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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1957
Page
8
The Sanchez family owners of the Alamo Cafe open the Casa Blanca Cafe today with an all day open house. Free coffee lemonade cake and donuts. breakfast from 7 am. The menu adds new Mexican dishes plus steaks and barbecued beef and chicken. Located on the Big Bend National Park highway west of Jackson Field.
A hearing on Whitfield Transportation Co.s intrastate application to serve the El Paso to Alpine area will be resumed here next Tuesday. The case concerns service authorization and regional routing.
Pete Bishop urges readers to celebrate Mother's Day and visit the shop offering gold and silver gifts watches and jewelry with affordable prices and easy budget terms. He sentimentalizes mothers and positions the store as the place to find an enduring gift for the occasion.
The Alpine High School Student Council for 1957 58 has elected Bake Turner as president and Robert Bass as vice president. Senior reps are John Votan Kern Wildenthal Pat Sanders and Joel Brown with new juniors Catalina Valenzuela Enedina Ogas Freddy Valadez and Linda Miller and sophomores Dennis Williams Charles Patterson Mary Miller and Marion Cowell. The annual highlights Mil dred Armstrong in Vietnam and senior Don Burgess may head to Annapolis. Lions Club staged Minstrel Show and Band Banquet set for Saturday at Community Center led by 8th graders and freshmen with Marion Cowell heading committee.
Humble's Texas in Review cameraman George Sanderson was to start Alpine filming this week but was recalled to Dallas. He is expected to return within two weeks.
A fragment quotes Amblin comparing editors to mountain men setting traps. A reader urges sending the paper for several weeks and notes a visit past, describing a peaceful town, pleasant hills, and good water. The writer mentions plans to visit Alpine in three to four weeks.
Alpine High led the district meet with 252 points while Big Lake, Fabens, Iraan, Marfa, and Sanderson trailed with lower totals. Grade schools also posted varied tallies, with Alpine Central and Marfa showing notable gains as the district results stood from the March 29 30 meet.
The ceremony honors Jimmy Wright, Marion Brooks, John Hayslip, Don Burgess, Tak Kubota and others with craft, emergency and vocational skill badges. Explorer awards go to Douglas Glasscock, David Ritter, and John W. Pate Jr. Attending troops include 46 41 44 and Posts 147 46 with Post 46 members listed.
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