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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1942
Page
4
Week end visitors from Alpine and El Paso appear in listings with several relatives in the area. Local hospital care includes tonsil and eye operations for residents, while others travel for medical treatment and winter plans in Houston Mouston and San Antonio.
Memorial service for Dr A J Parkhurst former Sul Ross College dean held Tuesday morning at the college with Rev Fred Rogers presiding and Dr H W Morelock presenting the program including prayer benediction and remarks on Dean Parkhurst as an educator. Mrs Georgia Winn led the service and a note mentions Mrs Parkhurst and daughter.
Forty five Balmorhea and Alpine FFA members attended the district banquet at the college cafeteria on September 23 to initiate Green Hands and adopt the Area FFA constitution. District officers led the meeting. local officers included R T Key as president and J T Moore as president. Green Hands initiated were Sam Jeffers David O Rear James Taylor Wilford Dees Kim Lane Balmorhea and Alfonso Bustamante Jack Onford Douglas Dorris Pat come John Dow Harris Buzz Nichols Alpine. Dr H W Morelock gave the welcome and Dickson Manly spoke on farm group war efforts. meeting adjourned after class proceedings.
Miss Dorothy Caldwell daughter of Mr and Mrs Bogan Caldwell of Alpine was elected one of two freshman class cheerleaders at Mary Hardin Baylor Belton this week Lieut Tom Stowell on leave visited his parents then left for Santa Ana California to train in the air force Also visiting were Billy Jack Burcham and his aero nautical engineering graduate parents inquiring about the field W B dBi Dorris and H C Chandley former Central Power and Light electrician are leaving for Bremerton Washington to work as electricians in navy yards
Fay Hamilton 9-25 and dirt hauling for gardens or lawns by Alpine Disposal Service. J Walker handles disposal and mowing with reasonable prices. Phone 253. Local ad notes services in Alpine area.
J O Langford, longtime operator of the Hot Springs bath house, plans to move to Kerrville with his wife near a bought farm. The Hot Springs property was sold to the Texas State Parks board and added to the Big Bend National Park area. The Hot Springs post office will close and the Marathon to Hot Springs mail route will end, leaving residents with Terlingua as the nearest post office. The bathhouse will close until the National Park Service handles development of the park area.
A reader notice lists weekly church services for Saint James, Razarene, Christian, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches. Details include service times, Sunday school, Holy Communion on World-wide Communion Day, evangelistic and evening services, prayer meetings, and pastor or superintendent names. A World-wide Communion observance is urged with prayers for world peace and remembrance of soldiers.
RAY B MC GREW and R L WITTNER listed as pastors for Baptist and Christian Science services respectively. The Baptist church outlines Sunday school morning worship and daily weekday services directed by Rev J J F Tharp and T E Vaughan with singing by Vaughan, inviting all to attend. The Christian Science note announces a lesson sermon on Unreality for October 4 with Biblical citings and references from Science and Health.
Members of the Red Cross class Home Nursing conducted in summer by county health nurse Miss Earl Fulcrrod recently received their certificates. Names include Mesdames Bettye Lou Alexander Josephine Moore Bacon and others.
In Springfield Missouri Mrs Harley Freeman fished in the Big Sac River and hooked a two pound catfish that broke her arm yet she hauled in the catch.
Rev. Fred S. Rogers spoke at yesterday's Rotary meeting on Christian Education week. He argued education develops mental moral and spiritual powers and cited potential misuse and misuse of learning. Visitors included Carroll Vaughn Johnny Gentry H E Gates and Leonard R Mauldin. The club voted to relieve Fred Wilms as secretary and chose Aubrey Webb as new secretary.
Letter from Anna Gard Adjutant urges leavers to mail membership dues by October 4th, note about quota and exiting post. Contains staffing mayday style appeal for timely payments.
Alpine records show September nearly dry with only about one inch total for the month. A late Wednesday shower brought activity, while Davis Mountains area reports light frost and ice at higher elevations. The year to date precipitation stands at 13.75 inches, with Alpine’s low at 41 degrees last Sunday and a light ice skim reported on a couple of mornings.
Robert Freeman, charged with speeding in Milwaukee, wins a suspended sentence after telling the judge he was merely testing a 1941 model car and that his current 1936 vehicle feels fast only above 30 mph. He referred to buying a new car during his testimony, describing the ride as slow at low speeds.
IED recounts a morning scene as Ray tells him barber shop closes at ten while the post office also shuts from ten to five. The text notes 150 tons of great-grandfather joined with the Texas Rangers piled before the fire house, equating nearly 200 tons per person as citizens answer Uncle Sam's call.
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