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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1937
Page
1
In a 17th annual fete and encampment, Michell of Maria and G W Maclay supervise grounds and caretaking with helpers, earning praise. Encampment secretary Jemma Blackwell prepared for crowds, while volunteers work on improvements and cattle stock for community use.
President H W Morelock announced open museum and college hours on the Sal Ress campus with daily sessions from 10:00 to 12:00 and 2:40 to 5:00. The summer art colony directed by Xavier Gonzales and outdoor theatre program highlight campus activities with free lectures, art displays, and recreational offerings including bowling and tennis.
Mrs Campbell taught in the Mexican school for two or three years and worked with the American school. She aims to complete her B A degree by August and drove 350 miles weekly last summer, a tiresome routine she embraces to stay active.
Tenas Kidd, tied to a pine show this week, was acquitted in Justice HB Prusts court on charges of carrying on an offensive trade. Witnesses complained about the Kidded carnival and wild west show near toe clay Unita t Gee north part. Jurors included John Weyerts Jr and A R Stambaugh among others. A second case accusing Kidd of allowing trash and waste within 300 yards of a public highway was dismissed.
James W. Metcalfe, acting chief petrol inspector for the Border Patrol, resigns effective Aug 4 and left for El Paso with his family. His successor and future plans were not announced. Metcalfe had a decade in Border Patrol service. The college art department, directed by Miss Mil tia Hill, will host a lecture on Art in the Public Schools on Friday Aug 6 at 2 30 p.m.
Hon Roy Hotheins Harris county judge will visit Alpine next Thursday for a Rotary luncheon. He will explain constitutional amendment No 5, affecting Harris county only, and discuss its implications with attendees.
More than 180 Sul Ross College students and faculty joined a day trip to Big Bend Park. Superintendent B D Morgen and Dr Ross Maxwell led arrangements with Park Service staff. Sul Ross biology and archaeology technicians assisted, guiding hikes to The Window and Chinese Wall, with Sperry directing the educational program in the Chinese section. The outing ended with a park staff welcome and museum announcements.
A drilling contract aims for 6000 feet with a goal to reach it by week’s end at G. H. Storey site south of here. Plans after completion are not official yet but unofficial word says the hole may continue to 8000 feet unless oil is found sooner.
BL Pruett was installed as Noble Grand of the Alpine Odd Fellows lodge at a meeting held Monday night, with W H King as vice grand. Other officers installed were C E Treadwell senior chaplain J M Allen warden H H Weyerts secretary. Thirty two cities in the world have populations of a million or more.
A regional effort titled Ready Response aims to raise one million dollars to purchase land for a potential Big Bend National Park area. Local newspapers and editorial pages back the drive, with endorsements from major Texas dailies and state promoters. Citizens are urged to contribute through chamber of commerce channels to support the park project.
A Beewmet County official proposes a name for the column amid a fundraising push to support a park fund and state outreach. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and other dailies would benefit from reader donations, with local donors to the land fund listed weekly as the drive progresses.
Austin July 28 federal government has spent about one third of 2 million dollars on development in the proposed Big Bend National Park. Total expenditure up to July 1 was 833.80, with 216,100 used for roads five miles long, five miles of trails and bridges. The CCC work is nearly done in the Big Bend State park and may join the Ten Thousand Acre National Park after more land is deeded. Civic groups seek one dollar from each of Texas’s one million residents to vest title in the government.
A.Tippit attended a Tippit and Moore families reunion at Mount Mother Nell State Park on July 18 with about 20 attendees. Six Moore descendants and two Tippit descendants joined Mr Tippit and Mr Levin Claweon of Wisk Venus in a gathering noted as a fate ward event to be held again next year on the third ally.
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