Readers praise wild flower series Bluebonnets in Texas
Letters to the editor celebrate a wild flower article on Bluebonnets, praising its appeal to children and adults. Respondents from multiple addresses share memories, request names and facts about local blooms, and commend the educational value as a community exchange of lore.
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Ub Isery
Maryland
Texas
Wayne Greer
Speedway
Frederick J. Oglebay
Idlewild Road
Bill Beall
Dean Terrace
Austin
Texas features start at 26 with Tuesday preview
Fragmented OCR notes show a noted Texas feature rundown beginning Tuesday with show times around 26 and 42. Readers glimpse films, actors, and region listings amid remodel notes and temporary changes.
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Texas
Erin
Leundigan
Ace
Ace Wait Loret
Bert Ene
New Hearing Device Offered by Paravox Inc
An advertisement promises improved hearing and self reliance through a new device. Details are sent confidentially to Doris Foster, room 300, 2056 4th St, Cleveland 15, Ohio.
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Paravox, Inc
Doris Foster
4Th St
Cleveland
Ohio
Councilwoman Endorses Payne and Wiley For Shacks Move
City Councilwoman Emma Long praised Payne and Wiley Real Estate for clearing slums in Austin. She toured with Lloyd Payne to view shacks moved to East 19th and Redwood and their conversion to livable homes. Neighbors protested, but the firm insisted the shanties would be stuccoed and fully furnished.
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Emma Long
Payne and Wiley Real Estate Company
Austin
Payne
Wiley
19Th
Redwood
Payne and Wiley
Cresthaven
AAUW Tea Honors Dr. Chavez in UT Rare Books Room
The Austin branch of AAUW will host a tea on Tuesday from 3 to 5 p m in the Rare Books Room at the University of Texas to honor cultural exchange visitor Dr Maria Chavez of Mexico. Mrs C C Calvert leads arrangements and the executive board serves as hostesses with all members invited.
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Austin
AAUW
Maria Chavez
Mexico
Rare Books Room
University of Texas
C. C. Calvert
Texas Draft Boards Near Completion in Classification Effort
Texas reports 495 247 men aged 19 plus on draft boards with 302 271 classified. Wakefield notes 137 local boards hold 45 465 under 19 while total registered reaches 540 712. Since 1948 18–25 group processing has occurred with no inductions since January 1949. Local board members serve without pay from 547 Texas citizens.
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Paul L. Wakefield
Selective Service
Washington
Selective Service Act
Col. Wakefield
Texas
Cancer drive in Travis County trails goal by volunteers
Campaign chairman Gordon Lloyd of the Travis County American Cancer Society says the third annual Cancer Crusade is behind schedule through April 30, having raised only 1500 of a 14000 target. He urges more residents to contribute by mail or in person at Driskill Hotel, with Dr W S Brumage set to speak April 27 at Lions Club.
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Gordon Lloyd
Travis County
American Cancer Society
Lloyd
W. S. Brumage
State Health Department
Lions’ Club
Driskill Otel
Work To Begin Soon On Postal Substation In Tarryown
Ground leveling is finished and construction of a new postal substation in Tarryown is set to start this week. The $100,000 commercial building will be rented from Westenfield Development Co at 800 dollars annually for 10 years. Postmaster Bob Phinney hopes to occupy by September 1.
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Newoffice
Tarryown
Westenfield Development Company
Bob Phinney
Travis County sees March jobless drop amid hiring surge
Travis County non agricultural employment rose to an estimated 44,120 workers by April 1, up from March 1 and Feb 1. Jobless figures fell to about 1,875 as of April 1, with TEC noting mid month hiring spurt and 2,130 hires in March.
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Travis County
E. C. Logsdon
Texas Employment Commission
TEC
Austin
Logsdon
Cedar Valley Addition planned for Austin Negro subdivision
H. B. Claggett announced plans for a Cedar Valley Addition a second subdivision for Negro residents in East Austin north of Downs Field. The 28 acre project aims to build 100 privately financed homes with GI loans for veterans at about 3950 dollars per unit, each with bath kitchen living room and two bedrooms, using septic sewage and utilities arranged except sewer.
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Austin
H. B. Claggett
Cedar Valley
Downs Field
Claggett
Sewer connections fall far behind despite emergency
City work crews are 140 connections behind as public works director C. G. Lavander cites rapid home construction. An administration policy to limit laying sewer laterals to free workers for house connections failed to close the backlog.
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Public Works
C. G. Lavander
Austin
City Defers Work Extension Move
City Council will not act on a contract extension Saturday by J. M. Odom Construction until the regular meeting Thursday. Odom is one of three contractors tied up by a labor dispute at the City Power Plant. Union labor strikes have kept the site idle for 48 days while Brown and Root uses nonunion workers to install two boilers.
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J. M. Odom Construction Company
Taylor Glass
Odom Company
Jor
Austin Building and Construction Trades Council
Brown and Root Construction Company
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