Mason's Son Beaten Up By Houston Trip
Burt Mason 22 son of Alice radio commentator Bill Mason, beaten on South Main Street Houston early Sunday. He is in a Houston hospital with a broken leg and bruises. He suspects no link to his father's murder and plans to resume his radio program.
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Houston
Burt Mason
Alice
South Main Street
New Shamrock Hotel
Bill Mason
Sam Smithwick
Jim Wells County
Sheriff's Department
Smithwick
Corpus Christi
Floy Kennedy
Victoria
Lester
Five Centex Road Jobs To Be Let In Texas Bid Openings
Five Central Texas road projects are among 24 bids to be opened by the State Highway Department on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Tuesday work includes asphalt topping for Ranch Highway 93 up to the Pedernales River bridge, with major portions in Travis Burnet and Blanco counties. Wednesday's schedule covers 14 miles of farm to market road in Gillespie County, 17 miles on FM roads 793 and 795 in Gonzales, and 5.5 miles on FM 975 in Burleson. The Travis County portion costs about 178000 of the total project estimate around 285000.
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Central Texas
State Highway Department
Pedernales River
Travis County
State Highway Commission
Burnet
Blanco
Lamar Boulevard
45Th Street
Dallas Highway
Airport Boulevard
Cameron Road
Gillespie County
Gonzales County
Burleson County
Two American Boys Missing on German Bicycle Tour
Berlin officials report two 19 year old American youths Wallace Oessner and Peter Sellers have been missing for five days after last being seen in Goettingen in the British Zone on August 10.
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Berlin
Germany
Wallace Oessner
Peter Sellers
Goettingen
Bastrop County Forms Youth Foundation for Agriculture School
A $500000 Bastrop County Agricultural School project moves forward as citizens form the Bastrop County Youth Foundation to own the school while a foundation trustees it. The plan envisions evenings and weekend vocational training, an experimental farm, and countywide outreach guided by local agents and school districts.
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Bastrop County Agricultural School
Commissioners Court
Bastrop County Youth Foundation
Camp Swift
Foundation
Austin records hottest day of 1949 at 100.4 degrees
Austin tied the year's peak with 100.4 degrees at 4 35 pm on Monday as a heat wave persists. Fort Worth saw a severe hail storm with temperatures dropping to 77 after a freak August event, while officials warn of cooler changes yet the city braces for more heat.
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Austin
Fort Worth
Sem
Taylor Businessmen Lead Polio Drive in Taylor
Taylor officials and civic groups launch a city wide polio inspection, closing shops 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Volunteers from Kiwanis Rotary Lions and churches inspect homes for sanitation gaps including garbage cans standing water and trash piles. Inspectors report to Herbert Patterson and Dr. Edmond Doak.
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Kiwanis
Hkotarian
Lions Clubs
State Health Department
Ion
Herbert N. Patterson
City Sanitation Committee
Edmond Doak
Inspec
Patterson
Four Small Steel Firms Warn on Pay Hike Costs
In New York on August 15 four smaller steel companies Allegheny Ludlum A J Beyers Lukens and Colorado Fuel and Iron testified before a presidential three man fact finding board that raising wages now could force losses or price hikes as inflation cools They said union wage pension and insurance costs would be higher than union estimates and some firms could not absorb the increase The board which convened to avert a nationwide strike has eight days for each side to present its case
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Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation
A. J Beyers Company
Lukéns Steel Company
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
CIO Steelworkers Union
Jules Backman
New York University
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National Association of Manufacturers
Ira Mosher
NAM
Earl Bunting
Mosher
Bunting
Veterans Administration
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Interior Department
Army Engineers
Cannon
Economic Cooperation Administration
Matthews Pay Case Decision Due Tomorrow
The Travis County Commissioners Court will decide Wednesday on the next step in the Matthews case. The county sued former County Judge George S. Matthews and two ex-commissioners for 111,200 paid Matthews in 1948, then three commissioners withdrew the suit and sought an attorney general's opinion.
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Matthews
George S. Matthews
Perry Jones
Jones
U. S. McCutcheon
Warren Freund
REA approves 750000 loan for Comanche Co-Op Texas
The Rural Electrification Administration granted a 750000 loan to expand electric service for the Comanche County Electric Cooperative Association in Comanche Texas. The action was announced in Washington on Monday.
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Washington
Apg
Rural Electrification Administration
Comanche Co. Electric Cooperative Association
Comanche
Tex
Airliner Crashes at Sea Off Ireland Killing Nine
A Skymaster airliner with 58 aboard ran out of fuel and ditched in the Atlantic 15 miles off Galway. Nine people died or were lost during attempts to escape. 49 survived in a flare lit rescue. Ruth Nichols, famed American pilot, was among unhurt survivors.
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Ireland
Transocean
Atlantic
Brooklyn
Venezuela
Ruth Nichols
Rome
Shannon
Stalberg
Lanahrone
Court Order Restrain Striking Dock Workers
Honolulu Aug 15 The Hawaiian government obtained a circuit court injunction restraining the CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union from picketing the pier of the freighter Hawaiian Merchant The injunction aids the government in reopening strikebound ports with its own stevedore service.
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Honolulu
CIO International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen
Woman Little Weaker After Fatal Gun Attack
Mrs. Donald Bunce, 24, mother of four, is reported a little weaker in Lyons Hospital after surviving a fatal attack by her estranged husband who killed her parents and then killed himself. She remains in critical condition from a pistol wound to the left eye.
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Lyons, Kas
INS
Donald Bunce
Lyons
First-time drunk driver gets jail sentence in Austin
A 34-year-old Austin man received his first jail term for drunken driving after a County Court-at-Law jury opted for 10 days in jail instead of the usual $50 fine. County Attorney Perry Jones said the move aims to secure jail sentences for first offenses. Judge Mace Thurman imposed the sentence.
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Austin
Perry Jones
Jones
Mace Thurman
Austin High Inter-Club Council Disbands
The Inter-Club Council of 13 Austin High male and female clubs disbanded on Monday night. Clubs may disband individually as they choose, treasury funds were divided among member clubs, and the Hypatian Literary Society was ousted from the Girls' Executive. The Boys Executive’s $100 treasury returned to the Frankling Debate Society.
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Austin High Boys
Hypatian Literary Society
Frankling Debate Society
Austin School Board
Diana Joseph
Miss Joseph
Ex-Luling Postmaster Bassett Miles Dies at 77
Bassett R. Miles 77 retired Luling post master died at home Monday. Final rites set for Tuesday at 5 p m at residence with Dr. R A McCurdy officiating. Burial in Luling City Cemetery. Survived by widow Blanche Andrews Miles two daughters L E Brooks Wharton and N A Stuart El Campo and two sisters A M Maymon Los Angeles and Nick C Ladner Yorktown.
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Bassett R. Miles
Pierce Funeral Home
R. A. McCurdy
Luling City Cemetery
Blanche Andrews Miles
L. E. Brooks
Wharton
N. A. Stuart
el Campo
Texas County's First Bank President Dies
M. T. Davis 73 president of the First State Bank of Covington died early Monday in a Cleburne hospital. A Mississippi native, Davis lived in Covington Hill County 44 years and had worked with the bank since 1905.
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M. T. Davis
First State Bank of
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Cleburne Hospital
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Hill County
House Group Approves Full Arms Aid Plan
The House foreign affairs committee approved the administration's 1.45 billion arms aid package to bolster NATO nations against Soviet aggression. The plan funds 1.16 billion for arming Western allies with cash and contracts, subject to mutual defense plans and a March 31 deadline unless certification is given. The panel added an anti-five percent center amendment and retained final control to end the program.
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Senate
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Congress
House
Representative Lodge
R-Conn
China
Far East
Four-Year-Old Austin Lad Admitted to Polio Ward
Donald Mikus, nearly four, admitted to Brackenridge Hospital polio ward with polio. He is son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mikus of Route 1 Taylor. Other polio patients at Brackenridge totaled 11. all in good condition.
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Austin Lad
Donald Mikus
Brackenridge Hospital
Thomas Mikus
Route 1
Taylor
Brackenridge
House Refuses Extension To Emergency Credit Measure
The House blocked a further emergency extension denying funds for pay, pensions, and operations. Officials warn military pay and construction costs could halt while Senate delay keeps about 27 billion tied up in foreign aid and other programs.
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Washington
US Armed Services
Congress
Senate
Senate House
Mahon
D-Tex
Montreal councillor proposes bolero aid to modest dress
City Councillor Dave Rochon suggested police carry thin printed boleros to offer to women with too much bust or shoulder showing on Montreal avenues. He said the idea targets mainly visitors from the United States to curb summer low and behold dresses.
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Montreal
Dave Rochon
Rochon
United States
Austin Building Totals Near Record for Year
Austin building figures show year to date through Aug 15 at 20,472,293 dollars, nearing a record but still 6,689,223 behind the 1948 total. With four and a half months left in 1949, construction is expected to exceed last year’s peak 27,161,516. An August total of 987,291 in permits was issued, not counting a 1,250,000 Bergstrom Air Force Base housing project started recently.
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Austin
John C. Eckert
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Eckert
Aces Vastseeeara
Margaret Mitchell Takes a Worsening Turn at Grady Hospital
Pulit zer-Prize winner Margaret Mitchell showed a decided turn for the worse late Monday night according to a Grady Hospital doctor. The 43 year old author of Gone With the Wind had a fever of 102 degrees and a weak pulse, as he noted.
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Atlanta
Margaret Mitchell
Grady Hospital
Miss Mitchell
Second Trip Planned After Undersea Battery Lights Fail
Submarine explorer Otis Barton halted at 2300 feet off Santa Cruz Island after outside lights failed from a faulty power cable. He had planned a 6000 foot dive to break the world record set by Barton and Beebe in 1934. Barton reported observations from the ball including jellyfish and phosphorescent fish before deciding to surface at 2:12 pm.
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Santa Cruz Island
Calif
Otis Barton
Pacific
Barton
William Beebe
Boston
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