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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1961
Page
3
Local service listings describe Highland Motel Highland Courts Highland Texaco Service and Highland Café and Grocery with hours from 6 am to 10 pm and 24 hour service noted for the Texaco. The address places them at the Highland Village area near Highway 90 and 67 across from Sul Ross College.
Mrs. R W Music of Van announces the engagement of her daughter Ann to Ben G Streetman son of Rev and Mrs R E Streetman of Alpine. The wedding will be at 8 p m September 9 at the Van Methodist Church. Ann Music is a Van High School graduate and Tyler Junior College editor. she will seek a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Texas next June. Ben Streetman a Coleman High School graduate earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from UT this June and will pursue a master's degree next June. He is an Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi member at UT. his father is pastor of the First Baptist Church in Alpine.
Mrs Doyle Vincent and family host relatives in Arkansas and Kentucky while Mr and Mrs Clinton Carroll of Crane, former Alpine residents, visit Alpine. 1st Lt Max Olson returns from a two year Tokyo duty to visit his parents before reporting to McGuire AFB New Jersey. In Memoriam lists a memorial for a wife and mother from August 1956 with family signatures.
The Alpine Chamber of Commerce reports progress on area brochures cartoons and maps funded by the Area Development Committee. The Texas Highway Department aids with layout photos and copy for distribution after Labor Day. A tourist clinic and a Labor Day defense demonstration and carnival show Alpine’s active civic involvement.
Barbers in India carry razors scissors and clippers in a belt around the waist and will shave a customer anywhere even in his bed. They get no Sikh business due to religious restrictions but other Indians welcome home delivered shaves.
In 1772 Antoine Lavoisier and colleagues bought a diamond and burned it to produce carbon dioxide. In 1799 Guyton de Morveau converted a diamond into graphite, advancing understanding of carbon forms and their use in pencils.
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