City Pauses for Good Friday Religious Observances
Austin churches and civic groups observe Good Friday with three hour meditations from noon to 3 p.m. City employees take time off as services unfold across Hyde Park East Austin St. David’s All Saints and other churches with ministers and lay leaders guiding chants prayers and meditations.
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Austin
Capital City Kiwanis Club
Stephen F. Austin
Walter Kerr
Cntral Methodist Church
Peter Marshall
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Kerr
Central Methodist Church
Edna T. Anderson
Mary Helen Jackson
Elijah
Hyde Park
Shettles Memorial Methodist Church
40Th and
Speedway
C. E. Bloodworth
Paul Ansohn
Herman Murph
Scott Tatum
Archie Stevenson
John Meuller
E. Chamberlain
Kenneth Pope
First Methodist Church
Pope
John Barclay
Darrell Gray
Ted Richardson
Leroy Russell
East Austin
First Street
St. Austin’s Chapel
John Stanley
Father Stanley
St. Mary’s Cathedral
Andrew Mulreany
St. David's Church
Seventh
San Jacinto
Charles A. Sumners
Raymond Denton
J. Rufus Moseley
Georgia
All Saints’ Chapel
William Brewster
Gray Blandy
Joseph Meakin Harte
Thomas M. W. Yerxa
Church of the Good Shepherd
Bare-Knuckle Fight Over Gilmer Aikin Bills Rages
In the Texas Legislature the Gilmer-Aikin school consolidation bills escalated to heated exchanges. House adjourned for Easter after charges of filibustering while supporters and opponents clashed over procedure and debate. Senate balked at taking up the basic science bill on healing arts exams.
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Associated Press
Gilmer-Aikin School
House
Sam Hanna
Dallas
Willim George Richards
Lockhart
Richards
Senate
Jim Taylor
Richard
Wayne Wagonseller
Fruitland
Mr. Wagonseller
Wagonseller
Hanna
Rae Files Still
Waxahachie
George Nokes
Corsicana
Gilmer-Aikin Forces
State panel approves sale of Austin school site for 30000
The House state affairs committee approved sale of 25 12 acres on Dallas Highway to the Austin Independent School District for 30000 to fund a new high school. The sale aligns with a plan for a nearby Public Safety Department headquarters, with no conflict between the two projects. A subcommittee established the price.
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Austin American Capitol
Dallas
Austin
House
James E. Taylor
Texas Public Safety
Austin State Hospital
Austin Independent School District
Austin School Board
North
Taylor
Pearce Johnson
Public Safety Department
Johnnie Rogers
Louis J. Ivey
el Paso
Japs Mock U S Excitement Over Pacific Northwest Quake
Tokyo papers ran a brief note on the Pacific Northwest quake with one editor remarking that Japanese are accustomed to earthquakes and therefore unimpressed by American wartime enthusiasm.
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Tokyo
Pacific Northwest
Northwest Quake Death Toll Rises to Eight, Damage Beats 15 Million
An earthquake in the Pacific Northwest left eight dead and more than 60 injured with damage estimated at 15 million dollars. Officials in Olympia led by Charles W. Bryant, state civil defense director, said the figure may rise as more reports come in from additional towns.
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Seattle
Pacific Northwest
Olympia
Charles W. Bryant
Civil Defense
Bryant
Abraham Hedstrom
Bremerton
Jennie Elder
Northwest
Washington
Eijo E. Vesanen
University of Washington
Vesanen
William F. Devine
Longview-Kelso
Castle Rock
Centralia-Chehalis
Red Cross
Tacoma
Puyallup
Paul Mellinger
Arthur B. Langlie
Endurance pair ties 726 hour flight record in California
Fullerton pilots Bill Barris and Dick Riedel matched the 726 hour endurance flight mark, aiming for 1,000 hours as they flew overhead to cheers from a jeep carrying Wes Carroll and Clyde Schlieper in Long Beach.
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Fullerton
Calif
California
Bill Barris
Dick Riedel
Riedel
Wes Carroll
Clyde Schlieper
Long Beach
UT Gurl Killed In Auto Wreck
Franklin Mae Hardin an 18 year old University of Texas journalism student died when her car left the road seven miles west of Dripping Springs. The Llano rancher’s daughter and LCRA director member was alone in the vehicle which overturned into a ditch while she was en route home for Easter.
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Dripping Springs
Franklin Mae Hardin
University of Texas
Here
Miss Hardin
Alexander Hardin
Southwestern University
Llano
LCRA
T. O. Dillard
Bill McElroy
Cooking Eels Triggered Divorce in New Jersey Case
Mrs. Martha Giles testified that Albert F. Giles threatened her life with a shotgun and with a stabbing. She said she minded most that he asked her to cook eels for dinner. he retaliated by striking her with a live eel and sending it down her back. Advisory master Hillenbach granted a divorce on cruelty grounds.
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Newark
N. J
Martha Giles
Albert F. Giles
Barnegat
Herman E. Hillenbach
Hillenbach
Congress Approves 5.58 Billion Europe Aid Authorization
Congress swiftly approved a 5.58 billion dollar foreign aid authorization to support Marshall Plan countries through June 1950. The measure sets spending limits. actual cash requires future appropriations votes, with finance aims including guarantees to convert profits to dollars and to encourage private American investment overseas.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Europe
Kathy Rescue Fund Donations Pour In
SAN MARINO California April 14 Donations to the Kathy Fiscus rescue fund total 2200 as of Thursday night mayor Clark E Bell said. The fund committee opened the first 200 envelopes and collected about 1020 from across the nation. Average gifts were 510 from 10 cents to 50 dollars. If this average holds the fund could exceed 11000 for the workers who spent 52 hours reaching the well trapped child. Donations have postmarked from nearly every state.
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San Marino
Calif
Kathy Fiscus Rescue Fund
Clark E. Bell
Bell
LCRA Seeks Bids for Two New Dams Construction Bonds
The Lower Colorado River Authority directed a call for bids on about 17.5 million dollars in bonds to fund two new dams Marble Falls Dam and Granite Shoals Dam near Marble Falls. The plan adds four turbine units and 70,000 kilowatts of hydroelectric capacity, with new headquarters to open by May.
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Raymond Brooks
Austin American Capitol
Lower
Colorado River Authority
Federal Power Commission
Marble Falls
Granite Shoals
Authority
Tom Miller Dam
Austin
Off-Cuff Deficit Slip By Truman Righted
President Truman’s off the cuff remark doubled his 600 million dollar deficit estimate for the year, then a White House clarification stated veterans costs plus lower European recovery and stockpiling outlays nearly offset the rise. The note confirms a net deficit unchanged from the original forecast.
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Truman
Washington
Treasury Snyder
White House
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Britain challenges Russia to file UN complaint over pact
At the United Nations in New York on April 14 Britain urged Andrei Gromyko to lodge a formal complaint if the Soviet Union believed the pact violated the UN Charter. Poland, speaking for Russia, said Western powers must justify the agreement before the UN. Julius Katz-Suchy argued against the pact, with France Canada and Norway also speaking for it.
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New York
Britain
Russia
United Nations
Poland
Hector McNeil
Andrei A. Gromyko
Soviet Union
Assembly
McNeil
Gromyko
Julius Katz-Suchy
France
Canada
Norway
Paris
Herbert V. Evatt
Atlantic Alliance
Two Texas Co-Ops Granted REA Loans
The Rural Electrification Administration approved loans to three Texas cooperatives. Farmers' Electric Corporation of Greenville received 470000 dollars, Erath County Electric Cooperative Association of Stephenville 1080000 dollars, and Jackson Electric Co-op of Saward 350000 dollars.
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Texas
Washington
Rural Electrification Administration
Farmers’ Electric Corporation
Greenville
Erath County Electric Cooperative Association
Stephenville
Jackson Electric Co-op
Saward
Alley cat Jonathan and five joined kittens in Greensboro
Greensboro, April 14. Alley cat Jonathan has become famous in these parts. The five kittens she littered Tuesday night are joined together at the base of their stomachs. They are doing fine and receiving plenty of milk from their mother. Jonathan lives at Clyde Davis home near
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Greensboro
N. C
Jonathan
Clyde
Turkish Pressures Acheson on Mediterranean Defense Aid
Secretary Acheson, speaking at a Pan American Union luncheon, faces Turkish requests for greater U S security commitments in the Mediterranean while Greece seeks more aid. Washington signals caution on a Mediterranean treaty though regional security ties may be discussed.
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Pan American Union
Council of the Organization of American States
Necmeddin Gadak
United States
Mediterranean
Greece
Turkey
Iran
Congress
Sadak
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Jerusalem
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St. John’s Lutheran Church
South Austin
Evangelical Free Church
Grace Lutheran Church
Paul G. Strickert
Missouri Synod Lutheran Churches
Queen Theater
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St. Matthews Lutheran Church
Houston
First English Lutheran Church
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Gilmer-Aikin Committee
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L. DeDuc
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Harry Katzman
Capitol Hill
Ernest Mallory
Auburn
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Longview
Olympic Mountains
Syracuse
N. Y
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Hoover Commission
Royall
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Frankfurt
Maybank
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Senate Banking Committee
UT Gurl
Taft
Ohio
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Senate House
Veterans Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
Budget Bureau
Kathy Rescue Fund
Mr. Truman
Air Force
Mon C. Wallgren
Washington State
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Belgium
Alan G. Kirk
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Acheson
Dean Acheson
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Joseph D. Charles
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