Mrs. Tomlin Acquitted of Murder in Fort Sam Case
Mae Tomlin was found not guilty of murder by the 88th District Court jury after deliberating two hours and 15 minutes. She admitted shooting her husband at their East 12th Street apartment to escape, while prosecutors had urged a suspended sentence.
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Mae Tomlin
88Th District Court
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Tomlin
East 12Th Street
Brooke General Hospital
Fort Sam Houston
Asheville
N. C
K. R. Herbert
Mrs. Tomlin
Charles O. Betts
Betts
Bergstrom Raises Travis TB Seal Drive Funds
Travis County Tuberculosis Association gear up to reach a $17,500 goal as Bergstrom Air Force Base contributes $200 to the Christmas Seal sale. Seals sold on pay day November 30 raised $220.94, with further funds expected from donations in the Officers Club NCO Club Main Exchange Post Office and other locations. Corporal Dal Marmion of the Junior Chamber of Commerce directed the drive which began November 21 and aims to boost county health work. Over 40,000 letters carrying Seals were mailed at the campaign start.
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Travis County
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Bergstrom
Dal Marmion
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Marmion
Officers Club
NCO Club
Main Exchange
Travis County Tuberculosis Association
Red Cross Officials Outline 1950 Drive Goals in Texas
Red Cross representatives from 11 Texas chapters met in Austin with four national officers to plan the 1950 drive for 67 million dollars. They outlined major 1950 expenses including armed forces services, veterans and families, and the national blood bank program. Disaster relief costs were noted as highly unpredictable with past expenditures cited for 1947-49 and regional needs discussed for Fort Worth flood victims and Texas City.
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Red Cross
Texas
Austin
National Red Cross
Driskill Hotel
John C. Wilson
Mid-Western
R. Fowler
W. F. Moore
Otto J. Brenner
Wilson
National Blood Bank
Texas City
Fort Worth
Brewer to Speak at Folklore Society Convention
Professor J Mason Brewer of Samuel Huston College, the sole Negro on the American Folklore Society executive council, is named a speaker at the society’s national convention at Washington Library of Congress during Christmas week. He spoke last year in Toronto and has been named a consulting expert on folklore as an intercultural medium in American schools.
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J. Mason Brewer
Samuel Huston College
American Folklore Society
Library of Congress
Washington
Toronto
Canada
Brewer
National Conference On
Jenkins Sentenced Ten Years for $220 Robbery
Kenneth Eugene Jenkins received a 10 year sentence in 98th District Court after pleading guilty to robbery by assault in the Oct 1 incident at a Sixth Street tavern involving Camp Hood Corporal Maynard Mousely who was robbed of $220. Alton Cravatt pled guilty to theft and burglary and got three years probation. Detective R A Miles, who helped clear the cases, testified then became Cravatt’s probation officer for three years.
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Kenneth Eugene Jenkins
State Penitentiary
98Th District Court
Camp Hood
Maynard Mousely
Sixth Street
Alton Earl Cravatt
R. A
Bob) Miles
Cravatt
Medical Film With UT Star Slated Tonight
A free film on hemiplegia rehabilitation is shown Tuesday night at 7 30 p m in Speech Building 201. Philip Ruud a wounded veteran who stars in the Minneapolis produced film will attend the UT Speech and Hearing Clinic showing his work and rehabilitation progress.
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Theniversity of Texas Speech and Hearing Clinic
Jesse Villarreal
Veterans Hospital
Minneapolis
Philip Ruud
Ruud
Tea use for iced tea tops nationwide figures
The Tea Bureau reports Americans drink about 23 million pounds of tea annually for iced tea.
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The
Tea Bureau
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