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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1947
Page
2
City Drug Store offers a well located corner lot and building ready for occupancy. Owner retires with nets around 16300 annually and potential to increase income. Terms possible and cash needed for quick sale. Also listing includes FOR RENT Drive Inn and abstract services by TRANS PECOS ABSTRACT CO. Mopson and Hopson contact Alpine Texas.
A local column collects viewer comments on civic ideas from Alpine residents. Topics include replacing a ramshackle bridge to Finn Grove cemetery, expanding the business district, support for a playground park, and toasting a new Sul Ross swimming pool with a protective enclosure. Remarks reference Communists, local humor, and a Red Cross note.
Clyde Beatty famed trainer brings his Wild Animal Circus to Marfa for an afternoon show on Tuesday March 18 at 2 30 with doors open at 1 30. The program features Nero the Nubian lion the Bengal tiger Nigger and acts by King and Kitty two trained lions plus Harriet Beatty elephant riding and a troupe of dogs ponies chimpanzees and elephants.
The Alpine Lions Club held a noon meeting with reports from Toombs Kay Kerby Kelver Stephenson Criswell Donaubauer and President Pittman. Miss June Joyce performed three piano selections at Sul Ross. A 15 minute KVLF broadcast featured Pittman Criswell Perryman and Toombs. A city park project update and a coming Lions Variety Show on April 18 were announced with a refrigerator prize to be given.
The Alpine chamber of commerce aired the first Your Director Reports broadcast noting a housing shortage spurred by rapid growth. New contractors promise turnkey homes in six to eight weeks with materials in hand, while Fred Williams and Marvin Kay proposed a first class city credit bureau, earning full board support.
Notes from Starrns Field recount a week of small plane flights. Local pilots Guy Stillwell Evans Casparis Jones Allen Stringfellow Benson and others flew to Marathon Fort Davis Fort Worth Alpine Midland El Paso Denver City El Paso over the weekend while Roy Shannon demonstrated a Stinson 150 aircraft.
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