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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1950
Page
8
A vivid account praises the crowd scene at Kokernot Field last Friday noting the milling audience loudspeakers and festive buzz. The piece highlights Alpine residents and visitors alike rising together to salute the game and its lively, dusty ball park atmosphere.
A stream of small town observations in Alpine touches on vacations within budget a new city mail service air in water health claims about air treatment and mass legalities behind a bank change with mentions of an overdraft and curiosity about dope on the scene.
Readers speculate on the official opening date for the Price Creamery building and expect free ice cream. Other notes praise Alpine High School grass signs and tease forthcoming local events including Butch at the Granada theatre and Easter church services.
Midland livestock sale traded steady to weaker with 400 head auctioned. Stockers and cows eased up to a dollar per hundred. fat calves and yearlings sold around 22 to 22.50. mediums 19 to 22. fat cows 16 to 17.75. heiferette bids rose. bulls 18 to 19.75. stocker calves 24.50 to 27. stocker yearlings 22 to 23.50.
Principal buyers included Odessa Packing Co Crow Packing Co Lamesa Meat Co CJM Packing Co Morris and Pressley of Odessa and C A Sullivan of Guymon Oklahoma Consignors listed Jim Thornton Pyote Holcombe Rope Pecos Cowden Bros Midland G P Mitchell Kermit Otto Renz Ernest Acton Balmorhea George Bentley D A Crider Grand Falls Carl Glaze H R Doty Andrews and C W Pearson La Mesa with bids ranging 23 to 25 50 per hundredweight
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Veterans in West Texas win a partial restoration of bed space at William Beaumont General Hospital El Paso after protests and talks with Army and Veterans Administration officials. Rep Ken Regan says 70 beds are allotted, not the number urged, but should meet the most urgent needs.
The Avalanche offers stock of 1 inch cellophane tape in large rolls and dispensers along with kraft gummed tape in 1 inch and 1 1 2 inch widths, all available in 2 inch packaging.
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