11 Feb 1938
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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1938
Page
1
A National Geographic party will tour the Big Bend International Park area to showcase its features. The census shows 199 residents in the county are newly unemployed, reflecting shifting local employment trends during the period.
A fragment from the Del Rio paper shows representatives of Moantai Pests in talks with city officials over a large order of plants. The note hints at an ongoing agreement and includes a continuation reference to the last page.
Article by Berta Clark Lassiter traces a long effort from 1883 to 1905 involving eight individuals who championed the Big Bend National Park in Texas. It credits E E Townsend R M Wagstatt R B Thomason Morrie Sheppard Thomes Connally and local figures like Mr Blevenson Stevenson for pushing the measure, promoting recreation, education and regional development through park creation.
VALENTINE I s biased improvements as On Hiway Progresses TORT DAVIS Feb 9. With the new route of U S highway 99 cutting through Valentine on the south side of the railroad tracks, the Tether town in deff Davis county to doing some building and improving snd new main street is being erected. W C Mocks of Fort Davis pro pritor of the Stone Village tourist car is building a nice tourist camp l at Valentine, and John A Dumas Fort Davie restaurant man has gone there to put in a cafe. Other buildings are going up and various improvements are being made. The new highway was built south of the railway tracks last year, and this year the road is to be blacktopped. contracts have lt for the work. By the end of this year US 99 will be paved throughout all the panel is undernoed from San Antonio to Van Hem.
Supt. Drury Wood announced the end of term Honor Roll listings with students across grades 3 through 10. Names include HO Andersen, Sammie Pugh, Earnest Teague, Geneva Cooper, Jane Fulmer, Emily Livingston, plus Milton Gilmer, John Edward Reeder, Vennis Binion, Harriet Walker, and Flora Ruth Matthews among others.
Two levels of boys will play in the nest which fa to be held in the college gym. Boys St, 2 in, and below, and boys ft, 3 in, and above. PM Wilson, in Marts.
A Pecos County plan aims to raise meat intake with an underpass project on highway 67 near Fort Stockton and a beef industry outreach led by Hereford breeders. George Marpa of the Texas Highland country was named president of the Hereford Breeders as 65 members gathered to approve collaborations with livestock groups, the National Meat Board, chambers of commerce, and railroads to lift demand.
Fourteen to twenty calves and about 20 lambs will be exhibited next Wednesday at 3 30 p m on Halen avenue near the 8 P depot. Calves led to El Paso after the show will enter the Southwestern Livestock show. Judge W W Sheen will rate the calves and Prof A J Blerschwale will place the lambs. Local ranchers are urged to attend and a lecture on better feeder calves will be given.
Drilling at the Dodson-Means test well 18 miles northeast of Alpine showed the formation highly favorable though no progress details could be confirmed this week. The well on Sec 9, Block 10, GHASA, exceeds 7000 feet depth with activity watched closely in the area. Drilling began on the WHL Kokernot ranch about 30 miles south of Alpine, by B D Wiles, Marta, on Rec 23, Block C J V Masry.
Jurors are summoned for the February term of district court to convene here next Monday with Judge C R Sutton presiding. The docket is light and session expected short. Grand jurors report Monday. petit jurors Tuesday. The list includes many names such as John W Gillett Charlie Shely R W Arnold and others. The report notes a jury was locked up for the night in rebuked by authority.
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