Running Rope Ranch lets boys live a cowboy life with Captain Knox
Captain W. P. Knox runs Running Rope Ranch eight miles north of Austin where he entertains and educates 20 boys ages 8 to 15 each summer. They learn rope making riding wood craft and nature study while hearing tales of Buffalo Bill and army life.
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Balcones
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Heaven
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W. P. Knox
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Capt. Knox
Army
Korea
Knox
Gromyko
Joe
American Red Cross
City boat inspectors pledge tougher enforcement of navigation rules
City boat inspector Joe Taylor warned that violators of navigation ordinances will receive a warning before court action. Officials stress mandatory life preservers for each passenger, proper lighting from sunset to sunrise, fire extinguishers on inboard boats, two paddles, and licensed vessels with visible numbers and capacity. Overloading and speeding near docks and channels remain common issues.
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Joe Taylor
Taylor
Lake Austin Navigation Board
Mobilize Both Resources, Men Tells Rotarians
Colonel James Taylor urged Austin Rotarians to push for total mobilization of all resources and manpower. He called on citizens to write Congress and the President and to end business as usual immediately amid the Korean War discussions.
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James Taylor
Austin Rotary Club
Stephen F. Austin Hotel
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Korea
Cairo
Potsdam
Yalta
United Nations Commission
Peninsula
Increased recruiting office activity in Travis County
Navy, Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps recruiting offices in Travis County report rising activity with 27 Navy enlistments through Tuesday and 23 in Army and Air Force combined. Marine pace slows but aims to beat July record, seven enrollments so far this month and eleven in July.
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Navy
Army
Air Force
Marine
Marine Corps
Texas sets 79 Medico Officers quota for duty
Texas Military District assigns 79 medical, dental, veterinary and medical service officers to active duty. Voluntary calls preferred with 21 months service. Exclusions apply for residents, interns, post graduate studies, or teaching duties. Selection aided by medical and dental societies and senior reserve officers.
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Oscar B. Abbott
Texas Military District
Medical Service Corps
Col. Abbott
Fourth Army
Department of the Army
Army Medical Service Reserve
Scratch Dallas Voters Push Decentralization in Runoff
Marble Falls leader Emmett Alexander announced a statewide push to limit Dallas County influence in Texas government. The Scratch Dallas campaign will use ads releases and letters, funded by Texans, to galvanize opposition amid four Dallas dominated runoffs for Supreme Court Court of Criminal Appeals and Lieutenant Governor.
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International News Service
Dallas County
Texas
Emmett Alexander
Marble Falls
Austin
Dallas
Alexander
Supreme Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
Ben Raisey
San Augustine
Pierce P. Brooks
W. A. Morrison
Milam County
Robert L. Lattimore
Fagan Dickson
Bexar County
Will Wilson
Meade F. Griffin
Hale County
George W. Harwood
Researcher Uses Ear Device To Track Body Temperature
Louise Thompson, psychology graduate student, conducts ear temperature recordings under a grant from Abbott Laboratories. She aims to measure how emotions foods and caffeine affect body temperature, noting sleep and posture influence, with plans to expand testing to others.
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Louise Thompson
Neal Douglass
Abbott Laboratories
Miss Thompson
Roger J. Williams
Roy C. Thompson
University of Texas Chemistry Department
West 22Nd Street
University Kiwanis to Hear Navy Officer Talks on Korean War
Captain R A Knapp commanding officer of the Naval ROTC at the University of Texas will speak on Russian participation in the Korean War during the Kiwanis luncheon. The meeting is at 12 10 p m Wednesday in the Georgian Tea Room at 2312 San Gabriel Street.
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R. A. Knapp
University Area
Kiwanis Club
291 Owners Seek Altered Property Values
Travis County Commissioners Court will convene as board of equalization Thursday and Friday to hear protests from 291 owners who contest high valuations. Notices were sent Aug 4. expected to adjust valuations before May 1951 to secure 1952 revenue. Commissioner Swenson favors equalizing taxes using Austin city valuations.
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Travis County Commissioners’ Court
Board of Equalization
Tom Johnson
Johnson
Arthur Swenson
City of Austin
Fliers Taste Texas Hospitality on Cadet Visit
Fifteen aviation cadets from foreign lands visited Kerrville after a Texas hospitality welcome in Austin. Mayor Taylor Glass hosted a breakfast by the Exchange Club before tours of the University of Texas Defense Research Laboratory UT Commons the Capitol and the Governor's Mansion. Cadets were led by Col D Harold Byrd Lt Col E O Rushing Col William McCraw and Capt Phil Lovett all of Austin. They departed Bergstrom Field Tuesday afternoon in CAP aircraft. Seventy American CAP cadets are training and visiting in Europe under a reciprocal program.
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Texas
Austin
Taylor Glass
Exchange Club
University of Texas Defense Research Laboratory
Capitol
Governor's Mansion
D. Harold Byrd
National Civil Air Patrol Executive Board
E. O. Rushing
Kash-Karry Plans New Lamar Grocery
Kash-Karry plans a $50 000 one story masonry grocery building at 70 by 104 feet on South Lamar Boulevard to be built immediately north of the Austin Motor Truck Company. H F Green is the contractor and plans were filed with the city building inspector on Wednesday.
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Austin Motor Truck Company
South Lamar
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