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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1949
Page
4
An Alpine Texas insurance ad promotes life and hospital plans with family coverage and disease protection. It touts fire and home protection plus loan options on city property, dwelling, farms, and ranches. The agency, Hopson & Hopson, lists Box 29 and phone numbers 122 and 326.
Mrs. Levin Davis and baby visit her parents in town from O'Donnell. Vernon McIntyre returns from three weeks touring Cameron Waco Dallas and east Texas. John Newell W E Lockhart and Joyce family attend Carmen in El Paso. Corkins visit Port Arthur with family. Henry Bailey hosts Brown Morrison Picket families from Oklahoma City Dallas Midland. Stedmans attend TCU Fine Arts dedication and Stedman plays in symphony. Alpine couples attend SMU Notre Dame game in Dallas and King Terry heads to Denton for TSCW concerts before SMU Notre Dame game.
Sul Ross college will close for holidays from December 21 at 5 p.m. until January 4. An open house at Lawrence hall showcases Christmas decorations and a musical program for students and faculty as campus activities mark the Yuletide season.
A Texas regional library effort cites broad backing from clubs churches and newspapers. spokespeople note Texas leads states with no free library service and claim the regional library will provide book loans trained staff and equipment to extend services to rural areas.
The roster of competing teams in the current tournament features Sierra Blanca Centennial Alpine Balmorhea Blackwell Marfa Valentine Pyote Marathon Alpine Flatrock Anderson Fort Davis Reagan Traan Marfa Conejo Buena Vista and Sanderson.
Contractors are invited to bid on moving and building fence along Highway 118 south of Alpine for about twenty miles. Contact the County Judge or Commissioners court immediately. Includes extra lines about Fdne and Alice Texas and a French Count and an ad for Underwood machines at The Avalanche office.
Oklahoma A&M tops Texas A&M intercollegiate rodeo with 359 points, Sul Ross 325, New Mexico A&M 260, and Lone Star State schools strong. Harley May of Sul Ross earns all around cowboy title. Bud Reger leads Oklahoma A&M runners up. Fourteen colleges competed over two days in College Station with individual event winners named across bareback, saddle bronc, bull riding, bulldogging and team roping.
Coach Ken McAllister and James Crawford reveal 24 players to receive major team awards and 15 to receive squad awards. Names include Gordine Baron Jack Brown Billy Cowell Lee Cowell C W Cox Celso Gallego Bobby Hammons Luis Hernandez and others. Fifteen seniors will not return for 1950. awards feature gold varsity colors and purple pullover sweaters.
Eldon Dudley and Roger win for NMU placing third while Oklahoma A and M takes fourth. Jo Greg ory leads girls with 40 points, Roxie Keeter 30, Tony Parker 20, Betty Meador and Jackie Hayter add 5 each. All from Sul Ross.
Announcement last week reported the sale of Harry Carpenter’s tax accounting and real estate business in Alpine to Tom Stovell a state representative from the district Carpenter and family will move to Corpus Christi to enter a similar line of work Stovell will continue the business in Alpine Carpenter said he hates to leave Alpine but accepted a proposition Carpenter is well known in Alpine and will start in Lemonville Texas Orange County lies in the article’s frameشركة
The Modernaires, a 12 member Sul Ross College Orchestra formed from the Lobo band, perform for school civic and social dances across West Texas. Led by Ralph Pauley with John Carrico supervising, the group features standout players Pauley from Pampa Johnson from Texas City, Howard Stafford from Coleman, Lynn Hise from Falfurting, and Russ Henderson from Corpus Christi.
Tyler, Texas, leads U S rose production and boasts travel to Holland, India, China, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Egypt as nearby Texas towns. The note highlights Texas’ surprising international links and naming of global destinations as local spots.
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