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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1968
Page
8
A 15 member advisory panel cleared a Texas Education Agency plan to teach 500,000 children in Spanish until proficient in English. The effort aims to reduce dropout rates and boost bilingual fluency with federal funds of 7.5 million dollars allocated for bilingual education nationwide.
Alpine Texas reader Mary Thain seeks a publisher for her 31 articles asserting a cosmic consciousness and past lives. She publishes under her name from Alpine Art Store and asks Alpine Avalanche readers to testify in support. Also notices creditors claim estate of Lue Harkness Meriwether with independent executors named and filing address.
In Alpine and Fort Davis a reader from E. Clayton McCarthy critiques Ole Doc Hoffman and his spelling lessons, jokes about bribery in education, and laments mispronunciations while noting McCarthy’s science fiction sale to If magazine. The column also covers Wick Fowler and H Allen Smith visiting Alpine, their Terlingua Chili Cookoff ties, and Allen Smith’s desk spike once owned by H L Mencken.
The Alpine Avalanche is a Thursday edition newspaper published in Alpine Texas since 1890. It circulates from 112 North Fifth Street and postal box 719 with office phone TE7 2114 and is registered for second class postage in Alpine Texas 79830.
Brewster Jeff Davis and Presidio Counties charge $4.50 per year or $2.75 for 6 months. Other areas pay $5.50 per year or $3.00 for 6 months. Publisher not responsible for omissions or errors except to correct in the next issue after notification.
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