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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1937
Page
1
A new daily bus line will operate from Marfa through Alpine to San Angelo with morning and afternoon departures. The southbound trip leaves San Angelo at 2 45 p m and arrives in Alpine at 9 15 p m. Connections with a Fort Worth bound bus are noted. The full schedule appears in the company advertisement on another page.
In Brewster County about 2 230 815 acres have signed up in the soil conservation program with total enrollment in the three Highland counties reaching 5 165 322 acres. Final call to participate before April 1 as officials from a college and Washington conduct a range education school for inspectors to learn grazing capacity assessment across Brewster Presidio and Jeff Davis counties. Balmorhea Experiment Station tours ranches in ten western Texas counties providing on site guidance.
Test drilling at Dodson Means northeast of Alpine shows eight finch casing set at 2985 feet with drilling expected to resume early next week. Several oil and gas shows reported, while the Smith-Hess Deeke ranch test near Marathon remains shut down with casing planned around 670 feet and water delays noted.
Easter services are planned across churches with morning worship and Sunday school. First Baptist Church features a 9 45 pageant The Royal Road to the Races and missions offering, followed by sermons and Training Union. Other churches host services, baptisms and choir performances as part of Easter program.
In Pecos County Deputy Tex Collector Pink Phelps reports more than 1000 autos remain unregistered as of Wednesday afternoon. Through that day 44 licenses had been issued, with 1550 registrations for 1996 already recorded. final dates loom as midnight April 1. Also notes highway project plans for the Pecos Balmorhes route No. 17 with grading, drainage and caliche base work planned, linking U.S. 90 and U.S. 67 at Alpine with Garlshed Caverns.
Fort Davis resident Mrs. Rose Graves tends a fifty mile trapline after her husband broke his arm, learning trap setting by practice. She explains digging shallow holes, camouflaging traps with canvas, and moving carefully to avoid leaving prints. The couple, well regarded in Fort Davis, manage the line with about four dozen steel traps in strategic spots.
Alpine telegram reports Senate committee favorably on a park appropriation bill pending in the Texas legislature. The measure would grant about 2 million dollars to acquire land on the Texas side for a National Park area spanning roughly 890000 acres along the Big Bend region and the Rio Grande Mexico side. The park would be established promptly once the lands are secured.
Pioneer Brewster County resident Mollie L. Holland, 71, died after a stroke Friday afternoon. She came to Alpine in 1885 with husband John R. Holland, who died in 1922. Surviving are son Clay and three grandchildren. Funeral held Sunday at the Christian church with Rev. Buhler and Rev. Morrow officiating. Interment in Grove Cemetery. Also noted: Texas university honor roll lists Margaret Fletcher, daughter of Henry T. Fletcher, among fall semester honorees.
The frame structure at Border Patrol headquarters is moved north and converted into a repair shop for Border Patrol cars. The city of Alpin owns the property and provides free quarters and a building for repairs, saving rent by using the old frame building.
The Bi County meet between Ter rel and Brewster counties drew 400 to 475 spectators. Senior division events like one act play and declamation attracted the largest crowds. Winners included Herbert and Haines in the 100, Alpine Bierechwale and Thompson in girls debate, and Sanderson in junior declamations. Continued on last page.
About 100 delegates registered for the ninth annual conference of the Fifteenth district Texan Congress of Parents and Teachers in the system here. The two day session opened Tuesday with a managers’ meeting and a dinner at Mrs. J. C. Coleman’s home. Wednesday featured a program at the Junior High school auditorium with talks on home character formation.
An aging Apache sentinel, Old Chief Alsate, no longer hides in solitude as civilization nears his perch above Green Gulch. The legendary watcher’s image graces a volcanic rock near the Marathon road leading to Big Bend National Park, with tales of battles against the Comanches and legends of a mine yet to be found.
Alpine Commandery No 99 Knights Templar will hold its regular Easter service Sunday evening at 1 45 o clock at Man church. Visiting knights from the area are expected to attend. The public is invited to attend the service.
About 1600 vehicles in Brewster County were registered under a 1987 license and only 14 post cards were returned for the Highway Planning survey. The incomplete data hampers planning for future road programs with the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads and Texas Highway Department. Residents are urged to request and submit the self addressed cards when paying licenses to influence federal funds for secondary roads.
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