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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1931
Page
1
The Alpine Avalanche kicks off the Opportunity Club subscription drive with a big vote offer. Winners gain votes by securing long term and extension subscriptions, potentially placing a top entrant ahead in the list. Colonel John Perkins returns from Galveston while 4. R. Gard heads to Terlingua for surveying work.
The report notes a tight vote race with little difference between top and bottom candidates. Subscriptions could boost a leader, and the outcome remains undecided as the final hours of the voting period approach. Grace Williams is mentioned among potential leaders.
Marfa and Alpine Ode Fellows members met in Marfa Tuesday with local men in attendance. A future joint gathering will include Ode Fellows from Marfa Fort Davis and Alpine in Fort Davis on Monday night. Attendees and travelers named include Charles Treadwell Henry Weyerts Fritz Weyerts Claude Harmon Clinton Ezell A. B DeAx and Mr Allen.
Audrie Lewis reports a five member Terlinguan party Bart Anderau Thomas Or Conner Bred Stewart Walter Pucher Ames Bennet Sr. rowed into the Grand Canyon from the mouth upstream in a small boat uncovering a narrow canyon on the Mexican side with a crystal clear brook and a rock carved pool. They proceeded upriver despite whirlpools near darkness and currents while noting minor casualties and one medical recovery from tonsil surgery.
Rain reduced turnout for the annual scenic drive to about 600 to 800 expected, with participants taken to the Kokernot ranch twenty miles north of Alpine. There they enjoyed a barbecue, mountain climbs, swimming, and other recreation, a new twist for the event. The Kokernots hosted and supplied meals as the chamber of commerce and college coordinated the visit for visiting students and faculty.
J. Carrington of Austin arrived in Alpine on a hurried trip to be with his son who is suffering from blood poisoning. He praised Alpine’s hospital facilities and patient care after viewing the city for the first time. The boy, a scout in the Chisos Mountains with Corne lus Mueller, injured his knee when he fell from a tree a month ago. infection developed into blood poisoning, with doctors reporting he was resting easily yesterday.
A. F. Robinson says the U S 90 association will print about 50000 two color folders highlighting Texas sites and business opportunities from Jacksonville Florida to El Paso. Three thousand dollars will be spent this year to distribute maps and photos to attract travelers along the route and retain tourists in the southern and western states.
Figures from the registrar show Sul Ross College adding 115 more students for the second six weeks, reaching about 800 in college and sub college divisions. With retirees from term one and new arrivals, total summer enrollment may approach 980, amid tight housing and post graduate work.
Boy Scouts of troop 41 hosted a court of honor with J P Mestrazat district executive from El Paso praising the troop as among the best outside Fl Paso. Rev J T Redman chairman W J Smith and T F Skevington attended. An Eagle investiture ceremony is set for Sunday night at the Methodist church inviting all.
The Woodman Circle of Alpine will hold a bake sale tomorrow at the Hord and Williams store selling cookies and pies to raise funds for the organization. A member says proceeds will meet obligations and benefit the group.
The American Legion auxiliary in Alpine organized with Edna Maxey elected president and Avora Owens, Curley Davis, and Arch Allen named officers. Fewer members attended, plans to recruit more via a court house meeting next Monday. committees on membership and by laws formed. Mrs Humphries may attend as guest. Also news of surgery for Mrs Jake McSpadden and Mrs RM McLaren’s recovery after Turney hospital operation.
The week brought rain on three days with a total just over one inch as P G Walker notes. Yesterday hit 93 in shade, hottest day of the month, with higher temps in exposed spots. Showers visited most of the Big Bend county, including Port Davis and Marfa, with 0.32, 0.51, and 0.21 inches on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday respectively.
La Frere chapter of the DeMolays held its best dance since the lodge began, attracting $5 couples to the Dude Ranch Monday night. Jack's Micinolans, a seven piece orchestra from Fort Stockton, provided the music as members and guests enjoyed the event and planned another large affair soon. Chaperones included Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Smizer and Miss Annie Kate Ferguson.
J P Mestreeat executive for the El Paso council of the Boy Scouts was here last Thursday in the interests of the scouts of this section and their proposed campground planned for some months. The Rotary club had agreed to sponsor the project and its main objective in coming last week was to confer with the committee on their work. He also made a short talk at the club meeting yesterday.
Alpine officials and residents consider a new playground on the grounds of the old ward school building. The plan, discussed at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon, includes tennis courts, wading pools, and volleyball facilities at reasonable cost. Mayor Baines noted a special fund over 1500 dollars set aside for future recreation.
Alpine boy scouts from troop 48 went on a Saturday night outing returning Sunday with merit badge tests in view. Clinton Ezell said several boys pursued Eagle rank, with Charles Bishop and Albert Murray passing tests. Others on the trip included Tra Bowles Del Bowles Frank Matthews Rob Shaplen and Allen, who also passed tests.
Alpine residents alerted authorities after witnessing a man from San Antonio slapping his wife on the road to Marathon. He faced two counts of aggravated assault and charges of transporting liquor and driving under the influence. Bound over to the grand jury and held in Alpine county jail after Earl Clark of Marathon arrested him five miles past Marathon on the highway. Don Carlton of Port Davis visited Alpine briefly.
Paisano Baptist Encampment the largest in Texas and unique worldwide opens its eleventh annual session July 31 at Alpine 12 miles from town on the Alpine Marfa highway. The event draws thousands for a full day schedule of religious services B Y P U classes Sunday school sessions and Bible exposition led by Dr George W Truett in morning services and Dr B Gates Jot san Antonio delivering evening sermons. Recreation and rest periods fill afternoons under the supervision of TC Gardner with no games allowed.
Alpine plans a large BYPU gathering with hundreds of delegates for the second annual district convention of the B P U and Sunday schools. The event runs Thursday night through Friday at the Paisano encampment grounds, preceding the eleventh annual sier ac cording to Sparks. District 7 covers T and P from Midland to Van Horn, with Pecos to Ozona included, creating one of the state’s largest Baptist districts. Supper will be served Thursday afternoon, themes include Missions Our Mission, Cooperative Program, and Christian Education. Prominent speakers will lead sections as officers are elected and business is conducted.
Jack muse, a young hand at Roy Williams ranch in the county's southern part, rode a horse Wednesday morning that fell with him. He sustained a broken right leg and a bruised hip, was brought to town yesterday, and X rays showed the fracture cast yesterday.
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