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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1958
Page
12
The article notes a joint effort by city county and state agencies plus volunteers to improve a runway at Alpine municipal airport by laying a caliche base 75 feet wide and 4000 feet long. It calls for similar cooperation to address the unsightly dump grounds east of town along U.S. Highway 90 and urges Mayor Lockhart to move or bury garbage there.
The American National Cattlemen's Association compares beef retail prices with factory workers' average weekly earnings. In February 1950 NYC beef cost 70 cents per pound while average weekly earnings were 59 dollars 33 cents. By February 1958 beef rose to 74 cents per pound as earnings reached 80 dollars 85 cents. The article presents a nine year table of February averages for all beef cuts in New York City and factory wages.
Brewster County's highways add about 45000 dollars yearly through tourist trade per the Texas Good Roads Association. Mohair sales to a Boston firm brought ranchers much higher prices than last year. Alpine PTA members attended a district conference in Van Horn. R W Arnold was appointed Precinct 3 commissioner. Nettie Shultz demonstrated beef canning yielding sixty dollars profit after costs. Road work supported by Reconstruction Finance Corp. enabled a new river road between Castelon and the Johnson ranch. Two Yerkes Observatory astronomers visited Fort Davis to study Mount Locke for McDonald Observatory. Notables include Mrs Hancock and Miss Teece in Hot Springs, Howard E. Perry of Portland, and mountain sheep discoveries near Alpine.
The Texas Division of the International Parks Highway plans a meeting today to seek federal designation of U S Highway 851 as part of the International Parks Highway project. Local officials and engineers will discuss route status and potential funding implications.
Leaders in the Texas sheep industry gathered in Sonora for the Ram Progeny Performance Field Day hosted by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Dr. W. T. Hardy opened the program after a ram pen tour, with talks by Miles Pierce Ozona J. A. Gray San Angelo and others on breeding, wool marketing, and livestock combinations. Lunch by the Sutton County 4-H Club preceded remarks on highway development and future band enrollment.
Alpine City Schools acquire a 12 filmstrip series titled What’s the Word to support intermediate reading in the Ready for Meaning program. The diagnostic tool helps identify word recognition difficulties and meanings, with in-class questions, usually finished in one period.
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