Fredericksburg Easter Fires Reenactment Draws Town Scene
The Fredericksburg pageant retells Princess White Fawn's rescue from a pyre and the peace treaty with Indians. Staged by Mary Marys High girls songs, St Marys Glee Club, and Fredrickburg High students, the event features a living cross and a chorus of Scouts, rabbits, and Girl Scouts. The show lights hillsides with fires and distributes dyed eggs to children. It will be broadcast globally on Voice of America during Easter.
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Silver Arrow
Cross Mountain
Fredericksburg
White Fawn
Order of the Arrow
Boy Scouts of Austin
Venne
Floyd E. Davis
Capitol Area Council
St. Mary’s High School
Fredericksburg High School
Bunny
Voice of America
Loosened Gas Hose Blamed for Blaze
A loosened gas hose in a Taylor bedroom caused an early Thursday fire that destroyed all furnishings and heavily damaged the home of Jule Benjamin. Fire marshal B. J. Korman said loss estimate is not yet available.
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Taylor
Jule Benjamin
B. J. Korman
Double Rites Held for Taylor-Woman's Kin
In Freeport on Friday double funeral services were held after the deaths of Mrs. Otto Seidler, Mrs. Eulenfeld's aunt, and her cousin Charlie Seidler. Mrs. Eulenfeld and her husband attended the rites as word came of the aunt and cousin dying within hours of each other Thursday.
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Taylor
ANS
E. O. Eulenfeld
Otto Seidler
Eulenfeld
Deaths and Funerals Across Texas Listings
Obituaries note funeral services for Bryan Jefferson Crider Thelma Floy Toole and Lillian R Allen with services held Friday He is buried at Memorial Park and all are related to area communities Memorial arrangements pending for Samuel Lindsey Leigon of Austin and W P Abbott of Lampasas Also notes H T Rolsten of Smithville funeral services and survivors and burial details
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Bryan Jefferson Crider
Cook Funeral Home
John K. Beery
Memorial Park
Thelma Floy Toole
Wilke
R. V. Jackson
Lillian Rawls Allen
Lillian R. Allen
Patrick Armstrong
W. P. Abbott
H. T. Rolsten
Smithville
ANS
Marrs Memorial Chapel
Bastrop
Lois Bell
Luling
Turwood Harrell
Dallas
E. J. Pearl
Freer
Robert Rolsten
Tulsa
Clyde Barr
C. E. Stiteler
Yoshida Refutes Western Base Demands post peace treaty
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida told the Diet that Western Allies did not seek to establish bases in Japan after a peace treaty and that Japan cannot object to actions by the Allied occupation. He rejected claims Japan would become a large military base.
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Tokyo
INS
Shigeru Yoshida
Japan
Diet
United States
Yoshida
Air Force Cadet Dies In San Angelo Crash
Cadet George W. Hackett aged 24 from Coldwater Michigan died when his T6 training aircraft crashed near San Angelo Texas. He was on a routine night cross country flight from Goodfellow Air Force Base to Big Spring and Sweetwater and did not return as scheduled.
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San Angelo
Michigan
Goodfellow Air Force Base
George W. Hackett
Coldwater
Mich
Here
Tom Holiman Ranch
Goodfellow Base
Big Spring
Sweetwater
Houston Boy Shoots Himself Accidentally
A 12 year old Houston elementary student, Samuel Jeffrey Ray, is in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself in the chest with an automatic pistol. He had stayed home from school for a tonsil ailment when the gun discharged in a chest of drawers. His mother Lena Ray found him on the pad and heard him scream I shot my self.
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Houston
Samuel Jeffrey Ray
Lena Ray
Cumberland To Hold Lord's Supper Rites
The First Cumberland Presbyterian Church youth will dramatize the resurrection story on the church lawn at sunrise Sunday. Afterward the congregation will share breakfast. At 11 a.m. Rev. M. F. Allen will preach Witnesses of the Resurrection. The Lord's Supper will be observed at the Sunday evening service.
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First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
John
M. F. Allen
Practical Nurses Elect Two To Direct Board
Mrs Susie Parks and Mrs Myrtle Campbell were elected to the board of directors of the Practical Nurses Association Friday night. The state charter was signed at Calcasieu auditorium for District 1 which has 70 members from Austin and Central Texas. Other board members are Mesdames Fred Graham Anna Friebe Dorothy Frithof and Josephine Farr. The director Friday night appointed Mrs Delane Harris as secretary treasurer. Mrs Lena Mayfield is president and Mrs Geneva Jenkins is vice president.
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Susie Parks
Myrtle Campbell
Practical Nurses Association
Calcasieu Auditorium
Austin
Central Texas
Milkman at Dallas Held in Rape Case
Dallas police arrested a 24 year old milkman Friday on charges connected to the rape of an 18 year old Dallas housewife. The woman said the assailant offered to help find an apartment, then attacked her after delivering milk. He was detained at his workplace shortly after.
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Dallas
Ashe
New Braunfels Club Chooses New Directors
EW BRAUNFELS April 7. New Rotary club directors were elected as announced by Rotary president Dr. R C Schumann. The board will begin service July 1 with Floyd Barton as president John Langston as vice president Jack Krueger as secretary treasurer and Benno Schriever as sergeant at arms. Directors include Dr Louis Buck Clinton Naegelin Dr James Lewis and Dr R C Schuman.
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EW Braunfels
ANS
Rotary Club
R. C. Schumann
Rotary
Floyd Barton
John Langston
Jack Krueger
Benno Schriever
Louis Buck
Clinton Naegelin
James Lewis
R. C. Schuman
Pilotless Plane Lands On Long Beach Field
A red gas model plane with no pilot landed on a Long Beach runway, prompting a control tower alert. Air force officers retrieved the 30 inch wingspan craft as young owner is sought.
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Long Beach Field
Long Beach
Calif
Air Force
Flying saucers sighted in Grenoble and another French locality
Paris dispatches report two French areas observing flying discs. Residents of Grenoble saw a metallic object stationary high in the sky. Additional locality unnamed in Paris dispatches also reported the sighting.
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Paris
INS
France
Grenoble
Trinity Lutherans Host Sunrise Service in Wooldridge Park
Trinity Lutheran Church plans a sunrise service in Wooldridge Park with Rev. Lester Draheim as speaker. Bible classes and Sunday school are at 10 a.m. at the church, followed by an Easter service at 11 a.m. with Rev. Arthur E. Graf. Senior Choir directed by Arnold Koepsell.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Wooldridge Park
Lester Draheim
Arthur E. Graf
Arnold FE. Koepsell
North West Revival Conducted by Baptists
The Rev. L Sparks, Austin associational missionary, conducts a revival for the new North West Baptist Church at 5249 Burnett Road. Herbert Lancaster directs the music and the Rev. W T Johnson is pastor. Preaching began Friday and runs through April 16 with services at 10 a m and 7 30 p m.
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L. Sparks
Austin’s Baptist Associational Missionary
New North-West Baptist Church
Burnett Road
Herbert Lancaster
W. T. Johnson
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Weed-Corley Funeral Home
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