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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1948
Page
4
In Lockhart Eugene Whitmore editor of American Business Magazine shares tongue in cheek assessments of 1949. He calls foreign, business, Wall Street and Washington situations grave and dynamic while urging focus on work and long-range viewpoints.
Dave Alexander of Moclips claims discovery of uranium bearing ore in the Lake Quinault area on a 160 acre tract. Samples were sent to assay firms in New York and California and to the US Atomic Energy Commission, with a report expected in two to six weeks.
Kerrville Jaycees announce three newly elected directors Henry Hillburn Leo Daniels and Don McClellan will join the board replacing Leon Miller Gene Wray and H T Paul Jr.
Oil and Gas Journal reports a weekly average of 5,633,775 barrels per day, up 1,730 from the prior week. Oklahoma and Louisiana set year highs, Colorado rises excluding Utah output, with gains seen in the eastern area, Wyoming, Arkansas, Alabama, and California.
In Fond Du Lac Wisconsin a downtown gasoline well that fed city trucks for a decade is drying up. Officials say over 20000 gallons were pumped from the well, which produced low octane fuel not from local stations. The output has dropped in three years and may go dry soon.
Federal court filings by the International Boundary and Water Commission seek title to about 5 000 acres for the Falcom Dam project on the Rio Grande. Forty nine landholders across Starr and Zapata counties face proposed compensation talks. Heaviest stakes belong to Guerra and Zachery interests. Additional suits expected in Laredo for about 13 000 acres flooded by the dam.
In Columbia South Carolina on December 28 a Navy veteran Clay Culp revived his goldfish George with artificial respiration after stopping a gas-fume leak from a water heater. He warmed and cooled the water and used fingernail gill work and tail wriggling to restart breathing. George soon moved on his own and stood upright.
In Pasadena California on December 28 a woman's body was found hanging from a tree on Colorado Street. Police arrived to a traffic jam as hundreds of motorists gathered. A passerby Harold Walker aged 20 climbed a pole and cut down the fully clothed store mannequin, not a real person.
In Fort Worth on December 28 a 26 year old Black man was jailed a week before his penitentiary release for wrecking his family home beating his 84 year old invalid father and assaulting three other family members.
The Governor's committee on election laws will meet here at 10 a.m. January 7, according to Governor Beauford Heister's office.
States with the biggest losses of the week were Indiana down 1,500 barrels to 23,000, Illinois off 3,900 to 177,200, Michigan 1,000 to 45,100, and Mississippi 5,750 to 123,000. Kentucky fell 100 to 23,900 and Kansas declined 750 to 306,400 while Montana dropped 10 to 23,900. Production was unchanged in Florida 850, Nebraska 350, New Mexico 134,490, Texas 2,515,675 and Utah 160.
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