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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1947
Page
1
The article notes a local roping event under Sal Rowe Booster Week and urges support, while warning about dangerous driving in Alpine. It cites a Travelers Insurance study showing high American auto fatalities and injuries last year, urging residents to slow down. It mentions Mrs. Walter Garnett traveling to Beaumont to visit relatives.
Alpine's new building surge is estimated at 200000 with S P depot at 60000 leading investment. Projects span Pollock D J Pollock Sul Ross athletic director and numerous residences on College Hill North Fifth Street East Avenue B and North Cockrell Street. Several gains include As a Jones six room rock veneer home and Meador Meador East College Ave, with foundations underway for J W Gilmer on East Ave C.
PECOS May 7 a drive to raise funds to buy Mitre Peak Guest Ranch near Alpine as a permanent summer camp for Girl Scouts in the Permian Basin will be launched immediately. Plans from the Permian Basin Area council were discussed Sunday in Pecos Nine teen members attended. Dr B F Berkeley Alpine appointed by the Finance committee to conclude negotiations announced the drive and plans to begin at once.
The sermon extols mothers as humanity’s dearest asset and God’s gift. It praises a mother’s love as unselfish and expansive, linking motherhood to home, Bible, and divine influence. It recalls Carlyle’s mother and laments her absence while honoring the enduring power of maternal devotion.
Favorable action is anticipated by the Southern Baptist convention in session in St Louis this week to make Paisano Baptist encampment an all-summer camp for Baptists from eight states. Texas Baptists have offered the 960 acre site with improvements and 150000 dollars, to be paid in three installments, to establish the encampment, with administration by the Southern Baptist Sunday School board at Nashville Tennessee. Historic Paisano setting lies near Paisano Pass on the Chihuahua Trail, 11 miles west of Alpine, Brewster County, on US 90 and 67 with railroad access.
Robert Wear reports Big Bend National Park introduces modern prefabricated cabins with kerosene lighting and fireplaces. The Chuck Wagon dining room offers meals at modest prices and box lunches for trips to Santa Elena Canyon and the South Rim. Rangers improve trails while a village at Big Bend is planned to replace CCC-era shacks.
Fans in Alpine see the 1947 Alpine Cowboys opener Sunday at Koker Not Field in a twin bill with the Carlsbad Miners. First game at 1 30 p m. Several Sul Ross college players join a competitive squad as new grandstand for 1000 seats is ready for the sodded infield. Carlsbad brings strong competition and may field an even tougher team this year.
The Alpine Internationals lost two and won one in a three game set with Muebleria Villareal of Chihuahua City. They dropped Saturday and Sunday matiné games but won the Sunday afternoon rematch 4 2. Alfred Leyva Jr. and Rex Arana missed action. Leyva to miss the season. They plan double header in San Angelo against the Greyhounds and may face El Paso or Juarez on May 18.
Alpine High School officials announce the commencement exercises will be held May 23 at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium. The senior class has 40 members with 33 diplomas to be awarded and seven graduating at summer close. Bettigene Slover is valedictorian and Joyce Nevill salutatorian. Summer graduates include Joe Ronda and others. Baccalaureate services are scheduled for Sunday May 18 at 5 p.m.
Prize money for a three day event is expected to total seven thousand dollars. Interest was high in the area with local and out of town visitors anticipated for the opening performances. Registrations climbed toward a planned 150 entrants by noon with top rodeo stars already signing up, including Toots Mansfield. A parade led by Fayette Yates and Raymond Quigg was planned to start at the college and move along Holland avenue past Seventh Street to College avenue. Two more performances were scheduled for tonight and tomorrow night starting at eight o clock.
Enrollment for the summer term at Sul Ross College is likely to exceed all past records, says Henry Key business head of the college dormitory for women. Dormitory rooms are already filled and requests continue daily. Key urges Alpine residents with available rooms to call his office at 216.
Alpine men Earl Fallis and J. N. Allebrand purchase the Parkway hotel in Marathon from Mr. and Mrs. Zoye Decie. New owners take charge June 1 and plan remodeling when materials are available. The hotel, built in 1928 by A. S. Gage, has 22 guest rooms. Allebrand, recently from Duquesne, Pa., will manage.
Extensive remodeling and renovating has been done on the quarters of J W Shepperd jeweler on North Sixth street. New and modern fixtures have also been installed.
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