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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1949
Page
6
A parade of visitors and relatives keeps Alpine buzzing with activity as residents host families from Oklahoma City, Hobbs, Tuc son, Corpus Christi, San Angelo and other Texas towns. Travel includes trips to Abilene, Dawson, Marfa, Albuquerque and Denver, with several attending funerals, squarely tying community ties to regional travel and reunions.
Principal activity of the Alpine Lions Tuesday was installing officers for the new fiscal year. Incoming Boss Lion Marvin Kay received the gavel from Immediate Past President John Criswell. Seaman Billy Bell returned home from San Diego for a three week vacation with his parents and noted his assignment to the destroyer USS Prairie.
Alpine residents hosted visitors including Mr. and Mrs. George Baines and Miss Alice Cowan for dinner at Indian Lodge. M T McClure and family from Wichita visited relatives, praising the Chisos mountains. Charles Chambers returned from Kentucky to Washington D C for son-in-law Lowell Brannon’s Georgetown law graduation, where Brannon earned high honors. Chambers’ granddaughter Helen will spend the summer here.
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