AREA POPULATION 3500 Guatay ··········-·················· 200 Jamul···-·····-·-·-·- 2074 P.ine Valley ...................... 956 Campo ·-··························· 1256 Desearuo ·······················-· 776 Jacumba ............................ 852 ALPINE ECHO Harbison Canyon ............ 1208 Total .......................... 10,822 Serving a Growing Area of Homes and Ranches VOL 7-NO. 13 ....36 ALPINE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 16, 1964 PRICE TEN CENTS INTIMATE SCHOOL BOARD RECEIVES BIDS GLIMPSES FOR STUDENT lRANSPORTATIOI By BEA LA FORCE The Board of Trustees of the Alpine Union School This spring, I feel we ought to District, at their monthly meeting held last Monday night, celebrate. We could well have an received bids from four transportation organizations for annual spring festival of thanks· giving for one of our most signifi· the transporting of the District's students. The bids were cant and long needed blessings at based on specifications established by the. board which last received. WATER-plenty of were furnished to the bidders in clean, fresh water for domestic order that the bids be on uniform use here in our dry semi-arid com­ Fire Commissioners requirements. munity where water has been our The Board had also called for most significant lack for many Canvass Ballots bids for the purchase of the Dis· trict's school busses, and received years. It's .been only a little over The Board of Fire Commission· one year since we acquired this bids for their purchase from three ers of the Alpine Local Fire Dis· of the organizations who had sub· vital element, yet how soon most trict held a special meeting last of u.s have come to take it for mitted bids for the transportation Monday night to canvess the bal· of the students. l!rantcd as if it was always here. lots cast in the election held on Remember when wells went dry The Board took no action on the Tuesday, April 7. bids at last Monday's meeting, but and people moved out and left The election \\o-JS for the purpose postponed action to an adjourned their homes? Remember when you of electing two Commissioners to meeting to be held next Monday couldn't have a garden or flowers fill the vacancies created by the night. and your few trees had to die or expiration of the terms of J. C. District Supt. Clay, who had rec· be kept barely alive? Even your LaForce and E. L. Freeland, and ommended that the Board call for six year old can remember! Yes, was a write-in election since no these bids, has stated that in his Pictured is tfle control burnoH which took place In Crest on the I think we should have a celebra· candidates had filed for election. opinion a private organization can evening of March 17. Fireman shown Is operating the radio conh'ol tion to commemorate the arrival The Board, after canvassing the unit, an intricate part of all control bumoffs. furnish the student transportation of water. One of the good reasons votes, determined the tally estab· service at a lower cost to the Dis· for such festivals is that they lished by the election officials to trict and the State than by having DO BURN-OFFS 'BURN YOU UP'? make us newly aware of the spe· be correct and declared J. C. La· the transportation furnished by cific blessings or triumph, in this Force and William H. Jones, who the District itself. By Jane Mon Drragon case it's both, since they recall had received the highest number The Board voted to purchase The attitude <>f the general public toward their re­ the time of need. of votes, elected to the two posi­ films and other educational aids spective fire department's controlled burn-off's must be 'A' 'A' 'A' tions. for foreign language study. Supt. April would be a perfect month The two Commissioners were Clay stated that Spanish would be a problem common to all rural areas fortunate enough for it, or May at the latest. Every· to have a fir.e department. I feel it is way past time to elected for three-year terms which the foreign 1 a n g u a g e studied. one with a drop of gardener blood commence on Tuesday, April 21, NDEA funds are available to the bring horne a few facts to those who object so strenuously is out planting something in his 1964, and run until the third Tues· District to assist in the purchase to their f-iremen ~onducting the plot of grouad, or ht nower po~ day in A.pril, 196-'7. eonHnued on Page 8 supervised burn l n g of brush, or at least smelling tbe llllriJ1g air leaves and rubbish present in Scholarship Fand sweetened with the scent of his empty lots, and close to homes. neighbor's gar d en s. A drive I have heard otherwise intel· To Honor Supt. Smith around the community will show FIESTA DE ABRIL AT CAMPO ligent people rant and rave against you bow much prettier the yards the burn-off policy. They complain A scholarship fund for a gradu­ are this year than last. They will SUCCESSFUL BENEFIT FOR SCHOOL loudly about the smoke, the char· ate of one of the high schools of show you the smiling faces of peo­ red mess, the smell. My home, as the Grossmont Union High School ple watering trees and flowers. Everyone headed for the long awaited Fiesta de are so many in my section and District will be offered each year One woman, who has a small lath Abril at Campo last Saturday, April 11. yours, is surrounded by vacant in honor of Lewis F. Smith, Dis· house, said, "I never turn on the trict Superintendent, who is re­ The first event <>f the day was the1 Gymkhana with lots, owned by people who do not hose without a feeling of thank· participants from both San Diego and Imperial Counties. live in this community. When the tiring July 1 from the position. It fulness." "It's like a miracle!" said brush and leaves became so high will be formally announced and a man who raises camelias. So ... Trophies and ribbons for this were donated by various and deep and dry tha't it scared all the details concerning it ex· we think miracles need some rec· businesses and families through· me, I asked our Fire Chief what plained at "Lew Smith Night," a Continued on Page 4 Iout the Mt. Empire district. could be done. The four different dinner at 6:30 p.m., April 25, in Frogs to Hop at Ken Johnson of the Johnstown owners were contacted, and not the International Room at the El Texaco station donated a trophy one was willing to pay the $5 which Cortez Hotel. for the Quadrangle Stake Race the department asks for a burn, "Mr. Smith's twenty-two years SHOW BOAT Del Mar Frog Jump which was presented by his daugh· Continued on Page 4 Continued on Page 4 Challenges are flying hot, thick ter, Kathy, to winner Eddie A SELLOUT and heavy among Southland frog. Burdick. trainers for special jumps Sunday, Hilltop Lumber Supplies donated Hats off to all the Showboaters! the trophy for the Boot Race, and The production was a huge success April 26, during the 11th annual Southern California Jumping Frog Louis Perna's son, Johnny, pre· and a complete sell-out. sented it to Bill Smiley. Showboat was the show the Ki· Championship here at the San Di· ego County Fairgrounds. Major's Coffee Shop donated the wanis Club of Alpine and the trophy for the Texas Barrel Race Teachers Association of the Alpine Frog-topped trophies will be awarded the top contestant in spe· presented by Trucy Strand to win· School sponsored on Friday night, ner Penny Clark. April 11. Besides sponsoring the cial jumps among firemen, peace officers, newsmen, community The Balloon Spearing Race tro· affair, they also participated along phy and ribbons were donated by with a visiting Kiwanis Club from queens, servicemen in uniform, disc jockeys, junior chambers of the Pine House Cafe and presented Lakeside, and faculty and students Continued on Page 4 of Alpine School. commerce, cities and service clubs. The show lasted about two hours Trophies will be awarded for the and was made up of skits, solos, longest leaps in the open, adult Rio Board to Review groups, etc., and some of it done and juniors (through age 16) divi­ with very little rehearsing. sions and for the lightest, heaviest Connection Cosfs Proceeds from this very fine and best-dressed frogs of the day. production will be used towards Encinitas Fire Capt. Richard The Board of Directors of the financing youth activities. Shand is prepared to defend his Rio San Diego MWD at their meet· 1963 firefrog title against all com· ing last Tuesday night instructed ers. Manager Ed Houser and his staff Schools to Obseroe Jump proceeds will benefit the to make a study of the costs of Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for installing water m a i n s, service Public School Week Cancer Research, which last year connections and meters. The Alpine schools will observe received $1,050 that today is at Mr. Houser had informed the l>ublic School Week which is the work at Scripps Research Founda· Board that the labor and material week of April 20 to 24. tion, La Jolla, in a study grant. costs of installing water facilities The activities to be conducted The jump since 1954 has raised was increasing and that adjust­ iy the schools are: more than $5,500 for cancer re· ments in the charges made to April2Q.24: Open all week dur­ search.