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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1964
Page
11
Monday to Friday menus list dinners for each day including franks with mac and cheese, oven baked chicken, hamburger, beef tips, salmon croquettes and sides. The text alternates with stray animal and agricultural facts about blue whales cattle onions and locusts plus colored beehives.
Chinese laborers at the diggings collect jade and ship it to China while leaving gold to American workers. The note urges readers to subscribe to The Avalanche for more about the unusual trade.
A detailed list of recurring meetings and classes for February 1964. Highlights include Cooking Club on the 1st and 3rd Mondays at 2 pm, Garden Club on the 2nd and 4th Mondays at 2 pm, a nursery for club children, and various after school programs for Cadet Scouts Junior Girl Scouts Brownie Scouts and Teen Night. Also notes a Better Health Clinic and a Friday rummage sale with daily kindergarten for Spanish speaking preschoolers.
Major Leo E. Gossett of the West Texas DPS warns April 15 is the deadline for motor vehicle inspection certificates. Capt. R. M. Hammett notes less than one third of area vehicles were inspected since Sept 1 1963, forcing thousands to be inspected in two months. Fines range from 1 to 200 dollars plus costs. Local motorists are urged to get inspections early due to long lines.
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