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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1951
Page
4
An old classified ad seeks to lease an air compressor at 3 per hour with a 30 hour minimum, while a local column mocks large-scale budgets and billion-dollar talk. It references a livestock show in Alpine and notes keeping Alpine money local. The piece blends a small help-wanted item with community commentary.
40 BE MOVED Complete with Plumbing and Kitchens ANY SIZE CUT YOU WANT 10x26-1 apt. with 2B. Rooms 20x42-2 apt. with 1 B. R. Each 20x32-2 Ett. complete. 3775.00 20x82-Duplex Cut $1950.00 OTHER ITEMS-Window Sash, Commodes. Lavatories. Steel Cots. Utility Cabinets, Tarps, Enemeton for these baneni Howe B & E Company Marfa Army Air Field.
Local residents head to Liberty El Paso San Antonio and other destinations for business medical and family visits. Notables include Mr. and Mrs Otis Kimball Mrs J T Carney Mrs H L Kokernot Jr Col Joel G O Neal and many more with relatives visiting from Spokane Richmond and California. Several entries note operations deployments and vacation plans as community members travel for medical care schooling and military duty.
The Big Send Soil Conservation supervisor listed progress for the year at the February meeting. About 120000 acres of range land were treated and improvements benefited vegetation and feed crops. Thirteen cooperating ranches report better livestock distribution and water resources with six wells and seven tanks built. Three methods for seeding were tested with pitting plus broad fast the most successful.
President Truman sent a message to the Boy Scouts of America on their forty first anniversary praising Scouting as a bulwark against evils and urging a generation of men of high character to meet a challenging future. The note, read by Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, affirms Scout leadership and growth since 1910 with 17.6 million enrollments and 150 thousand active members, and commends the campaign to Strengthen the Arm of Liberty.
The Westminster choir, a 40-voice touring unit from Westminster College in Princeton, will give a concert at the Odessa high school gymnasium on February 8 at 8. This marks the choir’s 29th season of public concerts.
Fire damaged Brews er county courthouse last December. By press time the offices and halls are repainted and repairs completed except for flooring. Work was under way yesterday and the building should be ready before the February term of district court opens next Monday. STYLE SHOW FEB 17 American Legion sponsors a style show and luncheon at the Holland hotel on Saturday February 17 at 12 30 p m Zavalla Angelina County named for Lorenzo de Zavala.
Last Sunday the Christian Church welcomed eleven new members from a special Evangelism visitation. Seven more will join soon. Rev Bayne Driskill and Rev D McPherson led the program and plan further training. sermons will focus on The Love That Healeth Thee and Destiny Determined By Words.
The state will contribute to a fund for a new T shaped brick veneered church building on a site donated by Dr B F Jerkeley. The 190 seat auditorium 50 by 32 feet will face front with an educational unit 26 by 41 feet to the rear. The congregation of Rev Ed C Thomas, founded over forty years ago with 50 members, plans to buy three more lots and sell the old building on S 8th St two blocks southwest of the West Texas Milities plant.
Alpine high school reports 26 students achieved all A's for the 1950 51 first semester. Freshmen Garry Henderson Lee Matt Smith Jr Andy Owens Jr Joe Howard Brooks Mary Jo Bowden Duane Smith Marilyn Nickell Karen Wetmore Imajean Gray Pat O Donnell Margot Fraser Dickie Allen Carolyn Smith. The list includes sophomores Shirley Parker John O Donnell Boyd E sredge Thomas Van Auken Jr Harold Sanders and Dick Haw. Juniors Carroll Neeley John Newell Fred Willams. Seniors Ben Peterson Alice Owens Charlotte Slight Kathleen Armstrong Catharine Hill. Those on the first six weeks honor roll also appear on the semester roll. Additional students: Freshmen June Ross Patricia Allen soph Eleanor Sublett juniors Mary Thorne John Gerbert seniors Wanda Bradshaw. Principal James L Crawford notes letters to parents express faculty sentiment.
A hopeful note invites attendance at the Big Bend Livestock Show tomorrow to witness potential winners among the exhibitors.
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