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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1950
Page
4
First entries for the San Angelo Morse show dated April 29 and 30 are arriving at the secretary-manager’s office. Officials anticipate an outstanding 1950 event with entries in halter and performance classes due in the office.
Local notes list Mrs. Hilton’s trip to San Antonio for her mother’s illness. Smiths tour Dallas market while Harfst from El Campo spends Easter with family. Larrimore visit El Paso relatives. Coleman family Easter in San Angelo. Benson joins Mrs. Cook returning to El Paso. Josephine Linn from Orange visits her mother. Dom Adams seeks Mayo Clinic checkup in Rochester. Crawford visits from Victoria. Epperson returns from Tyler illness. Williams of Clint visits daughter in law Peters’ family. Morrow family from Tulsa arrives in Alpine. Coalson relatives host in Alpine. Melton Coalson a radio instructor at Tyler base. Virgil Young and baby stay with Stephenson family. Lt. Young moved to Hannaford project. Harris plans Ballinger visit then Old Waverly then Houston. Stevens of Eldorado visit daughter Cain and return home with Cain family. Superintendent Cain brings family back from Eldorado.
Dan Graham of Alpine High School announced stock dairy and poultry judging teams for the Tri Area contest in Lubbock on April 15. The Sul Ross winning stock team includes Kenneth Killion Carroll Simpson Gordin e Larrow. Dairy team members are David Vance Jim Harkey and John Devenport. Poultry team members are Jim Devenport George Davis and Billy Cowell. Top finishers advance to the May 6 State contest at Texas A and M.
Added features for the 1950 San Angelo Horse Show include an open jack pot calf roping with a $100 purse and $10 entry fee per performance. Entries close by 5 p.m. April 29, with eight halter classes across four divisions and multiple performance events such as reining and barrel racing.
Brewster county tax records show only nineteen new motor vehicles registered last month the lowest since January of the prior year. The list includes many Alpine and Marathon residents with makes such as Ford Oldsmobile Chevrolet and Cadillac among others. A concert at Municipal Auditorium on April 21 features a famous singer with an $8000 Charro costume tied to Pan American fashion influence.
G W Baines and Crawford resign from the First National Bank in Alpine in a voluntary move. Directors Kokernot Hess Decie Gillett stand by them as a new bank is formed to maintain local banking services. Navy recruiter C T Baylor to visit Alpine April 18 at the post office 10 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. He will also address the high school graduating class on education and Navy career benefits.
Citizens rally to support a local emergency action, praising the swift response of organizers G W Baines and G B Crawford as they strive to safeguard the community amid obstacles and ensure the public interest is protected.
Bezico's greatest motion picture star Tito Guizar will be in San Angelo on April 21 to help raise funds for a Boy Scouts of America troop sponsor in the city. The event was announced this week.
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