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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1943
Page
4
The Alpine Avalanche outlines its mission to serve Brewster County and the Big Bend region by disseminating local and state news. It emphasizes American democracy, religious freedom, and the duty to preserve the Constitution, urging readers to uphold liberty while respecting others.
The Montgomery Alabama Advertiser urges courage amid threats from saboteurs and fires. It emphasizes preserving life, removing disease breeding conditions, and protecting property while urging citizens to fear only the violation of truth. The article closes with a quotation about great men seeing beyond small sighs.
The article recounts the Gulf Coast wartime ceremony launching the U S S Camp, named for Ensign Jack Hill, a Midway aviator, with tears and pride from and about mothers and workers at Brown Shipbuilding Corp. It honors the ship’s christening during a wartime gathering, capturing a nation at work and the call to duty.
A jumble of dated style quips shows Mary buying traveler's checks with Methodist denomination, a housewife recalling cheese from a grocery store, and Donovan’s wife guiding him to the bottle where whiskey once rested, revealing light domestic humor and mistaken phrases.
A wife awoke her husband claiming the town was on fire with the sky lit up. He rose slowly, yawned, tested the room, and returned to bed saying the walls were still cool. The brief anecdote ends with a bleary, humorous misjudgment of danger.
Two American sailors aboard a ship drank heavily calling orange juice a joke. They approached a naval officer and attempted to pay his fare. The officer corrected them saying they were on a battleship and that a mistake had been made.
A solemn man rides a merry-go-round repeatedly at an amusement park. A fellow rider jokes about his enjoyment, but the man explains he dislikes it and is dizzy with a headache, yet he plans to collect ten dollars owed by the owner, using the ride as leverage.
A Pasadena thief replaced a pair of army shoes with a different pair, leaving the owner’s worn shoes behind. Anita May Miletrich reported the loss to police, noting the theft violated the local sense of justice. In Tennessee, Chickamauga National Park donated 8,000 cannon balls and markers to a national scrap drive.
The total inspected slaughter of cattle and calves in California for the first quarter of 1943 fell 13 percent from the same period in 1942 and 2 percent from 1941. The decrease occurs despite heavy government movement of beef and veal and helps explain civilian meat shortages, especially in densely populated wartime areas. It suggests possible black market activity and marketing disruption due to OPA price ceilings and restricted deliveries. Krasa-fat cattle movement from range areas is just starting into full swing this year.
List of names from Alpine Grapeland and other places, with titles and new duty stations. Includes cattle market pricing ranges for steers cows and calves, plus references to soldiers and friendly notices across Alpine Fort Davis and surrounding towns.
General Mater reports over half of wartime manufacturing aimed at aviation with expansion of facilities and output for United Nations air fleets. Emphasis is on instrument parts, liquid cooled and air cooled engines, and bomber engine assembly ready for crating and shipment.
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