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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1946
Page
4
Kodak enlarging and coloring services offered with studio hours 10 to 12 and 1 to 6. Contact Anne Stanford at phone 383 to inquire about photo processing and studio scheduling.
Mr and Mrs Loyd Riegel welcomed a daughter named Sharon Ann born Monday. Mrs Riegel is the former Lucille Bierschwale, daughter of Mr and Mrs A J Bierschwale. Major and Mrs John W Roker tat reported a son, John William, weighing 7 lbs 10 oz, born at Austin on Wednesday. John is the son of Mrs Ia Kokernot of Alpine.
The Avalanche lists candidates for office subject to the Democratic primary on July 27, 1946. Yer Representative 71h Dist H. Conger Jones of Val Verde County. Yer Commissioner Prec. 1 Joe Parker. Prec. 4 W. T. Dunnington Clint Fulcher. Fees are payable in advance: Motes State and district 15 dollars, county 10 dollars, precinct 7.50 dollars.
Real estate ad offers eight room and four bedroom homes near the business district with shrubbery, garden soil, and a strawberry patch. Includes five room houses, 12 lots, and several business properties with potential rental apartments and improved construction. Licenses and broker notes included.
Discharge notes: EM Burr Thornton Jr 완료 after 14 months in ETO with Patton's Third and Patch's Seventh armies. Ray N. Morrow discharged from RAF after three years and three months. Nick J Thee, seaman first class, receives fleet post office address after Navy training. Jack Scannell to report for induction in El Paso.
Oak land visitor Lawrence Lozano recalls World War II service and the 1944 bridge blast near Cheyenne. Obituary notes honor Al Kinsey, famed cowboy philosopher, while residents discuss shortages and wartime tension. Local figures Guss Cox, Lt Bill Blevins, Mayor Jon Gillett, and families visit kin as Alpine hosts mark leave and tributes.
A column mix of letters and commentary from Wilfred and others. Mentions Valentine greetings, city traffic ideas to ground parking spaces, color issues at a school cafeteria, and the Rotary meeting season. References to Inountain Peaks, Dine High, and Berteng Geren with a San Antonio address for delivery details.
Sul Ross Music Department presents Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado directed by Mrs. Virginia Lee Link on Feb 22 in the auditorium. Bill Friesen will be Mikado and Clyde Smith Nanki Poo with a large cast and orchestra, in a burlesque satire of old Japan.
A fragmentary note discusses political foe labeling and a dig at Dr. Lockhart's hospital. The speaker jokes about driving by the hospital and offers a food for thought line comparing a rat and a grave, reflecting local campaign mood.
A note expresses satisfaction that the old Mojave will be reconditioned and opened again and hopes this marks the start of a broader face lifting program for local business buildings.
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