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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1949
Page
14
Boyd Pinkston, a local Black man, faces arson charges in a county case filed with Justice L. W. Booton. The complaint alleges he set fire to his home causing damage to the building and its contents, per Fire Chief Harry Schulz.
A cooperative feed seed and implement store owned by the Hays County Cooperative Association opens in Kyle Saturday with W F Hicks as manager. Directors include Emil Schmeltekopf Alton Franke R D Keeney Erwin Rohde Ike Kuykendall and Earl McCormick. The $100,000 capital stock venture, built of quonset design, sits on a Missouri Pacific lease near Highway 81 with a railroad spur.
Advert promotes Resinol ointment with lanolin for relief from constant eczema itch and burning skin. Claims thousands have found comfort as druggists offer the product.
Kerrville resident J. W. Hill approaches his hundredth birthday on Friday. Born in Alabama, he fought through the Civil War era and later moved to Texas in 1871. He has lived with his son P. O. Hill since his wife Marie Satterwhite died in 1929, and remains an alert reader who enjoys neighbors and current events.
Caldwell County will seek $96000 in Series E Saving Bonds in the Treasury Department Opportunity Drive running May 16 to June 30. County savings bond chairman C F Richards announced the quota after a letter from Nathan Adams of Dallas, urging broad participation to help ordinary people gain thrift backed opportunities. Caldwell County has consistently surpassed bond sale targets in prior years.
Llano April 27. A free barbecue for all Llano County veterans of World War I and World War II will be given by the local American Legion post Friday May 6 at the City Firehall, announced by Forrest W Sawyer.
San Marcos Kiwanis Club sponsors the annual Career Day for Cen cal Texas high school seniors on Thursday. Seniors from Kyle Buda Wim berley Dripping Springs New Braunfels San Marcos and Halletts ville will learn about vocations with Dr W W Jackson of San Antonio speaking on vocational guidance and Dr J G Flowers welcoming. After sessions clubs leaders conduct sectional meetings then a noon meal at Sewell Park followed by an address by J Lloyd Rogers and afternoon sports at the park.
Travis County funds the first program by a Texas county court to supply grasshopper insecticides to farmers for roadside and adjacent fields. Elmo V. Cook says county pays for chlor-dane or toxaphene. farmers apply at their own expense, agreeing to treat infested land. First applicants include E. W. Nelson and Willie Feuerbacher. Continuous hoppers and eggs remain, urging early treatment with chlordane dust or concentrate before hoppers grow.
The House foreign affairs committee approved a bill giving Texas until August 2, 1953 to complete a bridge across the Rio Grande near Del Rio and until August 2, 1951 to begin construction. The plan originally set a 1949 start, but delays arose as Texas negotiated with Mexico.
The Dr J H Thomas family returned home Monday night to find their living room filled with swallows. More than a hundred birds sought refuge from the weather through the fireplace chimney and had taken over the room.
A bill to validate bonds of the Pleasant Mound Water District near Dallas won House approval to allow introduction of the measure.
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