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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1949
Page
2
Community items cover street work parking signs and a street sweeper. A joke about a farmer and a tax assessor is included along with notices of orchids and local congratulations. Reports mention basketball games and juror wait times and end with a police radio call about a nude woman.
Alpine advances in mail delivery progress with repainting of street signs and new post markers. The project hinges on Mrs. A M Turney reporting readiness to the post office, enabling final service initiation. Mayor Val Richardson promotes a new mailing piece highlighting Antelope Lodge and chamber of commerce content. A new street sweeper enhances cleanliness, praised as a boon to Alpine.
A fragmentary column notes a KVLF public service program inviting questions from Big Bend residents and promotes Val Richardson's Antelope lodge folders plus Chamber of Commerce value. A stray aside ponders March 15 and a joke about a salesman causing a wife to sympathize with a hairpin incident.
The notice lists morning and evening worship times and midweek services at The Churches BAPTIST. Sunday School at 9 45 a m Morning service at 10 50 Training Union at 6 30 Evening service at 7 30 Wednesday prayer 8 Senior choir Thursday 7 30 p m Pastor Frank C Dutton extends a cordial welcome to all services.
Masses on Sundays at 7 8 30 and 10 a.m. Weekday Masses at 7 a.m. Evening service at 7. Marathon Masses at 9 a.m. each Sunday. Father Santiago priest in charge.
At 9:45 a.m. Bible school and 10:50 a.m. Lord's Supper. Evening program includes 6:30 p.m. Youths meeting and 7:30 p.m. Evening worship. You are cordially invited to worship with us. Minister Joan E. Pickering.
The Sunday Lesson-Sermon for all Churches of Christ, Scientist centers on Christ Jesus. The Golden and Bible citations include Isaiah’s prophecy of a Branch from Jesse and Deuteronomy’s prophet like unto Moses. Eddy’s Science and Health notes Jesus as offspring of Mary’s communion with God and a demonstration of divine Love.
Sunday morning Bible classes at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. The program includes a Young People's class at 6 30 p.m. Sunday night meeting at 7 30 p.m. Wednesday Ladies' Bible class at 4 p.m. and Wednesday night meeting at 7 30 p.m. All are invited. G Davis Dean Minister.
The church offers a morning prayer and sermon at 11 a.m. with a church school at 10 a.m. at St James Episcopal.
The notice lists worship and Sunday school times at 9:45 a.m. 10:50 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. plus youth groups Asbury Joyful Wesley Junior and Youth choirs under Pastor Austin H. Dillon with evening service.
The notice lists Nazarene church events with 10 am Sunday Bible school led by Mrs T M Hill, 11 am Sept 11, 7:45 pm morning worship and evangelistic service, and 7:45 pm Wednesday activities. It lauds downtown street cleanup efforts and announces city readiness with a mechanical street sweeper to aid Tie Chon and the city commission approved modernization.
Buck delivers a lecture as the audience suddenly rises and stomps feet in unison, creating a rhythm akin to an Indian war dance. The moment shifts the room from talk to collective display.
The Sul Ross Lobo Band led by Band Director John Carrico and Associate Professor George Kelver leaves at noon February 20 for a four day concert tour through seven towns Del Rio Brackettville Eagle Pass Carrizo Springs Sonora Eldorado and Iraan. Highlights include a twenty band parade in Eagle Pass February 22 and a band clinic with Carrico as judge. They plan four concerts daily with piano solos by Kelver and assistance from Jean Cartney and Jimmy Hill. The group will return to campus February 24 after overnight stays in Del Rio Eagle Pass Carrizo Springs and Sonora.
A public invitation is issued to attend the week long prayer meetings led by Pastor Dudley Anderson. The schedule encourages full participation across the listed services with an open welcome to all community members.
Morning worship at 11 a.m. at College Westminster. Fellowship for college students at 7 p.m. and for high school at 6 p.m. Pastor Fred S. Rogers leads. Also notes that sea gulls are called stormy petrels and Henry Clay is known as the Great Compromiser.
Livestock shipments in this region and nationwide declined last week. Cattle and calves at Fort Worth were about 3 000 below the prior week, sheep receipts off about 1 000, and hogs down over 2 000. Across 12 major markets cattle fell by about 23 000 head, calves by 3 800, and hogs by 54 000.
Sheep sales rose week over week across 12 markets with stronger feedlot demand pushing most meat classes higher. Fort Worth saw beef steers and yearlings up about 2 per hundred, cows strengthening, slaughter calves up 1, stockers scarce yet firm, and stocker yearlings at 18 to 22.50. Canners and cutters moved 12 to 16 with some emaciated cows down to 10 or 11. bulls steady to higher and 700 pound cows at 175 per head.
The notice lists prices for subscriptions: Brewster and Jeff Davis counties two dollars per year or one dollar twenty five cents for six months. All other areas two dollars fifty cents per year or one dollar fifty cents for six months.
Calves and lambs showed gains with fat calves $22 to $24.25 and plain grades $18.50 to $22. Stocker calves $18 to $24 while heifers averaged $23. Shorn fat lambs up $1 to $1.50, feeder lambs $1.50 higher. Wool prices up 50c, old sheep $9 to $12. Yearling supply scarce.
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