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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1941
Page
7
Austin report from General J Watt Page state Selective Service director states men who turned 21 after October 16 1940 need not register unless another presidential call is issued. They may volunteer. law limits first registration to those 21 to 36 on that date. Registrants past age 36 remain liable.
Brewster County Motors publicizes a free 25 cent packet of Idabelle Firestone Marigold seeds from a new Burpee hybrid, distributed to garden clubs and horticulture enthusiasts. Seeds, introduced at Waldorf Astoria, honor Mrs Harvey S. Firestone, with no purchase required. The plant’s development involved careful hand pollination and later bee-assisted seed production.
Mrs. Chas. Hill of Granite Oklahoma, wife of Chas E Hill a printer, died February 6. Her family includes Irene Hill a linotype operator at Tulsa Tribune, Cecil Hill night foreman at Dallas News, Ernest Hill printer at Granite Enterprise, Chas Hill linotype operator at Douglas Arizona, and D E Hill linotype machinist at Daily Oklahoman Oklahoma City. The obituary appears in the Typographical Journal.
A letter to Miss Lucile Mitchell of Alpine from RAF member Frank R. Lott of London extols British resolve and defies Nazi bombs. He recalls air wardens dashing to duty during a bombing, tending wounded, and braving severe cold as they repair the town after explosions.
A reader recounts air raid experiences along the coast with and without shelter, noting powerful bombs and wrecked freight trucks yet negligible local damage. He describes sirens, anti-aircraft fire, and the spread of German food-shortage rumors as propaganda, asserting rationing exists to save resources.
The Pecos Valley Livestock show auction set high marks with eleven calves averaging 28.73 dollars per hundred and one top price of 55 cents per pound Lambs also fetched strong sums as bulls were auctioned after the club stock sale The report cites a 22 cent per pound average overall for calves and notes ongoing stock and market details amid historic prices in the Pecos Valley event
Quotationeer M G Mac McConal sold a bull offered by Elmer Harrington of Pecos to John Haley of Kermit for 108 dollars and another to the Security State Bank of Pecos for 190 dollars. G P Pink Mitchell of Kermit saw Haley buy a second bull for 142.50 dollars. Top lamb money went to Joe Lee McMahan of Barstow at 58 cents per pound, paid by Burton Lingo Co, which resold to Morris System Grocer of Monahans.
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