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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1944
Page
4
The Alpine Avalanche page shows filing of reading notices with 10e per line charge for initial insertion and higher rates for longer notices. It lists Benner Alor and Publisher Rc. D. Woop with Fort Davis and Marathon correspondents and notes a one-year price for a classified matter at the Post Office under Congress act of March 3, 1879.
The piece argues Petrillo uses coercive tactics against the War Labor Board order to pressure Columbia and RCA Victor to adjust royalty and recording practices. It notes his push to lift the WLB order through signaling noncompliance and questions government response if firms resist. The author warns against yielding to such coercion and cites Patterson on government resilience.
In a report meeting the narrator recalls familiar town faces led by Walter Barclay and Mildred Faber. They see local, steady hands tackling the Community Chest fund with practical, no fuss efficiency. The piece muses on small town virtues and the impulse to solve issues locally before defaulting to national or international bureaucracies.
The article lauds General Charles De Gaulle as the core force behind France's revival after 1940. It credits his leadership with inspiring resistance and frames the 1960 restoration of France’s status as a victory aided by United States Britain and Russia. It notes Tom Wolf’s impressions of De Gaulle as austere shy blunt and unspectacular yet steadfast and unglamorous.
The article weighs Western governments reactions to a potential renewed Spanish civil conflict. It notes fears of a Franco revival with German and Italian backing, questions if Britain and the U.S. will recognize any successor regime, and calls for avoiding fascist condoning. It argues for using influence to foster representative government rather than status quo alliances.
Week of cattle receipts ends with firmer feeding and killing stock prices. Bulls steady while steers and cows show gains amid brisk demand. top fed steers reach 14.50 to 15.50, cows to 13.25, veals 11.50 to 13.50. Sheep and lambs sold solidly with best lambs 13.50 to 14.00 as receipts remain light.
Independent Executrix Mrs Annie Kate Turney calls all debtors to settle and all claimants to present their demands by law. Notices must be filed at 606 North Tenth Street or Box 278 Alpine Texas. Dated October 30, 1946.
A jumbled dialog opens with a latecomer at a circus claimed to push through. The banter shifts to elephants in the ring, a sailor quipping about a drowning civilian and a long union marriage, ending on a joking remark about a wedlock.
A garbled column mixes a GI Joe scene at a museum with a probate court wrangle ending in insults to the judge. A farmer Seth Nead, tense over his brother William’s death, learns local paper notices cost two dollars and a half, sparking a sly exchange over rates.
Pilot models Dumt and tested are for the first radio and television sets Americans will buy after the war. They are not revamped 1942 sets but sleek new models with improvements developed for the armed services. Industry expects about two months after reconversion to start radios, and six to nine months for TV sets to roll off assembly lines. TOR VICTORY, BUY BOND.
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