22 May 1942
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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1942
Page
1
Highlighting thrills of the era, Fox’s Son of Fury features Benjamin Jake in a romance between Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck George Sanders Frances Farmer and Roddy McDowall, the film arrives in theaters this season.
Top rodeo stars signed for the El Paso Sheriff’s Posse rodeo to run June 4 through 7 in the new enclosed coliseum south of Washington Park. The event, organized with the chamber of commerce, will showcase Cheyenne Frontier Day and Pendleton veterans along with prize cutting horse contests and a 400 dollar finale. Tickets run 1.10 for adults, 0.85 for children, with box seats 2.20. performances alternate day and night across the four days.
A long OCR list of names and a theatrical notice is followed by a movie teaser for Bedtime Story starring Fredric March and Loretta Young. The passage blends legal notices and film publicity with scattered names, dates, land claim references, and court actions.
Tyrone Power celebrates five years of screen triumphs with the swashbuckling Benjamin Blake in Son of Fury. The actor’s rise began with Lloyds of London, where he first drew critical acclaim, and continues with a dramatic period piece featuring Gene Tierney, Frances Farmer, George Sanders, and Roddy McDowall. The Granada offer promises Sunday and Monday showings amid a richly staged 18th century English backdrop.
In Los Angeles on May 18 a shipment of experimentally fed steers from New Mexico State College sold for 14.10 and 1425 per head, the highest prices since 1922. The choice steers weighed about 1054 to 1092 pounds, fed on first and third cutting alfalfa hay rations to illustrate hay value. Prices for other choice cattle and heifers remained firm, with market outlook seen as stable though ceilings on beef cuts limit gains.
Alpine Drug store announces L L Moor appliance technician will conduct an all day demonstration on hernia control at the store Tuesday May 26. Moor claims his method uses a bubble device and stresses a free consultation for hernia sufferers. A B Carnes urges every man woman and child to attend and view the appliance in action.
Fifty high school students from Maine Evanston and New Trier townships study ground school at Northwestern University to become glider instructors. Guided by Dr. Everett L. Edmondson, they prepare for a summer glider camp run by the Junior Association of Commerce with civilian aviation authority and navy approval. The program aims to train a large force of glider pilots for civilian, wartime, and lend‑lease needs, though the instructor notes they are not a major training factor yet.
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