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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1954
Page
4
New or renovated mattresses any size. Guaranteed. Call Alpine Courts at 2523 or write Box 1130 San Angelo. Your money invested in first mortgage notes on Alpine property earns six percent with safety. Storey-Whiteside Lumber Co. phone 2234 P O Box 899 Alpine.
Sealed proposals for 0.434 miles of Butcher Knife Draw Adobe Walls Creek and Box Canyon Creek between Alpine and Big Bend National Park on SH 118 in Brewster County will be received at the Highway Department Austin until 9:00 A M Oct 19 1954 and opened. Public Works Project under Texas House Bills 54 and 115. Wage rates by craft set in proposal and paid to laborers. Plans at Alpine Resident Engineer office and Austin. Usual rights reserved. 10-8-2c.
IBWC commissioner says studies with United States and Mexico indicate a reservoir of about 4.5 million acre feet for storage plus 1.7 million acre feet for flood control at Diablo Reservoir, totaling around 6.2 million acre feet. Regulation of irrigation capacity to be shared 64 percent U S and 36 percent Mexico.
A string of visits and greetings span Alpine area as New York and Dallas residents toured homes in town. Notables include Arthur Nazzaro of New York City, Lee Jones of Beeville, and Otto Hilbrich Jr. visiting family. A Denver plan notes flood control linked to the Diablo project with geological surveys slated for 1955 and 1956 start.
The Avalanche introduces a new advertising feature titled Interesting Facts About Texas sponsored by First National Bank Alpine. The photo feature explores people and places shaping Texas history and includes Big Bend National Park in its coverage.
Surveyor 10 Jess Wyatt son of Mr and Mrs Bob Wyatt of Alpine returned home after discharge from the Seabees in Memphis Tennessee where he served over a year after four years in the corps including two years on Guam He plans to resume college at the start of the next term.
The Plymouth Oil Co reported drilling at 9 944 ft in the Simpson shale and lime on the H L Kokernot Son ranch 25 miles north of Alpine. Mrs W T Burnham Jr and family moved to California where they will be stationed. Hendricks planes to Seattle to visit son D N Hendricks Jr Asa Jones returned from Fort Lauderdale where his son George Asa has been buying cattle for a ranch in Venezuela Jones wife and three children head to join him in Fort Lauderdale. Texas A M College furnished more officers to the Army in World War II than West Point.
The Big Bend Scottish Rite club invites all Scottish Rite and Blue lodge Masons and their families to an outing tomorrow at 4 p m at the Girl Scout camp in Fern Canyon 12 miles north of Alpine. Attendees should bring food for their family and guests and expect little business with plenty of fellowship. Dr B F Berkeley Alpine president and J Fred La Lanne Marfa secretary treasurer announced.
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