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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1956
Page
10
Foreman Ranch News Editor Fort Davis Correspondent Big Bend Park Correspondent entered as second class matter at the Post Office in Alpine Texas under the act of Congress of March 3 1879.
Citizens across Alpine Marathon Fort Davis and Jeff Davis Presidio and Brewster counties join to support Sul Ross State College and Big Bend-Davis Mountain development. Travel authorities predict increased business for service stations motels drug stores and regional commerce benefiting the entire area.
Alpine notes mark the 1916 speed limit, a murder in fall 1914 linked to Bernard L Sherman, a taxi driver killing in LaSalle, a Tippett child killed in an auto overturn near Marathon, Mrs Ragin hosts a bridge party with prizes, commissioners approve a cement mixer for roads and iron sign posts for Precinct 2 as Sandy Gillett visits.
War department order requires listing every newspaper in Alpine and each town on the list to locate authors of fake stories. Miss Anna D Linn expected home next week. Mr and Mrs Robt Cartledge and Mr A A Newell from Big Bend country were here this week.
Joseph Tower, a 34 year old New York mining engineer, drowned in the Rio Grande at Santa Helena Canyon near Lajitas while three men attempted a rowboat crossing. His body was recovered by rancher J. L. Sublett. The week reports two carloads of stocker cattle shipped to Smyth, Texas. Alpine He Theatre mervership drive plans were completed. Enrollment campaign supervisors listed. Local price ads from Alpine Mercantile Co. Marathon and Terlingua notes cover horse training, leg injury, visits by residents, and regional movements.
Alpine High students attended the Texas Association of Student Councils workshop at Sul Ross Aug 5–10 led by sponsors Miss Weyerts and Paul Hill. Local rewards support writing with El Progreso $25, KVLF and Gene Hendryx funding $15 each, totaling $55 for best Alpine High essays due next May. Lorenzo Lara wed Edwina Garcia in Alpine. both former Alpine High students.
Alpine district outlines future growth with a new 20 room Alpine Central School building a larger Centennial campus a high school field expansion and lighted practice spaces for Pony League and Little League players while proposing a grade school act play program and safety fencing plus parking as part of a modern educational vision.
The Commissioners Court of Brewster County will meet Saturday August 18 from 10 am to 12 noon to hear the 1957 county budget. Taxpayers may attend and participate. J W Frazer County Clerk.
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