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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1947
Page
8
Fort Davis faces unseasonable cold and heavy snow with record low temperatures and frozen water mains. Schools delayed reopening. local observatories report higher temperatures elsewhere. Community notices mention social gatherings and basketball schedules amid winter disruption.
Range Pow-Wow reports new caves on M L Hopson’s ranch southeast of Marathon to house up to 1600 sheep amid a coming snow era in the Big Bend. The piece also notes veterans housing concerns, local crafts like W D Smithers lamp shades, a Presidio candelilla plant, a wildcat pet, and a Texas newspaper writer visiting Alpine.
The McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis uses an infrared spectrometer, built with Yerkes and Northwestern input, to study starlight and planets. Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn and potential Martian vegetation features are examined, with results shared at Harvard’s astronomy meeting.
Mr and Mrs J W Gilmer received a letter from grandson Milton Gilmer written Friday night saying he would be calling for Korea early the next morning The note also remarks on the value of intellectual exercise across ages with a brief philosophical line.
Survey data show one in five World War II veterans join major groups. Among 17.24 million veterans, American Legion has 2.25 million, VFW 1.998 million, DAV 108 thousand, American Veterans of World War II 70 thousand, and Amvets plus AVC 65 thousand. For 13.274 million WWII vets, Legion 1.95 million, VFW 1.648 million, DAV 68 thousand. Amvets and AVC admit only WWII vets. Amarillo paper offered Palo Duro canyon to the United Nations for HQ. Buy U S Savings Bond.
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