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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1949
Page
2
A collage of local musings on business safety, transportation quirks, city delivery status, and New Year reflections. The writer notes careful driving during bad weather, comments on public services in Alpine, jokes about hamburgers, New Year resolutions, and a poke at Texas tidelands politics.
Sul Ross student body includes three generations of the Brennand and Clark families from Fort Davis. Grandmother Mrs Brennand, nearly eighty, is set to graduate with her daughter Mrs J H Clark in May 1949. Clark’s son Bill is a Sul Ross music major and Navy veteran, while Mrs Brennand taught in El Paso previously.
At The Churches Sunday School 9 45 a m morning service 10 50 training union 6 30 p m evening service 7 30 p m midweek services Wednesday prayer 8 senior choir Thursday 7 30 p m. A cordial welcome awaits you at all our services Pastor Frank C Dutton.
Sunday Masses at 7 30 and 10 00 with weekday Masses at 7 00 Evening service at 7 00 Marathon Masses at 9 00 Bible school at 9 45 Lord s Supper at 10 50 Youths meeting at 6 30 Evening worship at 7 30 Pastor Father Santiago and Minister John E Pickering invite worshippers to join in services and activities
The January 23 Sunday lesson focuses on Truth with the Golden Text from Psalms 86 15 and the citation Psalms 86 11. It cites Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy noting that spiritual understanding surpasses burnt offerings.
Sunday Bible school at 10 am with Mrs. T. M. Hill follows by 11 am Morning worship. Evening Evangelistic service at 7 45 pm. Wednesday mid week prayer meeting at 7 45 pm. The public is cordially invited to all services. Dudley Anderson, Pastor.
Church school at 10 a.m. morning worship at 11 a.m. services listed for Sunday at the local congregation.
Deadline nears for chamber of commerce nominating ballots to be mailed by Saturday to determine leadership for 1949. Also notes city water well producing 200 gallons per minute, adding 120909 gallons in ten hours, but warns two more wells may be needed for a dry 1949 and future growth planning for 1970 1980. Westminster Fellowship events listed.
The Church of Christ invites attendance with morning worship at 10 50, Bible classes at 10, young people at 7 and evening service at 8. Wednesday features a 3 p.m Women’s Bible class and a 7 p.m prayer meeting led by Minister G Davis Dean.
St. James Episcopal presents morning prayer and a sermon at 11 a.m. Church services highlighted by ceremonial readings and a weekly message for parishioners.
The schedule lists church school at 9:45 a.m. morning worship at 10:50 a.m. and evening service at 7:30 p.m. The Methodist Youth Fellowship includes Asbury, Joyful Junior and Wesley clubs with choir practices. Pastor Austin H. Dillon leads.
Dr. Thomas C. Poulter unveiled a new seismic exploration method at Essar Ranch near San Antonio, promising faster cheaper oil surveys. The technique uses light above ground charges around stakes, reducing need for deep shot holes and lowering risk to nearby structures. Applications for patents have been filed.
Lt Col David K Lyster Jr announced a traveling USAF Aviation Cadet Team will explain pilot training and an officer career to Sul Ross men on January 24 to 26. The team led by Major George F Owen will visit Main Building Hall Lobby to assess provisional flight training eligibility for college men aged 20 to 26 with two years of college and fit physical condition.
Glass can be frosted by painting it with a solution made of half a pound of Epsom salts in a quart of water.
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