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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1949
Page
12
State Auditor H Cavness directed agencies to enforce penalties for improper state car use. A new mileage report form requires 1 tenths mile precision, driver, purpose, date, and passenger names. The five relevant statutes are printed in form books and must be kept in each vehicle.
Mrs Wilme Ybarbo awaits word from Massachusetts congressmen on pressuring the Army for action after alleging a Civil Investigation Department official named Chandler coerced her to give a statement about the fatal shooting of her husband Sergeant John Ybarbo. She was freed from a German prison and flew home, hoping to collect her husband’s $10000 GI life insurance, which a VA official in Boston said she would not receive.
William Marrs Jr., 13, son of a railroad fireman near Winnemucca, risked his life Easter Sunday to save his dog Queen from a trestle as a west bound freight approached. He pulled the dog to safety, ducked under the train, and escaped with a grazed head and a broken arm after leaping into the Humbolt River.
The Malad river in Idaho is a three mile long stream that emerges from cliffs and flows into the Snake river between Bliss and Hagerman.
The Austin American reports Governor Durwood Manford named three House members to the special election law reform committee. The House picks S. J. Llaacks El Paso William Stump Georgetown and Bill Daniel Liberty. Senate selections include Carlos Ashley Llano W R Cousins Jr Beaumont and Keith Kelly Fort Worth.
Wyoming governor A G Crane and state engineer L C Bishop oppose President Truman’s Columbia Valley Authority, arguing for state-led compact solutions. They warn water development should not be handed to a commission, citing Wyoming’s five million acre feet contribution to the Columbia River system.
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