two years.

Ingredients: 3 eggs lightly beaten 2 tablespoons butter 1 9-inch unbaked pie shell 1 cup white Karo syrup 1 ½ cups of pecans 1 cup of sugar 1 teaspoon of vanilla Glass pie pan – ideal Directions: Mix the first four ingredients and stir well, add vanilla and pecans, and pour into pie shell and bake for 50 minutes at 350 degrees..

Ingredients: 1 cup white syrup 1 cup white sugar 1 cup chopped pecan halves 3 eggs lightly beaten 2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 9-inch unbaked pie shell Directions: Mix all ingredients, add pecans last, pour into pie shell. Bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees.

Commissioners Court held its regularly scheduled meeting on Nov. 22 with a general election recount update, and the selection of a newly formed evaluation committee to review and score requests for proposals for HOT tax collections topping the agenda.