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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1949
Page
8
Lexington report says Constable Leslie Finley endured ice cold weather while serving an eviction notice to a resident living in an ice house on Pine Street. The unusual scene highlighted the harsh conditions of the day.
Military honors will be given Technical Sergeant Leroy H. Kanetzky 22 at reburial rites in Austin. He was killed in action June 22 1943 as a radio operator on a B17 over the Northern Ruhr Valley. Rites Thursday at 4 p.m. at Hyltin Manor Funeral Home with Rev F G Roesner. Burial in Capital Memorial Park Cemetery conducted by American Legion Post 76. Survivors include his parents Mr and Mrs Alex C Kanetzky of Austin and five brothers Ervin Lonnie Marvin William of Austin and Paul of San Antonio.
Austin launches an $11,503 cancer drive with the first Travis County Medical Society Tumor Clinic at Brackenridge Hospital. Dr S W Bohls chairs the clinic, offering consultation and education for early cancer diagnosis, with care routed through family physicians or Mackenridge Hospital in indigent cases.
Reno coroner identified Edward F. Morris, a Reno contractor who owned a hotel and an apartment house, as the man killed when his car swerved off Highway 40 and plunged 200 feet down an embankment into the path of the City of San Francisco train. The accident occurred about five miles east of Sparks and delayed the streamliner briefly.
The National Industrial Conference Board reports February consumer prices fell 1 percent from January in 61 of 62 cities. Food dropped 2.1 percent, clothing fell 1 percent, while housing remained unchanged.
A second reward of 25 dollars was posted for information on the beating and strangling of a newborn baby girl found at a city garbage dump near Burleson Road. Earl Rogers and Frank Goodman contributed the rewards as authorities continue the investigation with sheriff and city detectives mobilized.
Dallas report says a burglar broke into George Lontos home Tuesday night. He tore at a bedroom window and ripped off two nails when his fingers slipped. He fled past the couple into darkness, leaving injured fingernails with the owners who then turned them over to police.
The report notes two Aus tin cases within a year involving castaway infants and mentions a separate incident of an unwed mother abandoning a baby alive in a local automobile, underscoring ongoing child welfare concerns in the area.
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