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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1939
Page
1
A new test well is planned on the W Kehernet ranch 35 miles south of Alpine around February 10. The shallow test will be about one mile southeast of an earlier test drilled on the same ranch by Bee. The Wilcox No 1 test has been shut down for several weeks with no restart date announced.
A total of 378 poll taxes had been paid in Brewster county up to midmorning yesterday with roughly that many more due before the deadline. Precinct tallies show Alpine East 90, Alpine West 62, Marathon 62, Alpine South 49, Terlingua 15, San Vicente 8, with reminders to avoid last day pressure as January 31 is the final payment date.
The Lobo basketball squad, led by Coach B C Graves, will play a limited schedule this season with Alamo conference games and potential matches against Oleen's Swedes and the Tyrouse of David. Conference dates include February 3 4 at Kingsville versus Texas A and I, February 6 8 at San Antonio Mary's U, February 17 18 at Alpine Marys U, and February 26 35 vs Texas A and I at Alpine. The team will be hampered by layoffs and rely on veterans Ascher Peizbert and Graham alongside Ross, with a large campus turnout anticipated.
Sport Gunn acquires Cozy Cave from Jas Sloan in a local property transaction. The fragmented OCR text references a drag company and Fuller Building, with surrounding names and places obscured, but confirms ownership transfer details and a county context.
Fort Worth, Jan 24. Historian Walter Prescott Webb described the Big Bend as a mysterious wild country with a peculiar effect on visitors. He urged preserving the land, noting its unique vegetation and wildlife and the potential international park aiding peace. B F Chapman of Bell County supported its wildness as the region’s defining feature.
Mayor L B Starns announced a contract for drilling a new water well to 280 feet on lots bought earlier along the Fort Davis highway. Drilling contractor Tony Hoss will begin soon as the city seeks additional supply after summer demand nears the limit. A new reserve reservoir for College Hill was also completed.
The production features Mrs Gene Benson and Bill Ross students in a stage piece titled The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Ralph Meriwether stars as Tom Sawyer with Aunt Polly played by Manie Lou Harris. Admission ranges 10, 28 and 38 cents for the public, 25 cents for college students. Proceeds benefit Junior High school athletics.
State Fire Insurance Commissioner Marvin Hall announced a three cent cut to the Alpine key rate effective on policies written after January 15. The reduction lowers the rate due to improvements in Alpine’s volunteer fire department and commends city officials for upgrading fire-fighting defenses.
A Pecos Valley Livestock Protective Association meeting in Reeves and adjacent counties heard Jay Taylor of Amarillo predict a bright cycle with high prices and low supplies. Joe M. Evans of El Paso noted rising imports from Mexico waning though 19,000 head had entered Texas since January. About 400 attendees heard calls for continued vigilance against theft and stronger industry promotion efforts.
A collection of light local items from Pecos and nearby towns mentions highway markers, civic updates, and upcoming meetings. Topics include efforts to place altitude markers on water edge markers, a note about local figures, and a humorous aside on smoking referenced in a column. Meetings in Marfa and a Pecos county vote on road bonds are reported alongside infrastructure bids.
The Texas Game Commission announced plans to restore ranges by importing 20 000 bob white quail from Mexico, delivering 10 000 birds under two contracts awarded to J W Johnson of Laredo and Mrs. M Learn of Laredo at about one dollar per bird. The policy continues last year’s approach of one bird per acre provided to landowners and tenants.
Rev F A Forge reports a Highland rally for young people at the Methodist church Friday at 7 30 pm with Rev Marshall Steele of Dallas as speaker also present are Dr Wm E Brown and Rev Joe E Lcrimshire from El Paso. Snowfall extended from Marathon to Vale nine over about 100 miles improving range conditions for ranchers.
Herring Wilks proprietor of the Red Chain Feed Store attended the second annual dealers convention and seventeenth birthday party of Universal Mills in Fort Worth last week. Experts from several states discussed poultry and dairy industry questions at the largely attended meeting. CORRECTION In last week’s item about the all tournament basketball team in the Big Bend meet here, John L Sublett Alpine was omitted. The Avalanche makes this correction.
Alpine Junior High School hosts its annual junior basketball tournament in Sul Ross Gymnasium on February 4. About 18 teams were invited to compete to match younger players. Rankin and Alpine’s Mighty Nidgets are expected contenders. The event runs until 4 20 p.m with an afternoon performance of Tom Sawyer in Sul Ross Auditorium.
Pecos County Sheriff F. 8 Wilson, 64, serving his second term, died in a San Angelo hospital from pneumonia after a brief illness. Born in Gonzales in 1874, he worked on the 7-D ranch, helped run it after 1908, and was active in the Texas Cattlemen’s and National Livestock associations. Survived by his widow, his mother in San Angelo, two sisters, and two brothers. Funeral services were held in Fort Stockton.
A grass fire on the Brown ranch fifteen miles south of Alpine was brought under control last Friday afternoon. The blaze destroyed approximately acres of grass and drew 75 men from Alpine, though ranch workers had it extinguished before help arrived.
Ft. Davis correspondent Barry Scobe notes locals debate Jeff Davis County’s bounds touching six counties and the Rio Grande, with Presidio Brewster Pecos Reeves Culberson Hudspeth cited as boundary neighbors. He recalls the river’s western point and mentions a historical aside about England.
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