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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1943
Page
2
Alpine residents share visits and trips across Texas and beyond. Mrs Bows hosted by Mrs Measday in Alpine while Brewster county serviceman recovers. Teachers, ranch families, and former residents travel to Dallas, San Antonio, Marlin, Keokuk Iowa, and beyond for visits, baths, and family reasons. Local deaths touch Alpine families and nearby towns as friends attend funerals in Marfa Hearne and Fort Stockton.
Mary Lou ise born to Mr and Mrs Roy Jones weighing 6 19 pounds last Saturday. Richard Graves Bowel born February 28 to Mr and Mrs Graves Bogel Jr at Oklahoma City. Sydney Crenas JME born March 1 to Mr and Mrs Sydney Turner of Abilene in Alpine. Carl Thain returns to Alpine after Panama Canal service with tropical infection treated at Fort Bayard. Lieut A F Robinson Jr leaves Alpine for Camp Shelby Mississippi after commission at Camp Barkley joining Sul Ross student wife awaiting May degree.
Dr T W Smith sponsored by Hogg Foundation UT will lecture in Sul Ross on March 14 and 15. He pursued ethics in academia and politics, serving in the Illinois legislature and Congress, and is editor of the International Journal of Ethics. His talks cover Mental Health, Personal Philosophy, Democracy, and living wisely during wartime.
Misa Serice Strawn secretary to the President and publicity director for Sul Ross has resigned her position and will leave for Washington D C shortly. She has been here three and a half years knowing nearly every student on campus and ex students. She has been a campus personality and aided visitors and editors of the Skyline. Her absence will be keenly felt by Rossonians and students.
The Bellevue Baptist Church pastor, a noted preacher from Memphis Tennessee, will speak on the Baptist Hour in March in a three address series. First sermon titled Gaining God as Ally to be delivered Sunday March 7 at 7 30 CWT. WFAA Dallas KPRC Houston KFRO Longview will carry the programs.
The Advanced Flying School Band, recently organized, holds daily practices in the band room at the 873rd AAF land quarters under Wal Aut Officer Paul O. Steg. It has 28 instruments, 20 members, seeks eight more musicians, and is commanded by Lt. Richard E. Kyle. The listed members include T/Sgt Joseph De Puglio and several others, with their own quarters, orderly room, and band practice room.
Report notes carrier Leo Jervis and a rural route in Idaho during heavy snow. He delivers mail using a dog sled while the war effort urges scrap metal for front lines. Mentions Rogers and Miss Strawn at Sul oss and Mrs Rogers’ Iowa journalism degree.
The questions cover finance, fiction and science. Short selling involves selling borrowed stock to buy back later. Sherlock Holmes’ smarter brother is Mycroft Holmes. The speed of light was first measured by experiments reducing light’s travel time. A Tommy gun is a rapid fire handgun or submachine gun. The Imperial Valley’s topography is notably flat and arid. The most prominent man linked to the tallest building is often associated with the Burj Khalifa era or similar. Doubling time at a given rate is roughly calculated by 72 divided by the rate. In American politics a keynote speech is the main address at a convention. William Tecumseh Sherman marched from Atlanta to the sea. Watts measure electrical power.
A colored private Hart W. White was severely wounded when a gun discharged during a scuffle in Alpine’s southwest area yesterday around noon. He was rushed to a local hospital for treatment as authorities investigated the incident.
Fruit trees in the area, especially peaches and plums in full bloom, were badly damaged by hard freezes Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. The cold snap arrived with a norther, sending readings to 20 above zero, following a month of spring-like weather. The Navy reports rising failures in control and optical equipment producers, costing about 130 million dollars over the two year expansion from Sept. 1, 1939.
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