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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1947
Page
2
For sale is a business with building and excellent contracts generating three steady incomes. Owner will consider terms. Trans Pecos Abstract Co listed as 1M with L Hopson and Marion W Hopson. Contact 122 Alpine, Brewster County, Texas.
A column from Alpine highlights a clever school issue El Toro, local stadium lighting plans, KVLF joining Mutual Broadcasting System, and calls for streetlight and neon upgrades around College Hill. It mentions depot progress, Dean Etheridge’s new book Shavings, and small town definitions while touching on taxes and federal debt.
Big Bend National Park offers year round flowering displays in the river mesas and canyons. Early blooms include mustard flowers and the bluebonnet with several small plants appearing in February along the Johnson and nearby creeks. Visitors are urged to seek information on flowering plant locations.
Around the airport notes describe emergency flight to Abilene with a sick child, patrols along the Rio Grande to Lajitas, El Paso visitation, Stinson plane ferry to El Paso, cross country trips to Rawls ranch, Castalon, Stamford, Presidio and Fort Stockton, Alpine Flying club activity, and park ranger warnings. Visitors emphasize keeping Alpine money local and enjoying national park protections. Blossoming cacti and delayed flowering due to dust and cooler weather are noted.
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