Rachlin to Close Concert Season With Double Role
The Austin Symphony under Ezra Rachlin closes its season with a dual role concert in Gregory Gymnasium Sunday afternoon. Rachlin will conduct and play piano in Beethoven and Tchaikovsky works, with Mozart openers. Tickets are at local outlets and UT Music Building box office.
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Austin Symphony
Ezra Rachlin
Rachlin
Gregory Gymnasium
United States
Europe
Austin
Mozart
J. R. Reed
William Charles
University of Texas Music Building
Milan
Budapest
Vienna Neues Journal
Rotterdam
Stockholm
Tidningen Dagblan
Entry blanks out for Miss Austin contest
The Junior Chamber of Commerce announced entry blanks are available for the upcoming Miss Austin contest to be held late in May. Rules require Austin residency six months or student status, single status, age 18 to 27, and a three minute talent skit. The statewide Miss America pageant is in New Braunfels August 4 and 5.
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Benny Blanks
Atlantic City
New Braunfels
Austin
County Leaders Plan Parallel Cleanup Drive
The Traiis County Commissioners Court announced a countywide cleanup starting with four precincts to run alongside the city effort. They instructed the sheriff to intensify action against road trash dumping, as trucks and crews begin the rural cleanup on April 17.
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Traiis County
Pastors urged to recruit ministers at West Texas Conference
Dr. Charles B. Copher of Gammon Theological Seminary told about 150 attendees at the West Texas Methodist Conference opening session that more churches exist than pastors. The event at Wesley Chapel runs through Saturday with talks from Dr. Tom Brabham and Dr. Edmund Heinsohn on topics including world peace in an atomic age.
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West Texas Methodist Conference
Charles B. Copher
Gammon Aere Seminary
Atlanta
Copher
Wesley Chapel
Fred Young
San Antonio
Methodist Church
Austin
Dallas
Victoria
Waco
Western
Tom W. Brabham
Central Methodist Church
Robert F. Harrington
Samuel Huston College
Edmund Heinsohn
University Methodist Church
Edgar A. Love
Board of Missions and Church Extension
New York City
J. H. Touchstone
Atlanta, Ga
UT Professor and Wife Seek $6000 Damages in Traffic Suit
University of Texas professor Walter L. Pondrom Jr and his wife filed a $6,000 damage suit in 58th District Court against Austin resident Fannie D. Ellis over a December 20 collision at Lamar and 34th. They seek $562.22 for car damage $150 for loss of use 30 days at $5 daily $5,115.28 for physical and mental pain and suffering and $72.50 for medical bills.
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University of Texas
Austin
Walter L. Pondrom Jr
Lamar
Fannie D. Ellis
Democrats Invite Texans to Jefferson Jackson Dinner
Ten thousand invitations go out for the Democratic Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Austin on May 27 with Vice President Alben Barkley as headliner. The event aims to unite Democrats for the 1949 congressional elections and raise funds, following last year’s record $50,000.
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Austin
Alben W. Barklay
Tom Miller
Creekmore Fath
Finance Committee
Washington, D. C
Miller
Fath
Barkley
Shivers
Texas
Dog Pound Signs Targeted by Pranksters in Austin
Warden Earl Mills reports repeat vandalism of dog pound signs with signs torn down and one found in a University dormitory trash. The city plans sturdier bolted signs to guide visitors to the pound near Zilker Park by the Austin Riding Stables.
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Austin
Earl Mills
Mills
City
Zilker Park
Trial of Damage Suit In Travis Approved
The Third Court of Civil Appeals ruled that Thomas B. Beatty of Austin may sue Charles Hoefs of Reeves County and others in Travis County for damages to his house from a truck driven by Dave Terry. The court reversed Judge Thurman’s ruling on privilege, saying whether Terry was Hoefs’ agent is a trial issue.
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Court of Civil Appeals
Thomas B. Beatty
Austin
Charles Hoefs
Reeves County
Travis County
Beatty
Hoefs
Dave Terry
Mace B. Thurman
Thurman
Terry
Civil Appeals Court
Dr. Sanchez Lecture At UT Postponed
The lecture on Backgrounds of Education in Latin America by Dr. George I. Sanchez of the University of Texas has been postponed with a new date to be announced. Lecture committee chairman Dr. C. F. Arrowood announced the delay. The next talk in the series honoring Dr. Frederick Eby will be The Junior College Comes of Age by Professor James Reynolds at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Geology Building auditorium.
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Latin America
George I. Sanchez
University of Texas
C. F. Arrowood
Frederick Eby
James Reynolds
Eastsiders to city council over shacks on Redwood site
Residents outside Austin city limits plan to protest the moving of four hovels without sewage or water into Redwood and East 19th Street. City officials say the area is outside city jurisdiction, but residents warn of health risks and future annexation implications.
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Dan Roach
Redwood
Austin
City Council
East 19Th Street
Roach
Henry Linam
William Parker
H. E. Hargis
Emma Long
Linam
Parker
T. N. Porter
Long
Grand Jury Opens Second Week Session in Travis County
The Travis County grand jury is set to begin its second week at 1 30 p m Thursday in the Courthouse. Last week the panel returned 15 indictments and another batch of true bills is expected Friday.
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Travis County Grand Jury
Mothers Train as Cub Scout Den Mothers Across Texas
Mothers from six counties attend a three day training at the Old Boy Scout Hut in Zilker Park Austin area to learn arts and crafts to teach Cub Scout packs. Women lead sessions on nappy art beadwork plaster molds blueprinting and rope making with several Austin den mothers named among participants. sessions extend to San Marcos Buda Fredricksburg Round Rock Elgin Lockhart Luling and other communities.
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Zilker Park
Hays
Bastrop
Calawell
Williamson
Gilespie
Alavis
Lloyd E. Davis
Austineck 15
Becker School
Austin
S. A. Walker
O. J. Lamb Ray M. Turner
Roland Bloomquist
Walter Schwarzer
J. M. Price
Alfred Crider Robb A. Reed
J. K. Anderson
S. Water
F. D. Hooper
Dee Bible
Davis
Sions
Texas
A. M. Venne
Tom Wooten
Venne
Scout
Ray Ealy
Smithville
Gus White
C. C. Albers
W. L. Barnes
C. B. Batey
W. E. Bernhart
E. C. Baum
Paul Benbrook
M. B. Bowen
Ernest S. Burks
William H. Davis
C. A. Dye
H. S. Dyer
O. L. Elder
S. J. Foster
Joe Franzetti
C. A. Friend
John Friday
Homer Garrison Jr
Roy Gartmann
L. L. Griffin
J. P. Goodlett
L. F. Huff
Andy Jacobson
Danson King
Walter Koch
Henry Krumpel
Roy LaBauve
Allan Leistice
James R. McRil
L. E. Mohrmann
C. P. Oliver
C. B Payne
Frank Polk
L. J. Powers
T. Powell
J. M. Rawley
M C. Satter
Cecil Smith
J. S. Spire
Roy B. Stewart
Sidney Thomas
Je. Thompson Jr
Carl Townsley
Clyde Treadwell
R. S. Vinson
John Wright
San Marcos
R. C. Jones
Tom Ford
Douglas Harris
Helen Osborne
Pack
Buda
J. J. Horton
Frank Chambers
Fredricksburg
Edwards
Milton Gerhard
Round Rock
H. J. Bradley
Elgin
Raymond Hillers
Vernon Taylor
Lockhart
Louis Crouch
Luling
Rex Thorne
Square Dance Basics Allemande and Grand Right and Left
This article outlines the allemande step with corner partners and the grand right and left weaving sequence. It explains do-si-do mechanics, directions for men and ladies, and variations across regions, noting these are part of a 12 lesson series on basic and advanced square dancing figures.
California Architect Harris to discuss coastal design trends
Harwell Hamilton Harris, Los Angeles architect, speaks at 8 p m Thursday in UT Architecture Building 105 as part of a UT architecture lecture series. He traces current modern residential design on the Pacific coast with movies and slides, noting his background in sculpture and structural engineering and his teaching at USC and former positions at Columbia and Yale.
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Harwell Hamilton Harris
Los Angeles
California
University of Texas
UT Department of Architecture
Harris
Pacific Coast
Frank Lloyd Wright
University of Southern California
Columbia
Yale Universities
Noted Psychiatrist to Speak at Mineral Wells Conference
Dr John R Rees the British psychiatrist who oversaw Rudolph Hess after 1941 flight and wrote The Case on Hess will address the Texas Society for Mental Hygiene at Mineral Wells Friday He is director of the World Federation on Mental Health sponsored by UNESCO The University of Texas Hogg Foundation coordinates the 17th annual conference with attendees from UT Maryland Louisiana and other groups including Dr Ruth Tiedman Dr Loyd Rowland and several Austin Galveston and regional experts
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John R. Rees
Rudolph Hess
Hess
Texas Society For Mental Hygiene
Mineral Wells
World Federation On Mental Health
Unesco
Rees
Ruth Tiedman
Loyd Rowland
University of Texas’ Hogg Foundation For Mental Hygiene
Tiedman
University of Maryland
Rowland
Louisiana Society For Mental Health
University
Ane Oebera
Mee
Mi Foundation
Robert Sutherland
Bernice Moore
Tom Blackwell
Royal Embree
Mitory
Charles W. Qerts
Austin
A Ford
Ae Jean
Galveston
Ozro Woods
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