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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1950
Page
6
Unfurnished house ad requests 2 to 3 bedrooms available before August 1. Phone number offered after 5 p.m. Rates for political notices are listed: Precinct $10, County $15, District $20. County Judge candidate Felix McGaugh seeks re election.
Alpine notes list residents and visitors from Tulgy Temple Austin and other towns visiting relatives and friends here and in nearby communities. Travel parties include trips to Richardson Houston Los Angeles Marfa Pecos and San Antonio with several family parties plus a camp program for youth in Sacramento New Mexico. The Agriculture Department notes frozen orange juice marketed in 1948-49 would form a block 60 feet wide five feet deep and a mile long.
The fourth annual Big Bend Band Clinic concluded June 22 with a grand concert attended by about 900. Milburn E. Carey led the 80 piece Phillips University band and Summer Chorus under Glenn F. Davis. Awards went to Ozell Murphy. Terry Keller and Ben Edwards. John Carrico managed the event.
John Parish, summer English instructor at Sul Ross, taught at Rice Institute for four years and studied at Sam Houston, Texas University, and Columbia. He served four years in Army intelligence with Scotland Yard and French police. Parish lectured at Sul Ross in 1947 1948 and this summer teaches Shakespeare and Chaucer. He loves Alpine and compares Houston to hell and Paradise. Church worker dies and community donors noted.
Word was received Tuesday that W. C. Kelty of Billings Montana aged 52 was among passengers lost when a Northwest Airlines plane disappeared over Lake Michigan last Saturday Kelty formerly of Sulphur Springs was a cousin to Bill Cotter Mrs J Roy Spence Mrs Lulu White and Mrs Mary Robinson of Alpine He was employed by Vaughn Ragsdale department stores of Wyoming and was returning home from a business trip to New York
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