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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1950
Page
10
City workers anticipate higher pay after a work survey aims to standardize salaries for like positions, with retroactive raises to Jan 1. A new group life and disability insurance program begins Jan 1, funded by the city. Pension revisions seek 25 year retirement, disability benefits, and higher benefit ceilings.
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a stomachic tonic that helps underweight individuals gain strength and weight. It claims many have benefited and urges regular use to increase appetite and body mass.
Two Central Texas officers, Major Sidney Weatherford of San Marcos and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Ellis of Rockdale, graduated December 15 from Maxwell Air Force Base Command and Staff School. Weatherford served in World War II and in England and North Africa. Ellis served in the Caribbean Theater from 1945 to 1948.
The H. M. Lindsey family of 200 West 40th Street received word from their son Marine Private First Class Ben D. Lindsey that he was safe in South Korea after a brutal five day march in the Chosin Reservoir area. He described heavy Chinese opposition and frostbitten injuries among the unit, but noted the survivors made it to Hamhung and were evacuated to Pusan Masan, where the letter was written December 19. Lindsey, 20, a Austin High School and University of Texas alumnus, joined the Marines about 18 months ago and will turn 21 on February 21.
Navy information officers announced Austin firefighter James C. Garner of 5213 Laraiynn Street is aboard the destroyer tender USS Dixie cruising in the Far East.
Dudley Early critiques Devil's Doorway starring Robert Taylor Paula Raymond and Louis Calhern as a story of land rights and Indian oppression with mixed emotion while Wayne and Fontaine headline a second feature about an uncle's corpse and a $20 000 life insurance payoff that fails to cohere with Victor Mature as the investigator. The pieces offer a cautious to fair verdicts on both films noting strong talent but uneven execution.
Phyllis L. Richards of Austin received a master’s degree on December 22 at the University of Lago during its 244th convocation. Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins conferred the degrees on 427 graduates.
London reports that Butlin and associates salvaged much of their Bahamas investment as the half completed village was sold to unnamed American investors. Butlin had proposed a United States resort at Lake Austin, awaiting success of the Bahamas project. The sale total was about 4.06 million dollars with losses estimated around 560 thousand dollars if liquidated.
Captain William C. Schulle of Austin is in pilot training at Randolph Air Force Base San Antonio After completion he will join the Strategic Air Command for assignment to a B29 combat unit He is the son of Mr and Mrs William C Schulle of 2501 Schulle Avenue.
Guillermo R. Padolina 35 director of field service for the Philippine Boy Scout program studies for an MA in education at the University of Texas. He assists Cub Scout activities at Zavala School and works with 43 scout councils in the Philippines. He arrived in June with the Philippine contingent to the Jam boree in Valley Forge and is sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega Rotary Club and Capitol Council.
Six Austin students at the University of Texas join Beta Beta Alpha, a women’s professional business organization. Notable members include Jeanette Ferris, Ann Kosky, Joye Lucerne Clark, Sara-Ann Berlowitz, and Miss Bratton, with family and sorority affiliations noted.
Public records show a damages judgment for Jess C. Robinson against Leo Strange et al in 98th District Court. Other filings include injunctions and damages for Allene L. Jacobs against Elwood Jacobs in 53rd District Court, and a one day jail term for Susie Nickleberry in County Court at Law.
Fragmentary OCR text references a Friday schedule with names such as Williem Napey Olean Naty Cooper Paulette Goddard and locations like Union Station. Mentions a feature starting plan and a price line but no coherent event or outcome is readable.
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