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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1948
Page
13
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of State George C. Marshall showing an uneventful recovery from kidney surgery. Col J A Weaver, hospital commandant, said Marshall had a good night and is progressing rapidly with no complications, likely to continue directing policy.
The American Petroleum Institute reports a weekly drop in crude oil output to a daily 5,615,150 barrels for the week ended December 4, down from 5,617,050. Refinery capacity usage stood at 93.86 percent with 5,698,000 barrels processed daily. Heavy fuel oil, light fuel oil, and gasoline production figures are given, noting shifts from the prior week.
Georgetown dispatch says Sheriff S Red Allen departed Wednesday for Dallas to join the two day session of the Sheriffs Association of Texas as a member of the legislative committee.
The price of retail eggs fell another two to four cents a dozen in New York on Wednesday, bringing the total decline to 22 cents since November 1. Atlantic and Pacific Food Chain and Grand Union cut Grade A large white eggs to 73 cents, while A&P reduced mixed Grade A to 69 cents and medium white to 65 cents, from 95 cents for Grade A white on November 1.
The Smallholders Party in Budapest announced it lost confidence in Premier Lajos Dinnyes after a long meeting sparked by former Finance Minister Miklos Nyardi’s flight from the country. Dinnyes and five cabinet undersecretaries are urged to resign, as the party purges bourgeois elements masking as leftists amid coalition tensions with the Communists and Peasants.
A B36 Superbomber based at Carswell Air Force Base flew non stop to Honolulu and back to Montgomery before continuing to Fort Worth. The voyage, about several thousand miles each way, was to provide islanders with their first view of America’s six engined land based bomber. Three five man Army crews accompanied the red tailed plane on the 45 hour mission.
Chinese used fingerprints as signatures and on seals more than 2000 years ago, with O O Griffith of the Singapore police noting their early adoption. This marks another historic first for the Chinese in identification.
Delos Smith recalls Chichen Itza and the Maya in ruins 700 years after their peak. He notes monumental architecture, astronomy, mathematics, and artistry, the sacred pool ritual, and the modern Mayaland Lodge near Merida as a link between past and present civilizations.
The Goodrich Chemical Company says prolonged tests at Swan Island Maine wildlife refuge show its new animal repellent deters grazing wildlife after they chew treated leaves.
Editor Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Constitution says the South has brought most of its woes on itself so far as civil rights legislation is a factor in southern politics and society.
In an address before the Birmingham branch of the American Association of University Women, McGill voiced that until Black workers gain greater skill opportunities and fair pay, FEPC fears and economic suppression will persist.
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