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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1947
Page
4
Local residents and guests from Texas cities visited Alpine this week. Individuals from Amarillo Corsicana San Antonio Cameron Marathon Del Rio Dancy Alabama Franklin Tennessee attended events, dinners, and a Presbyterial meeting. polio recovery noted for a local child. honors for Bettigene Slover at Texas State College for Women.
Miss Lady Lou Terry of Alpine has been selected as one of 43 members of the Texas State College for Women Modern Choir for 1947 48. Under Dr William E Jones the choir performs on campus and in nearby cities and towns. Terry will represent her school at the Western Rodeo in AM rodeo Oct 24 25 with 14 Southwestern colleges competing in a barrel race. She is a member of the Music club and La Junta club and is a sophomore violin major.
The Brewster County unit of the Texas State Teachers Assn. met at Sul Ross State College on October 14. Earl C. Bland was elected president, Peyton Cain first vice president, Mrs. Lulu Cotter White second vice president, and Mrs. Joe Smith secretary treasurer. Delegates to the Spring District VI convention in El Paso were Bland, Cain, and Smith with alternates Dales, McMillan, and White. Dr. A N Foster noted Marathon and Alpine schools are 100 percent members and Sul Ross faculty nearly 100 percent enrolled.
Pfc Eliseo S Rojo son of Mr and Mrs Chon Rojo Alpine is now serving with the First Cavalry division in Japan He is stationed in central Tokyo with the Seventh Cavalry Regiment and serves in the Cannon troop He attends officials school at Camp Drake for authorization to officiate football contests within the division
Private Rojo joined the army in September 1946 and shipped overseas in December 1946. He previously served as 1st Cannoneer on the M-7 Tank in Cannon Troop before joining the regimental baseball team which won all honors in the division wide league.
The Museum of the West Texas Historical and Scientific Society in Alpine received a rare mounting of huge mountain sheep horns from E. W. Nev ill. Collected about 25 years ago on the Glass Mountains, the horns come from one of the last seven head of the species once common in the Big Bend. The horns are placed in the Biology Room on the Sul Ross Campus with visiting hours 8:30 to 11:30 and 2:30 to 5:30.
District 76 B coaches James Crawford and Travis Cook attended a district basketball meeting in Sanderson Tuesday night. Member schools include Marfa Sanderson Marathon Fort Davis Valentine Alpine Blackwell and possibly Presidio. Teams will use a double round robin then a district tournament with a girls volleyball event using the same plan. Superintendent Pryde announced Fort Davis hosting the December tournament. Crawford entered Alpine High in this meet and may attend either Big Lake or Eldorado in January per league rules.
Warren Mosley of Alpine employed as a night clerk at the Sorrento hotel in Seattle was robbed by two youths wielding a sub machine gun. They took about 65 dollars from the cash drawer and 10 dollars in small change from cigarette sales. They forced a guest to summon the elevator and fled before police arrived.
Rotary notes show Percy Bailey and others as guests at a meeting in El Paso. One new member was accepted and will be notified. Play ads mention Arsenic and Old Lace for Oct 27-28. Football tease invites attendance at Marfa conference clash Bucks vs Shorthorns. Safety campaign urges parents to teach safe habits and traffic awareness.
Darkins D. Kilpatrick aged 61 longtime Candalaria resident and former Presidio County commissioner died Saturday. Funeral held Sunday at St Pauls Episcopal Church Marfa, with burial in Marfa cemetery. Survivors include widow and four sisters. pallbearers named Alonzo Love Frank Baron R I Bledsoe Fabusio Segura Ernest Williams.
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