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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1955
Page
2
Established in 1690 and EA as by Published Every Friday at 210 No. 5th St Alpine Tex The Glasscock Publishing Co Dial 2114 Corrections will be gladly made upon notice to the editor at the Avalanche office.
A coordinated effort by the National Park Development Committee Alpine Chamber of Commerce Service Station Association Highway 90 Association Big Bend Trails Association and local motel owners adopted new show me tours of Big Bend National Park aimed at front line tourist workers. Executives from National Park Concessions were deployed to Texs to assist 400 visiting geologists and a spokesman urged broad participation noting the park is an asset to attract 0000 Americans to see their property.
Marfa High School won the District 88 B one act play contest with The Storm and will represent the district at the regional Interscholastic League meet in Odessa on April 22. The winning play was staged in Sul Ross State College’s main auditorium on March 18 under Supt C G Matthews. Director of the TIL contest at Sul Ross was Dr G P Smith.
Sanderson High School presented In ing Going Gone under Miss G E Wade with A District All-Star cast chosen. Fort Davis group captured third place for Lost Victory directed by A E Danheim. Outstanding girls Adelaide Calderon Marfa Mary June McNew Fort Davis Gayle Coe Marathon. Outstanding boys Roger Brown Valentine Stanley Sullivan Sanderson Jordan McDavitt Marfa. Mr and Mrs H J McBride visited San Antonio after weekend inspection trip for Best Western Motels Association.
Scholastic census figures show Alpine Independent School District reaching the 1000 threshold for the first time, a 20 percent gain over 1929. Other items note severe fruit damage from a hard freeze, highway work from Sul Ross campus to Fort Davis highway, and a 6 inch snow delaying a golf course project near Kokernot Springs.
The 20 year lease of 7000 acres at Goose Bay Labrador to the United States, the first peacetime defense lease of Canadian territory, was granted by the Canaan government late last year. Lady editors Breshears Lawson and Matthews attended the New Mexico Conference of Women's Society of Christian Service March 14 to 16 at Trinity Methodist Church in El Paso.
A district-wide education feature highlights Alpine graduates on dean’s lists and top percentiles at Sul Ross and Princeton. The article praises school libraries, health testing in Alpine Central, a field trip picnic, and a push for polio vaccination, while urging higher attendance and continued school funding.
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