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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1968
Page
1
Alpine Public Schools report higher first day registration than a year ago led by Centennial with 472 pupils up 22. Alpine High stands at 400 while Central drops to 402. Total district enrollment reached 1,274 for 1968 69, with expectations to surpass 1,300 for the first time.
Alpine Buck Boosters Club continues its membership drive for the 1968 football team. President Ray Morrison aims to raise $1,000 this week with business memberships from $10 and individual memberships at $1. The next meeting is Monday night September 9 in the Central School cafeteria.
The council adopted a rule requiring property owners requesting rezoning hearings to deposit the cost of the hearing, including $2.50 per notified neighbor and the publication in The Avalanche, with a minimum of $50. A hearing on Guy Stillwell’s trailer request for Lots 3 and 4, Block 2, North Addition was denied on zoning commission recommendation. The body also outlined winter care for the municipal pool with water fill, spotlights, patrols, and landscaping plans.
Ground breaking for three low cost housing projects in Alpine was led by the Housing Authority and City Council in the 1000 block of North 5th Street on Tuesday morning. Fifty rental units will be built on three sites with stone construction and shale roofs. contracts awarded to Herman Bennett Co. Inc. Staff included Neville Haynes chair and Charles Boreing executive director.
Henry DeVilliers of Ponca City Oklahoma assumes duties as director of public information at Sul Ross State College on Monday September 1. He was previously director of public relations at Connors State College and editor of the Coffeyville Kansas Press Maverick won top national honors. The DeVilliers reside in Alpine with four children.
Directors of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association arrive in Alpine for a quarterly gathering. A Highland Hereford Breeders tour precedes business with a noon start and route stops through Big Bend ranches. Featured speaker is Bill House of Cedar Vale, Kan., president of the American National Cattlemen's Association.
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