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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1957
Page
1
Alpine High School announces its first Homecoming celebration with a parade on Friday afternoon November 15 starting at 4 p.m. from College Hill along Holland Avenue to Power’s Service Station. Registration opens at 3 p.m. in Room 4, and exes are invited for the two day event ending with a spaghetti supper.
A Brewster County update covers local political notes about road grading near a farm, a humorous El Paso reporter anecdote, and voting results for retirement funds pension amendments and water bonds. It lists graduates from 1898 to 1910 and previews Alpine High parade plans with floats, prizes, and ex-student registrations.
Alpine Public Library will host displays of children's books during Children's National Book Week from November 17 to 23. Librarian Bonnie Newell invites the public and urges teachers to bring students. The theme Explore with Books promotes reading at home school or in the library. the library hours are 2 to 5 30 p m daily except Sunday.
Jacqueline Roberts will be crowned Homecoming Queen at Alpine High School at 8 p.m. on Saturday November 16 in the High School Gym. The event features a coronation followed by a dance with the Sul Ross College Orchestra providing music and a list of court members including 8th grade through senior participants and various court attendants.
The first annual Rotary Row will pit Van Horn and Alpine Central gridsters under 100 pounds in the Big Bend Junior Conference title game at Alpine High School. Proceeds go to Pee Wee football fund and the event includes a short Little League gridiron showcase at halftime.
Alpine High School’s Fighting Bucks seek their first district football title since 1941 by beating the Fabens Wildcats at 8 pm on their home field. The Bucks boast three district wins and one tie, while Fabens arrives with a strong, heavy lineup and recent close results against Iraan and Sanderson.
The State Highway Commission approves paving the 14 mile Terlingua to the Presidio County line near Lajitas at an estimated cost of 190000 dollars. Engineering starts next month with completion expected by January 1959.
Alpine residents Mr. and Mrs. George Bevier move to Kerrville after six years here they bought a new home. They sell their E Ave C house to Mrs. Zetha Hicks of Marathon who, with her mother Mrs. Ed Decie, will relocate here. Other moves include Shoupp e purchasing the G C Mc Daniel home on Ft Davis Highway and Larsh family shifting to the Chalmers Broadfoot residence on N 5th St. Owens of Marathon plan to buy Edwin McCollum home on N 5th St and move soon.
Engravings for Miss Jackie Roberts Homecoming Queen Mrs Henry Lacey Class of 1898 and Miss Harriet Carpenter Band Sweetheart failed to arrive from engravers causing a delay. Apologies to those who contributed photographs for this week's edition.
Alpine Chamber of Commerce data is being studied by Guy W. Agee of El Paso who surveys sites for a Sears garment factory. The plant would employ about 200, costing roughly 125000 to construct, with 275 unemployed Alpine women noted in the labor survey.
Prospects for mule deer and white tail deer are bright as hunters prepare for the Nov 20 27 season in the Big Bend-Davis Mountains country. The Big Bend Sportsman's Club offers sighting facilities and a prize shoot with a $100 rifle first prize. A 1956 survey shows 3094 bucks and 62 antlerless deer reported in the area, with hunting rules allowing one buck or doe or one mule and one white tail buck.
Grady Nelon has been named chairman of The Big Bend Walking Blood Bank sponsored by Big Bend Unit No. 79 American Legion Auxiliary. She urges typing blood groups at Brewster County Memorial Hospital or with personal physicians, stressing that knowing your blood type can save crucial time in emergencies.
Alpine discontinues pumping at Daugherty well in Sunny Glen saving about 1560 dollars monthly in winter. City plans power line to Sunny Glen wells, extends utility franchise 38 more years, and finances 30 000 dollars pipe for the water system with First National Bank backing. Miss Flora Daugherty rejects offered water rights price, valuing the property at 100 000 cash with water rights at 75 000. Water supply assurances follow loss of the well in July 1958.
Henry Bailey Motors to display the 1958 Cadillac on Saturday November 16. The car features a new rear fender design a dazzling grille and a four headlamp system with new interior fabrics and leathers.
Claude S. Mauldin aged 68 father of Mrs. Charles M. Hunter died of a heart attack at his Arlington home on Tuesday. He leaves his widow another daughter Mrs. Robert L. Hunter and a son Bill all of Abilene. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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