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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1960
Page
10
The Alpine Avalanche masthead lists editors and correspondents for Alpine Texas with various staff roles and contact addresses. It notes subscription rates for Brewster Jeff Davis and Presidio counties at 30 per year and 4 per year elsewhere, with 6 month options.
The document details Councilman Bill Win's account of a tank purchase in Small Texas and the failed effort to relocate or repurpose it. He describes interviews in Fort Stockton Crane Penwell Odessa with welders and tank firms, the advice to scrap and buy a new tank, and the council's subsequent vote to sell the old unit after finding a bid. He notes delays, political commentary, and confirmation from city minutes.
In Big Bend country on September 27 1935 Sul Ross College reports fall term enrollment hitting a record with about 400 students and expected to near 500 by term end. Alpine High School’s Bucks crush Red Devils 51 to 0 in football. Highland Fair and Feeder Sale slated for Oct 17–19 in Marfa aims to boost Trans-Pecos commerce. Local civic events include a women’s style show by the Lions Club to aid football equipment. CCC workers build a 46 acre Balmorhea pool site that will hold ~24 million gallons of water near San Solomon spring.
An interview dialogue presents a Spanish learner and an elderly man who speaks to him about neighbors. The exchange covers entering an elevator, greetings, favors, and a strange claim about shoes thrown at a door each night.
A reader from the 16th Congressional District of Texas endorses Dr. Dorothy Wyvell running for Congress on the Coalition Party ticket. The letter argues the platform lacks giveaways and warns it would relinquish welfare funds to foreign powers, urging voters to support Wyvell to ensure representation for all constituents.
Huntsville reports the 29th annual Texas Prison Rodeo begins Sunday October 2 at 2 p m. Ricky Nelson tops the opening show as the sensational singing star in a lineup of inmate contestants set to perform at the prison arena.
Nelson headlines an all star rodeo with inmate riders and specialty acts. The program includes a girls barrel race trick riding and calf roping as part of a historic showcase of rodeo stock and color.
Alpine school officials announced the faculty payroll for September totals 21225.23 dollars with 2652 dollars withheld for taxes. The payment schedule shows the payroll dispersed in September with tax withholdings per standard deductions.
On Tuesday and Monday cafeterias served many students at Alpine schools. Records show 32 children in one group, 66 in another, and 188 at Centra. overall counts include 220 children across locations.
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