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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1946
Page
4
On October 1 1946 the new one cent rate on air mail will take effect. Congress scaled the prewar rate of cents per ounce to support revenue as a wartime measure and now adjusts to the postwar period.
Around Town notes in Alpine urge extra care as school begins. The column jokes about relaxed Texas license rules and mentions Brewster County, Patrolman Rushing, and ongoing rain outages. It playfully laments service interruptions and chasing contact details while celebrating the rain.
The piece recalls Range Pow-Wow figure THE SKIPPER Geo H Butts leaving Alpine for Dryden and highlights his long, storied travels in a house car and later a Buick camp car. It notes his health, age, and warm reception, plus local gossip on Alpine topics from post service questions to school sports and civic hopes.
Sept. 2. Livestock prices fluctuate under government price control moves delaying clarity from Washington. Fort Davis orchard attracts visitors with apples, cider sold ice cold, and picturesque mountain scenery. Cattle trade shows uneven but strong spots as OPA ceilings loom after August 31, with 800 cattle at Los Angeles yards and 100,000+ weekly market surplus. Quail and deer plentiful in Big Bend as predators reduced by pilot J. C. Casparis, aiding ranchers against losses.
The Selective Service announces a change in draft deferment for men with merchant marine service. Effective October 1, 1946, the required period of substantially continuous service will be reduced from 24 months to 18 months to qualify for deferment.
Fragmentary OCR yields a garbled text mentioning meat and nylons with scattered phrases about a shed willing fee and an eaves or dance scene. Core meaning unclear. no coherent events or named entities evident.
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