West Austin Debates Tarrytown School Site at Public Meeting
A packed Wednesday session at Good Shepherd Church debated site options for a new Tarrytown elementary school. Residents pressed for a junior high and urged rapid construction while current plans consider a 10 acre lot north of Bowman Avenue at Pecos and Greenlee Streets.
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West Austin
Tarrytown
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
Enfield
Bowman Avenue
Pecos and
Greenlee Streets
Gladys Bowman
Tom Johnson
R. W. Byram
J. W. Edgar
T. B. Mayhall
Austin State School
Exposition Boulevard
The
Austin Public Schools
Byram
Edgar
Hal P. Bybee
O. D. Weeks
Gus J. Moos
Fred S. Nagle Jr
Supreme Court Buries College Building Fight
The Supreme Court declined to rehear the College Building Constitutional Amendment case, leaving intact a ruling that the court has no jurisdiction. State colleges proceed with a $75 million building program. the challenge was brought by Clarence Whiteside and others against Attorney General Price Daniel and Paul Brown. Two labor cases were heard on oral arguments, including the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 564 versus Velasco Laundry and Dry Cleaners and a Teamsters dispute with North East Texas Motor Freight Lines. The court reviewed picketing in both cases, including the question of whether picketing is privileged under free speech guarantees.
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Clarence Whiteside
Price Daniel
Paul Brown
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 564
Afofl
Velasco Laundry and Dry Cleaners
Brazoria County
Teamster’s Union No. 745
North East Texas Motor Freight Lines
Dallas
Court of Civil Appeals
Supreme Court
Groundhog predicts early spring after shadowless day
Weather notes from Austin report groundhog did not see shadow on Feb 2 signaling early spring though sun broke through clouds and showers possible. Weather Bureau expects Thursday to be more springlike with highs near 50s, plus forecast details on temperatures rainfall and river levels across Texas towns.
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Groundhog
Weather Bureau
Austin
Colorado
Montopolis
Lake Buchanan
Lake Travis
Marshall Ford
Bilene
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Galveston
Brownsville
Lared
Corpus Christi
Gen Cetiale
del Rio
Waco
el Paso
Rayburn Names Members to Several Congressional Commissions
Speaker Sam Rayburn appoints four commissions. Territorial expansion memorial commission picks Thomas of Texas Sullivan of Missouri and Barrett of Wyoming. National capital sesquicentennial commission names Bloom of New York Thornberry of Texas and Horan of Washington. Naval academy board of visitors includes Sheppard of California Lasseer of Maryland Stefan of Nebraska and Miller of Maryland.
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Washington
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
House
Territorial Expansion Memorial Commission
Thomas
Texas
Sullivan
Missouri
Barrett
Wyoming
Bloom
New York
Thornberry
Horan
Board of Visitors of
Naval Academy
Sheppard
California
Lasseer
Maryland
Stefan
Nebraska
Miller
Li May Visit to Reds: Peace Delegations and City Surrenders
Li May may visit Peiping and lead delegations to win terms for Nanking Shanghai and Hankow. A Shanghai group heads to Peiping while General Pai Chung Hsi commands Hankow defenses. Fighting persists on the Yangtze as officials urge Sun Fo to return amid a Russian envoy departing Nanking for Canton.
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Nanking
Peiping
Shao Li-Tze
Shanghai
Pai Chung-Hsi
Hankow
Yangtze
Pukow
Kiangyin
Sun Fo
Central News Agency
Yu Kung-Hsien
Legislative Yuan
Sun
N. V. Roschin
Russia
Canton
Senate Panel Approves Texas School Aid Measure
The Senate committee backed the school aid bill to raise district attorney salaries and fund state needs. The measure includes 30,170 for higher district attorney pay, microfilming 70,000 for records, and 177,242 plus 75,456 for deficiency funds. Public hearings on prison system appropriations set for February 7 and a proposal to place 50 million into a savings fund for surplus was scheduled for February 23.
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Rogers Kelley
Edinburg
Texas
Keith Kelly
Fort Worth
Bride in Bristow weighs re marriage with long lost husband
Mrs. Ella Mershon age 65 in Bristow may resume marriage with first husband Barkley Burris 72 after 42 year separation in 1906. Oklahoma law would allow the old marriage to stand if valid, while Burris contemplates a second wedding if she wishes. They reunited Tuesday after decades apart and Burris is staying with her daughter.
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Bristow
Okla
Ella Mershon
Oklahoma
Burris
Valley Polio Death Reported in Edinburg Clinic
The Lower Rio Grande Valley records its first poliomyelitis death of 1949 with 11 month old Guadalupe Dena of Weslaco passing at the Edinburg clinic after a lengthy oxygen therapy. The clinic also reported two new admissions a 3 year old Weslaco boy and a 7 year old Mission girl.
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Edinburg
Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg Clinic
Guadalupe Dena
Eviction Notice Delivered by Process Server Stirs Sully County
In Pierre South Dakota on February 2 a farmer reports a plane landing to deliver an eviction notice. He explains the craft was a process server, not mail, prompting residents to note the unusual disruption on the snowbound farm.
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Pierre
S. D
Sully
Mother and Two Children Die in Kansas City Apartment Fire
A mother Dorothy Becklean 26 and her two children Lois Susan 3 Mary 2 suffocated in an early Wednesday blaze in an apartment. Thirty-one tenants escaped and firemen aided twelve residents to safety by ladders.
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Kansas City
Dorothy Becklean
Lois Susan
Mary
Obituaries and Funeral Services Across Austin Area
Numerous obituaries and funeral notices list services for Rita Ann Dismukes Carl Emanuel Bergman Henry Bascom Owens Anna Marie Thiele Vesta Rawls Gus T Whitehead Juanita Bulock Carrie Walcott Barney Allen Otto Menn G M S Gill Arthur Howard Lockhart A P Alexander Llano and others with details on dates locations and survivors. The notices come from Cook Funeral Home Hyltin Funeral Home Memorial Park Abilene Cameron Cemetery and area churches.
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Carl Beryman
Carl Emanuel Bergman
Weed- Corley
Blake Smith
Memorial Park
Anna Marie Thiele
Cook Funeral Home
F. G. Roesener
Alfred Braun
Bert Cabaniss
E. W. Steinbring
Edgar Triesch
Emmett Schieffer
Charles Betts
Oakwood Cemetery
Gus T. Whitehead
Odis Rainer
Georgia Whitehead
Ruby Screwes
Francis
Betty
Patricia Whitehead
Austin
Henry Whitehead
North Carolina
Ollie
John
Gus
Richard
Kenneth Whitehead
West Whitehead
Liberty
Juanita Bullock
Juanita Bulock
J. Erleen Moore
Carrie Walcott
Barney D. Allen
Cook Funeral
John K. Beery
Horace H. Shelton
Adolph Hohertz
Travis Post 76
American Legion
Werner Stohl
Bergstrom Field
US Marine Corps Reserve
G. M.S. Gill
Abilene
G. M. S. Gill
First Presbyterian Church of
Frank D. Travis
Cameron Cemetery
State Board of Control
Prospectors Seek Pitchblende Uranium Mineral
Prospectors hunt pitchblende as the chief uranium bearing mineral, with carnotite noted as a secondary target in early mine exploration efforts.
Big Isle Kodiak Island Size Comparable to Connecticut
In Alaskan waters off Kodiak Island the landmass is described as approximately the size of Connecticut. The note emphasizes the island’s vast dimensions and geographic scale within the state.
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Big Isle
Kodiak Island
Alaskan
Connecticut
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Minneapolis
Cook
Lavaca
Conoco
Supreme Court Buries College
Rayburn
Continental Oil Company
Lamar
Fred Schriber
U. S. Royal Tires
DELCO
Reds
Henry Tischler
Sternenberg Lumber Co
Austin Glass Corp
East Ave
Senate
Carlos Ashley
Liano
G. C. Morris
Greenville
Blaze
Rita Ann Dismukes
Earl Dismukes
Chicon Street
Harold
Peggy Ruth
Judy Carol
Hyltin Funeral Home
Henry B. Owens
Henry Bascom Owens
Owens
Southwestern Methodist Conference
Thomas H. Owens
Frith C. Owens
Wilke
W. G. Birkner
Luling
Peel-Jackson
Ryan
Methodist Church
Vesta Rawls
Woodville
Robert A. Rawls
Dorothy Mae Rawls
Houston
Otto Menn
Albert Menn
Sofia Farmacker
Lilly King
Ruby Smith
Ella Gustafson
Alvin
Alfred
Harry Menn
Arthur Howard Lockhart
Arthur Howard
First Methodist Church
J. C. Jones
Charles Nixon
Max Willman
Blanco
Ed F. Willman
Eastland
Frank J. Willman
LaGrange
W. H. Willman
San Angelo
Walter Willman
Penwell
Sam
A. P. Alexander
Llano
Tow
Llano County
Caer
T.H. Davis
Frank Linden
W. S. Birdwell. JR. Martin Bloist
Austin’s
Thurlow B. Weed
Jack Corley
Eldon Powell
Florist
Hillyer
Congress
Guadalupe
Travis County
Nalle
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