Austin Chamber Panel Plans to Attract Hood Personnel
The military affairs committee of the Austin Chamber of Commerce outlined aims to recruit Camp Hood personnel to Austin for weekends and to persuade retirees to move to the city. Led by Colonel O Parke Houston the group planned monthly sessions and liaison with Army Navy advisory groups while backing ROTC in schools and supporting time off for National Guard training.
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Raymond Brooks
J. L. Love
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B. E. Giesecke
Joe Dacy
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Augustine DeZavaila
A. G. Adams Jr
W. L. Thompson
Frank D. Quinn
Leon Stone
Charles N. Zivley
F. L. McNamara
E. B. Kuehne
Final Supreme Court Upholds Secondary Picketing Injunction
A Dallas County district court injunction against Local No. 745 in the Vilbig Brothers case against truck operator union is final. The Supreme Court overruled rehearing requests, upholding the injunction about picketing Vilbig Brothers on the Mercantile Commerce Building project over wage scale disputes.
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Supreme Court
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Deaths and Funerals in Austin and Surrounding Areas
Obituaries report services in San Antonio Brenham and Austin for Walter Barnes Mary Anastasia O Reilly Bettie E Rains Russell H Robbins Katheryn Condon Richard C Royston Sr William Collie Rutherford John T Hickman Briggs Florence with survivors and burial plans across Oakwood Memorial Park and local cemeteries.
Pace Becomes Army Secretary Pace Becomes Army Secretary
Frank Pace Jr. was sworn in as secretary of the Army by Chief Justice Fred Vinson, succeeding Gordon Gray. Defense Secretary Johnson presented Pace’s commission as the new civilian head of the Army, with President Truman represented by Major General Harry Vaughan. Hoover telegrams praised Pace, noted as an extraordinarily able choice. Gray will move to a presidential advisory role before UNC presidency.
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University of North Carolina
Services Planned For Burnet Rancher
Funeral services will be held at 2 30 p m Thursday at the Edgar Funeral Home for George F Hunt 76 retired farmer and rancher who died at his home in Burnet Wednesday The Rev W Y Pond will officiate burial will be in Burnet Cemetery Survivors include his widow three daughters Evelyn Beerman Burnet Annie Millard Liberty Hill and Jess Pogue Blanco four sons Charlie Hunt Hale Center D W Hunt Austin Wesley Hunt Florence and Wesley Hunt Georgetown one sister Ollie Maphison San Antonio and five brothers Bill Hunt Linton Bud Hunt San Antonio Raymond Hunt Liberty Hill Sanford Hunt and Johnnie Hunt Georgetown
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Austin
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San Antonio
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Linton
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Liberty Hill
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McCarthy Brings In New Gas-Oil Well
Glenn H. McCarthy reports a new gas-oil well in the Ulm Field Austin County. Herman Blezinger Number One on the Herman Blezinger Tract produced 27 barrels of 40.2 gravity oil from 8,978 to 8,988 feet with 500 pounds tubing pressure and a gas oil ratio of 815 to 1. The unit shares a sand with two recent McCarthy wells, while the gas comes from a new depth.
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New Ulm
Austin County
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Four Die in Cave-In at Colombian Hydro Plant Site
A tunnel collapse at a hydroelectric project on the Lebrija River in Bogota killed four workers and injured five others on Wednesday.
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Colombia
Lebrija River
Choice Slated Next Year Unknown Hero of Last War To Be Honored
The Defense Department announced that an unidentified World War II serviceman will be chosen May 1951 from six unknowns at Independence Hall Philadelphia. The selected body will lie in state at the Capitol before burial at Arlington on Memorial Day 1951, with the other five sent back to overseas areas for burial or reburial.
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T-4L for Athletes Foot Proven by Druggists Ad
An advertisement touts T-4L as a fast acting treatment for athletes foot. It claims relief within an hour and urges readers to ask druggists for the product. The copy emphasizes quick penetration to reach imbedded infection and promotes a price of 40 cents at Renfro Drug Stores.
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Two Die Seven Hurt in Weatherford Car Crash
On US Highway 80 ten miles west of Weatherford two people died and seven injured in a rain slick collision near Brock cutoff. Victims include Mrs. Curtis Sanders of Fort Bliss and her two year old son. other injured are Sanders husband four year old son mother in law and six Moran residents.
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Moran
Texas
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Alabaman Identified As Air Crash Victim
Corpus Christi April 12 A Navy flier killed in a crash near here was identified as Lieutenant (JG) Kenneth C. Brown 26 Birmingham Ala The Bearcat fighter went down during routine aerobatics at about 7000 feet Brown served on the USS Antietam and began primary flight training at Pensacola before transferring here November 16.
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Antietam
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Fla
Dallas Man Killed in Parked Car Shooting
Elmer G. Davis, 41, a truck driver, was killed Tuesday night while sitting in a parked car in Dallas. He was shot four times and beaten, and two women were in the car. A man in another vehicle discharged the shots. a 44-year-old used car salesman was arrested.
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Bridges urges arming US planes on Russian border
Senator Bridges proposed arming American patrol aircraft near Russia and Latvia to shoot back if attacked. He cited the Baltic incident where a slow unarmed patrol was allegedly ambushed and downed. He urged use of the latest fast planes fully armed to deter Soviet aggression.
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