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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1952
Page
11
The piece urges shoppers to support local merchants during Christmas and throughout the year. It emphasizes that buying locally builds mutual confidence, loyalty, and good will, noting that small-town businesses thrive when customers feel trusted and treated fairly. It ends with wishes for a merry Christmas and a prosperous new year.
The Community Center Board heard reports on nine committees and ongoing work. Attendance was 178 with 229 enrolled children. November activities included Girl Scouts tours of jail and dairy, a Cooking and Nutrition talk for Child Care, Arts and Crafts talks, a Thanksgiving Brownies picnic, Indian dances, and a Bobcat ceremony. The Boys Scouts held a treasure hunt, Explorers played a basketball game, and a presentation on Cub Scout activities was shown. The board approved Center expenses for a camera and projector, and VF W. received approval to use the building for a clean-up and classes led by Rev. Ee White. Rivera reported on center conditions and thanked members for support.
Soaking rains drenched the Big Bend and Davis Mountains region last week with totals up to an inch or more in several locales. Reports from Alpine and surrounding ranch areas note heavy precipitation, the heaviest in months, and the first substantial rainfall since November. Funeral services were held for Mrs. Leno Cano, age 50, at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. She and her husband Leno Cano previously ran a cafe in Fort Stockton and later the Mexico Cafe in Alpine, where survivors include her husband, seven children, 18 grandchildren, two sisters, and a brother.
The Avalanche notes Fort Davis news was not printed due to a late letter from a correspondent Mrs. tot arriving after the deadline. The missing Fort Davis items were not available in time for publication.
Alpine Rotarians donated approximately 150 to 200 pounds of warm clothing and 60 dollars in cash to residents of Seoul Korea at a Christmas party held last Thursday. The gift program, suggested by Rotary International, featured a pasta smorgasbord lunch and a lively program.
County attorney C F Patterson named to district deputy role in Alpine AF and AM. Patterson, a past master of Alpine Masonic lodge and past high priest of the Knights Templar, brings extensive leadership within local Freemasonry.
A long list of named individuals from Fort Worth and surrounding areas plan Christmas week visits with family in San Antonio Goliad Big Spring Dallas Beeville Abilene Tulsa Midland Maryneal San Antonio and other places. The snippet notes Texans and out-of-town relatives traveling to spend the holidays with parents spouses and children.
Alpine youth, a Princeton University student, joins the Triangle Club as a trumpet player. The club, founded in 1890, tours annually with three Princeton and three New York City performances plus about 12 eastern dates. The group owns a three quarter million dollar theatre at Princeton and travels by streamlined train with full stage crew.
Brewster County plans several road and bridge upgrades funded by state and federal sources. A new bridge over Alpine Creek on State Highway 223 will be built within two years to replace the old steel girder span moved from Highway 118. Highway 113 improvements north to the Jet Davis County line are slated, with right of way established. A 20 mile stretch of Highway 118 toward Big Bend National Park boundary near Study Butte is being secured and paved, and a Marathon Fort Penn road project plus a county dark site south of Marathon are on the program.
Local SPW post announced a Citizenship medal honoring a veteran of Forestains for outstanding community service. Dr. BF. Berkeley will receive a citation as well as COE and Alpine Avalanche for support. station and paper commended for cooperation. Alpine couple, in army two years at Camp Polk, plans holiday visit home before heading to Hobbs after holidays.
A Pine man was fined 300 and costs in county court with license suspended for six months on a driving while intoxicated charge. The other occupants paid fines in justice court for being drunk after the car they rode in crashed into the back of Highway Patrolman Tol Dawson's parked car. The crash at 2 30 p.m. damaged both ends of the patrol car and Dawson detained the four men on the scene. It marked the second such incident involving a highway patrol car in recent months.
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