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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1950
Page
1
Alpine residents discuss housing delays and state regulations for veterans. A proposed two story court house plan is shown with cost and bond election to follow. Citizens urged to study plans and consider backing a county bond.
Easter cantata The Lord of Light and Love by Julian Edwards to be performed at 7 00 a m Sunday April 9 1950 by the First Methodist Church choir with soloists and a mixed chorus directed by Mrs W I Winter and with organist Mrs Paul Vogt
L A Teplicek 49 prominent Alpine grocer died at his West College avenue home early Monday from a heart attack. Born in Rowena July 4 1900 he moved from Coleman nine years ago to run the Alpine Super Market for Watson Anderson Co later owning it. He married Nell Tetlock in 1934 and is survived by his widow two children Carol and David two brothers Henry and John a sister Mrs Emmon Dusek and a number of in laws. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church with interment in Elm Grove cemetery. Pallbearers were Mrs Tepliceks brothers in law.
Mayor John W. Gillett and Commissioners F. L. McCollum and Ralph W. Peters were reelected without opposition as only 53 votes were cast in the city race. School board incumbents Marshall Queen Duane Smith and Ray LaBeff were reelected to three-year terms with 116 117 and 117 votes respectively amid a generally positive turnout and continued expansion plans.
A committee led by Val Richardson begins a fundraising drive in Alpine to fund a regional tourist promotion. The effort unites area leaders to boost tourism across 54 cities, aiming to complete the drive in three days and send funds to El Paso headquarters. The plan covers a region bounded by Monahans Fort Stockton Marathon to the east and the New Mexico Arizona line to the west, with Chihuahua Mexico to the south.
City officials announced a recently completed Funk estate well north of town produced about 170 gallons per minute during a 72 hour test after pumping began last Saturday. Four wells total around 1,000 gallons per hour, with East well supplying about 125000 gallons daily to the college area.
A TB patch test will be conducted under Brewster County Tuberculosis Association starting April 10. Testing will begin with first and second grade children in all county schools, with parental consent, and may extend to other students if requested. Marathon and Big Bend National Park tests will occur on dates to be announced.
Seven census enumerators began counting Brewster county residents last Saturday after a three day training session. Crew chief J Roy Spence and team members including Mrs. Joe Moss Mrs. W B Burcham and Mr Paul V Hill work in Alpine Marathon and Big Bend National Park identifying residents and gathering data while maintaining oath bound secrecy with identification cards issued by the Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census.
In Fort Davis on April 4 under George Spencer five census enumerators operate in Jeff Davis county. The workers listed are Mrs. E. H. Fowlkes Mrs. Harry Jarrett Mrs. Ervin Flowers Mrs. John Conaway and the unnamed fifth.
The Sweet shop beside Granada theatre reopens under D. L. Cross Jr who leased the building and fixtures and bought the stock Irwin Currie the Sul Ross student previously operated the business Cross resigns as chamber of commerce manager effective April 1 to start his own venture The building has been renovated and new stock including magazines will be added Cross invites friends to visit the shop at the new location
Henry C. Hank Finger, Sul Ross College instructor in Range Animal Husbandry, was elected manager of the Alpine chamber of commerce in a board meeting Monday night. He will assume duties June 1 after D. L. Cross Jr. resigns April 1. Finger, a Navy veteran and former president of the Sul Ross NIRA chapter, helped form the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Assn. and led his Sul Ross team to the 1949 national title in San Francisco. He plans to advance chamber initiatives and extend existing projects in west Texas.
Alpine High School three member stock judging team earned first place at Sul Ross College Area Invitational Livestock Judging Contest held Saturday April 1. Team members Gordine Barrow Carroll Simpson and Kenneth Killion all juniors with Killion serving as FFA president. Barrow was second high point man. high point overall was B Black of Traan High School with 875 points while Barrow scored 865. Also notes slow start for city mail delivery launched April 1 with residents urged to meet requirements including street address mail receptacles and correct postage changes from one to three cents.
Reverend Woodson Mims announced a countywide survey begun Saturday morning with the process described as counting noses. The initiative will cover Valentine and the entire county to gauge community needs and sentiments.
Easter Sunday services include special music by the choir and a sermon on Our Risen Lord's Forty Days. Holy Week features confessions, Holy Thursday Mass and processions, Good Friday and Holy Saturday rites, and Easter High Mass at 6 a.m. Local churches present multiple services, youth programs, and Bible study with themes from Proverbs and Revelation.
A sermon titled Are Sin Disease and Death Real will be read in all services outlining the nature of evil and mortality. The message argues these forces are real and central to human experience, urging reflection and moral conduct.
Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. announced for Nazarene church led by Pastor J K Kenneth.
Friday evening at 7 30 union service at First Christian Church with Rev Fred Rogers presiding. Special music by Methodist and Baptist choirs. Sunday School at 9 45 a m followed by Junior choir Easter number. Morning Worship and Communion at 10 50, celebrating the triumph of the Gospel.
Easter will be observed in all Sunday school departments at 9 45 on Easter Sunday. The 11 o clock morning worship will be broadcast over station KVLF with Easter music and a meditation by the minister. New members will be received and recognized.
C M Red Sparks returning to Alpine to take over management of Kimble Wholesale Grocery, succeeding Ray Berry who managed here for 18 months. Berry returns to San Angelo to work for Radford Grocery Co. His wife and child stay through school term.
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