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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1949
Page
2
A mix of notes on recent games and travels, including Lobos and Bucks in regional showdowns, memories of Alpine Bucks versus Sanderson Eagles, and a hopeful call for the Central Junior team’s unbeaten streak. Readers are urged to visit public schools, ponder a dam project near Alpine, and share local humor and opinions about community life.
Brewster County library volunteers urge nationwide Book Week began in 1915 by Franklin K. Mathiews. They push reading for all children with a Granada Theatre quiz show and a call to keep books accessible to every boy and girl.
A speaker reflects on blessings and gratitude, noting it would take until Thanksgiving to list them all. The passage ends with a decision to start recognizing thanks immediately.
The Latin American Community Center seeks a Boy Scouts of America charter for a new Explorer post. Senior Advisor is Bob McMillan a So Ross student. Committee includes Antonio Rojo Rudy Valenzuela and Pete Gallego with FE A McMillan as Institutional representative. Charter members list Jake Villalva David Villalva Carlos Robledo Charlie Rodriguez David Portillo Eliseo Hernandez David Hernandez Felix Vermudez.
A formal request to the Civil Aeronautics Board titled Petition of the City of Alpine and the Alpine Chamber of Commerce for Leave to Intervene is described as a procedural step to participate in the hearing on the termination of Trans-Texas Airways Route 82. The note hints Alpine residents may attend and speak at the hearing, with thanks extended to local tourist lodgings for their cooperation during a geologic field trip and deer hunters’ influx that crowded Alpine lodging.
Professor W. N. McAnulty head of Geology at Sul Ross leads about 100 geologists from across the country on field trips to study Permian rocks in the Glass Mountains near Marathon and Guadaloupe Mountains near Van Horn and Carlsbad. Trips end in El Paso November 9. The Geological Society of America convention will be held in El Paso November 10 and 11. Mimeograph supplies for the El Paso Southern Pacific division were in town with praise for Alpine’s improvements, though the visitor notes a mixed ledger about the town’s progress.
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