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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1950
Page
1
The Sul Ross campus buzzes with activity as town and college growth intertwine. A local print shop reports surplus items for sale from stock certificates to calendar pads while considering a discarded billiard table and new bank building talk. The rodeo association submits a 20 page souvenir program, printed neatly for next weekend.
The First National Bank plans to advance its building program at an early date. A contract signed with a bank examiner pledges funds to cover recent depositor losses. Officials say solvency is unquestioned and bonds and insurance will cover losses. Depositors are reminded staff are bonded and deposits by political subdivisions are protected. Federal insurance covers individual deposits up to 5 000 dollars. Mr Baines notes uncertainty on the total shortages, with a full statement on page two of this week's Avalanche.
Two Sul Ross cowboys Harley May and Buster Lindley led the team to top honors in the New Mexico Aggie rodeo at Quesenberry Field State College. May won all around and high points with 270, Lindley 130 as Sul Ross totaled 420. Oklahoma A&M second with 325, New Mexico A&M third with 235. Other teams followed.
Disney's Bambi in Technicolor headlines Saturdays cartoon circus at Granada theatre starting 10 a.m. The event also features Donald Duck Porky Pig Tom and Jerry and others with 25 cent admission for children and free popcorn for each paid child admission.
A banquet at the Crews hotel in Marfa honors Chief Earl Fallis retiring as chief inspector of the U S Border Patrol. Present were Mrs. Fallis and daughter Karlene. The display includes a Stetson hat from the Tucson sector a meritorious service certificate a leather belt with holster and a Frontier Colt revolver.
The Texas Highway Department seeks bids on seal coating on State Highways 118 116 and 17 in Jeff Davis county and leveling and resurfacing on U S 90 in Brewster county. Work includes 118 from Brewster county line to Fort Davis 17 from Fort Davis to Presidio county line 166 from Barrel Springs to Skillman Grove and to the 17 junction totaling 47.664 miles and U S 90 from 5.5 miles east of Alpine to Altuda covering 9.241 miles.
Mr and Mrs J C Whitted of Tucson Arizona have adopted a baby daughter named Mary Katherine The Whitteds formerly studied at Sul Ross College and friends here have been advised
A District I Texas Division American Cancer Society meeting is set in Alpine on Tuesday March 7. Mrs Pearl Montgomery Fort Stockton district chairman and Lynn from Houston will attend to show films on cancer. Two sessions at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the High School auditorium invite the public. Marathon Marfa and Presidio towns are urged to send representatives.
Mrs. E. E. Townsend came back early this week from an Austin trip where she had spent two months visiting.
A new Marathon Community house embodies decades of civic planning and cooperation. The 50 by 80 foot building, to gain wings later, stems from 1947 efforts by the Women’s Civic club and Men’s Service club, with initial fundraising of about 6000 dollars and an architect’s plans underway. The first trustees include Irby Standlea and Gage Holland, with Mrs Elmo Weston as a founder and Mrs Gage Holland as president. (Continued next week).
Chief Inspector Earl Fallis of the U. S. Border Patrol in the Marfa sector retires after 25 years on February 28. A surprise banquet at the Crews hotel featured 115 plates and gifts from El Paso Tucson Alpine Sierra Blanca Nogales and Marfa sector personnel.
Fowkes Bros of Alpine purchased three purebred Aberdeen Angus bulls from L. W. Burr & Son of Groveton Texas. Announcement comes from the American Aberdeen Angus Breeders Association.
SMU athletic director Matty Bell urged Sul Ross backers and athletes to keep athletics in the school system and build clean citizens. He spoke at the Sul Ross football banquet, praised the Lobes and Lone Star conference membership, credited Midland's Mike Brumbelow for Notre Dame scouting, and acknowledged local dignitaries and media figures attending.
Dr. R. M. Hawkins president along with Bill Kerr and W. L. Young led a 800 attendee groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday at Sul Ross State College. The event inaugurated a 20 year expansion plan featuring a fine arts building a girls dormitory and a cafeteria with future science and field house projects.
George H. West faced a driving while intoxicated charge in district court last weekend but jurors could not agree. The eight to four vote produced a hung jury and jurors were excused until midweek for subsequent civil case proceedings.
Billy Ward, operator of an Alpine service station, offers a free complete service job to the first flying saucer to land in the United States. He hopes to ease fears and invite occupants to refuel, wash and grease, battery charge, polish or any needed service.
Alpine residents recount that a Oklahoma City zoo escapee panther gave up when news of a Big Bend Texas team heading to capture it reached the city. Edwin Fowlkes and six Alpine men chartered a plane, paying 1200 for the flight plus 100 daily, to assist in the hunt. The expedition included Manny Fowlkes Jack Ward Joe Clark George Foster Gene Cartledge and King Terry Jr.
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