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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1949
Page
9
Dealers launch fight for repeal and threaten to seek county option on 32 beer. A Tulse Tribune quote cites dry spokesman Dave Shapard as opposing 32 beer. Posters will be placed in all 3,600 retail beer outlets statewide.
Yale scientists say a newly identified virus causes a poliomyelitis like illness without paralysis. Found in Texas North Carolina and New Haven the virus often misdiagnosed as polio. Illness lasts about ten days with full recovery and no lasting harm.
A Seattle leather goods maker markets gloves for police with three model options. Each uses African carbretta leather and features a concealed palm pouch holding a half pound of chilled shot, claimed to help law enforcement deter crime.
Jose M. Lopez, Mission native and World War I Medal of Honor recipient, reenlists in the Army as a sergeant. He served with the 23rd Infantry of the 2nd Infantry Division and earned the medal for heroism at Krinkelt Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge on December 7, 1944. Lopez returns to duty at Fort Lewis Washington with a two-grade promotion due to his award. He had been working at the Veterans Administration in San Antonio prior to reenlisting.
Yoshiko Miyamoto, a Tokyo girl near death from tetanus and arthritis, asks General MacArthur for a chance to see her father, a civilian war crimes convict serving life in Sugamo Prison. Police escort enabled the visit to the Tokyo home for an afternoon meeting.
Martin Campos a 19 year old convict from Fort Bend County was charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of Braulio Yanez 38 in a tank at the Harlem Prison Farm near Sugar Land. Campos admitted the stabbing in a written statement saying it grew from an argument over Yanez not wearing a shirt during a Sunday visit.
Aug 14 in Washington The first loan under the long range public housing program was inaugurated in the office of Commissioner John Taylor Egan of the Public Housing Administration. Galveston was selected for the first loan as the housing authority and officials express hope private capital can finance the development to provide decent homes for families with low incomes.
A House panel approves entry for alien scientists into the United States with a decision aimed for near Tuesday. The move follows a government request to admit experts to advance research and development efforts.
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