Last Rites Dated For Homer Blair
Homer Blair 68 head of the Southern Grocery Company died of a heart attack Friday morning in San Marcos. Services set for Saturday at 3 p.m. He led in wholesale grocer circles for 46 years and held Masonic and church memberships in San Marcos. Survivors include his wife two brothers a sister and one aunt.
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San Marcos
ANS
Homer Blair
Southern Grocery Company
Blair
Masonic Lodge
The
Baptist Church
Deaths and Funerals for Pettus Finger Barnett Peterson Lowther
Funeral services for Samuel Stevens Pettus 980 Chalmers Courts are at 10 am Saturday at Hyltin Manor Funeral Home officiated by Rev Ivan O Donaldson. Burial in Austin Memorial Park. Olin W Finger 68 service at 3 pm Saturday Weed-Corley Funeral Home with Rev Marvin Vance. Oakwood Cemetery. Mrs W F Barnett 83 cortege left Weed-Corley for Bedias Baptist Church services 11 am burial Bedias Cemetery. Mrs Hilda Christine Peterson rites held Friday Cook Funeral Home Oakwood Cemetery. Mrs Lady Lowther rites held Friday St Marys Cathedral burial Oakwood Cemetery. Manuel Salazar service Friday at Santa Maria de la Luz Cemetery survivors include Joe Salazar and Joe Salazar Jr Irene Salazar Frank Salazar Felix Salazar.
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Samuel Stevens Pettus
Chalmers Courts
Hyltin Manor
Ivan O. Donaldson
Austin Memorial Park
Olin W. Finger
Weed-Corley
Marvin Vance
Oakwood Cemetery
Harry Graves
Lloyd Davidson
K. K. Woodley
Milton Owens
Dan Moody
Meade F. Griffin
W. E. McLean
de Critz
Clint C. Small
W. F. Barnett
Baptist Church
Bedias
Hilda Christine Peterson
Cook Funeral Home
Charles Sumners
Tom Brabham
Lady Lowther
St. Mary's Cathedral
Andrew Mulreany
CSC
Manuel Salazar
Santa Maria de la Luz
Joe Salazar
Irene Salazar
Joe Salazar Jr
Frank Salazar
Felix Salazar
Thirty-Three Austin Men Begin Military Processing
Thirty three Austin men started processing at Fort Austin Center. The group includes James H. Toungate Paris E Boddy Lee Roy Henson and many others. They will spend eight days with shots orientation films drills and questionnaires before assignment to units and six weeks basic training at posts nationwide. Some veterans William Barber Raymond Joseph and Robert Joseph previously served in the Marine Corps.
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Austin
Ft.oustown Center
James H. Toungate
Paris E. Boddy
Lee Roy Henson
Godger E. Eberhart
Ben W. James
Roland D. Schooley
Stefan Salek
Albert D. Kibler
Bobby Gene Davis
Frank W. Grabs
Joe Navard
Elijah Flowers
Ernest A. Bailey
Jenn H. McPhaul
Sylvester Taylor
Tommy Knox
Jimmy Mecey
David C. Houston
James F. Dear
Richard Warren
Frank Woodkins
Billy Clyde Owens
John M. Yancey
Horace D. Harlan
B. L. Wier Jr
Lee Willie Thigpen
Louis Vernon Sanders
Valentine Mosqueda Luna
Chen B. Littlefield
William C. Barber
Raymond §. Joseph
Robert P. Joseph
Marine Corps
Food Locker Group Establishes Texas State Offices in Austin
Austin’s 87th state association headquarters was listed Friday by the Chamber of Commerce when the Texas Frozen Locker Ra tion received its state charter association designated Austin as the site of its state offices. It is a non-capitol stock board of trade corporation. Incorporators are Douglas Anderson, Sam Jones and H. M. Mote.
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Austin
State Association
Chamber of Commerce
Texas Frozen Locker Ration
Capitol Stock Board of Trade Corporation
Douglas Anderson
Sam Jones
Austin Hospitalized After Motorbike Crash
A 41 year old Austinite identified as QO R Wilson from East 44th Street was hospitalized after a motorbike collided with a deli truck at 1st and Clarkson Streets. He suffered a severe facial laceration and was treated at Brackenridge, police said.
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1St
Clarkson Streets
QO. R. Wilson
East 44Th Street
Brackenridge
Chinese Reds Mass For Big Attack Against Seoul
Chinese forces mass along the 38th Parallel as the Seoul defense line braces for a major assault. U S Eighth Army reports North Korean spearheads pressing south while air power disrupts enemy concentrations near Sinuiju.
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Walker
Russia
Douglas MacArthur
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Striggen Ge
Eighth Army
West Point
Patton
Korea
Seoul
38Th Parallel
Republic
MacArthur
United Nations
Sinuiju
Hungnam
North
South Korea
Peiping Radio
Chou En-Lai
Rotary Club Hosts Yale Fete For 134 UT Foreign Students
The Austin Rotary Club hosted its third annual Christmas banquet for 134 University of Texas foreign students from 34 countries. Iraq led with 26 attendees, others included students from India and Afghanistan. The program featured organ music by Reginald Taylor, square dancing by Mrs. Manfred Holek and Capitol Set, a magician by Rotarian Allen Sears, and vocal selections by Roy Johnson with a carol sing in multiple languages.
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Austin Rotary Club
Iraq
India
Afghanistan
Reginald Taylor
Taylor
Manfred Holek
Capitol
Allen Sears
Roy Johnson
Rotary Club
Christmas Gifts From Fighting Men In Korea Reach Wives
Wives of soldiers in Korea receive gifts sent through Operation Santa Claus a volunteer effort by 300 American women in Japan. Items include a wristwatch doll kimono and a dog harness for pets as families cope with absent husbands and fathers during the war.
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Parley Elder
Oak City
Utah
Glen
Korea
John Leslie Gayhart Jr
Dallas
Texas
Japan
John L. Gayhart
Seoul
Margaret Tonkin
San Francisco
Robert Tonkin
Margaret Anne
Eileen Tonkin
Mrs. Tonkin
Annabel Lintelman
Lintelman
Alan
Anna
Lee
James H. Lee
Fort Knox
Anne
Tommy
Daddy
Scofield Speaker At Revenue Party
Frank Sofield served as the principal speaker at the Nages and Excise Apartment Christmas party. Employees paused work for about an hour and a half to sing carols and exchange gifts, with five Austin school children as guests of honor receiving stockings and presents.
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Frank Sofield
Nages and Excise
Con
Ben F. McDonald
Austin
Barbera Wright
Ella Louise Wright
Lucy May Pieplow
Joe Pieplow
Bettie Lou Brown
Cigarettes Stolen Case Leads to Theft Charge Against Man
An Austin man Reginald Vernon Walker Route 3 Box 253 was charged with misdemeanor theft after allegedly shoplifting eight cartons of cigarettes valued at about 14 dollars from H. E. Butt Grocery No 1 at 117 West Sixth Street. Police say he was arrested Friday morning after leaving the store.
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Austin
H. E. Butt
West Sixth Street
Reginald Vernon Walker
Route 3
Box 253
Walker
Burglar Locked In Cafe Steals Cash and Cigarettes
A burglar locked in after closing at George Joseph's Cafe on East Avenue fled with $21 and cigarettes, according to waitress Tillie West. Police noted there was no visible sign of forced entry as the burglar remained inside overnight.
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Tillie West
George Joseph's
East Avenue
Mild Austin Christmas Weather Forecast
Weather outlook for Austin and East Texas shows milder conditions with no chance of a white Christmas. Weekend highs near the 60s, cloud cover dominant, and no significant temperature changes expected. past 24 hours list minor readings and no rainfall noted.
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Central Texans
East Texas
Austin
Amry
Acheson Defends Policy After Brussels Defense Council
Secretary of State Acheson, returned from Brussels, defended the U S defense policy amid congressional attack. He warned that withdrawing into the hemisphere threatens Soviet conquest of Eurasia and a collapse of world peace, while Senate hearings press for concrete results from the Brussels council decisions.
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Eurasia
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Moscow
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Texas
Wiley
R-Wis
Council
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Spain
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