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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1961
Page
5
A promotional note offers a popular priced paperback titled Married 13 Times in limited initial print issued by Rexall Drug City Drug and Highland Village. It advertises one of the first one million copies available at participating stores.
Classified notice listing Highland Texaco Service and Highland Café and Grocery across from Sul Ross College in Alpine. Open hours show 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. for Highland Village establishments and nearby businesses.
A ribbon cutting and dedication for Camino del Rio will occur at 10 a.m. Saturday in Bedford. Forrest Walker, chair of the Big Bend National Park Development Committee, urges attendance as Presidio and Ojinaga residents host a regional celebration with Lions Club volunteers guiding information booths.
A Marine Corps officer from San Antonio will visit the Alpine campus of Sul Ross State College on the 30th and 31st to interview male and female students and graduates seeking commissions. The sessions run daily from 8:30 a.m. to noon, with selection tests administered to determine eligibility.
Lamar Kay and Park staff drafted soil and water conservation plans for Big Bend National Park for 1962. They proposed footplowing disking seedbed prep with sand dropseed alkali sacaton and Lehmann lovegrass broadcast on treated areas. A few hundred acres to be treated next spring with larger 1963 expansion planned.
Word came from Alpine that Mrs. R. B. Cousins died at her home in Kingsville on Sunday. She was the widow of Dr. Cousins, former president of West Texas State College at Canyon and later Texas A&I at Kingsville. The couple were well known to longtime residents.
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