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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1950
Page
4
Detroit reports used car prices continue to climb with Automotive News noting a weekly average rise of $25 across models from 1941 to 1950. Postwar units show a $46 average increase and 1948 1949 1950 models rise as much as $64 over the prior week.
R. W. Daniels, 27, wasp attack on a telephone pole left him hospitalized with a possible fractured shoulder and hip injuries after a wasp nest defense turned violent. He froze as he watched a stinger strike him between the eyes before being treated by responders.
Richard H. Crowe, a 41-year-old New York banker, was released on parole from a federal prison after 13 months for an $883,600 embezzlement. He disappeared in 1949 with cash and securities and was arrested in Daytona Beach, Florida, after pleading guilty. He aimed to work to repay a small unrecovered sum.
The Baptist General Convention of Texas elected Rev Otis Strickland of Cisco as President of Decatur Baptist College replacing 83 year old Dr J L Ward who served 50 years Strickland resigns as pastor of First Baptist Church Cisco to take the Decatur post he will begin Sept 1 at Decatur College serves about 180 students and is described as the world s oldest junior college per a UT survey
Hopi Indians plan a snake dance at Hotevilla 75 miles north of Winslow on August 23. Local officials announced the event and invited visitors to attend the traditional ceremony.
In Memphis on Monday a flaming roof collapsed as eight Cudahy Packing Company firefighters battled the blaze. Firemen were dragged from the burning plant and taken to hospitals. injuries were initially undetermined as ambulances rushed to the scene. The fire began shortly after 11 am and sent smoke and flames into the downtown sky, drawing thousands as onlookers watched.
Private John L. Malone of Texas was sentenced by a US court martial in Kobe to three years confinement and dishonorable discharge for stealing 4,400 yen and a jacket from two Japanese individuals.
In Honolulu, August 7, members of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union walked off nearly all sugar plantations on Hawaii Island to protest the jailing of union leader Harry Bridges in San Francisco. Officials said 11 of 13 plantations were struck, with 7,000 to 8,000 workers involved. ILWU director Jack Hall defended the action as a protest against the leader's jailing and potential contract violation.
Betty Grant, 29, a dress maker, won a divorce from John Henry Grant, 32, an aircraft engineer convicted on six counts of attempted murder for placing a bomb on the airliner she and their two children rode. Cruelty cited. sentencing set for Sept. 5 with maximum term of 120 years.
J. S Leach of Houston will fill the new executive vice president post of the Texas Company in New York. C. R. Bryant, longtime refining head, becomes vice president at Houston.
The oldest surviving self propelled vehicle in America is a steam carriage built by Richard Dudgeon in New York around 1868, marking a milestone in early vehicle engineering.
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