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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1951
Page
4
First mortgage improvement notes on Alpine property offer six percent interest with safety. Whiteside Lumber Co announces a repayment privilege allowing any amount any time at four percent. Contact Storey at Whiteside Lumber Co Alpine Texas for details.
Alpine Ladies state president Mrs Van Hook Stubbs of Wortham announces a board of directors with 115 civic and study club workers to lead Texas 70,000 club women in projects for the 1989-89 administration. West Eighth district appointments include Midland Alpine Florey Big Spring Midland Fort Stockton Alpine Acala Wink and others on hospitality welfare and club reports committees. Also includes a court citation involving William S Bailey regarding land reform and adverse possession suit filed December 7, 1991 in Brewster County.
Alpine residents report Christmas and holiday visits from relatives across Texas and New Mexico. Names include Vanney Hale Livingston Davis Cross Mawking Newton Smith and many others, with travels to Amarillo Dallas Odessa Abilene and San Antonio. Families gathered at homes in Alpine and nearby towns for Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Lobo Drive-In Management offers a 25 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone stealing speakers from the theatre. Report tips to the management office or local police with any relevant details.
Valerie Richardson, a senior at Alpine High School and daughter of Mr and Mrs Val R Rich, is spending the holiday season as guest of her aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs T R Grafton in Shreveport Louisiana. She will attend the Christmas dance at the Shreveport Country Club, be honored at a Washington Youree hotel dinner, and travel to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl New Year game before returning to Alpine for school reopening.
The Midland Auction Co sell 775 head on Thursday December 20 with a weak cattle market. Fat calves and yearlings sold 27 to 33 dollars, mediums 21 to 27, commons 18 to 21, cows 19 to 23, cutters 13 to 19, bulls 22 to 26.50, stocker steer calves 20 to 34, heifer calves 21 to 33, steer yearlings 28 to 183.
A reflective meditation on New Year’s Day as a turning point. The speaker argues the holiday gains significance through human imagination, offering security to the poor, health for the sick, freedom for the imprisoned, and fresh opportunities for all. It marks a renewal of optimism and a chance to start anew with no guaranteed regrets.
Chatham Island residents in New Zealand, a British colony of about 200, celebrate New Year ahead of others as the date line shifts time. While milkmen in America finish the old year, Chatham Islanders await their New Year dinner, as clocks near Big Ben strike midnight in London.
A fragment notes a long held custom in China where debts were settled by year end during the First Moon festival celebrated with lanterns. The passage references exchange of greetings and a traditional Teng Chieb feast as part of the old year transition.
Alpine public schools superintendent Peyton Cain told Rotary members that patrons must define expectations for teachers and focus on community standards over popularity. He urged involvement and said discipline and morals are addressed through fair recreation while noting today’s schools are a big business whose results will show in decades.
Mrs Bales former Weatherford pastor’s wife and Southwestern Baptist seminary graduate, funeral held at First Baptist Shattuck last Monday at 4 p.m. Interment in local cemetery. Survivors include husband, daughter Glenda Sue Alpine, son Tommy Alpine, mother, two brothers and two sisters, all of Shattuck Oklahoma.
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