Senate Education Group Endorses Lower Grade Text Lists
The Senate education committee approved a bill to extend multiple lists of textbooks to elementary grades. The plan follows Texas high schools’ 25 year use of several book lists with 3 to 5 titles each for local adoption. An amendment limiting publishers' reps to two with registration cards was adopted amid about 60 attendees.
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Associated Press
Senate Committee On Education
Texas
Fred Harris
Dallas
W. T. White
R. E. Harris
Caldwell County
Jewell York
Texas Classroom Teachers Association
Lucille Jelks
Travis County
W. T. Haynes
Cameron City
Haynes
White
Wool Exports Show Shifts in 1948 Trade Flows
Australian officials report that in the final six months of 1948 greasy wool exports from Australia went more to Russia and Poland than to the United States. Trade data highlight changes in postwar markets and grain shipments.
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Canberra
Australia
Russia
Poland
United States
UN Holds Best Hope for World as UNESCO Seen
Archibald MacLeish, former assistant secretary of state and librarian of Congress, told a Hogg Auditorium audience that the United Nations offers a bright path for peaceful global relations through UNESCO. He urged a stronger world radio network and warned the crisis is global, affecting civilization itself.
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United Nations
Archibald MacLeish
Congress
Hogg Auditorium
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
MacLeish
Unesco
Russia
Red Army
Navy to Move Air Activities From Sand Point Seattle
Senator Magnuson said the Navy will gradually abandon Sand Point Naval Air Station Seattle and shift air activities to Widby Island Naval Air Station. The Sand Point property will be turned over to the Naval Air Reserve to save money.
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Washington
Magnuson
D-Wash
Navy
Sand Point Naval Air Station
Seattle
Widby Island Naval Air Station
Naval Air Reserve
Use of Jap Nurses By China Reds Told
Michiko Yanase, 23, a Japanese nurse who walked from Manchuria said 20,000 Nipponese nurses are working in Chinese Communist hospitals. She traveled through Communist North Korea, crossed the 38th parallel with a Korean guide and was repatriated from Seoul.
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Tokyo
Michiko Yanase
Manchuria
North Korea
38Th Parallel
North
South Korea
Seoul
Ellis Seeks Senate OK for Prison Reform Funds
Ellis asked a Texas Senate committee to approve 4 196 075 for prison reform including new cell blocks shops and textile mill. The plan covers hospital beds farm buildings fences wells and dormitories plus laundries refrigeration and farm equipment to modernize the system and attract skilled guards.
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Ellis
Senate Group
Okeh
Senate
Wynne
Darrington
Ramsey
Retrieve
Clemens
Blue Ridge
Texas
Li Tsung Jen and Sun Fo Clash Over War Peace
Reports from Nanking describe growing signs of a split between acting president Li Tsung Jen and the Sun Fo Cabinet over whether to surrender to the Communists or resume fighting. Sun Fo in Canton vowed continued war if peace talks fail and criticized Reds exploiting peace pleas. Observers note Li may be unable to force cabinet approval of any peace deal while Sun secures control from Canton and a cabinet liaison office remains in Nanking.
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Nanking
China
Li Tsung-Jen
Sun Fo
Sun
Canton
Senate sends six bills to House on gas corridor rules
The Senate sent six bills to the House as it pressed topics from inter state gas transmission permits to state college status. Debates included opposition to extra pipeline certificates out of Texas and critiques of excessive gas flaring alongside proposals for rural fire districts funding and civil jury cohesion.
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G. C. Norris
Greenville
Morris
Senate
Jimmy Phillips
Angleton
William Moore
Bryan
W. A. Shofner
Temple
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
Blizzard Strikes Northwest as Roads Blocked and Services Halt
A severe winter storm roars across Oregon California Utah Idaho Montana and Wyoming forcing highway closures trapping ski parties and delaying trains and planes. High winds and zero or subzero temperatures threaten livestock and utilities as Union Pacific and CNW lines halt and many schools remain closed. In Oregon and California air and road disruptions compound widespread travel paralysis.
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Oregon
California
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Wyoming
Fifth Army
Nebraska
South Dakota
Chester P. Seeley
Bureau of Land Management
Union Pacific
Denver
Chicago
Chicago and Northwestern
Boise
Pocatello
Portland
Union
Baker
Grans Pass
Pendleton
Medford
Klamath Basin
Donner Pass
Coast
Welfare Head Visits Austin on ARCS Field Trip
Mrs. Charley Tidd Cole, director of the American Rural Child Service, toured Austin as part of a nine state trip to study ARCS programs. ARCS aids children in small and consolidated schools with dental care clothing and recreational supplies and provides meals. The visit followed a talk to the Save the Children Federation committee at the Catterall home.
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Charley Tidd Cole
American Rural Child Service
Austin
Cole
Porter Smith
Save the Children Federation, Inc
Austin Save the Children Federation Committee
Fred Catterall Jr
Hardouin
Speakers Set for Legal Institute at Driskill Hotel
The Travis County Bar Association announced three speakers for the Legal Institute at the Driskill Hotel on February 18. Rupert N. Graham will discuss estate and gift taxes, Frank B. Appleman will cover substantive income tax phases, and F. B. Parsons will address administrative and procedural income tax aspects. Robert G. Storey will speak at the 7 p.m. banquet, with a 5:30 cocktail hour preceding. judges from Austin's state appellate courts and UT law professors will be honored guests.
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Legal Institute
Driskill Hotel
Travis County Bar Association
Rupert N. Graham
San Antonio
Frank B. Appleman
Fort Worth
F. B. Parsons
Internal Revenue
Robert G. Storey
Dallas
Texas State Bar
Austin
University of Texas
Britons Prepare for Buenos Aires Trade Talks
British experts set to depart for Buenos Aires for Anglo Argentine trade discussions after briefing by Whitehall officials in London.
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London
Buenos Aires
Whitehall
Obituary notices mourn several local residents veterans
Obituaries and funeral notices for Alice Maude Rees 79 and many Texans including Pvt Elias A Lopez killed in Luzon 1945, George A Wheeler, John Edgar Martin, Mrs T W Caughron, Mrs G B Brieger, Miss Fannie Harrell and Hilding H Mattson among others. Services listed with churches locations dates and burials in Memorial Park Forest Park Taylor City Cemetery San Marcos and Shreveport venues.
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Elias A. Lopez
Austin
Pvt. Lopez
Luzon
Louis Lopez
F. Limon
A. Perez
L. Barron
Daniel
David
Louis Lopez Jr
Guadalupe Church
Nicholas Diaz
Horace H. Shelton
Adolph Hobertz
Travis County
American Legion Post 76
Werner Stahl
Texas National Guard
Memorial Park
George A. Wheeler
Rose-Neath
Shreveport
John W. York Wheeler
Leonard Cook
A. W. Townsend
McNair Smith
Forest Park Cemetery
J. R. Adams
L. O
George Wheeler
Waco
John Dalen Pierce
Pierce
R .O. Pierce
E. T. Pierce
J. F. Bundren
John E. Martin
San Saba
John Edgar Martin
A and Banking
T. K. Anderson
James A. Collins
P. L. Capy
Dallas
Wildbahn Martin
Abilene
T. W. Caughron Taylor
Condra Funeral Home
T. W. Caughron
W. V. Snider
Taylor City Cemetery
Fannie Harrell Taylor
Fannie Harrell
Round Rock
Jimmy Bolton
Robert Peyton
Capital Memorial Park
Hilding H. Mattson Taylor
Spl
Hilding H. Mattson
Taylor
10Th Street
Homer L. Fort
Taylor City
Sidney Pierce
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Graham D. Luhn
American Legion
Bertil Mattson
Belton
Ralph Mattson
Mineola
Emery Mattson
Oklahoma City
Ruth Alley
San Angelo
Big Baby Ocean Sunfish Reaches One Ton in Size
The ocean sunfish grows to about one ton as an adult, though it starts life as a tiny pinhead. Researchers note the dramatic transformation from minuscule juvenile to massive species, highlighting its unusual development.
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