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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1964
Page
1
The Alpine Garden Club sets April 20 as the start date for the Alpine Clean-up and Paint-up campaign. Residents are urged to participate to improve the town’s cleanliness and livability.
The Lone Star Gardener issue presents Texas parks with two pages on Big Bend National Park including Santa Elena Canyon The Window and a Chisos Mountains cabin. Alpine Garden Club seeks city county support for a rubbish drive with garden club leaders and local officials backing the effort.
Literary contests of Texas Interscholastic League District 79 B will be hosted at Sul Ross State College today and Saturday. Balmorhea Presidio Fort Davis Marathon Valentine and Fort Stockton schools compete. Ready writing extemporaneous speaking and declamations today. shorthand spelling plain writing storytelling picture memory typing number sense slide rule and science on Saturday. Winners advance to regional in Big Spring later this month.
In the Big Bend district Wool and Grass judging at Sul Ross State College Alpine FFA teams won both events with top individual performers. Jake Brisbin led wool with Don DaPron second and Ricky Cowell third. in grass Rudy Ybarra led, followed by Robert Sims and Frank Snow. Alpine also swept the Sul Ross invitational wool contest, with Brisbin high and DaPron second.
Mayor Bill Winter and three new aldermen win decisive votes in Tuesday's city election. Winter 788 votes and 1190 total cast. New officials are John W. O'Donnell 835 and Kenneth Stucke 660 for full terms, Alberto Rojo 960 for unexpired term. Rojo leads with 960. Rojo's term runs one year, others two. Rojo defeats R. G. Elliott 215. Rojo and Stucke take seats next Monday April 13. holdovers are Homer Hudgins and C D McCollister. Dr. Lockhart calls for strong mayoral council cooperation. Complete results show high totals for Winter and Rojo with several other aldermanic candidates.
NASA officials announce that about 26 astronauts from the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston will tour Big Bend National Park and Marathon Basin to study rocks. The aim is to learn sample collection methods for lunar exploration planned in 1969 or 1970. Some crews will fly to Marfa Alpine Airport next week for field work.
House guests of Mr and Mrs Stanley Barnhill are Mr Barnhills brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Roger L Barnhill and children of Lamar Colorado.
Alpine welcomes Beta Sigma Phi cultural and social sorority with 14 foreign chapters and 165000 members. The Alpine installation at Mrs. Oscar Travland's home featured Olive Towne Murphy international representative and future officers led by Mrs. Arnold and Mrs. Bowers with Nancy Price as director. Guests from Marfa attended. meetings set for first and third Mondays, next on April 20 at 7 30.
Funeral services for Tom B Davis a longtime Al ine resident and prominent accountant were held at St James Episcopal Church. He died Wednesday after surgery in an El Paso hospital. He was born March 18 1887 in Iowa and survived by his widow a daughter two grandsons a brother and a set of local pallbearers. Burial followed at Elm Grove Cemetery.
Sal Ross baseballers lead 18-4 with a 12-game win streak and host Texas Tech for a three game series at Kokernot Field. Friday 2 30 p m features a 9 inning game. Saturday offers two 7 inning contests at 1 30 p m. Last weekend SR swept Texas Western 8 0 10 4 and 7 2.
A. V. Halpern and Eva Jeanne Mills, unopposed in the Alpine School Board election, will be sworn in at the next Tuesday night meeting. Halpern received 109 votes and Mills 110, with 115 votes cast total. Sylvia Forchheimer retires. two ballots were mutilated. write-ins Keith Morrow and Paul Weyerts tally small counts. Holdover members are Sohl, Haynes, Gallego, Foley, and Holland.
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