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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1949
Page
2
Local snippets cover spring plans and garden prep, library quiz, a public swimming pool need, a lonely hearts missive, business praise for LaBeff Ritter Motors, a courtroom quip, tax timing, and criticism of federal waste. The column blends civic updates, opinions, and light humor from Alpine.
In the Jeter Hill building top floor a modern clinic is planned with telephones indirect lighting steam heat air conditioning and an elevator. Ground floor spaces will host new businesses boosting Alpine growth. Dr Armstrong spoke on Red Cross needs urging support.
Representative Tom H. Stovell of Alpine married Dorothy Schroeder, daughter of Mrs. Edith Caldwell, during a Friday Austin recess. The couple rushed back to attend to his bill, but the House adjourned after a few minutes, leaving the measure on the calendar.
Dr Ross Maxwell notes in a Fort Worth Star-Telegram column that Texas legislators will seek a $100000 appropriation this week to complete funding for Big Bend National Park. The piece urges Alpine, Marathon, Fort Stockton and other towns to vote in the bond election on March 26 to provide water and revenue bond financing for the park project.
A 13 second sermon notes Lane’s view that man did not descend from any known ape forms and that early evolutionary history is uncertain. It asserts the Christian answer is creation by God in the beginning. The piece also mentions the Navy’s new snorkel device conceived 120 years ago.
A succinct call to peruse local classified listings highlighting available goods and opportunities. The note frames ads as small daily aids, suggesting readers find items and notices of interest among the matter.
Citizens are advised to plan ahead and cast ballots on the 26th. The notice emphasizes preparation, polling locations, and registration reminders for eligible voters.
We now have another refrigeration service man with long experience and the best equipped service shop in the country. With 23 years of refrigeration experience we offer the best quickest and cheaper service. We will come anywhere on short notice day or night except Sunday in the Van Horn Fort Davis Marfa Marathon Sanderson and Alpine area.
Cappy Miller supports his son Squint's brush clearing method using two tractors linked by a heavy chain to pull roots from a swath. The technique, though unconventional, saves time and shows Cappy's willingness to try novel approaches and stay open minded.
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