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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1944
Page
4
Classified fragment offers up to 19 a week for Watkins Dealers with postwar security. Ad invites readers to write The J. K. Watkins Co. in Memphis Tenn. Also notes instruction in singing by W. C. Friesen and a money-lending ad by Wm. H. Bick.
Mr and Mrs Dan Butter announce the birth of their daughter Suzanne at Marta Hospital last Saturday. The infant weighed 7 pounds 15 ounces at birth.
Border Patrol member Shellie Barnes heads to Fort Stanton New Mexico for an indefinite stay while Vernon Nichols attends Schreiner Institute Kerrville Dallas students Emmy Lou Harris and Eva Jean Ferguson visit Alpine for holidays. USO events host dances dinners and games with hundreds attending as volunteers raise funds including 83 from local clubs. Alpine reorganizes State Guard promotions elevate battalion leaders to lieutenant colonels, Elmer G Burgess of the 2nd Battalion centered in Alpine promoted Dec 9.
Promotion of Capt Graham W Fuller to Major in the Texas State Guard at Alpine announced by Brigadier General Arthur B Knickerbocker Adjutant General of Texas Fuller Executive Officer 3rd Battalion TSO An official commission signed by Governor Cake R Stevenson Commander in Chief Texas State Guard will be sent Major
Miss Jean Starnes of Howard Payne College returns home to Brownwood for the holidays to spend Christmas with her parents Mr and Mrs H K Starnes. Mrs H J Pruett and son Herbert Ebers visit from Houston and attend Mayerary school in Castroville. Lt John Young II and family join Buckley Field moving crew at Denver. Lt Cordell Moore and Beverly Nixon travel from Florida to Santa Fe New Mexico. Aleta Bierschwale earns Certificate of Merit from the Office of Censorship for service in South America. Mrs J W Prangers from Rochester Minnesota visits her parents in Brownwood.
Alpine PTA held a brief meeting after a world wide Christmas program presented by Central Ward School pupils. Miss Durst's second grade won the $5 room award. The Alpine Chorus performed Patapan and Lullaby of the Christ Child. The executive recommended adopting a school lunch program.
A Christmas concert Sunday in the Alpine Methodist church featured the Alpine Singers directed by W C Friesen. Mrs Freda Gibson Powell narrated the nativity Bible passages while soloists and a string trio performed Handel based pieces and classic carols. The program, praised for its clear narration and tasteful instrumentation, closed with traditional carols and a benediction from local ministers. The event was repeated at the air base chapel by request.
Col A J Kerwin Malone reported a flawless November at the Western Flying Training Command field with near 20 000 training hours. Only Fort Sumner New Mexico and Mather Field California posted similar non accident months in the last year and a half. He cited teamwork among instructor cadet and crew chief as key to the record.
Dr J C Rabourn and Dr Ada Rabourn are elected chiropractors and naturopaths serving Colonie Irrigations X Ray treatment. Office hours run weekdays from 2 PM to 10 PM and Saturday from 10 AM to 12 noon. Located at 204 4th and Gillis Streets in Fort Stockton, Texas.
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