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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1943
Page
4
A brief notice from Alpine reports activity in the Davis Big Bend area with community notes from Kate and Publisher Society correspondent Gort. The Alpin e Avalanche column covers local happenings, weather checks, and civic updates across the county paper segment.
A front news column praises the Texas state and Big Bend Guard units for wartime readiness and morale. It notes the guard’s diverse cross section of citizens, basic training, and duties to preserve, train, and serve as a reserve. Enlistment is urged as draft-depleted ranks need filling. It ends with a humorous overview of American comic wit aiding morale.
A fragmented historical passage extols private enterprise as the force behind freedom, innovation, and national strength. It links private enterprise to Renaissance rebirth, global trade, industrial power, and national defense, naming figures and industries as embodiments of liberty and progress.
The article notes a shifted 1948 Christmas with posting deadlines of October 15 and November 1 for Navy kin, massive mail at Dallas post offices, and widespread early shopping focused on shipability and recipient needs. Overseas servicemen will miss the day, but families at home may celebrate twice.
The quote argues that only free peoples can sustain shared aims. It imagines universal benefits: comfortable housing for families, schooling for 400 million children, higher education for 500 million youths, hospitals for 2,000-person communities, and vast concrete highways. It credits Merton Braley and Woodrow Wilson in commentary.
A garbled compilation from a 1943 era page includes jokes about a conservationist woman whose car stalls, a tailor and a customer arguing over a bill, a classroom heaven question to Abie, and a ventriloquy of a couple joking about a soldier son. A Washington office anecdote about a “Commander Smith” signals humor amid wartime civics. A legal citation from Brewster County Texas seeks trespass relief in a land dispute involving Survey 6 in Block G-19 and a land patent.
Texas, this the 16th day of October, A D 1948. (SEAL).
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