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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1951
Page
4
A collage of small ads and notices including Burlap feed bags for sale or barter with Thyan Kelley 208 North 10th Street, PRE-PAYMENT PRIVILEGE terms, Marfa Texas items, an at home school course offer from American School in El Paso, a long distance house and livestock moving service by C F Ross Alpine, and tile work by J B Jernige with contact details.
Your money invested in first mortgage improvement notes on Alpine property will earn six per cent with safety. Storey Whiteside Lumber Co., Phone 74, P.O. Box 890, Alpine.
For sale or trade a seven room brick house in the nicest in city, close to college, well located, bargain. Includes building lots on College Hill with paving, curb, and nearby schools. Other properties offer quick sale pricing and good investment potential with high cash yield.
The Alpine Junior Legion team opened the district series with a 6-0 win over Pecos in seven innings. Alpine pitcher Dan Valenzuela struck out 18 Pecos batters, allowing only two to reach base, while Guterez held a high stat line for Pecos with six hits and five walks.
Local residents and visitors are profiled in Alpine through late June. Fresno and El Paso visitors call on relatives. Gentry family members visit from Duncan Oklahoma, Houston and Denver. stocks of kinfolk host stays in Phoenix and Alpine. Several couples take trips to Colorado and Oklahoma, while Clay Holland recovers in El Paso Hospital.
Recruiting officers in the El Paso Main Station area note a 30 day period in June and July during which selective service registrants may volunteer for Army or Air Force if not ordered to report. The order effective 15 June 1991 and until 18 July 1961 removes prior limits on enlistees who have not received orders to report for induction. With induction calls not yet mailed, the field is open, and efforts should maximize enlistments with broad publicity and referrals to Selective Service. Alpine Legion and Odessa game details follow, with local posts promoting participation.
Merit System Council in Austin announces continuous exams for clerical and secretarial positions with the Texas State Department of Health. Applications and information are available on request from the Merit System Council at 805 Littlefield Building, Austin. Examinations include written tests, evaluations of training and experience, and possible oral interviews for various classifications.
Alpine school officials plan a series of twelve 15 minute radio programs broadcast at 10 45 am each Saturday sponsored by the Alpine High School Teen Afers program on KVLF. Two programs have been presented and future talks will cover teacher and student questions and freshman hazing issues. Next Saturday features first grade teachers from Centennial school discussing Latin American reading problems and other classroom topics.
The First Mexican Baptist Church of Alpine held two afternoon Bible school sessions from 2 to 5 PM on June 4 and June 18. Enrollment averaged 91, with ages 4 to 16. Children contributed $17.91 in offerings to send to the Mexican Baptist home in Asia, and six children made isn...
This Fern canyon camp sits 1344 miles north of Alpine, covers 74 acres, cost about 80000, purchased 1046 from Mitre Peak Guest ranch. It hosts five units for 65 girls, season June 10 to August 5, with 10 counselors, directors, and Dr. John Bo person of Alpine as camp doctor. Cave pools, indigenous history, and Frankenstein rock feature among highlights.
District OPS office in Lubbock announces official ceiling price charts for beef cuts will be posted in meat shops on June 25. Charts reflect geographic pricing and must be displayed with separate price-tagged trays. New lower prices take effect August 1 with further reductions October 1. Retail beef prices will drop 8 to 10 cents per pound after the reductions, while cattle prices rise about 25 percent from parity.
The district OPS office states that before issuing rules, OPS will discuss industry problems with a 13 member advisory committee. New CPR 45 applies to manufacturers and covers men's and women's apparel and related infant wear, aiming to roll back widened margins since pre Korean War and restore formal cost price relationships by August.
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