Give And Take Attitude Sought For Polio Center
Austin urged to provide a city owned site for Polio Inc to build a recreation and rehabilitation center for children. The plea highlights a $60,000 gift from a local donor and calls for council action to offer rent free access near paved streets with utilities. The piece stresses a life over property values and asks whether a city tract can be made available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Weeg
Austin Amercan
Austin
Polio, Inc
Polio Group
Salvation Army Report Highlights Local Efforts and Aid
Austin residents prepare to fund the amity Chest as the Salvation Army reports a busy year ending July 31 1949. Youth Center membership reached 825 with 33817 attendees in January alone and seven days of mobile canteen service for flood and fire relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Amity Chest
Salvation Army
James D. Lemon
Kiwanis Salvation Army
Kiwanis Club
Lemon
Fort Worth
Calcasieu Lumber Company
Quips and Quibbles Across News and Nonsense
A mosaic of wry asides on figures like Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson, transit strikes, a France ban on crime comics, and jokes about taxes and government welfare. The writer muses on calendars and the idea of swapping a winter month for August in a light, opinionated column tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackie Robinson
Paul Robeson
The CIO Fight Over Communist Influence in 1948
Victor Riesel reports from Pittsburgh on Phil Murray confronting 11 Communist union leaders while Jim Matles, head of United Electrical Workers, quietly builds a nationwide cadre to sway 450 party line operatives. He outlines plans to influence convention delegates and warns that anti-Communists must gain 600 more votes to control the CIO convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
FBI
Communist Party
Phil Murray
CIO High Command
Commie
CIO
Murray
Jim Maties
Mischa Auer
John Carridine
Organization
United Electrical Workers
Jim Mattes
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Matles
pro-Comiie
Cleveland
Ohio
Rural Aid Panel Sings Swan Song in Texas Budget Shifts
The editors note the end of the joint legislative rural aid committee as new state agencies assume oversight. Gilmer Aikin revamps school funding into a $180 million program, while audits and a budget committee gain clout. Traffic safety in Austin is urged through low-cost fixes amid hedges and busy streets. UT figures like Registrar E J Mathews are highlighted as part of the university’s enduring leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joint
Legislative Rural Aid Committee
Gilmer-Aikin
Joint Legislative Council
Legislative Branch
Chamber of Commerce
Austin
Red River
West 12Th Street
University of Texas
Forty Acres
T. A. Taylor
Benny
H. Y. Benedict
John C. Townes
Harper
Calhoun
Battle
Penick
Schoch
E. J. Mathews
Questions and Answers on Bar Association and historical trivia
The text covers the founding year of the American Bar Association as 1878 with its Chicago headquarters. It mentions Jack London and his wife traveling aboard the Dorigo, recounting the ship’s Bath Maine A 1804 origin and its WW1 sinking. It notes the cholia cactus often said to jump at animals and its spines, with pack rats and cactus wrens linked to the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Bar Association
United States
Chicago
Jack Leades
A. Jack London
Bath
Maine
Ae Q
Marines clash over private school at Camp Pendleton
In San Diego Marine Major General Graves Erskine prompts a public controversy by using Navy funds to establish a private grade school at Camp Pendleton. California officials and educators denounce the move as unconstitutional while Erskine defends his action.
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Washington
Fighting Corps
Army
Navy
Air Force
Graves B. Erskine
San Diego
Erskine
Clinton D. McKinnon
Defense
Louis Johnson
Camp Pendleton
California
John S. Carroll
Oceanside
William H. Daubney
Daubney
Broadway GATEWAY AND GET-AWAY: Sunlit Grand Central Tales
A column by Jack Lait blends architecture notes on the Senate and House chamber renovations with a travelogue of Grand Central’s bustle. The piece threads Capitol updates, rail industry shifts led by Robert R. Young, and a panorama of celebrities and gossipy urban scenes.
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Senate
House
Capitol Architects
Henry Cabot Lodge
Rmass
Lodge
Chamber
Jack Lait
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Salvation Army Help
17. S
France
Bevin
BY Victor Riesel
Slim Jim Mattes
Berlin
Brooklyn
New York Post Corp
Rural Aid Panel
Maroons
Commodore Perry Hotel
State
Mathews
By Smith
At Ee S. Austin
American Esmetien
Buresu
Richard Russell
D-Ga
Ecton
Dixiecrafs
Russell
Hungry Horse Power Project
Montana
Hungry Horse
Montana Power and Light Company
Eden
Lister Hill
Dkla
Robert Kerr
Okla
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Robert R. Young
Association of American Railroads
Young
Chesapeake and Ohio
Federation For Railway Progress
Pennsylvania
New York Central
New Harmony
Eastern Railroads Presidents Conference
C&o
Walter Touhy
Federation
Thomas J. Deegan
Interstate Commerce Commission
Appropriations Committee
Interior Department
Harry Cain
R-Wash
Miles Poindexter
Zales Ecton
R-Mont
Grand Central
Mamma
Barbara Dunn
Bangkok
Siam
Bob Swan
Cuba
Rita Tennon
Cindy Heller
Don de Leo
Trader Tom's
Virginia Grey
Santa Fe
Adele Jergens
Columbia
Fran Warren
Lee Grant
Bill O'Tawyer
Henry Wallace
ALP
Hank
O Dwyer
Billy Whitlock
London
The
Three Suns
Bugsy” Siegel
Lucky” Luciano
Italy
Mickey” Cohen
Capone
Austin American
the Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
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