Local Items Highlight Terlingua and Alpine Residents
Terlingua residents Bobby McCarver and Dr W N Kelley are in Alpine for visits and treatments. Miss Mildred Brake had an appendectomy locally. Various friends and relatives travel between Gainesville Denton Gonderson and Houston visiting family, work trips, or military duties. Notables include Major Richard J White inspector at the pilot school and Lt Walker on maneuvers, and Navy personnel J B Casner and John M Rhodes marking service milestones. Sydney Brown and son Pie Charles Brown visit Alpine. their daughter Sydney Laurel Brown, a Waves recruit, is now Seaman Second Class.
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Sydney Brown
Charles Brown
Alpine
Brown
CC. Barnet
Charles
Maxwell Field
Ala
Sydney Laurel Brown
Alpine High School
New Mexico. & M. College
Rate on Social Security Tax Remains Same
Austin, March 1. The Federal Insurance Contributions Tax rate of 1 percent for employers and 1 percent for employees will be continued to the end of the calendar year 1944. Frank Scofield, collector of the First Texas district, announced the provision was in the Revenue Act of 1943, now law.
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Austin
Frank Scofield
Texas
Military Mail Improves For Local Servicemen At War
Local service members receive updated postings from World War II postings. Pvt Jasper Koontz and Pvt Marco Giles relocate to Camp Stewart and APO addresses in Georgia. Claude Garner trains at Frederick Army Air Field Oklahoma. John Weyerts heads to Fort McClellan Alabama for infantry basics. Shelby Burke promoted to private first class in the South Pacific. Pat Wooley returns to the United States to Kennedy General Hospital Memphis after overseas duty. M J Keefer returns home on furlough after destroyer service near Pearl Harbor. Roy Stillwell writes from England recalling Big Bend park film with Alpine locals. Copeland promoted at Camp Kearns Utah. Marion Jenkins promoted to staff sergeant overseas. Mildred Gibbonc resides in Alpine. Virgil Young on furlough from merchant service. C L Coleman at Tyndall Field bomber mechanics. Marvin Pete Adams completes radar training at San Diego and goes to Camp Bradford Virginia. Alan Fraser’s telegram confirms overseas arrival. Frank Ramos reports safe after Marshall Islands landing. Devin Glenn transfers from infantry to air force at Amarillo Army Air Field.
Ration Calendar and UT Gifts Highlight March Provisions and Grants
The notice lists ration stamp validity for sugar, meats, fat, processed foods, shoes, and tire inspection with dates from February to May. It also reports gifts totaling nearly 11,000 dollars to the University of Texas in two months, including 5,000 from the General Education Board and 2,300 from the Office of Scientific Research and Development for continuing studies and vitamin research, plus a naval cadet leaving for Millsap College for initial training.
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K. Land M
University of Texas
General Education Board
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Three Extension Courses At Sul Ross In San Angelo And Del Rio
Sul Ross offers three extension courses taught by E C Coleman G P Smith and T M H Etheridge. Coleman teaches 18 students in post war planning every other Saturday in the Cactus Hotel San Angelo for ten meetings. Smith instructs 22 in audio-visual aids in San Angelo at the same time. Etheridge offers an advanced education course to 23 students in Del Rio with weekly weekend sessions for ten meetings. Each course carries three hours credit. A nerve meter demonstration measures electrical impulses to gauge nervous state. Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
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Sul Ross
E. C. Coleman
G. P. Smith
T. MH. Etheridge
Coleman
Cactus Hotel
San Angelo
D. m
Smith
Coleman Thas
Etheridge
del Rio
Doodlers Enter Insignia Contest At Pilot School
Doodlers at the pilot school shift to ersatz artists as they work on a new insignia. Special Service sponsors an insignia contest with a $25 War Bond prize for the best design submitted by May 20 and a $10 War Saving stamps prize for the runner-up.
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Oodlers
Schoo
Special Service
Political announcements list for 1944 primary candidates
The Avalanche announces Democratic primary candidates for July 22 1944 including J C Epperson for District Attorney Alpine for Sheriff and others Clarence Hord Harold Wynne R B Slight A B Sandifer H C Hernandez as election candidates plus a note that the Red Cross needs support in the ongoing funds drive and a prompt to read the classified ads.
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83Rd Judicial
J. C. Epperson
Alpine
Clarence Hord
Harold Wynne
R. B. Slight
A. B. Sandifer
H.C. Hernandez
The
Red Cross
Blondin the First to Cross Niagara Falls on Tight Rope
In 1859 the French daredevil Blondin became the first person to traverse Niagara Falls on a tight rope demonstrating remarkable balance and nerve. The feat drew crowds and immortalized Blondin in a daring display of mid 19th century stuntmanship.
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Niagara Falls
Blondin
Learn a Skill with the Women’s Army Corps
Want to learn a skill and gain valuable Army training. The ad promotes WAC enlistment offering training and future pay and job prospects after the war. Apply at a US Army Recruiting Station or write The Adjutant General in Washington DC. Women in essential war industry must have release from employer or the U.S. Employment Service.
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WAC
Adjutant General
Washington
D.C
U.S
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Barry
FL Clark
Stanley W. Walker
John 8. Weyrts
Lt Walker
Louis
J Newell
Charles Dyer
Houston
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N. J
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Mick
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Lamesa
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Ed Tape
Rawlings Wool & Mohair Co
Marta
Tex
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Port Davis
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Lonely Hearts Club of
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Guy Crawford
Queen's College
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Fort McClellan
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Shelby) Burke
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AAP
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Kennedy General Hospital
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Pearlarbor
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Stillwell
England
Roy Stillwell
Big Bend Park
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Fred Rice
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C. W. Copeland
Camp Kearns
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Seatte
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Granada Theatre
FBI
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Charles Starrett
Dancing Masters
Laurel and Hardy
Maragret O'Brien
James Craig
BAY U. S. War Savings Bonds
Mary Astor Herbert Marshall
Kathryn Grayson
Gene Kelly
Johnny Casparis
Tule Lake
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Millsap College
Jackson
Miss
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Joe Marsh
Lem Martin
Ed Carey
Lem
Ike
Seatac
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