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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1933
Page
1
A Pecos area digest reports on dramatic claims for a trans Pecos military highway promoting U S border policy and commerce. It also recounts a fatal lightning strike near Garagoen, Fort Stockton birthday news, a theft recovered in a Pecos tourist camp, Alpine rodeo bragging and money, and cheerful Presidio valley crops with peppers.
Sul Ross College announces an educational tour to Chihuahua City Mexico to foster understanding and friendship with Mexican people. Miss Stather Elliot leads the group with departures planned for July 22 or 26 aboard a Santa Fe train. The party, two days in Old Mexico, will be hosted by city and state officials and Rotary and Chamber groups, with return to Alpine scheduled by July 25.
Work starts this week on beautifying the Col lege Hill waterworks reservoir area in Alpine. W B Hancock donates land 200 by 123 feet for a new park with rock walls, terracing, shrubbery and trees. A road from Fast Avenue B is planned, and Alpine will be highlighted at the Ventury of Progress in Chicago with a West Texas display and a fourth page writeup in a 150000 booklet.
A two act operetta Chonita by the music department is set for Wednesday at Su Ross auditorium. The Hungary based tale follows gypsy life with Chonita princess of the tribe who meets Stefan before a Budapest visit to relatives. The finale returns her to the tribe as they celebrate. Cast includes Burdo Stefan Chonita and Baron Stanesee with Chorus and Gypsy members. Music director Irma Lee Satey Dramatic director Annie Kate Ferguson lights Buck Treadwell.
A. L. Weaaie of 7 Bread and Butter Stores, Inc opened a grocery in Ozona after selling his stake in early June. Mr and Mrs Weddle left town a month ago to seek a business location and found Crockett County seat Ozona as their destination.
Rev Buren Sparks says more distant attendees are expected at Paisano campment this year. The encampment sits in the Chisos mountains near Alpine with Rev J R Millican as president, drawing notable preachers like Rev George W Truett and shaping a major religious gathering Readiness for a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the Chisos area is also noted with plans tied to the Big Bend region and state parks engineers.
W C Fisher, owner of the Fisher Drug store in the Holland hotel building, purchased the Pennington Drug company from Mrs. Pennington. He will run both stores under Fisher Drug and supervise the new operation with P D Coulson in charge. Additional fixtures will be added and stock enlarged at the Holland location while Mrs Pennington keeps the Alpine name.
A revival began Monday at the Mexican Methodist mission in South Alpine and will run through Sunday evening. Rev Constantino Gonzales pastor of the Marfa Methodist mission conducts services each evening with invites extended to American friends of the Alpine church.
Alpine delegates travel to a Southwest Texas gathering in San Antonio next Monday July 1 to press for lower electric rates. Felix P McGaughy and other signers of the delegation plan to discuss revised town representation and energy policy ahead of the meeting. Frank McCollum heads to Chicago for a Century of Progress event.
Ernest Gibbons promotes the A and M college short course starting July 24 for one week. He urges all who can attend to gain ideas in homemaking, dairying, poultry, and livestock raising. Special railroad rates from here to College Station available. dorm rooms $1.25 weekly. meal tickets five days $8.75.
Marvin D. Worsham of Marathon writes from a CCC camp near Las Vegas New Mexico the camp lies in the Santa Fe national forest about 18 miles northwest of Las Vegas He praises the beautiful location and notes Las Vegas residents are friendly cutting prices to help the boys attend town events
City officials approve Siteon Mountain for a new park. Alpine battles Tree Camp Boys at Jackson Field at 4 30 P M in a local game preview.
Fort Davis July 13 Plans were laid for a registered cattle and feeder sale at the Highland fair October 13 14 in Marfa at a special meeting of the fair association. The plan calls for 1500 calves with buyers from across the United States where western calves are fattened. A committee W B Mitchell J W Expy Kenneth mith H C Mellard Ernest Gibens and T C Davis was named to arrange a mass meeting of Big Bend and Davis mountains people at Marfa July 15 to plan the largest fair attendance in this section. Friends of the fair are urged to attend the mass meeting Saturday afternoon.
County commissioners order elections in Justice Precinct No 1 and three other precincts of Alpine County to decide liquor status. Alpine precinct, dry since 1905, previously hosted licensed saloons before the Dean law and 18th Amendment. Polls set for August 26 alongside state prohibition vote.
Judge R B Light and county officials from Dallas Johnson Brath Comanche Tom Green and Pecos counties attended a state highway commission meeting in Austin on Tuesday. They urged the Dallas to Presidio continuation of U S 67. No return home reported last night and outcome of the conference was not known locally.
The American Red Cross will send Mr. McCue, regional lifesaving examiner, to Alpine to conduct the annual lifesaving course at Locust Pool on July 31 and August 1.
The Ferguson family offers an 11 acre tract on Alpine Mountain’s south side for a memorial park to Homer Ferguson. Plans call for a scenic drive from South Fifth Street to the summit, with initial work underway and funding discussions ongoing led by Senator Benjamin F. Berkeley.
A party led by Dr. George M. Sutton of Cornell University, funded by the Carnegie Museum, locates rare birds in Big Bend. They report Golima Warblers and a four-egg nest in Wade Canyon, along with purple and blue-throated hummingbirds and white-throated swifts found on the northern Chisos range.
Authorities launched a fight against tree worm pests destroying cottonwood trees in Alpine. A crew began spraying during the week to treat any infected trees. Residents are urged to cut infected branches or spray foliage, and not to burn trees as a method of extermination.
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