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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1932
Page
6
Local residents host relatives and friends from Arizona Texas New York Los Angeles and Georgia. Names include Mrs Kate Pierce Mr and Mrs Y D McMurry Norman Maier and families plus Clerks and bankers visiting kin across Alpine Del Rio Pampa and El Paso as summer plans unfold.
Classified ad fragment listing wanted items and services including to rent a piano, dress making and alterations, with contact for Florence Boyer at 001 North St. Also mentions registered Hereford Bulls for sale near Camp Grandview Alpine and various rental listings. Mixed ad lines include cottages for rent and dairy goods offers from Highland House and Mensday Dairy.
The Avalanche declares candidates for various offices ahead of Democratic primaries. State Senator K M Kegan of Pecos seeks reelection. Alpine figures include Benjamin Franklin Berkeley and Rh Townsend. Other names cover Port Stockton, Rankin, Del Rio, and multiple county offices such as Judge, Sheriff, Clerk, Treasurer, Attorney, Tax Assessor, and Precinct Commissioners with reelection mentions and diverse local names.
New York newspaper advertising space purchased by national advertisers last year totaled 280 million, though down from 820 million in 1990, per the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. The decline largely reflects reduced automotive, RV, and appliance advertising.
The Salvation Army begins its annual appeal to fund its work in the region under the county advisory board. Quotas are set for Brewster County as the drive targets the whole year with this division operating protective homes, maternity and industrial facilities. Campaign representative W D Pidigo says the drive covers the entire year and is urgent due to increased need as people move in seeking work.
Breckenridge’s B. Grant and Aledo’s W H Terry Jr stayed tied for first after 81 holes at the seventh annual golf tournament started June 18. After a further nine holes on the second day they remained even. A playoff was scheduled for next Sunday afternoon.
Fragmented text discusses consumer behavior and advertising spending. It notes declines in automobile, tire, and electronics ad outlays from 1890 to 1931 and compares 1981 figures with 1980. The Ad Federation study shows large advertisers dominate spend and regional variations in newspaper lineage affect business activity.
Alpine post office advisory reminds patrons that July 5 is last day to mail at existing rates. New rates take effect July 6 for out of town first class mail at three cents per ounce, air mail to eight cents for the first ounce plus 13 cents per additional ounce, post cards unchanged, and parcel post rates not changing until October 1.
A dozen snakes robbing eggs were lured by C H Aikins a turkey demonstrator in Tank Valley Young County. Snakes were baited with drained eggs filled with lye and sealed. Twelve were killed in days and others stopped visiting nests. County Agent G R Warren reports most were found in nests with bodies severed where the eye broke.
Texas motor vehicle registration plates cost less per pair than in nearly all states. State figures show the plates, purchased by the state board of control, cost six and one half cents per pair last year. Colorado paid twenty and a half cents per pair in 1931. Of forty eight states, thirty issue their own plates, while twelve purchase plates. Plate production in prisons varied from six seven tenths cents per pair in South Dakota to sixteen cents in Pennsylvania.
Kansas City hosts the American Roy al and Kansas City as the Hereford Cattle Breeders Association stages its $75 000 fiftieth anniversary show in the 94th annual American Royal Live Stock and Horse Show November 12 to 18. An expected threefold rise in purebred Hereford cattle and thousands of attendees mark the milestone.
A scientist suggests children of fathers over 40 have better odds to make a name for themselves than those of younger men. The theory posits older fathers provide a stronger example or influence during a child’s first two decades.
Attendance rose at the Big Bend Singing convention meetings held at the Baptist church Sunday afternoon. Paul Counts, who organized the convention and directed the church choir, has resigned to finish his work. L C Hinckley of Marfa High was elected vice president to replace Counts. The next meeting is set for the fifth Sunday at Paisano Encampment.
The article notes special addresses by former Governor Pat M. Neff, now Baylor University president, and Dr. W. R. White, pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth. The encampment sits 12 miles west of Alpine on U. S. Highway 90 Borderway. Contact T. A. Beard Feed Store for prices on feeds.
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