Square Dance Lesson by Margot Mayo Teaches Basics
Miss Margot Mayo, Texas native and founder of the American Square Dance Group, offers the first of 12 lessons on basic square dancing steps. The article explains the square, head couple positions, and how dancers switch partners, plus the buzz step and honor your partner movements.
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Texas
Margot Mayo
Commerce
East Texas State Teachers College
Miss Mayo
American Square Dance Group
Mills School of Adelphi College
New York
Square
Dell
Speech Head Advises Parents On How To Treat Stutterers
Guy Bizzell head of the Austin High speech department tells students stuttering reflects anxiety more than illness and should not be punished. For young children the environment should change, for older ones adapt to surroundings. He advises confidence building, slow tempo, and avoid rushing. He notes semantic and dominance theories partly correct and cites varying stuttering rates by parental education level.
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Guy Bizzell
Austin High School
Bizzell
Japanese Educator Arrives To Study Austin School Programs
Kenichi Sato, a Japanese educator, arrived in Austin to study the elementary school district program. He will visit Austin public schools, Travis County schools, and attend the elementary principals and supervisors conference. Sato has spent seven weeks in the US and will travel to New Mexico and California before returning to Japan. Mrs. Theresa Carrell, director of elementary education, sponsors his visit.
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Kenichi Sato
Austin
Austin Public
Travis County
Sato
New Mexico
California
Japan
Theresa Carrell
State Department of Education
Frauleins Hunt Texas Husbands Seek American Matches
Three German women aged 23 24 and 45 from Celle express via letter to Mayor Taylor Glass their wish to swap the British zone of Germany for Texas and husbands. They hope for correspondence with Americans to find spouses and ask the mayor not to discard the letter, signing as Else Schmidt Ursula Hope and Sigrid Hinselmann with Celle addresses.
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Germany
Texas
Taylor Glass
Celle
Else Schmidt
Kuckuckstr
Ursula Hope
Schaferweg
Ane Sigrid Hinselmann
Thrift
Music Prof To Teach At Harvard School
Dr Otto Kinkeldey a guest professor of musicology at the University of Texas is among more than 100 professors and educational specialists teaching at the Harvard Summer School this year He will run a course in the art of music and a seminar in music history The school opens July 5 offering six weeks of courses in education and eight weeks in arts science and education
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Kinkeldey
University of Texas
Harvard
Kinkeldey
City Plans 84 Block Paving as 80-Block Schedule Pending
City officials outline a 1950 paving program totaling 84 blocks with 50 conferences to finalize. A pending 80-block timetable remains undetermined as the 1949 program, also 80 blocks, proceeds. A backlog nears 200 blocks with owners signed up, but this year’s budget allows only 80 blocks to be paved.
Barbara Greenshields Joins Hospital Staff
Barbara Greenshields daughter of Dr and Mrs B D Greenshields of 1124 Clayton Lane has been appointed to the surgical nursing staff at the McKinney Veterans Administration Hospital She is a Austin High School graduate who attended the University of Texas and plans post graduate study in surgical nursing at Brackenridge Hospital.
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Barbara Greenshields
B. D. Greenshields
Clayton Lane
McKinney Veterans Administration Hospital
Austin High School
Miss Greenshields
University of Texas Aro
Brackenridge Hospital
McKinney
Tree Doctors Tend Austins Aching Limbs
Five tree doctors, led by H. J. Erb and John Haller, tend Austin s aging and young trees. They warn of hackberry heart failure and enemy pests like mistletoe and ball moss while outlining care, pruning, and the value of shade over mere beauty.
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Austin
H. J. Erb
Landon Lane
Ripley
Erb
John Haller
Sixth Street
West Avenue
E. H. Nelle
Haller
Made Your Bet a Census Yet
The piece notes the 1950 census may not show a figure as meaningful as 1940 for New 1,111 and lists towns with notable counts. It mentions Denton Austin and Fort Worth among larger cities, and County Attorney Perry Jones downplays serious gambling on census figures while coffee talk centers on whether the 160,000 mark will be surpassed.
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East Texas
Denton
Lancaster
McKinney
Gladewater
Cotulla
del Rio
Canyon
Harwood
Austin
Corpus Christi
Beaumont
Laredo
Fort Worth
Dallas
San Antonio
Houston
Amarillo
Waco
Wichita Falls
Galveston
Port Arthur
Perry Jones
Two Freight Lines Await License Tag Decision
Alamo Freight Lines Inc and Alamo Motor Lines Inc seek to register vehicles in Kimble County rather than Bexar County. Judge Betts granted a continuance and set a new hearing for next Saturday. A temporary restraining order bars the Highway Commission from blocking Kimble County tag purchases after the carriers already paid $2,500 for 1950 tags.
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Alamo Freight Lines Inc
Alamo Motor Lines Inc
Kimble County
Bexar County
Charles O. Betts
State Highway Commission
Betts
Commission
Interview With Monster Ends In Monkeying Around Coxville
A quirky tale follows a reporter sent to Coxville to interview a so called monster. At Mr and Mrs Cox residence the supposed ape Christine appears a five pound African monkey in a dotted swiss dress. She refuses to speak for publication but chats off the record. The piece ends with the reporter ruefully noting the banana was eaten by the crew.
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Misanthrope
Christine
A. W. Cox
Coxville
Penguin
Bird Watchers Guild
98Th District Court
Austin
Engineer Applicants Before State Board
Inspection of 175 applicants for registration started Monday by the Texas State Board for Professional Engineers headed by E. W. Pittman of Beaumont. The board expected to interview 20 applicants Tuesday morning before eight hour examinations begin at 1 p.m. in the House of Representatives chamber. The second half of the eight hour exams would be given Wednesday morning. About 60 men were scheduled for the tests. Examinations for professional branches planned for Friday in one eight hour session.
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Texas State Board For Professional Engineers
E. W. Pittman
Beaumont
House of Representatives
Hause
Denver U Students Enter UT Speech Contest
Four University of Denver students will compete in speech events at the University of Texas from April 13 to 15. Eileen Esser, Sandel, Gordon Benesh, and Thomas Brock enter debates oratory and after-dinner events in the UT contest.
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University of Denver
University of Texas
Eileen Esser
Antiand Sandel
Gordon Benesh
Thomas Brock
Venus Seen In The Sky May Be Venus Not UFO
Residents report sightings of a flying disk while astronomers urge caution and explain Venus often resembles a bright object in daylight. In Austin latitude Venus is visible with naked eye under clear skies, rising 3 to 4 hours after the sun and observable around noon.
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Earth
Venus
Austin
Plans for Boat Dock Nearing Completion
Noble E. Larson said final plans for a municipal dock in Lake Austin near Tom Miller Dam are underway. The 50 foot wide dock extends 10 feet into the water and includes a two boat patrol house for the city police. rest is public use with no storage. Bids will be sought after final plans. The site is just north of the Lower Colorado River Authority administration building.
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Noble E. Larson
Lake Austin
Tom Miller Dam
Lower
Colorado River Authority
Austin Transit Company Faces City Probe Over Bus Service
City officials may review operations as Austin Transit Company invites inspection. Councilwoman Emma J. Long criticized service as worse than streetcar days and urged Greig and owners to meet with the council. Residents complain buses skip passengers and crowd others while promised improvements lag behind fare increases from 1948.
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Austin Transit Company
Ben Wayne Greig
Emma J. Long
Austin
Austin Transit
Rodents as Weed Killer Studied for Lake Austin
State game officials may test nutria as a weed control method in Lake Austin. Howard Dodgen or the commission seeks council approval, citing Lake Austin’s severe weed problem and the nutria’s novelty in Texas. The plan would be closely supervised to prevent liabilities.
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Lake Austin
Guston Morgan
State Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Howard Dodgen
Morgan
Dodgen
Texas
Louisiana
Twins in Lockhart Are Long Overdue
Dr. Philip A. Wales of Lockhart notes he has delivered 250 babies a year in Caldwell County but no twins in two years of practice. He cites Hellen's law that twins occur about once in 88 births, triplets once in 7,700, quadruplets once in 700,000, and quintuplets about 60 million.
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Toni
Lockhart
Philip A. Wales
Caldwell
Wales
San Antonio
Hellen
Tile Service Company Opens Austin Store
The Austin Area Economic Development Foundation records the opening of Tile Service Company's Austin shop operated by Mervin F. Hayes formerly of Harlingen. The business sits at 702 Prospect in the city’s newly zoned industrial area.
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Austin
Austin Area Economic Development Foundation
Mervin F. Hayes
Harlingen
Prospect
School Board fills vacancies in Travis County districts
The Travis County School Board held a closed meeting despite a reporter’s presence. John Pfennig resigns from Precinct 2 and C J Kuempel is appointed to serve the remainder. Four trustees fill vacancies in districts with no elections. Open seats remain in Cox Springs Oak Hill Cedar Valley Banes and Pilot Knobb. Tom Stokes reports on the county vocational school.
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Travis County School Board
I. W. Popham
John Pfennig
C. J. Kuempel
Pfennig
Popham
Clyde Beard
Pleasant Valley
Robert Bauerle
Manchaca
Earl Blackmore
Nichols
Ewald Reinhardt
Malta
Cox Springs
Oak Hill
Court Resumes After Roof Repair Noise
In Travis County 53rd District Court Judge J Harris Gardner halted proceedings to identify a loud noise described as a power motor or flying saucer. A bailiff reported workmen were repairing the leaking courthouse roof with a power tool. The judge declared the noise necessary and the court would proceed.
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Travis County
J. Harris Gardner
53Rd District Court
Gardner
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