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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1946
Page
1
A rambling town column discusses a rough 16 to nothing defeat by the Cats at Kok Emmet Field last Sunday. The editor defends the team, notes reasonable faith despite the loss, and promises support at the next game. Also includes letters on newsprint shortages, cedar posts from West Texas, and readers adding up to 356 subscribers.
The readable fragments reference Rev Buhler a former pastor involved in a local ecclesiastical or community matter. Mentions De Leon and related names suggesting a church or regional leadership context. Specific actions, dates, and outcomes are unclear from the fragmented OCR text.
The article discusses thousands of service wives and families leaving the United States as postwar shifts enable foreign brides and dependents to join soldiers overseas. It highlights USO support, Army family policies, and example families such as Monte Correll and his siblings from Michigan traveling toward the Panama area, with aid from USC Club in Chicago.
Four 16 foot cabins are now open in Basin area with plans for more lodging and a grocery store and meal service to follow. Local manager Jim Rosenberger urged visitors to bring food bedding and fuel until facilities are fully ready as advance reservations will secure limited accommodations. Authorities also recovered a dynamite theft involving Herculano Valenzuela, who received a seven year juvenile sentence after leading officers to hidden loot.
The first train on the new timetable, No. 1 westbound, departs Alpine at 10 a.m. with standard equipment and two new streamlined chair cars. Full streamlined cars will follow as available, and overall service from New Orleans to California speeds up, cutting about two and a half hours between Alpine and San Antonio on No. 2 with only four stops listed between San Antonio and El Paso. L. B. Starns, SP agent, notes improvements from Alpine to El Paso including Alpine, Rio del Rio, Sanderson, Alpine l and Marta as listed stops.
Sheriff Clarence Hord and Joe Bridge investigated the death of a woman in Lajitas Brewster County last Monday. The husband found her body on the bed beside their 20 day old baby. The skull was crushed with an iron bar and about 56 pesos disappeared. The victim was Selena Alarcon wife of the man named.
The Alpine area received its first notable moisture in weeks as a Sunday night storm brought rain, thunder, and wind. Hail and flooding affected Alpine and outlying ranches with two inches reported at H. J. Kokernot & Son, an inch at Lionita, and two inches near Limpia, amid reports across Brewster and Jeff Davis counties. City streets flooded four feet deep in places, with damage to gardens and utilities, the April and May rainfall totals noted.
Alpine Cats suffer a 16-0 defeat to Ford All-Stars of El Paso at Kokernot Field. Apodaca and Forti pitched, while Cats committed 12 errors and left six men on base. Campa delivered the big hit for El Paso as the visitors scored in every inning except the third.
Sul Ross college announces livestock and range management courses led by A J Bierschwabe and Omer Sperry with field trips and lectures. Programs target ranchers Southwest Texas county agents vocational teachers and conservation workers aided by State Soil Conservation service staff in Marfa and Big Bend areas.
The Big Bend Clinic band of 75, conducted by John L. Carrico with Bill Carrico as guest, will perform religious and classical selections Sunday at 6 30 p m on the courthouse lawn. The Alpine High band students and visiting Texas musicians join in a 10 day Sul Ross music festival on campus with a final concert Friday June 14 in the college auditorium. Batteries All Stars Apolaca and Penn, Cats Alarcon Andrews and Riggs noted in the text. U S Savings Bonds promotion included.
Mrs Greenleaf Fisk a Texas women work leader died at her sister s home after a long illness She lived in Abilene and published The Abilene Times with her husband who was long time publisher She wrote A History of Texas Artists and Sculpters Funeral in Abilene with burial in Cedar Hill cemetery Survivors include four sisters a brother and a Bay City sister list of pallbearers given
Horace Oliver, longtime educator and coach from 1926 to 1992, returns to Alpine to buy into the Gas Servicenter with Jerry Starnes. He previously served as superintendent at Van Horn for nine years and resigned as Me nard superintendent after five years. Oliver will join Starnes in running an appliance business next to the Servicenter, with Beverly Nixon continuing with the firm.
Fort Worth office approves remodeling project under PHP order May 31. County Judge R B Slight was informed this week. Glen Wilson of San Antonio designs the plan, a former Alpine resident. Building will be gutted and modernized with two wings adding eight offices total. Bids expected about 30 days after plans are ready.
Wally Davis a Cats bookmaker said towns as far as Midland Odessa and Carlsbad N M were contacted by phone with no results as all teams had other games this Sunday.
Brewster county Democratic Executive committee schedules a June 17 meeting at 4 p m in the county courthouse. Dr Joel Wright chairman says the session will set fees for candidates in the primary and arrange the official ballot.
Flowerland reopens this week in enlarged quarters at the Weyerts building corner College Ave and North Fifth Street after days of closure for work. Floor space more than doubled with plans for a large display refrigerator and more stock. Jimmy Nail, discharged Navy man visiting his mother, will enter Harvard Med in Boston. U S Court of Appeals upholds oil land fraud verdicts by Brewster county residents. sentences range three to five years and fines. Appeals allege error in evidence and jury instructions. Invest your money in government securities to fight inflation.
The Alpine Internationals defeated Valentine 10 7 last Thursday Memorial Day and beat the Marfa Indians 9 7 at Mars Sunday. Silvas and Lafavette pitched for Valentine while Ogas, Valenzuela, and Fierro contributed offense. Uran, Lafayette, and Ramires led hitting with a Raquel Uran home run and triples from multiple players.
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