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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1948
Page
4
The Alp ine community is thanked for kindness and generosity during a great bereavement. Expressions of love and sympathy are gratefully remembered and may God bless in continuing deeds of kindness.
A collection of housing options includes stucco and brick homes with multiple rooms and lots. Properties feature garages, sun porches, steam heat, and corner lots with cash or financed sale options. Various homes suit residential and business use, plus ranch land in Terrell County at $12 per acre.
The advertisement for Big Bend Abstract Co in Alpine Texas lists Harry W Carpenter as the contact for abstracting accounting tax service and real estate. Located at phone 117, the firm offers abstracting and related services.
Mr and Mrs Richard K Waldo welcome daughter Alice Ann born January 13 in Washington DC Mrs Waldo formerly Alice Blucher Mr and Mrs Joe Lee announce son Robert Joe born January 7 Both families are Sul Ross students A Texas Safety Association alert warns that an empty road can mean death and urges cautious driving on hills and blind curves with rightward positioning and readiness for anything
Mrs. Turner F. Austin of Dallas plans a visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Epperson in Alpine as Mr. Epperson heads to El Paso for federal court. Mrs. Jimmie Cotten and Mrs. Mike Key of Lamesa visit Edith Caldwell. Cotten visits ill brother Bill Rankin. George Koury and wife depart for El Paso and New York relatives. Mrs. Davis and family relocate from Sanderson to Alpine with four schoolattending children. she is the former Nita Cox. Rev. Fred S. Rogers leaves for El Paso to attend churchboard meetings. death notice of Mrs. W. L. Wight of Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Eeds of Venezuela visit Alpine. 13week Harvard course planned before returning south.
Sul Ross College reports completed and planned campus improvements. Repairs in the gymnasium include refinished floors rebuilt bleachers and a new lighting system with 15 gym-type 500 watt reflectors. A steam vacuum pump serves Hancock Hall and the Ag building. The swimming pool is finished with bermuda landscaping and two double flood lights plus two marine lights planned for the deep end. A tree planting program will continue into February.
A new line of Ford trucks is being shown today in Alpine at a Brewster County Motors display and open house on East Holland Avenue. The streamlined models are from the wheels up and represent Ford's first postwar products, according to the dealers.
A 60 foot long skeleton, believed to be a dinosaur, was uncovered at the edge of a lava flow on the Wilson ranch in southern county. West Texas museum representatives will examine the site and arrange complete excavation and exhibit placement.
The Alpine Avalanche is the Brewster County Texas official paper with D. M. Bennett as editor publisher M. A. Wieble assistant editor and Mrs C D Wood society editor. It lists subscription rates 2 per year in Brewster and Jeff Davis counties 125 for six months elsewhere 250 yearly and 150 for six months. It notes corrections policy and that Grover Cleveland will be remembered as extending the Monroe Doctrine.
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