Alpine Bucks Win District Cage Honors
Alpine high school Bucks edge Sanderson Eagles 25 22 to claim district basketball title in a tight, well coached game. Jiggs Davis led Alpine with 10 points, Kerr scored nine for Sanderson. Bucks earn regional tourney berth in Marfa.
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Betty So Crawford
Alpine High School Bucks
Sanderson Eagles
Eagles
Whistler
Bucks
Davis
Sanderson
Kerr
Fighting Bucks
Buck
Ottis Coggins
Billie Weston
Harvey Asathers
Anderson
Jiggs Davis
Holley
Stavely
Surr
Lindee
St. Clare van Hoorbeke
Marfa
Arta
Army
Duane Smith
Smith
Alpine
Sanrerson
Dishman
Surratt
Burling
Weston
One Point Green Stamps Used As Change Feb to Mar 20
During Feb 27 to Mar 20 the new ration token plan allows one-point green stamps to be used as change for processed foods, alongside one-point brown stamps. The shift spans a three-week transition with two stamp sets for processed foods and meats, and tokens replacing stamps starting March 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Mayor Proclaims Texas Week Here
Mayor L B Starns issues a statewide Texas Week proclamation for February 27 to March 4, 1944. He urges observance to honor Texas heritage, Independence Day anniversaries, and the Forty-Second Legislature, calling citizens to uphold liberty, democracy, and the memory of Goliad, the Alamo, and Pearl Harbor.
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Texas
L. B. Starns
Senate
Cheriah
Texas Empire
Goliad
Alamo
Pearl. Harbor
Body of Former Alpine Girl Found Near Marfa
The body of Mrs. Murphy Bennett formerly of Alpine and longtime Marfa resident was found beside the S P railroad about a mile west of Marfa by a passenger train crew yesterday morning. Presidio county officials opened an investigation into her death. She had been struck by a train. Mr. and Mrs Bennett once ran DeLaixe Cleaners in Marfa and she had served as secretary of the Presidio county ration board before resigning recently. Her husband is in the armed forces and Red Cross efforts seek him. He is brother of Mrs Jack Cros of this city. Mrs Bennett was formerly Miss Teanne Stewart of Fort Davis.
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Murphy Bennett
Alpine
Heer
Marfa
S. P
Presidio ‘County
Presidio
Big Bend Medical Society Plans March 14 Meeting
The annual meeting of the Big Bend Medical Society will be held at the Holland hotel here March 14, announced by Dr. Joel Wright, Alpine, secretary. Officers will be elected. The program includes discussions of Senate Bill 1161 adopting socialized medicine, described as a vital subject in an election year.
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Big Bend Medical Society
Holland Hotel
Joel Wright
Alpine
Wright
County Red Cross Drive Plans Near Ready
Dr. B. F. Berkeley county chairman announced committees are forming for the annual Red Cross campaign. The county quota is set at 6000 dollars and Brewster County residents are urged to respond patriotically. The drive is scheduled to begin March 1.
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Red Cross
B. F. Berkeley
Longtime Sul Ross department head departs for Fort Knox
For 73 years head of the department of industrial education at Sul Ross, he will serve as a civilian instructor at Fort Knox. He plans to return after the war and resume duties. his family will join him later. The move aligns with ongoing civic involvement in the town.
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Department of Industrial Education
Sul Ross
Fort Knox
Smith
Outstanding Meet of Baptists Held
The district Baptist convention met here Tuesday and Wednesday with 32 area churches represented. Officers and board members were re elected or chosen including H F Marsh president district women’s work W C Carson Alpine district Sunday school superintendent and others. Alpine was chosen as next meeting site February 22 23 with speakers Dr Miller Dr Taylor Dr Hopkins Wilson Fielder and Dr Thorn among out of town guests.
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District Baptist Convention
F. Marsh
Eugene Vickery
Crane
Clyde Childers
Ozona
W. C Carson
Sierra Blanca
Chester Watt
Mona
Hans
R. L. Wittner
Alpine
Bernard Guy
Pecos
Byron Bryant
Kermit
D. D. Christian
Iraan
Ira Patishall
el Paso
Fred Cole
J. C. Moore
A. R. Davis
Marathon
D. H. McAdams
Sanderson
Reuben Ward
Fort Stockton
M. ©. Pittman
Miller
Dallas
Thomas H.taylor
Howard Payne College
G. S. Hopkins
State Sunday School
Wilson Fielder
China
Japan
F. B. Thorn
Houston
Nephew of Alpine Man Reported Missing in Action
Lt. Robi L. McAdams, nephew of Dennis L. Brown of Santa Fe, is reported missing in action February 4. He graduated from the local school last April and was a pilot on a Flying Fortress stationed in England. He had been overseas since last November.
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Robi. L. McAdams
Dennis L. Brown
Santa. Fe
New Price Panel Organized Here
M. P. Stover becomes chair of the War Price and Rationing board Price Panel in Alpine, succeeding C. E. Patterson. D. N. Scott, Mrs. Josephine Newton, Forrest Weston, and C. H. Werner also serve. Avora Owens is clerk. The panel, directed by W. B. Williams of the Lubbock OPA, aims to help residents solve price and rationing issues democratically, urging neighborly cooperation and discouraging black market activity. Citizens are urged to report overcharges. forms are available at the ration board office.
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M. P. Stover
War Price and Rationing Board
C. E. Patterson
D. N. Scott
Josephine Newton
Forrest Weston
C. H. Werner
Avora Owens
W. B. Williams
Lubbock
OPA
Ration Board
Oil Wildcat Drilling Reaches Ellenburger Depth Near Alpine
Major oil company scouts monitor activity at the Dodson-Means test about 20 miles north of Alpine as drilling proceeds at 8490 feet. W. B. Hinton holds a contract to deepen the well abandoned in 1938 at 7800 feet after tools were lost. The wildcat entered the Ellenburger formation at 6365 feet in Sec 00 Block 10 GH&S.
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Alpine
W. B. Hinton
Ellenburger
Gh&s
Jury Selected In Civil Case Here In District Court
A jury was selected in district court yesterday to hear the civil action of Swearingen & Bledsoe Marfa attorneys versus O L Neyland et al for attorneys fees. Judge Hunter Metcalfe presided as arguments in LC Roark versus C J Blair et al a lease cancellation and rental recovery case were to be argued later.
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Swearingen & Bledsoe
Marfa Attorneys
O. L. Neyland
Hunter Metcalfe
LC. Roark
C. J
Plans for frozen food plants in Alpine and Marfa
Ray Norman of Central Power and Light Co outlines plans to install an 8 280 locker plant in each town if War Production Board approval is granted. Local 60 percent capacity must be filled before application. March 15 deadline. Locker types include 100 drawer and 150 straight. Attendees include local agents and chamber leaders from Alpine and Marfa. Applications to be taken at CP&L offices.
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Alpine
Marfa
Ray Norman
Central Powerland Light Co
Norman
War Production Board
Department of Agriculture
Mail Through Air Base Postoffice Hits 660 000 Pieces in 1943
An estimated 660 000 pieces of mail passed through the post office at the pilot school in 1943, an average of 55 000 monthly, with 10 000 postal money orders totaling 315 277.21 issued and 3 131 cashed. Stamps worth 17 284.00 were sold despite free mail privileges, and about 12 500 air mail stamps are bought monthly. Over 8 000 packages were sent home by pilot school personnel last year.
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Frank D. Careen
Campaign Recovers Over 200 Discarded Pens Here
More than two hundred fountain pens were collected in a local salvage drive led by Mrs G W Baines of Alpine. Pens were sent to Emerson McCord of Houston, who repairs and donates them to overseas chaplains for soldiers, with supplies from White Rubber Co Ravenna Ohio. Mrs Fritz Bull Weyerts and her box visiting F E Weyerts family relations noted.
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G. W. Baines
Alpine
Emerson McCord
Houston
McCord
White Rubber Co
Ravenna
Ohio
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Bor
New Guinea
Shickelgruber
Sons of Heaven
Alpine Bucks
Italy
Mark
Rome
Clark
Gustav Line
Anzio Netta
Frank J. Lowry
U.S. Navy
LST
Hitler
Cp&l
WPB
Soe Sere Houston Smith
Presidio County
J. D. Motley
Marfa Chamber of Commerce
R. C. Mitchell
A. J. Bierschwabe
Sul Ross College
Alpine Chamber of Commerce
Fritz Bull Weyerts
Box By
San Angelo
F. E. Weyerts
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