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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1949
Page
2
Representative Lamar Zivley defends compulsory civil service for city fire and police. Senator Kyle Vick plans a similar bill to override cities that rejected the local option, with a public hearing set for February 23.
J Frank Dobie writes in the Saturday Evening Post about the coyote’s clever survival. He uses rancher anecdotes to show cunning, fences, raided patches, and odd traits like avoiding unripe melons while pondering humor, deduction, and weather sense.
Congressman Lloyd Bentsen will speak at a Texas Junior Chamber banquet honoring about 206 young legislators under 36. The event at Stephen F. Austin Hotel includes a 6:30 p.m. reception and 7:30 p.m. program with Melvin B. Evans as master of ceremonies.
Governor Beauford H. Jester urged the Texas Legislature to promptly pass an anti lynching bill by Rep S J Isaacks of El Paso. The measure would define first degree lynching as mob assault causing death and impose death or at least five years in prison, with second degree lynching carrying one to ten years.
Public hearings on the basic sciences act and related measures begin today in Austin. Senate Public Health votes at 7 p.m. on exams for licenses to practice the hearing arts. Multiple House committees schedule 2:30 or 7:30 p.m. hearings on salary levels welfare caps pension rules and regulatory bills.
Three masked gunmen raided a Union Trust Company of Maryland branch in Baltimore shortly after opening. About 12 people were inside as the trio took an estimated $30,000 and fled in a rental car.
Authorities say poor visibility caused the Faucett airliner crash in the Peruvian Andes last week, killing 16 people. The airline will remove the body of United States pilot William Whyte, 35, from Dallas, Texas.
District court records show divorces filed for Lillie Mae Duvall and Ballard Duvall Andrew Killen and Goldie Killen Harold J. McCray and Alline McCray J Kinser and S P Kinser and more. Damages, guardianship, theft and assault cases plus new marriages and car registrations listed.
Midland on February 15 saw prices drop one cent per quart for all sweet milk and four cents per quart for both cream varieties. Local market activity reflected a general downward trend as traders noted softer demand.
St Marys Cathedral at 10th and Brazos, in use since 1884, is receiving air conditioning, marble wainscoting, redecorated sanctuary and nave, and organ rebuilding. Work, the most extensive in 44 years, should finish in early May while the church remains open.
Patricia Ryan a 25 year old radio actress who Monday night played a woman with blinding headaches and complained of similar pains was found dead in bed Tuesday. Her husband George Robert Gibson notified police and an autopsy will be performed. Ryan a veteran of the Aldrich Family appeared Monday on an NBC feature Valentine for
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