Longevity plan could settle city pay squabble
City officials debate Police and Fire pay raises with longevity payments seen as a remedy. Referendum petitions and overtime rules stir contention as departments seek fair compensation. City Manager Seaholm faces pressure while patrol cars and radio issues hamper operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Walter Seaholm
Maybelle Stout
South Austin
Colorado River
West Austin
Thorp
Quips on Temper, Taxes, and News Play in England
A collection of wry lines contrasts temperance on phone manners with price gouging, predicts tax hikes, and notes shifts from old fashioned routines to modern fast tactics. It laments bland news coverage and praises real reporting across cultural references.
Editor's Notebook on Tax Equity and Aging Valuations
The piece laments a long standing tax inequity between city and county property valuations. It notes city houses on county rolls are undervalued and suggests raising county valuations while lowering city ones to achieve equity. It also briefly comments on a Saturday Evening Post science article about climate change and sun explosions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saturday Evening Post
United States
Greenland
Alaska
Canada
Israel Revisited by Ralph McGill Reviewed by Billy Rose
Billy Rose reviews Israel Revisited by Ralph McGill, praising its open minded research and factual approach. He notes McGill’s Irish background, journalism ethic, and liberal Southern stance as shaping a meticulous, bias-free portrayal of Israel’s early survival prospects. The piece commends the book as a clear, punchless answer to what Israel is really like.
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Missus
Israel
Tel Aviv
Haifa
Jerusalem
Judea
New York
Bernard M. Baruch
Mr. Baruch
Ralph McGill
Atlanta
Tupper and Love
McGill
South
Atlanta Constitution
Mr. McGill
Georgia
Billy Rose
Houston Parley Sets Tone for Labor Merger Talks
Peter Edson reports on delayed harmony talks between the AFL and CIO as they approach the 10‑man committee phase in Chicago. The piece notes historic failed efforts since 1936, ongoing jurisdictional disputes, and the challenge of uniting craft and industrial unions amid looming AFL convention in Houston.
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Committee of 10
Chicago
AFL
Houston
CIO
Allan S. Haywood
AFL Brotherhood of Boilermakers
Charles J. McGowan
Philip Murray
William Green
Cal—Congress of American Labor
AFIO
American Federation of Industrial Organizations
Afl-Cio
Organized Labor Movement
Fire safety and general knowledge Q and A snippets
Fire safety guidance from the Forest Service instructs clearing inflammable material to mineral soil, keeping a small fire, and extinguishing it completely. The Western Hemisphere’s radium source is Great Bear Lake in Canada with Port Radium. Mountbatten name origin traces to Battenberg members adopting Mountbatten in 1917. The term Point Four refers to Truman's 1949 inaugural address and the subsequent aid program for developing areas.
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The
Forest Service
Great Bear Lake
Canada
Arctic Circle
Port Radium
Truman
Congress
Washington Wire and War Talk From Capitol Hill
A sweeping U S intelligence tease links a wire tapping probe to Shimon in Washington and notes delays in a grand jury probe. It tracks Lyndon Johnson’s expected surge against Louey Johnson and Acheson, plus Churchill’s European army push and Defense politics in a bustling capital.
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Washington
Pepper
John Fibelly
Morria Fay
Leutenant
Nagshead
N. C
Howard Hughes
Shimon
Fibelly
Raleigh
Fay
Defense chiefs push universal military training urged
Secretary of Defense Johnson warned of manpower shortfalls as the Army remains six divisions short of its 18 division target. He opposed immediate universal military training but urged a law authorizing it. Truman will appoint a price advisory board within 30 days and create a civilian defense coordination agency to fund metro areas for national security against a surprise A bomb attack.
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Sam Rayburn
Loucy Johnson
Johnson
Dean Acheson
Brewster
Maine
Wherry
Nebraska
Truman
Lyndon Johnson
Truman Committee
Louey
Don Cook
SEC
Acheson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Churchill
Winston Churchill
Paul Reynaud
France
Russia
West
Europe
Army
Navy
Air Force
Korea
DuPont
Tighe Woods
Congress
Woods
Budget Bureau
McCarthy
Harry Cain
Secretary of Defense
Cain
Washington
Germany
Umit
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Broadway gossip and political shifts sweep the era
News notes cover Jack Lait and Broadway satire with a sly take on Freedom of the Press, rumors of Liz Taylor and Nicky Hilton, a looming House coalition between Northern Republicans and Southern Democrats, and Hollywood figures facing legal and personal drama as 1951 nears.
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Phil Croby
Bing
Grover Whalen
David Selznick
Liz Taylor
Nicky Hilton
Chicago
el Paso
Hollywood
M Deck
Congress
GOP
Democ
Repubs
Repubicans
Fair Dealers
Bill Sherry
Bette Davis
Joseph
Lew Ritter
Jimmy
Alo
Florida
Meyer Lansky
Columbia
Darra Allen
Hartford
Nathaniel Gallagher
West Point
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T. H. Williams
Robinson Crusoe
Attlee
By Smith
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Mediterranean
Peter Edson
American Federation of Labor
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Austin American Information
Eye Street
Washington, DC
A. BR
Mountbatten
C.V.K
House of Battenberg
Toady
Austin
Louis Alexander
Henry Maurice of Battenberg
L.S.S
Austin American
Charles E. Green
Mirry
Lyndon J. Will
Louis J. Soon
Drew Pearson
Odds and Ends
Jack Lait
Broadway
BY Jack Lait
Seer Ener
Texas
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Igo
Iated Press
Associated Press
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