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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1945
Page
2
A reflective 1946 editorial arguing that victory must not erase personal freedom and ownership. It critiques postwar planning as a blend of initiative and bureaucracy, warns against collectivist state overreach, and asserts that the right to own property and express individuality sustains a bright future despite material losses from war.
A prophetic meditation on a postwar era when chaos yields to reconstruction. It envisions widespread literacy, global mobility, and Bible readership expanding to tens of millions, guiding a new world order through faith and education, ending with a wartime call to buy War Bonds.
A Western Front correspondent reports increased German rocket bombardment in volleys aimed at disrupting supply lines and areas behind troop concentrations. The piece argues rockets’ potential impact on future warfare and urges the United States to retain island bases and diversify domestic industry for defensive and strategic resilience.
Aunt Matilda, a truth seeker, questions wage policy amid wartime economics. The author debates wage increases, taxes, and prices, arguing prosperity requires broader gains, not payouts to a few, while quoting thinkers and closing with a Joseph Parker reflection.
A guest asks a hotel clerk a playful question while a storm warning looms. The clerk responds in mock humor as a small boy and a door sales scene unfold with mistaken home addresses, highlighting a string of lighthearted misunderstandings and miscommunications.
Grace Elliott of the YWCA urges women to refuse excess comforts and teach children rationing must persist for peace. The piece notes Baptist Women's relief drive aiming to raise 100 million dollars for war relief and mission work, led by Mrs. Leslie Swain, with focus on Burma and global reconstruction. Army Chaplain Justus praises Asia nurses for courage during monsoon and combat. The column ends with a vignette about a reader's note from San Antonio.
A terse wartime missive from a nameless young husband explains his rapid rise to corporal after three months in the Army. He advises his wife to keep calm, not to tell neighbors about the promotion, and not to move to a larger house yet.
Three salesmen dining in a Washington hotel face a $30 bill. One claims his firm is in the 50 percent bracket for war work and pays $16. Another says the 80 percent bracket makes $6. The last insists on paying, noting his firm works on a cent plus basis and expects a $3 profit.
Poem expresses Christmas tribute to soldiers serving abroad in wartime. It honors husbands brothers sweethearts and sons and hopes for a safe victory and joyful homecoming when peace is won.
Westinghouse Electric Co. in Pittsburgh reports a new magnetic tailwind technology developed in its research labs that could let American bombers reach targets 100 miles or more beyond their present range. War bonds purchased today aim to save many lives.
Granada Theatre screens Paramount Technicolor romance Rainbow Island featuring Jodie Bracken with Dorothy Lamour and Gil Lamb. Barry Sullivan plays the psychiatrist in Lady in the Dark. Bracken's versatile career spans sailor soldier and marine roles. A separate note reports a doctor removing a bone tumor from an old man’s leg, leaving him with both legs.
The War Food Administration describes a large, near 15 acre facility near Atchison, Kansas, built as the nation’s largest cold storage warehouse. Three refrigeration plants, lowering temperatures to 1930s levels, enable storage of diverse farm commodities especially foods processed in the western regions.
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