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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1941
Page
6
Goodyear engineers arrive back from Sweden with discussions on tire technology and potential updates to tire design. The delegation toured facilities and met with Swedish industry partners to review demonstrations and share insights from recent testing.
The 1684 La Salle expedition aimed for the Mississippi delta but faltered from the start. After storms, mutinies, and colonial hardship near Matagorda Bay, only 96 survived by 1687. La Salle was killed in an attempt to reach a French fort, and survivors later trekked to Arkansas and back to France. The Lavaca settlement suffered total loss.
Fort Davis reports heavy fruit on apple trees with colors developing across varieties and flowers in bloom. The Delicious apples, once thought lost after a spring cold snap, show a fair crop. Lee Sproul has an excellent harvest, even weighing a fruit at 150 ounces and seeking one reaching a full pound.
The highway patrol announced that no new drivers licenses will be issued next week. Only duplicate licenses will be issued as W. F. Davidson attends a drivers license training school in Austin. The office will open Monday from 2 to 4 pm to take duplicate license applications.
Dallas Mercantile National Bank builds 30 bank and office complex at Main Commerce and Erway streets drawing daily crowds. More than 17 000 visitors since opening, with a watched 50 foot upper deck and canopy taking shape. Membership cards issued to visiting foremen and displayed nationwide and abroad.
Alpine aviation cadets Joe Curry Hord and Carroll Holcombe returned home for a visit after ten weeks of base training at Hemmit and nineteen weeks of primary training at Tats. Joe will join Stockton field for ten weeks of advanced training, then receive wings and lieutenants’ commissions. The unit known as Plight K, with twenty five men, boasts no washouts or accidents, earning the title Immortal K Flight. Government bonds and stamps seen as safest investments.
The Federal government seeks personnel for junior inspector, signal corps equipment, engineers, associate engineers and land assistant engineers with annual salaries ranging from 2600 to 3800 dollars. Full details are available from C. A. Lease, civil service secretary, Alpine post office.
The Roman empire reached its greatest expanse under Emperor Hadrian around 117 A D. It included territories that now belong to Great Britain the Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg France Spain Portugal Switzerland Italy Austria Yugoslavia Romania and more.
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