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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1949
Page
1
In Alpine, residents discuss dog control after two bites occur from possibly rabies-free dogs. The writer urges respect for others' rights and louder noises at theaters has decreased. The piece notes school officials helped address youth behavior and cites quotes from Holmes, Hubbard, Hoover, and Lewis about virtue and manners.
Marco Giles director of the Alpine High School band and Mrs Graves Bogel music instructor left this week for the Texas Music Educators Association convention in Galveston. Giles drove. Bogel traveled by train and both plan return to school next Monday per Supt. Pey ton Cain.
The passage notes that the site was the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893, a landmark event shaping city development and cultural display.
The February term of district court will begin Monday February 14 with grand jury organization and sessions. The docket includes several cases and criminal matters. Grand jurors and petit jurors from Brewster are summoned for the term and listed by name.
After a chamber of commerce meeting, the city commission authorized erecting 4x4 posts with painted markers at street corners where curb markings fail. D L Cross Jr said posts would be prepared by the city secretary and some work already done. Postal delivery hinges on marker installation.
Midland February report from treasurer R J Snell cites unpaid quotas totaling 6165 across Odessa Alpine Fort Stockton Pecos Kermit Wink and McCamey. Only 1300 owed on the Mitre Peak camp suggests the summer operation will proceed with 1000 budgeted for maintenance and contributions requested to Snell or the Pecos office.
Frank McCollum and D. M. Bennett drove to Big Lake on business Tuesday, detailing a routine trip and companion’s involvement in the outing.
New automobile license plates are on sale at the tax collector's office for 1949. Nine plate types are issued with AV letters for passenger cars, MD for commercials, RC for farm, VA for truck tractors, VR for farm truck tractors, TA for trailers, TP for house trailers, SJ for dealers, and YJ for motorcycles. Owners must present certificates of ownership and last receipts. mail applications allowed with required documents and fees.
The 1949 national championship non professional baseball winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize plus mileage and the Coca Cola award. Teams from industrial and service clubs compete in 48 state programs to reach the NBC national crown in Wichita.
Alpine High school held a special assembly Monday to present the Odessa invitational trophy to Alpine. Volleyball captain Dean Carrasco earned all tournament honors as Alpine defeated McCamey 38 17 Seminole 26 20 Grandfalls 32 20 before a 21 13 finish against Monahans for the title.
Poll tax payments in Brewster County for 1949 dropped to about 1390 648 under last year's record high of 2038 in an off election year. Only one election is due this year for a school board. Exemptions may lift the total above 1400 but not near last year’s peak. Other counties show mixed trends depending on potential special elections.
Twelve Outstanding Boy Scouts, each regional, travel to Washington and New York for Boy Scout week events from February 6 to 12. They inaugurate a two year program to Strengthen the Arm of Liberty and report on 1948 citizen service, with torch light ceremonies at the Statue of Liberty and UN ties.
A paid assembly at Alpine High School auditorium next Friday February 18 will feature C Thomas Magrum renowned sleight of hand illusionist. He toured with USO camps and performed across Europe and the United States in a show titled It Cant Be Done.
Fort Davis boys beat Valentine 27 22 in a fast game. Charlie Webster led scorers. Marathon beat Fort Davis 60 20. Fort Davis girls won 26 16 in volleyball. Maria leads girls volleyball undefeated while Marathon and Fort Davis each have two losses. Marathon leads basketball with no defeats.
Tom G. Cross of Dallas finished the SMU law school course in the past semester and earned his degree while holding a full time tax department job at Lone Star Gas Co. He will take the bar exam on March 14. Cross, reared in Alpine, is the son of Mrs. E. B. Cross and brother of D. L. Cross Sr. and Jack Cross.
Zoraster is identified as an ancient philosopher from Persia. The note places him in early Persian intellectual history and links him to religious and ethical thought attributed to Zoroastrian tradition.
The Modernaires from Sul Ross State College and a 15 piece Sul Ross orchestra will perform twice at the Texas Music Educators Association convention in Galveston on February 10 and 11. The event gathers about five hundred high school directors and all state music participants. Accompanying the group is Glenn F. Davis, head of the college music department.
Protests and letters surged last week against clemency for Marion Black a life prisoner for 1938 murder of Marion Noblett. The piece notes that Gov Allred did not grant clemency and cites Judge Fraser Roy Jackson and a True Detective feature in the past.
Dolores Espinosa receives treatment. Frances Pena in Fort Stockton undergoes major surgery. Mrs. Marjorie Wilson undergoes major surgery. Mrs. Reuben Smith has minor surgery. Jose Portillo undergoes major surgery. Robert Sledge Jr. has minor surgery.
A special Boy Scout week union service is set for Sunday night February 13 at the First Christian church at 7 30 Rev John E Pickering will lead music and hymns then introduce district chairman J R Rucker who will preside The scripture reading will be by Rev Frank C Dutton A Court of Honor for advancing Scouts and the Scout oath pledge will be led by district commissioner R H Brooks A solo by Mrs Fred O Williams and a Scout sermon by Rev Austin H Dillon will follow George Morton will lead Cubs and Scouts in the Scout oath and Rev Dudley Anderson will give the benediction Tuesday night Alpine units paraded to Legion hall for a ceremony marking the 39th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America Mayor John W Gillett proclaimed the occasion over KVLF as Don C Littleton led a Scout oath with 2 200 000 Scouts and leaders nationwide participating Fifty six of 107 Alpine Scouts and Cubs voted in a city and county election to be held tomorrow The Baptist church troop 44 led by John Pittman won the mayoral slot with other wins including Lee M Smith as commissioner Spencer Kent chief of police David Vance fire chief Ray Hudson city clerk Dan Kent constable and Paul Hilbrich water superintendent County offices elected include County Jounge Boyd Etheredge County commissioners Jimmy Turner Duane Smith Eliseo Hernandez county attorney Joe H Brooks justice of the peace Dick Hawkins sheriff Larry George deputy Jimmy Richardson clerk Richard Klein treasurer J W Shepperd Jr and surveyor Dickie Allen
Cubs and Scouts from Alpine units worked Friday to Sunday at the Granada theatre to aid the March of Dimes effort. The total donated was 127.39 dollars. Scoutmaster L C Bradford of Methodist church troop 41 led the drive with participants Ray Bradford Don Burleson Carroll Clark Richard Montgomer y and Jimmy Owens from Pack 41 and John Bradford John Devenport Jim Devenport Jackie Brown Don Berry from troop 41 plus Boyd Etheredge Dick Hawkins Ray Hudson J W Shepperd Jr and Jimmy Richardson from Baptist church troop 44.
Joe L. Park named the new agent for Railway Express Agency in this city after four years in Weslaco. Park has 24 years with the company including 16 years at San Angelo, is married with two children, and active as a Mason and a Rotarian in his former communities.
Dean Larsen of St Paul Minnesota stays with his cousin Jim Francois and Mrs Francois for a brief visit while on a business trip through the area.
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