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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1929
Page
4
A fragment notes a special rate description for Alpine Texas Post Office under the Act of March 2 1879. It mentions yearly price two dollars and per line per insertion with four tees and a fete of Te.
An editorial warns speeding drivers risk child injuries and calls for city action. It recalls Kerrville murders where a woman and infant died, noting a car traveled 100 yards after impact. The piece urges strict control and public safety measures to prevent Alpine tragedies from reckless driving.
A historical note explains the flag's design changes from the original thirteen stripes and a growing star count as new states joined. It describes how early flags arranged stars and stripes and how the current pattern with a star for each state emerged after statehood increased beyond thirteen, culminating in the 1818 arrangement.
Odessa News-Times argues for a unified Texas system of state parks with broad support among Panhandle Central Texas and other regions. Proponents urge surveying, acquiring acreage, and establishing the Davis Mountains site as a starting point to unite efforts and avoid losing millions on piecemeal developments.
Austin June 6 The House committee on revenue and taxation reported favorably a bill by Rep Tillotson imposing a four cent excise tax on gasoline. The committee rejected a Keller Holder plan for a four cent tax and slashing private vehicle rates. The Tillotson Hubbard registration bill, signed by 75 members, would place all fees on a graduated weight basis with car fees cut 30 percent and trucks buses and motorcycles taxed under present schedules. Counties would receive all fees from lighter cars up to 50 000 with the rest to the state. The sponsor said the measure would yield about 250 000 from registrations in 1930.
Alpine children from kindergarten to age twelve are invited to a weekly story hour on the college lawn each Tuesday and Friday afternoon. Miss Frances Pendley directs Children’s Literature students who will read stories and guide play for the youngsters.
Model A Fords dominated a specially arranged contest amid wartime conditions. The Finnish Auto Mobile Association promoted driving training as cars started from Helsingfors, with 18 of 29 prizes won and ten of fourteen honor prizes claimed by Fords.
The longest telephone cable, as thick as a wrist, spans between St Louis and New York and houses 250 circuits that would need ten open wire lines. Built by Ains Fears at about 32 million dollars, it provides dependable service along the Atlantic Coast. A humorous aside notes fashion trends and the cost of surgery.
Dr Robert Z Hill of Los Angeles addresses a Sul Ross audience praising Trans Pecos Texas as a unique region. He notes erosion shaped canyons and a landscape spanning North America, cites his work with US Geological Survey, and highlights Hill as a Texas geologist with ties to the early Texas Geological Survey.
More than half of Texas’s 254 counties were represented in the Agricultural exhibits at the 1928 State Fair of Texas. It is expected that many more than this number will exhibit at the 1929 exposition.
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