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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1950
Page
6
Local ad listing investment option for surplus funds in well secured first mortgage notes on Alpine property. Contact Storey-White Ridge Lumber Co for inquiry. Also mentions high school course offerings and various misc. items and notices, including home education prompts and safety reminders.
Many families and friends are noted planning Christmas holidays across Texas and nearby states. Mrs Patsy Patterson at Mt Baylor University is mentioned among several travelers including the Mon tagues Del Rio, the Nolans in Huntsville, the Nolans in Carthage Tennessee, and others heading to Dallas, Ohio, Paris, Cameron, Alabama, Nashville and San Diego for festive visits.
A wartime era style meditation on the 1950 Christmas season with a ship of state metaphor. It laments global ideological conflicts and economic strain while urging Americans to invest in a peaceful future beyond political deception. The piece ends with a patriotic call for brotherhood and shared humanity.
Reverend Eugene Daniel a Presbyterian missionary spoke at the Nazarene church sharing the turbulent Korean history under Chinese rule then Japanese occupation and postwar changes including rebuilt facilities and Communist pressures with church leaders and locals noting portraits of Stalin and Kim Il Sung in areas under Communist control. The Daniel family arrived in 1948 before the Soonchun uprising with 1800 killed and a notable story of forgiveness as a minister’s son converted to Christianity amidst trial. Local visitors include Mrs. Joe Parker and Uncle Sam Harmon spending holidays with the Parkers, and the Gibson family hosting Christmas guests.
Directors met Monday to consider employing a new manager to replace Henry C Finger who died in an auto crash early Sunday. Action was postponed until after the January annual meeting. The report also notes guests at a Texas SMU event and several local residents preparing for holiday travel and visits.
Edith Phillips elected president of the Sul Ross Ex-Students Association is a Fort Stockton native and elementary teacher in El Paso County. She has served with the American Red Cross in Pecos County and Camp Crowder Missouri, studied at American University and Texas Western College before Sul Ross, and will lead group activities with the association.
Mr and Mrs Clayton Kirby of Kensington Massachusetts welcomed a daughter born December 14. The infant weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces at birth. The mother is Frances Holland, daughter of Mrs Maude Holland of Alpine.
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