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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1959
Page
7
The Alpine High School Pep Squad will hold a cake sale on Saturday February 14 to raise funds for team activities. Proceeds support the squad and related school programs. Safeway stores are involved in the fundraiser.
Jones seeks guidance on fly control as spring brings bluebonnets and blooming blackbrush. Rain would help calves and worms. dehorning completed, cattle stay on weeds. King Terrys sold 30 mixed calves to Gene Benson early this week.
The report notes 15 carloads of heifer calves shipped via Santa Fe R.A. from Perdiz south of Marfa and ongoing cattle movements from Mexico into Presidio. ASC urges woolmen to gather receipts for wool mohair and unshorn lambs as 1959 marketing year begins April 1. prices for mohair rise with kid hair reaching 1.215 per pound.
Mr. and Mrs. Mickie Smith of El Paso visited their parents here last weekend, sharing time with family and returning home afterward.
On Sul Ross campus the Sachem girls aided in planning the new semester with participants from Vicki Archer to Katy Rector. The Rossonian Chapter leaders and future teachers organized events including a Pan American Supper to raise money for the Alice Cowan Scholarship, with many students and faculty contributing and planning for next year.
Alpine High School FFA, led by M Brown, travels with nine members to the Southwestern Exposition in El Paso. Participants include Hugh Noel Jimmie Potter and Charles Babcock in stock entries, and Babcock Wynne McAfee Potter Richardson in various judging contests. Educational tours planned with Peyton Packing Co Price's Dairy and Jester Bros. The group plans to return to Alpine Saturday.
Randy Cooper urges readers to scrutinize the line under TAX on bills noting a WWII era federal excise of 10 cents per dollar on phone services. He argues the temporary wartime levy persists, adds collection costs, and calls readers to pressure Senators Johnson and Yarborough and Rep. Rutherford to repeal the tax.
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