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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1949
Page
2
A rambling Alpine Texas town column cheers teachers and students, congratulates the Alpine Bucks on a past baseball win, notes city improvements like light poles and a new traffic light, and previews public library plans and Mutter’s Day events with local hopes for school and civic progress.
Citizens report clothes returning from cleaners frayed and tangled. Residents urge inspection as garments emerge wound around spools and damaged, reflecting sharp decline in service quality. Local shop promises review and remedy.
Pvt Frank C Durant Jr son of Mr and Mrs Frank C Durant Sr of Alpine Texas is now serving with the 19th Infantry Regiment a unit of the 24th Infantry Division in Beppu Kyushu Japan. The Victory Division occupies Kyushu and Durant enlisted in February 1948.
Amy Lou Bloys of Fort Davis is among 37 Park College graduates selected for a Parkville AAUW annual tea. Mrs. Theodore A. Knox, Missouri state president for 1946-47, will speak at the campus Meeting House tomorrow afternoon.
A 13 second sermon recalls Jesus healing ten lepers but one returns to thank him. The piece urges readers to maintain a constant spirit of gratitude and reflection.
The Santa Fe railway renews its educational awards for 4-H leaders in served states. Fred G. Gurley announces 65 youths selected for all expenses trips to the National 4-H Congress in Chicago. Nineteen awards go to Texas, boosting total recipients near 1700. State and railway officials coordinate the program with Dr. I. P. Trotter and James Prewitt among others.
After a board meeting, two early actions are proposed. A test advertising program aims to spark a larger campaign, while cast aluminum street markers for Holladay Avenue and North Fifth Street are eyed to boost tourist appeal. The piece also urges involvement with the Friends of the Library and endorses local civic participation.
A Thoreau line asserts that human potential isn’t bounded by past measures or precedents and what has been tried. It emphasizes individual limits and the untapped possibilities of effort and nature.
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