Alabama Selects Yellowhammer as State Bird
Alabama designates the yellowhammer as its state bird citing its color likeness to the Confederate cavalry uniform and its fitting regional heritage.
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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1950
Page
15
Heavy Agenda To Go Before Council Today
The City Council met for a busy session with plans for a taxicab ordinance, a playground curfew measure, one way street designations, and a bus service inquiry on the agenda. Emma Long urged Austin Transit Inc. officials to outline bus improvements. Ben Greig defended records access.
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Emma Long
Austin Transit Inc
Ben Wayne Greig
Parliament’s Gothic Reach: Seven Acres and Thousand Fireplaces
England’s Houses of Parliament stand as the largest modern Gothic complex. Spreading across seven acres they house about 1,000 fireplaces, reflecting the building’s grand scale and historic design.
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England
Balancing Freedom and Fear in America
A reader argues the nation must screen immigrants and root out subversives without becoming a police state. The letter warns against “thought police” and urges private investigations, balanced press scrutiny, and protecting civil liberties while pursuing security, warning of ill effects if free speech erodes.
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Free
America
Subdivisions Up for Approval at City Plan Meeting
Seven residential subdivisions named Delwood Park Hobbs Frank E Pease Allandale Holy Cross Heights Shoal Village are slated for final approval by the City Plan Commission at 7 30 p m in the City Council chamber Austin. Holy Cross Heights is noted as the area s first federally approved Negro subdivision with FHA backing.
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City Plan Commission
Delwood Park
Cherrywood Road
Lane Branch
Southern Pacific Railroad
Hobbs Subdivision
Prock Lane
Omega Avenue
Frank E. Pease
Arroyo Seca
Brentwood Avenue
Flournoy Subdivision
Williamson Creek
San Antonio Highway
Allandale
Allandale Road
Shoalwood Avenue
Holy Cross Heights
East 19Th Street
Chestnut Avenue
Shoal Village
West 45Th Street
Bull Creek Road
Austin
Federal Housing Administration
A. D Stenger
E. H Givens
City Council
City Hall
Sanitation Drive Urged to Fight Polio in Texas
Dr. George W. Cox state health officer reported 299 polio cases in Texas through April 8 and urged scrupulous sanitation as a control measure after noting the virus was found on flies and in filth. He added 22 new cases last week amid a 1949 Texas total of 2,355 cases and 192 deaths.
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Capitol
George W. Cox
Texas
Cox
Revival Preaching Phase Opens at Hyde Park Baptist
The Hyde Park Baptist revival enters the preaching phase at 8 p m Thursday with Rev Scott L Tatum delivering The Secret of Soul Winning Power Melvin Roberts of First Baptist San Antonio leads the music Crowds have attended since last Sunday and visitation and prayer have marked the campaign A chain of prayer was kept Wednesday with members praying 15 minutes around the clock
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Scott L. Tatum
Melvin Roberts
First Baptist Church
San Antonio
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