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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1954
Page
5
Alpine Bucks claim Pecos invitational title with a 2-50 overtime win over Ysleta High. Duane Smith scored the decisive basket as the Bucks rallied in the extra period after a tight 50-50 finish.
Former Alpine resident Mrs. Emily Evans Koehl died Tuesday in San Antonio. Funeral services were held at First Methodist Church here with Rev. Carl Lawson officiating. She was born July 14, 1860 in Goliad and lived in Seguin, San Marcos, Corpus Christi, then Alpine since 1920. Survived by three daughters, a brother, a sister, two grandchildren, and a great grandson. Interment in Elm Grove cemetery. Pallbearers named.
The Alpine Bucks beat the Golden Cranes of Crane 60 to 40 in Alpine on Tuesday night to open the AAA season. Duane Smith led with 22 points while Raul Molinar added 12 and Robinson 7. Crane’s Ted Field had 14 points and Charles Lively 6 before fouling out as Crane stacked up 20 personals.
In January True magazine asks if any old time longhorn cattle still exist. I G Cap Yates Jr and son Fayette of Alpine and Marfa, Texas, own one of two known herds with 335 head counted in November 1953. The herd, started in the 1880s by I G Yates Sr, remains on the Glass mountains east of Alpine, alongside mountain sheep and deer.
Travel U S 90 Association discussed plans to stimulate interest in US Highway 90 from El Paso to San Antonio at Marathon High School. Key steps include informing travel agencies, coop with major cities, bumper signs and a 48 page booklet, with Capt. John Lynn as guest speaker from Laughlin Air Base Del Rio.
An attractive booklet about the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, featuring polio patient recovery scenes and the new medical building, is circulating as the annual polio fund drive proceeds. Mrs Bruce Duncan of Alpine contributed the booklet to The Avalanche to highlight the foundation’s work.
Rambouillet sheep bred by Alpine ranchman Miles Pierce took top honors at the Pecos county livestock show in Fort Stockton last Friday. His entries King Three a 240 pound ram and Miss Victor a 170 pound ewe won the men's registered sheep division. Pierce previously led Rambouillet champions in major state shows last year.
The Sul Ross Lobos will meet New Mexico A&M in Pecos on October 2, announced by coach Al Milch. Pecos Quarterback Club will guarantee each team 1500 dollars. Tickets go on sale soon. Other next season games include Texas Western at El Paso and Corpus Christi U here.
Ruth Fleetwood Hestes former Alpine schools teacher died January 5 in a Fort Worth hospital after an extended illness. She previously taught in Del Rio and returned to Terrell in 1949. She is survived by son Billy daughter Lavenia and a grandson. Burial was in Terrell.
Rev. C W Newbill, former pastor at Celina Texas, is called to lead the First Presbyterian Church in Alpine. He and his family will move next month and he will preach his first sermon on Sunday February 7.
Raul Diznndo of Mexicala Mexico remains unconscious after a January 6 crash east of Alpine. He was treated in El Paso. His two companions sustained minor injuries and escaped. The men were en route to Monterrey, Mexico, from school when the accident occurred.
A slow drizzle that began Wednesday night and continued into yesterday brought moisture to 0.02 inches by 8 a.m. yesterday. The light rain impacted local morning conditions and weather reports.
The Pilot club and American Legion post in Alpine join the March of Dimes campaign with a Block of Dimes event tomorrow in downtown Alpine. Co chairmen Dr. Thomas L. Coats F B Weyerts and Jimmy Eichholtz lead the effort. last year raised about 350 dollars. A Mothers March on January 29 from 7 to 8 pm will visit homes to collect contributions with porch lights lit. Gene Benson and Mrs Tom Yarbro chair in Alpine and Marathon. A new parking meter feature will funnel extra dimes into the campaign as motorists place coins for parking time and donate extra dimes when meters are cleared each Monday.
State Highway Dept plans pave two access roads to Boy Scout and Girl Scout camps in the Davis mountains. Land was donated for right of way. Work on the Boy Scout road is near completion and paving will finish both routes by June.
A meeting of the Texas Service Stations Associated will be held in Alpine at the chamber of commerce building next Wednesday January 20 at 7 30 p m All members are urged to be present and service station operators from Alpine Marfa Fort Davis and Marathon are invited Victor Fayant El Paso manager of the Texas Service Station Association District 19 will address the gathering Other local association business will be transacted.
Mr and Mrs Hal Burnett returned home last weekend from San Diego California where they visited a month with their son Capt Mal Burnett Jr and family Capt Burnett is in charge of the post at San Diego.
The Mothers March of Dimes event is scheduled for January 29 from 7 to 8 PM. The notice invites community participation to support the charity's cause.
Sheriff Jim Skinner reports meager clues from an apparent Wednesday night attempt to burn the Peyton Cain gym at Centennial school. A lighted paper bag weighted with rocks was thrown through an upstairs window into a dressing room, burning basketball jerseys and scorching the wall with little damage officials say.
Lucius D. Bunton a 29 year old Marfa lawyer was named the 83rd district attorney by Gov. Allan Shivers. He will fill the remainder of Travers Crumpton’s term ending next Jan. 1 and will take the oath this week. Bunton, born in Del Rio and son of ranch operators, began practice in Marfa in 1951 and has long been associated with Hunter Metcalfe.
Park Supt Lon Garrison announces ranger reassignments at Big Bend National Park. W Dean McClanahan moves to Chisos basin, John Palmer to Boquillas district, with Pat Miller at Persimmon Gap and Bob Heying at Santa Elena. F L McCollum shopping in Dallas for The Mode store.
The tenth annual event, two weeks earlier than usual, showcases 160 fat lambs ten baby beeves 11 Rambouillet sheep by 100 youths from Fort Davis Marathon Alpine 4-H clubs. Premiums total 448 dollars with entries advancing to Houston El Paso San Antonio and San Angelo. Judging starts 8 30 a m for fat lambs Rambouillet breeding at 11 am capons at 1 30 pm baby beeves and a 2 30 pm auction led by Don Estes from San Angelo and Midland.
The famed Westminster choir of about 40 voices will perform at Sul Ross auditorium Saturday February 13. Sponsored by Alpine High School a cappella choir directed by Inda B Adams this marks the choir’s 31st concert season and third Alpine appearance.
A district court jury weighed a Alpine gas explosion from Sept 22 1947 finding $15000 in damages to Mrs Otis Coggins and store but ruled both sides negligent preventing recovery. The case pursued by the Coggins against W W King and Alpine King Butane Co previously saw a 1952 retrial for jury misconduct.
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