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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1953
Page
4
Marfa Texas area seeks ranch loans with prepayment privilege and flexible terms. Lender interest in short or long term financing, amounts negotiable, repayment any time. Contact Marfa National Farmers Loan Association for details.
Contractors must file sealed proposals for 0.208 miles of Alpine Creek Bridges and Approaches on SH 118 and SH 223 in Brewster County. Bids due 9 00 A M May 20 1953 with plans from Charles T Holmes Alpine Texas and the Texas Highway Department Austin. Provisions follow Public Works Act laws and wage rates by craft.
Local residents share visits and travel news with relatives and friends. Shellie Barnes, L D Harris, G H Harrst family, Granville Smith, T A Beard, and A V Gunn are noted in recent trips and recoveries. Rev. Glenn W Bales attended a Southern Baptist convention in Houston. Phil Roberts and family visited San Diego after a weekend in Alpine, with J D Holman recovering from surgery in Temple. Mrs Minnie Fisher, former Alpine resident, stayed with G W Worfst, and Charlotte Slight travels to Denton for North Texas State plans. The McSpaddens from Barcelona visit Alpine and Marfa with daughters Dorothy and Joan at Our Lady of the Lake in San Antonio.
Southwest Texas State will host the conference track meet this Friday and Saturday in San Marcos with East Texas State favored to win the crown. Sul Ross will be represented by Ray McGregor Duane Parsons Nig Turner Royce Mullins Billy Spears George Keller and Gay Walker in various events. The sentence about a girl and her opinions seems out of place in this sports report.
The color technicolor film The Iron Mistress starring Alan Ladd and Virginia Mayo opens at the Granada Theatre for Sunday and Monday. Ladd plays Jim Bowie in a tale set in early 1400s New Orleans with swashbuckling action and a famed weapon the Bowie knife. The cast includes Joseph Calleia Phyllis Kirk Alf Kjellin Douglas Dick and Ned Young under Gordon Douglas direction.
Hartford based Travelers Insurance reports 1952 saw 37,600 traffic fatalities and 2,090,000 injuries in the United States. Speed was cited as the leading cause with 13,430 deaths. drivers under 25 accounted for about a quarter of fatal accidents.
A Texarkana man filed for divorce from his wife aged 15 alleging she behaves like a child. The suit cites immaturity and lack of marital capacity as grounds for dissolution of the marriage.
The Rio Grande, called the world’s dustiest river, is getting smaller and dustier due to irrigation draining lower sections. US hydraulic engineers warn the river forming the Texas Mexico border may never again reach its former size. The National Geographic Society notes irrigation multiplies for a prosperous region drain the river to a trickle at times. The river’s source lies high in Colorado and flowing through New Mexico and Texas supports millions of acres, crops and livestock, with Elephant Butte reservoir listed as the largest.
The passage chronicles the Rio Grande valley from its historic sites linked to wars and banditry to exploration. It notes Zebulon Pike crossing the river in Colorado and Kit Carson fighting Utes nearby. Coronado reached the Rio Grande in 1540 and encountered Pueblo civilization before European contact. It also records the July 16 1945 atomic test at Alamogordo in the New Mexico desert.
The Defense Department and Texas Auto Club urge a ban on hitch-hiking by GIs to reduce traffic tolls. The policy prohibits thumbing rides on public highways while allowing picks at designated stations and voluntary civilian offers. Some bases may restrict weekend passes without travel tickets.
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