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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1943
Page
3
An assortment of wartime letters describe life in North Africa with safety jokes about food and looms of home. Messages from Edward Rau, Jakie Wood, Jim Mendelson, and others reveal travels to Washington, Camp Crowder, Hawaii. Local notices cover a hospital stay, a Guadalcanal wound, and a fire at Francisco Valenzuela’s home.
WAAC officer Mary J. D. Roberts, assistant director of Instruction, is promoted to WAAC staff director and battalion commander at the WAAC School here. The change places all WAAC personnel under WAAC officers where feasible to strengthen command and free physically fit officers and men for combat duty.
Bascom Giles through C. E. Casebier delivers Vol. 8 of eight new condensed state abstracts listing by counties. The volume serves as a cross index for original Texas land titles, aiding county tax assessors, abstractors, attorneys, and the General Land Office.
Mrs Margaret Buttrill attended graduation exercises of her daughter Miss Albertine Starr. She had earlier returned from San Angelo after a week’s visit with her daughter Mrs F T Leary.
Texas housewives face a 641 482 400 quart home canning goal for 1943 as USDA guidance urges rural families to store about 100 quarts per person. With civilian canning supplies down sharply from last year, Price Administrator Brown says homemakers must fill the gap to support armed forces and allies. The War Production Board pledges adequate canning supplies of lids and rings.
The advanced flying school's first softball champions were crowned when the 313th Training Squadron defeated the 462nd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron in the final game of a three game playoff. A pitchers duel featured De Younghe for the winners and Stepanek for the 462nd, with a final score of 9 to 2. Col. Gerald Hoyle presented rookies to the winning team.
The piece urges readers to remember Greek hardship under Axis occupation and to buy U S War Bonds with any surplus funds. It promotes bonds as the best investment, noting they never fall below purchase price, accrue value, and can be redeemed at sixty days. It directs purchases through banks post offices or rural carriers.
A toast to American industry switching from peacetime goods to munitions with mass production. Electric power, especially Central Power and Light, supplied about 50 percent of national output, keeping civilian needs met and battles winning. The piece lauds preparedness, private sector efficiency, and democracy fueling wartime resolve.
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