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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1938
Page
1
About 1500 educators from the Trans-Pecos area attended a regional teachers meeting held here last weekend. The session covered curriculum updates and teacher collaboration initiatives.
Oscarday progress shows a peculiar reading error in a Masia event. Delegates from District He VI, including Oadel and Mery, signed in as grooms and provided odd commentary.
The V A class at the high school will supervise advance ticket sales March 30 and 31 for the show Under Suspicion starring Jack Balt. Proceeds support judging teams traveling to Lubbock and Texas A&M. The Junior High chapter joins in a similar sale with Grenada.
A youthful Alpine Mexican admitted sending extortion notes to ten local residents demanding money be placed in a arbocus pit at the Boy Scout club.
W T Jones won first place for steers weighing 450 to 600 pounds at the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show. Linge were named grand champion load of feeder cattle in the 3000+ show. W B Mitchell & Sons won first prize load of steers under 480 pounds. Cattle shipped last week. Frank Jones attended the show.
Alpine scouts pick up 128 nails Saturday along the streets of Alpine. The event details the unusual cleanup effort and participants involved in gathering the items.
Mrs. Charles E Ree national representative of the Parent-Teacher Association visits Roseollege next Tuesday to lecture and hold conferences with school boards superintendents and teachers. A 420 pm public lecture opens the program to discuss a proposed parent-teacher training course to be offered at Sul Rost college during the first six weeks of the 1998 summer term with credit and free access for PTA members superintendents and local school board members.
Precinct No 1 West at the courthouse Precinct No 1 East at the Masonic building North Fifth Street Precinct No 2 at the Mexican schoolhouse vote on the temperance issue. Campaigns run by wets and dries with pastors and Rev Sam Morris of Del Rio speaking at a mass meeting. Polls open 8 a.m. close 7 p.m. in Alpine.
Alpine this week saw two large livestock transactions. Koker not Bros. of Alpine sold 1200 calves to Paul Shirley of Crowell with delivery planned April 1 to April 15 and prices 61 1/2 for heifers and 71 1/2 for steers. John Young Land Co. moved 4300 ewe lambs bought from Charles Pruett of Marfa to R. Miller of California with delivery by May 15 and price of 7 dollars per head in wool.
The body of George A Yaeger 78 of Alpine died in El Paso from influenza and complications after a brief illness. Burial is planned for 10 this morning at W L Matthews home with out of town relatives including Mrs Claude Matthews Mrs Pete Good and Max Yaeger among others from New Mexico and Oklahoma.
drilling restarted at a Ded on-Means test 1.5 miles northeast of Alpine after a month idle. A whipstock was set to free tools lost in the hole. Operators expect a thorough test of the lower Ordovician and a potential oil show around 140 feet with some oil bailed. Location See 68, B10, GH&BA. Also drilling ahead of HL D Wilcos test about 1000 feet south of Alpine at around 1000 feet this week.
S A Studies attend IRC meet at Roswell with participants Macy Milen Hadoon and Foy Bie.
The WICT Chamber met in Wrought to discuss naming a work committee to study the Big Bend National Park proposal. J Thomes Davie chaired the session with speakers including D A Bandera of Abline and A Bix of Port. The recommendation moves to the Wichita Falls convention in late April.
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