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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1950
Page
4
Austin public schools face a $175000 loss from utility transfers this year with a $3 million budget and a cushion of 75000 to 100000. Officials fear 1951 worse. board may seek a suit Feb 13. Council cites attorney general ruling on utility funds and debates general fund transfers and fluoridation plans.
Senator Tydings warns Russia may move beyond atomic bombs to perfect a hydrogen bomb mechanism. Frazer Bailey notes history shows nations losing merchant fleets drop in world standing. The Democratic Party is unique, with plate dinners it often eats itself into debt, while the big wheel tends to be quiet.
Claud Gilmer, chairman of the Board for Hospitals and Special Schools, outlined long range plans to reduce the 22 000 ward total in state hospitals and schools. The program seeks more psychiatrists and physicians, plus advanced medical and dental students and nurse trainees, to increase cures and relieve a 4 400 overcapacity. The plan also contemplates county level treatment for incipient tuberculosis and reassigning senile wards to separate housing to free hospital beds. Youth efforts target diverting juveniles from training schools into jobs and other schools, with emphasis on probation and civic agency collaboration. The board also rejected any policy to place Corsicana Orphans Home infants into private homes, noting safeguards and a need for childless families to adopt.
A mosaic of sensational events spans 1924 mail train robbery masterminded by inspector Bill Fahy to a 1949 Battle Creek domestic tragedy where Mrs. Zilpha Perske died after a birthday rifle surprise. The piece also relays a Berlin broadcast about a German wife entangled in a three-way reunion plan and a Russian officer’s report of a homecoming death. Copyright 1950 Billy Rose.
A compiled Q and A list covers topics from bird migration in the tropics to Winston Churchill memoir payments, World Health Organization funding shares, oldest newspapers, fluorescent bulb disposal, weight on the moon, Gibraltar as the smallest British colony, Old Faithful’s water eruption, pit vipers, cleaning frames, lobster shelf life, and deserter rewards.
Washington report details a close four-firm alliance among DuPont General Motors US Rubber and Libbey Owens Ford. It cites DuPont control of GM and US Rubber stock holdings, cross-ownership, and secret trade covenants shaping policy and profits.
A National Republican Club of New York meeting debated a resolution by Cornelius Wickersham Jr. opposing government involvement in business. The measure defeated after questions about housing TVA and rural electrification. Also noted, Sumner Pike dodged questions at a Hartford press conference. A Missouri farmer lightened Senate oleo debate with humorous garlic butter suggestion and a butter shape amendment, later added to a bill and passed.
Winchell notes a forthcoming book A Measure of Freedom by Arnold Forester detailing articles on Gerald L. K. Smith and Joseph P. Kamp, with Doubleday as publisher. He also teases Dianetics and shares wide speculation on Sun and Times ownership moves, political bets, and reactions to the Luce and Cowles publishing feud.
A pamphlet titled Successful Public Speaking promises to teach the art of speaking in public. It is described as simple, practical, and a boost to poise and self confidence. Send 15 cents to Austin American Information Bureau, 316 pre Street, NE, Washington 2.
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