A Lime Austin Boy Chico’s hard life in Austin revealed
The American Statesman previews Chico a real Austin boy who faced hunger lack of care and abuse. He ran away and found trouble as strangers inflicted blows without known names. The five part series begins Sunday with more installments to follow on Page One City News.
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Chico
American Statesman
the American
Austin
Texas
Federal Penitentiary
William Sidney Porter
O. Hengy
Air Base Pilot Survives F84 Crash Near Bergstrom Field
Captain Billy G. Edens 27 escaped a fiery F84 crash six miles east of Bergstrom Air Force Base after reporting an engine failure at 12 40 p m on a routine training flight. He suffered a wrenched back and first second and third degree burns but was not in critical condition. Eyewitnesses saw flames as the plane hit a corn field then a 1500 yard skid before Edens crawled from the wreckage and was helped to the highway and hospital by locals and base personnel.
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Bergstrom Air Fore Base
Bastrop Highway
Billy G. Edens
Edens
Tom Neel
Walter Holt
Pete Luzio
Bergstrom
L. L. Heine
Bergstrom Air Force
French Dismiss Joliot Curie as Atomic Com missioner
Paris April 28 Auriol presided cabinet action to suppress the functions of High Atomic Commissioner Frederic Joliot Curie. The Nobel laureate and Communist resigned from the national committee directing French research in war and peace. Term would have ended January 1. dismissal effective immediately.
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Paris
Frederic Joliot-Curie
France
National Committee of Scientific Research
Vincent Auriol
Henri Teitgen
Council of Ministers
Council To Consider Morgan's Successor
Mayor Taylor Glass said he will ask the City Council next Thursday to consider selecting a successor for City Manager Guston Morgan who resigned effective June 1 to enter private business. The council met Thursday amid illness and did not discuss filling the post.
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Taylor Glass
Guston Morgan
Morgan
Historical Group Refuses To Sponsor Acheson Talk
Texas State Historical Association directors on Thursday voted unanimously not to sponsor United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson for an address in Dallas. The decision labels sponsoring a public figure as outside the group’s scope despite no hostility to Acheson.
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Texas State Historical Association
United States
Dean Acheson
Texas
Acheson
Tom Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
The
Historical Association
Sec. Acheson
Dallas
Europe
W. H. Kittrell Jr
L. Bailey Carroll
Senator Connally
Kittrell
Sen. Connally
Connally
Carroll
Flying saucer sighting stuns airline crew
An airline pilot and passengers report a disc shaped saucer rolling through the sky with a cherry glow. The incident is described among other items on page nine.
UT awards contracts for four campus buildings
University of Texas Board of Regents awarded 3.2 million dollars for three classrooms and a pharmacy building on the Austin campus funded by a 1947 bond issue. Awards cover plumbing heating cooling electrical work and equipment with firms from Houston Austin San Antonio and Long Island City handling various trades and supplies.
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University of Texas Board of Regents
Austin
W. 5S. Bellows Construction Corporation of Houston
Charles G. Heyne and Company
Houston
Fulcher Air Conditioning Company
Paul Wright Electric Company
San Antonio
Pharmacy
Plumbing
Bradshaw and Puryear
Thermal Engineering Company
Fort Worth
Jud Plumbing and Heating Company
Laboratory Furniture Company, Inc
Long Island
City
N. Y
Spring Boomlet Lifts U S Jobs Toward 60 Million Mark
The Census Bureau reports 59,998,000 Americans held jobs in early April, including 1,330,000 in the armed forces and 58,668,000 civilians, with a 1,117,000 gain in industry and farming from March 11 to April 8 and unemployment easing to 3,515,000 on April 8. The bureau notes seasonal factors and a rise in job seekers as influencing the drop.
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Washington
America
Census Bureau
Field Declares Lattimore Loyal to U S
Frederick Vanderbilt Field testified he never called Owen Lattimore a Communist and regards him as loyal to the United States. He said three State Department officials have not been Communists, but he refused to answer if he is one, prompting Sen. Lodge to call the scene shocking.
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Washington
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Owen Lattimore
United States
State Department
Haldore Hanson
John 8. Service
John Carter Vincent
Field
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
Senate
Senator Lodge
Rmass
Senate Foreign Relations
McCarthy
Lodge
Weather Forecast For Austin Promises Showers And Humidity
The forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms in Austin with warm humid conditions and mostly cloudy skies. A tropical air mass is driving unstable weather with potential heavy storms Saturday. rainfall totals since January 1 reach 11.28 inches and temperatures range from 71 low to 80 high.
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Austin
Hoye S. Dunham
Dunham
Texas
Tornadoes Kill 9 and Injure 35 in West Texas and Oklahoma
A series of tornadoes struck West Texas and Oklahoma causing nine deaths and about 35 injuries. Damaged towns and counties reported collapsed buildings, downed power lines, and emergency crews responding to the widespread storms.
Oklahoma twisters devastate Holdenville and surround towns
Savage tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma and West Texas striking at least six spots. Nine to twelve dead and more than 35 injured with widespread property destruction in Holdenville and Clyde Texas. Red Cross reports five dead and 100 injured in Holdenville as hospitals overflow.
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Oklahoma
West Texas
Holdenville
Texas-Oklahoma
Red Cross
Clyde
Texas
Abilene
Hobart
Rochester
Wichita Falls
Teras
Baird
Steve Rogers
Hughes County Red Cross
Wewoka
National Guard
Regents Create Chancellor System for UT Administration
The University of Texas Board of Regents adopted a chancellorship system to oversee eight existing units and two future ones, with a chancellor and chief officers to coordinate administration. A faculty advisory group will aid in selecting the chancellor, with representation from Ex-students' Association and the University Development Board. The president at Austin will administer only the Austin unit and the Port Aransas Institute until a chancellor is chosen.
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University Board of Regents
Austin
Institute of Marine Science
Port Aransas
Dudley K. Woodward Jr
Dallas
Ex-students’ Association
University Development Board
Wil
C. P. Boner
J. Alton Burdine
C. E. Ayres
Byron Short
Robert M. Moore
Galveston Medical Branch
William O. Russell
M. D. Anderson Hospital For Cancer Research
J. R. Telford
Dental School
Houston
Car
A. Moyer
Southwestern Medical School
A. H Berkman
Texas Western College
el Paso
James Shepherd
R. L. Bobbitt
San Antonio
Angus G Wynne
Woodward
William E. Darden
Waco
Edgar Tobin
Britain Receives $35 Million Wheat Loan Under Marshall Plan
Washington April 28 Great Britain was granted 35 million dollars Friday to buy Canadian wheat under the Marshall Plan. The Economic Cooperation Administration announced the spending approval. Grain buying will begin immediately and continue until June 30 with delivery by August 31.
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Washington
Great Britain
Economic Cooperation Administration
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Historical Group
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CIO
RADIO
Winchell Sports
Lattimore
Jakarta
Java
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West Java
Raymond Kennedy
Yale
Robert Doyle
Time and Life
Kennedy
FF. M., Reeves
Stephen F Austin Hotel
Felix Reeves
Austin Country Club
Ruby Jo Reeves
Ellen
New Haven
Conn
Doyle
Jogjakarta
Bandoeng
Associated Press
W. A. Ford
Dean Walker
Oklahoma City
Highway Patrol
UT Regents
Britain
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini
Toscanini
Gregory Gymnasium
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