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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1929
Page
1
The three day Interscholastic meet begins with preliminaries in tennis for boys and girls from 14 counties in district 17. Events include track and field with Balmorhea Pecos Barstow and Alpine among entrants as crowds gather. organizers anticipate strong showings and awards for winners, with more visitors arriving daily and the schedule firming for Saturday events.
Announcement of the incorporation of Casner Motor Co Inc Buick Chevrolet dealers with 65000 capital. J E Casner is president and the four Casner brothers own controlling interest. The holding company Casner Motor Corporation unites Casner businesses and ranch interests in Presidio and surrounding areas.
Governor Dan Moody, acting on the Pink Boll Worm commission, proclaims Jrewster County a regulated non cotton zone. The notice prohibits planting cotton except under rules, effective April 2, 1921, covering areas along the Rio Grande including the Cartledge farm at La Harmonia and a few hundred acres inland.
Henry Fletcher president announces the annual Texas Historical Society gathering will be held next month at Sul Ross College auditorium at 8 o clock p m. A program features H J Cottle biology slides on elk Miss Keefer explains Indian paintings from Big Bend and New Mexico relics. Mrs R B Alves lectures on caves near El Paso. Music by Miss Ivine Shields with folk dances led by Little Britt. Fletcher to speak on purposes of the West Texas and Science Society.
The first annual conference of the Parent-Teacher Association of the fifteenth district ended Saturday with a pronounced success. Delegates gained plans to expand local work and gifted a trip to the national conference for Mrs. E R Russell, district president, to Washington D C next month for material to bring back. Visiting delegates praised the town’s beauty and local hospitality. Sul Ross College Rotary the chamber of commerce and the local PTA supported the event.
State Senators Nat Patton and W E Thomason praised Sul Ross State Teachers College at Alpine as a potential great educational institution. After visiting Davis Mountains they pledged to push legislature for a suitable program and funds, vowing to assist Texas education and its institutions. They planned to continue to El Paso from Alpine to inspect the College of Mines.
Fort Davis April 16. A public vote on Davis Mountain scenic highway park sites, led by D E Colp, backed by Julia Owen and others, favored a 640 acre Limpia Canyon area three miles up the canyon from Fort Davis for park development. The plan includes land donation, water, and facilities for a large public camp, with art center ties and possible Methodist connections sought. Cooperation pledged to move the survey and layout forward.
Alpine committee selects Vaqueros as the local baseball team name. Hart Glassr, manager, cites limited submissions and prefer Spanish for cowboys. The debut game at Marta ends 11 to 4 for the Marta club, with Vaqueros suffering costly errors and weak infield defense.
Senator Benjamin F. Berkeley announces a new building on Holland Avenue to house the Ow Cafe later renamed Old Mission Cafe. The structure, to be tile or brick on the former Gallego Transfer lot, will cost about 6000 to 7000 dollars and follow mission style architecture. Leno Cano will operate with Ray Roberts after gaining a half interest, and a contract will be let upon the senator’s return from the legislature.
Alpine Study club at Sut Ross college hosts an exhibit of original paintings gathered by the Texas Art Association. The show runs Sunday Monday and Tuesday afternoons next week in the college oe room. Mrs W Van Sickle announces public attendance is invited.
Wilbur Kern, executive secretary of the Masonic Service Association of Texas, will lecture at the Alpine Masonic temple tonight. Keith is one of the most active Masons in the state and his annual Alpine visits are highly anticipated. All local Masons are invited to attend.
W B Storey president of the Santa Fe railroad pledged the Orient gap from Alpine to the Mexican border will be finished promptly once lands for right of way are provided titles approved and ICC permission secured. He spoke at an Alpine banquet during a trip to inspect newly acquired property and discussed railroad operations and plans for a transcontinental route.
Austin Bridge Co bids on a new 140 foot double drive bridge to replace the aging steel structure on North Fifth Street. Two bids compared concrete versus steel with San Antonio Eng did 14250 and Austin firm 13500 for the steel option. The project aims to ease traffic on a main thoroughfare by replacing the old single drive bridge.
City water officials say one pumping unit at the South Highwater plant is running 24 hours to meet Alpine residents' needs as heat rises. A second unit and an additional well can be started to double output, with each unit delivering about 149 gallons per minute, ensuring ample supply through the summer, per Commissioner J. J. Starns and city engineer H. G. Olmsted.
Humble Oil and Refining Company signs for a modern drive in filling station at Fifth Street and Avenue D opposite the avalanche office. The old Kokernot residence west of Alpine will be moved for the site. Building will be brick with a 17 by 24 office, 18 by 28 canopy, asbestos roof, ceramic tile trim, and latticed ornamental fence. An elaborate electric lighting system costing about 750 will be installed. Total for building and renovation about 10,000. W. M. Bushnell of Pecos secured the contract.
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