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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1953
Page
1
The 33rd Paisano Baptist encampment wrapped up with an evening service last Sunday. About 1600 registered, 1500 attended the Sunday morning service, and $17,000 was subscribed to fund next year’s encampment activities. Attendance averaged strong despite drought, with four churches represented and two conversions recorded.
The chiropractors of West Texas District No 1 of the Texas State Chiropractors Assn will meet in the Holland hotel ballroom Sunday. Luncheon will be served as a smorgasbord and a business meeting will follow. About 20 to 25 chiropractors and families are expected.
Some Boundary and Water Commission personnel here are to be transferred to Del Rio while the hydrographic staff remains. The move follows choosing a site below Devil's River mouth near Del Rio for a Rio Grande dam. The remaining staff will occupy part of Berkeley Hall on East College Ave. A geophysical team of 15 to 20 from a major oil company will relocate to Alpine soon.
Nell Forbes will succeed Lora Bell Lockhart as society editor and bookkeeper on The Avalanche staff effective August 1. Lockhart has held the post nearly three years and will join the offices of J. W. O’Donnell starting September 1.
The Alpine school year opens September 1 1953 and ends May 26 1954 with 175 days in session. Holidays include Thanksgiving November 25 26 27 Christmas breaks December 18 to January 4 Easter April 16 19 and exams May 21 24. Baccalaureate and graduation events are scheduled May 23 24 and May 26 with final report cards May 26.
Alpine Junior High and high school bands plan a three week summer program with separate classes for junior high and beginning high school students. Registration for the band school is set for next Monday at 8 30 a m in the high school band hall. The fee for private and group instruction is ten dollars per student.
Captain John Young III of Alpine has assumed the position of Operations and Training officer of the 550th Antiaircraft Artillery battalion at Camp Stewart Georgia. He previously commanded Battery B in the 5th. He and his wife Charlene Stovall Young and their two daughters Janice Jean and Patricia Jo live in Midway Georgia near the camp. He is a 1949 entrant, Alpine High School graduate, attended Sul Ross College and the University of Texas. He is the son of Mr and Mrs John Young of Alpine.
L B Starns of Alpine announces retirement from railroading on Aug 1 after 58 years of service. He came to Alpine in 1907 as a telegrapher, later led local government as mayor, chaired the chamber and Rotary, and was deeply involved in Masonic, church, and railway unions. He plans to move to El Paso with his widowed daughter Mrs Eugenia Rowland.
Funeral services were held at 10 30 a m last Saturday in the First Presbyterian church for Adolph Walter Rau 69 of Fort Davis who was killed Tuesday morning July 21 in a collision on Highway 118 between Fort Davis and Alpine near the old Musquiz ruins The Rev Julian T Hendren officiated And the service included prayers sacred songs and a brief message from the pastor The burial was at Hillcrest cemetery with pallbearers from Fort Davis and the Rau family present The Rau family survived by his wife Hazel Leech and two children Frederick Rau of Bertram and Anita Capri of Philadelphia Pa
The Alpine chapter of the American Legion Auxiliary won first place in a fund drive for M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, with 1022 raised, the highest percentage of any Texas unit. Mrs. Tom Coats led the drive and is invited to attend the hospital and clinic opening in October.
Dan W. Graham former vocational agriculture teacher at Alpine High School is named one of two West Texas educators to receive the 15-year distinguished service award from the Vocational Agriculture Teachers Assn of Texas. He will be honored August 6 at the Adolphus hotel in Dallas for outstanding community and state service.
Mas Thomas Cole 23 and Marlass Byrd Cole 18, cousins, were jailed in Brewster County after an armed robbery at Grand View courts last Friday about 11 pm. They fled after Cole took about 50 dollars from Frank Daugherty, owner of the courts, who was alone in the office. The younger man surrendered at a downtown filling station later. Officers recovered the loaded gun hidden along State Highway 118 after the pair said they were returning home to near Birmingham from California.
Mr and Mrs W T Meador of Kermit visited his parents Mr and Mrs W M Meador here this week.
Scattered showers brought up to two to three inches in parts of the Big Bend Davis mountains region over the week ending Wednesday morning. Totals ranged from trace to about 3 inches with notable rains near Alpine Fort Davis Marathon and surrounding ranches, filling tanks and boosting runoff in Ramsey draw and Moss Creek.
Francisca Gallego Sanchez 51 died suddenly Sunday at the W H Kokernot ranch south of Alpine where she worked. Born Oct 3 1901 in Alpine she was daughter of Ben Gallego Sr and wife of Frank Sanchez. Funeral Tuesday Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church burial in local cemetery officiated by Rev Francisco Gonzales. She leaves husband three sons two sisters three brothers and five grandchildren.
The Alpine Cowboys defeated Biggs Field 13-4 in seven innings at El Paso then split a home series with Brooke Army Medical Center Comets at Kokernot Field, losing 7-4 on Saturday and winning Sunday. DiPrimio drove in three runs on a homer and three hits. Stout and Mallett led on offense with doubles and RBIs. Ellis pitched well in relief for the Comets, while Newcombe faced heavy hits in Saturday's loss.
The town advances a major paving project covering about 53 blocks including 25 on Ave D from the college to Highway 67 90 and 11 on Ave E to the campus. Other blocks on EF Ave C N 7th and N 4th receive seal coating and repaving. City officials, led by Commissioner Smith, push the largest street upgrade in years.
Rev. Albert F. Tucker executive secretary of the Texas State Temperance program will address union services for all Protestant churches in Alpine on Sunday August 2 at 8 pm outdoors at the Baptist church He will also speak at the alcohol clinic at Sul Ross College August 4 5 and 6 Other clinic speakers include Dr Thomas Shipp Dr Bryan Wildenthal and Rev J J Spurlin among many listed officials and organizers Tucker a longtime temperance advocate has served in Texas New Mexico and led the New Mexico Temperance League
Bill's Feed store will open this week in the former Hale Cleaners location on North Fifth Street. Operated by W. F. Colwell, a Fort Davis native, the store will stock Stant on's feeds from Standard Milling Co. of Lubbock. The Colwell family has lived in Fort Davis eight years, with Mrs. Colwell and daughter Nell at West Ave. D and son John managing the Safeway store here.
Fred E. Graper, FBI agent, is now stationed in Alpine covering Brewster Presidio and Pecos counties. He has served the El Paso area since last October and has six years with the bureau. The Graper family will reside at 1305 N Fifth Street, in the house vacated by the Henry Bailey family who move to a new North Fifth Street home.
Cecil Duncan returns from Duncan family picnic and reunion in Fredericksburg on July 19. The gathering memory of George and Penelope Duncan of Fannin County in the 1830s elected officers for next year and planned a return to Fredericksburg. Attendees from West Texas included R. L. Duncan and sons Tom and Jim of Odessa, John Duncan Hallford also of Odessa, and Mr. and Mrs. C. Q. Duncan of Fort Stockton.
Mr and Mrs Bill Sohl departed Thursday for Houston to attend the American Legion and Auxiliary conventions spanning July 31 through August 2. Mrs Henry Bailey, recently in San Antonio, will also join the events.
Outdoor services will be held on Sundays in August on the lawn south of the Baptist church at 8 pm The Alpine Ministerial Alliance will have pastors from four churches Baptist Christian Methodist and Presbyterian alternating in the pulpit
J Lawton Stone a local attorney since last November left Alpine this week for San Antonio to serve as assistant district attorney in the criminal department. He traveled with Mrs Stone and their baby daughter Lauren born May 7. Stone hopes to return to Alpine later to settle permanently.
An outstanding American poet Robert P Coffin will speak at Sul Ross College auditorium at 9 30 a m August 4 with no admission charge. English majors sponsor the visit and Coffin will read down to earth poems and discuss poetry as a public function.
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