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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1953
Page
4
Mortgage note advertisement offering loans on Alpine property with six percent return and safety. Contact Storey Whiteside Lumber Co at phone 74 or P O Box fe for details Marta NOPLA Marta Tex tte YOUR MONEY INVESTED IN first mortgage notes on Alpine property will earn six percent with safety.
About 80 amateur radio operators and families are expected to attend the Hamboree in the area this weekend, with barbeque Sunday noon at Indian Lodge. Zone 5 South Texas Emergency Network sponsors the event, with Sul Ross College hosting early arrivals at the Sam Tous ton game Saturday afternoon. Zone 5 control is WSKBU Odessa, assistant is W5- QOH Jack Perryman Alpine.
The document proclaims Liberty as freedom of thought and action within civic bounds, stresses intelligence as using available information for humanity's improvement, and argues national safety means protecting children from ritualism, ensuring future generations are better, and resisting criminal and oppressive rule. It invites public support to uphold these principles.
The 14th Sul Ross intra college one act play contest will be read Wednesday and Thursday May 6 and 7 in the Fine Arts theatre. Drama students direct the plays with curtain at 8. Admission 25 cents for adults 50 cents for students, public invited. Directors include Grace Davis Peggy Brunson Dan Blocker and Wallace Neu. From Alpine Mr C E Davidson and his wife are among contestants.
Dr. Bryan Wildenthal president of Sul Ross College announced a $3,000 gift from the Texas Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution to establish a Texana Library at the institution. The fund will create a Texana and Southwestiana collection housed in a dedicated room in the main library, with local DAR chapters sought for books and materials. Mrs Loretta G Thomas, state regent, conveyed the information. Mrs J C Epperson of Alpine is Big Bend regent, succeeding Mrs Louise Millington of Presidio.
Sul Ross students dominated the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association contest in Wichita Falls. Sul Ross won six top places out of 21 schools, second went to North Texas State. Karen Keith was elected recording secretary. Pat Adams and Jim Stoicheff earned high rankings in writing and poetry. Sul Ross students also claimed fifth place in multiple divisions.
Rev George Thomason, instructor of Bible at Sul Ross College and director of the Baptist Student Union, will receive the Doctor of Theology degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth with the spring graduating class. The program marks five years of resident work beyond his B A and includes a thesis. He earned his B A from Oklahoma Baptist University in 1942 and his M T from the seminary in 1945.
F M Robinson head of Monahans High School science department and Sul Ross College graduate 1949 has been chosen as a Westinghouse Fellowship recipient for Carnegie Institute of Technology Science Teachers Summer Program 1983. He is the only secondary science teacher to win consecutively and previously studied at MIT. Robinson, a seven year Monahans educator, graduated from Abilene Christian College in 1924 and is among 80 fellows from a pool of about 50 000. The program will be held in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
Recent arrivals Mr and Mrs James Bow announce the birth of a son Robt A T weighing 70 pounds at San Diego Cal on April 30 Paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs RA Bow Alpine James in the Navy stationed at San Diego Also notes on Jesse Pugh attending the Christian churches of Texas convention in Lubbock and names Mary George Mercedes Pierro and Carmen LaFerl le at a beauty operators’ event in Odessa.
Alpine Central and Centennial school choruses directed by Ars Mary P Bogel competed in Class A at the Fort Davis music festival. Centennial earned a Division 3 rating, an improvement from Division 8.10 last year, while the Central chorus ranked Division 2 and Fort Davis and Valentine choruses also performed in Class B ratings.
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