Texas State Library Launches Rural Family Book Service
The Texas State Library offers a pilot family library service for about 200 families outside cities. Readers register with preferences and receive regular book packets postage paid by the reader. The program aims to expand literacy awareness and eventually build local library support.
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Texas State Library
Francis Henshaw
Texas
Bunyan
Alexis Carrel
H. Allen Smith
Family Service
Second Lecture Honoring Dr Eby Planned Tonight
The second in a series honoring Dr. Frederick Eby professor of education at the University of Texas for 40 years is set for 8 p.m. Tuesday in Geology Auditorium. Dr Newton Edwards will speak on Education As A Social Instrument. More lectures are planned this academic year.
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Frederick Eby
University of Texas
Newton Edwards
College of Education
Eby
Canvass set for Wednesday on trustee elections
The County Commissioners Court will canvass Wednesday the Saturday trustee results from Travis County school districts. Incumbents Walter Gustafson and T E Caldwell faced no opposition for two Travis County Board of Education seats. Several districts had write-in or unopposed candidates including Manor and other listed communities.
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County Commissioners Court
Travis County
Walter Gustafson
T. E. Caldwell
Travis County Board of Education
Travis Peak
Creedmoor
Elroy
L. R. Olson
George E. Johnson
Edwin Magnuson
Wilbert Larson
Manola
Roger L. Ranney
C. W. Powell
James P. Hagan
Pleasant Hill
W. S. Sandifer
H. R Smith
Manor Board
Jack Hornsby
Hornsby-Dunlap
M. L. Morrow
Summit
C. R. Peterson
Fishville
St Louis Pastor Delivers Lenten Fear Sermon at Queen Theater
The Rev George W Wittmer of Messiah Lutheran Church spoke at a Queen Theater Lenten service opening a Holy Week series. The sermon warned that fear is humanity’s chief adversary and urged faith in Jesus as savior amid atomic age anxieties.
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George W. Wittmer
Messiah Lutheran Church
St. Louis
Queen Theater
Wittmer
Albert F. Jesse
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Arnold E. Koepsell
Trinity Lutheran School
Concordia
Lutheran Concordia College
Bernhard Kurzweg
Lundquist
Jesus
Residential Building Shows Yearly Drop
Austin’s residential construction rose in March pushing 1950 year to date value to about 8.75 million while the first quarter of 1949 stood at 11 million John C Eckert city building inspector said 1139 permits were issued for new construction in March up from 761 a year earlier Residential work cost less than commercial building but the annual value fell by more than 2 million Eckert stated.
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Austin
John C. Eckert
Eckert
State Groups Name Austin Top Site for State HQs
Austin is highlighted as the best site for statewide business and professional group headquarters. Seventy-seven such organizations have main offices there, about 18 more than in 1948, with an annual local income around 212 million dollars from these offices. The Littlefield Building houses 13 offices while Commodore Perry Hotel already has five. More than 50,000 visitors come yearly for meetings and conferences, spending over half a million dollars in city stores and hotels. The listing names numerous associations headquartered in Austin across business, professional, and social sectors.
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Austin
Littlefield
Commodore Perry
Chamber of Commerce
The
Discovery Explains Farther FM-TV Wave Travel
University of Texas physicists report FM TV waves travel farther than expected as atmospheric scattering mirrors light. Dr. A W Straiton notes signals bounce off particles and return to Earth, revealing over 200 miles of reception from overhead sources.
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University of Texas
A. W. Straiton
Earth
Straiton
Houses Like Ghosts On Move At Midnight
The article describes Austin house-haulers starting operations between midnight and early morning. C. E. Gustafson and C. E. Flink move from one to three houses weekly, traveling from yards to hundreds of miles. They note the quiet hours are essential and highlight Congress Avenue as a good hauling route.
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Austin
C. E. Gustafson
C. E. Flink
Flink
Congress Avenue
City Tackles Slum Problem and Housing Standards
City officials hear a Madison survey showing about 6400 Austin houses unfit for occupancy and consider federal Title 1 slum clearance. The plan seeks 520 new public housing units and city action to eliminate the same number of sub standard dwellings.
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Austin
Taylor Glass
Austin Housing Authority
The
Economic Research Agency
Madison
Wis
Public Housing Authority
Washington
R. H. Briggs
Wisconsin
C. O. McCracken
McCracken
Briggs
Glass
A. J. Wirtz
Housing Authority
Wirtz
Stuart MacCorkle
Hubert Jones
Herman Jones
Authority
Guston Morgan
Soldier-Farmer Cal Hahn Returns Home to Bergstrom Roots
Private First Class Calvin J Hahn, 21, once lost his Bergstrom AFB home when the site expanded from Del Valle farmland, but he now lives near Cedar Creek and works the family farm after re enlistments linked to his old base in Bergstrom.
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Calvin J Hahn
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Hahn
Bergstrom
del Valle
Julius FE. Hahn
Air Force Base
Sam
Calvin
Air Force
Hill Field
Ogden
Utah
Cedar Creek
Ex Hawaii Chief Justice Kemp Longest Texas Ex Traveler
Sam B. Kemp chief justice of the Hawaii supreme court and UT law class of 1900 traveled farther than any other ex student to the University Roundup. He visited his niece in Austin and is a Merrilltown native whose first case was Graves versus Pfluger. He later served in Honolulu before becoming chief justice in 1941 and plans to retire in Hawaii.
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Sam B. Kemp
Supreme Court of Hawaii
Justice Kemp
Mike Jackson
Sinclair
Merrilltown
Austin
Round Rock
Dorothy H. Kemp
Hawaii
Kemps
Graves
T. W. Gregory
Woodrow Wilson
Young Kemp
The
Territories Supreme Court
Honolulu
Kemp
Islands
Texas
Besa
St Matthew's Passion Sung Tonight in Hogg
Second performance of Bach's The Passion According to St Matthew will be presented at 8 p m Tuesday in Hogg Auditorium guest soloist William Hain. The massive oratorio requires two full choruses an antiphonal choir and two symphony orchestras under Alexander von Kreisler who has led rehearsals since September.
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William Hain
Hogg Auditorium
Alexander von Kreisler
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