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Myra Winkler/Travis Elementary

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Myra Winkler/Travis Elementary

August 20, 2026

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El Paso and the Juarez Valley were preparing for a series of local events and civic developments in September 1947. The Juarez Cotton Fair, scheduled for Sept. 10-16, was to honor Roberto E. Gonzalez, the first man to plant cotton in the Juarez Valley 25 years earlier on his Fronteras Ranch…

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