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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1943
Page
4
In Alpine's fifty third year the Alpine Avalanche includes reading notices and corrections policy. The page notes per line charges for first insertion and per line for subsequent insertions. It lists pricing like one year and six month rates, with reference to Davis fins Big Bend section.
A War Department and Advanced Flying School joint notice explains why leaking plans harms national defense. It warns that casual talk can reveal sensitive data about aircraft, tanks, and production, urging vigilance among soldiers and defense workers to prevent espionage and protect security.
The piece condemns organized work stoppages by United Mine Workers during negotiations. It argues such actions are treacherous, deprive soldiers of support, and threaten public safety for personal gain. It calls Congress to enact controls to curb mutiny and likens coal mine stoppages to a Pearl Harbor attack.
The Joint Committee on Reduction of New Essential Federal Expenditures led by Senator Harry F. Byrd urges cutting 800000 civilian government employees. It notes wartime ratios of civilians to soldiers and critiques agency payroll practices while warning that wage and labor utilization programs are strained by large federal payrolls.
The piece argues railroads underpin wartime effort, noting Germany’s collapse as its rail network faltered. It praises U S private railroad management for efficiency, urging continued rail equipment investment as locomotives rival gun importance in total war.
A fragmentary civic speech extols protecting simple freedoms as core American values. It emphasizes churches, family, land, opportunity for children, and shared prosperity, linking sacrifice in war to a broader aim of peace, justice, and a world of brotherhood. Quotes from Wilfred Wer Lining and Samuel Johnson appear in the vignette.
A playful, anachronistic dialogue imagines Professor and leaders in a mock meeting. Hitler and Tojo exchange forgetful lines about tools, purposes, and a mistaken phone call from Moscow.
A quirky Civil War era exchange shows an Arkansas Cavalry Major commanding troops to mount with the line Prepare fer tur git onto yer creeters. A witty exchange then follows as Mark Twain rebuts a haunted question with a joke about immortality and cloves.
An officer finds the guard-room nearly empty with a private lounging in shirt and trousers smoking a pipe. The sergeant is absent at the mess, and the private reveals he is the prisoner after claiming to be merely resting in the canteen.
A frightened visitor sought shelter in an empty trunk as Nels Svenson rushed home to discover a house fire. The distressed wife said the house was ablaze and a hidden voice urged quick escape, shouting “What shall we Yumpin Yiminey.”
Pvt. Notre Riddison of Denver says Army doctors doubted his claim of 52 operations in one year. He revealed scars from surgeries done at ages 3 to 4 to cure a blood disease. The piece ends with a call to donate scrap metal to aid the Army.
The county health nurse Miss Pearl Fulrod reported in June that two well baby conferences were held with 31 mothers 16 infants 21 preschool children one school child and two visitors attending. She attended two committee meetings and three out of town visits. One crippled child was sent to El Paso for treatment and another will be sent next month. Milk and cod liver oil were given to underprivileged children and 146 home visits were made.
Mt Zion Negro Methodist church in Midletown Virginia adds a lemon social to attract attendees. Each guest pays to enter and the person who finds the most seeds wins a prize. Also notes New Orleans park volunteers aiding the war effort by swapping bananas for sweet potatoes.
A reflective sermon argues against broad minded indecision and urges bold conviction. It condemns moral timidity, endorses decisive faith like Christ’s teaching, and warns that widespread neutrality harms society while firm belief can lead and heal.
State H. E. Head and Mrs Ercel S Eppright renowned foods authority and director of home economics at Texas State College for Women in Denton preside over the Texas Home Economics Association. The pictured building houses the TSCW foods and clothing laboratory.
Washington July 3 The WAACS are the WACs now officially in the Army. President Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the Women's Army Corps changing status from auxiliary to regular. The women in Khaki are part of the Army as much as any four star general. Back our fighting men Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
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