Local Showers and Rains Reported In Big Bend Area
Local rains and showers covered the Big Bend region over the past week with scattered pockets of heavy moisture. Alpine recorded an inch from a Monday downpour within city limits, while a Wednesday rain measured 0.56 inches at the college gauge. Rankin McCamey saw cloudburst rainfall that washed out parts of the Santa Fe roadbed impacting traffic.
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Big Bend
Alpine
College
Rankin-McCamey
Santa Fe
Holland Avenue Package Store seen in Alpine permit notice
Notice to apply for a Package Store Permit filed with the Texas Liquor Control Board covers premises on east part of Lot 4 Block 6 West Holland Avenue Alpine Brewster County Texas under the name Holland Avenue Package Store owned solely by W D McCall.
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Texas Liquor Control Board
West
Holland Avenue
City of
Alpine
Brewster County
Texas
W. D. McCall
Sole
Sul Ross acquires new Agriculture Department housing
Sul Ross College has obtained a donated building from the War Surplus Administration to house its expanding Agriculture Department. The refurbished structure will include classrooms, a lab, library, offices, and a preroom. Headed by A J Bierschwabe with W K Williams assisting, plans drawn by W J Smith and Dr R M Hawkins. Completion set for the start of the second six weeks term. Also notes a fishing trip return by several locals from the Chama river.
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Sul Ross
Agriculture Department
Hancock Hall
We College
A. J. Bierschwabe
W. K. Williams
Marfa Army Air Base
W. J. Smith
Department of Industrial Education
R. M. Hawkins
Bierschwabe
Fort Worth Union
Swift and Company
Alpine GI Selected To Attend Command School
Sgt Delvin C Glenn of Alpine has been chosen to attend the USPA Zone Command School of Standards at Zell am See near Salzburg Austria He entered service in February 1943 and served with the 42nd Rainbow Division He is now with the Property Control and Restitution section of Military Government in Austria The School of Standards trains picked non commissioned officers in modern administration methods Tea seedlings are kept in the nursery for 18 months before setting out
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Delvin C. Glenn
Alpine
Uspa Zone Command School of Standards
Zell Am See
Saltzburg
Austria
Glenn
R. I. Glenn
42Nd Rainbow Division
Two Words to Avoid and a Bank Robbery Plea
A court scene features a defendant who says he robbed his kid brother’s bank. The DA notes the brother was cashier of the First National Bank. A store encounter ends with a misheard cry about ant powder and a grim plan to kill.
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First National Bank
Rastus Refuses Unusual TB Test Request
A doctor asks Rastus to ex pect orate into a bottle and to split into a receptacle across the room. Rastus replies with humor, questioning the doctor’s instructions in a lighthearted exchange.
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Rastus
Cross Examiner Probes Witness in Courtroom Exchange
The cross-examiner pressed a difficult witness in court asking if he knew any jurors. The witness replied he knew more than half the jury and claimed he could know more than all of them combined.
Alpine Avalanche preview and notices in Brewster County paper
The Alpine Avalanche, Brewster County official organ, details editor publishers and staff, subscription rates, and policy notices. A fragment mentions a past event about a student described as cured and leaving the institution after passing bar exams and considering a law practice and possible dramatics career.
Hospital Notes From West Texas List Major Operations
A list from Marfa Alpine Fort Stockton and Oakland California notes patients undergoing major operations minor operations and treatments with dates the Texas 36th division is noted as the Army unit composed entirely of men from one state.
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Garland Green
Alpine
Mijor
T. J. Kipgen
Fort Stockton
Joan Criglar
Oakland
Cal
Jack Hibbs
Bill Maddox
Texas
Army
For Sale Listings Include Multiple Homes and Lots
Several houses and parcels offered: a 10 room 4 apartment furnished brick two story near business district at 12000 dollars. A 6 room house on 40 acres with water and fruit trees just outside city limits at 10000 dollars. A 3 bedroom house with acres of land fruit trees garden and outbuildings at 8000 dollars. A furnished house with hardwood floors next to a college campus at 12500 dollars.
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