Examinations for Austin's first policewoman set March 3
Austin announces March 3 exams for its first policewoman with 10 to 11 applicants already filed and more sought. Age limits are 21 to 35. The crime prevention division will gain its own space in the new police courts building. The Exchange Club backs Civic Drama Guild of New York with season tickets at $6 and plays planned for fall through winter 1951.
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Austin
Bob Birdsong
Police Department
Austin Exchange Club
Birdsong
Police-Courts
Detective Bureau
Don Abel
Exchange Club
Civic Drama Guild of New York
Edward
University of Texas Honors Married Students Friday
University of Texas marks a third annual Day for married students and families. President T S Painter invites spouses and children to campus Friday with classrooms open, baby sitting, and activities including a circus party, diaper pinning, walker races, and models.
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University of Texas
T. S. Painter
University
Student Wives Club
Dorothy Gebauer
Arno Nowotny
Alpha Phi Omega
Shepperd Cancels Jaycee Talk Over Throat Infection
Secretary of State John Ben Shepperd III entered Santa Fe Hospital in Temple with a throat infection. Friends said he cancelled all engagements for the next 10 days, including a Thursday noon speech to the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The Senate had confirmed his appointment last week.
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John Ben Shepperd
Santa Fe Hospital
Temple
Chamber of Commerce
Shepperd
Senate
Final Action Due By Council Today On Wrecker Law
City Council to finalize an ordinance regulating wreckers at traffic accidents. Wreckers must be on police call, use 1.5 ton trucks with 10 000 lb pull winches, 24 hour service, and post 10 000 and 20 000 in public liability to join the rotating list. No opposition expected. Also two zoning items on beer to liquor zone changes for properties at Lake Austin Boulevard and Red River Street.
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Legal Department
Lake Austin Boulevard
Jake Silberstein
Red River Street
Zoning Board of Adjustment
Brotherhood Week Observances Highlight Rights of Individuals
Talks during Brotherhood Week emphasize individual rights with multi faith speakers at Austin area schools. The program, organized by the National Conference of Christians and Jews, runs through next Sunday with sessions at University Junior High Fulmore Junior High and Austin High School featuring Jewish Catholic and Protestant leaders.
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Austin
National Conference of Christians and Jews
University Junior High School
William Brewster
Michael Lux
E. H. Saulson
Fulmore Junior High School
John Davison
Eugene Dore
Saulson
Austin High School
John Barclay
Burglary Suspect Loses Foot After Train Escape
Dallas Negro Lueta Lacey, 28, injured when he fell under a Dallas-bound freight train while fleeing after breaking into a filling station and Bob Wells Cleaners in Cleburne. He was later charged with burglary and reported wanted for other Dallas break-ins.
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Cleburne
Dallas
Glenn Clark
Lueta Lacey
Bob Wells Cleaners
Clark
Lacey
St James Episcopal dedicates parish house serving East Austin
The $4 000 St James parish house was dedicated last Sunday and placed in service for St James congregation Tillotson College students and the surrounding community. Rt Rev John E Hines officiated with Rev James H Murray.
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St. James' Episcopal Church
St. James
Tillotson College
John E. Hines
Episcopal Diocese of
Bexar DA Hensley to Address Lions Club Luncheon
District Attorney William N. Hensley Jr of Bexar County will speak to Lions Club members at a Thursday luncheon in the Stephen F. Austin Hotel. He is a WW II B29 commander who flew 23 missions over Japan before being wounded and now serves as commanding officer of the 182nd Fighter Squadron Texas Air National Guard.
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William N. Hensley Jr
Bexar County
Hiroshima
Lions Club
Stephen F. Austin
Hensley
San Antonio
Cumberland University
Lebanon
Texas State Bar
AFL Union Certified at Austex Chili Plant
Production and maintenance workers at Walker's Austex Chili Company gain AFL Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America representation after an NLRB election on February 9, defeating CIO United Packinghouse Workers of America for bargaining rights.
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Walker's
Austex Chili Company
AFL Amalgamated Meatcutters
Settlement Head Links Child Happiness to School Grades
Mrs. Mary Copeland director of Austin's Settlement Home cites eight weeks of Baker Elementary grades from 16 students showing six straight A’s and only three C grades in music art and spelling. She notes perfect attendance among eight kids, credits health and home life, praises Baker teachers, and describes daily milk, homework help, flexible routines, and evening radio programs contributing to well being and high marks.
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Mary Copeland
Austin
Copeland
Settlement Home
Baker
West 37Th Street
Settlement Club
Community Chest
New Coal Deposit Found in Mexico
A new coal bed on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande north and south of Laredo was disclosed by Mexico's industrial investigations department. The find stretches 80 miles from Hidalgo Coahuila to Guerrero Tamaulipas and ranges 12 to 30 miles wide, with potential oil and gas. The bed could supply coke for industrialization, with an estimated 1.2 billion tons of coke possible.
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Mexico City
Rio Grande
Laredo
Bank of Mexico
Industrial Investigations Department
Hidalgo
Coahuila
Guerrero
Tamaulipas
Zapata
Mexico
Juarez
Cops in St Louis Use Fans as Heat Rises at HQ
In St Louis police headquarters, electric fans ran to ease heat from coal shortages. Windows were kept closed to conserve warmth, but the stagnant air forced officers to switch on the fans to clear the room.
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ST. Louis
Local Shriners Plan House Party Friday
Ben Hur Temple plans a Friday 8 pm house party in its auditorium as February entertainment. Pat Adelman, entertainment chairman, says the program features the Jay Leutwyler sextet, bingo, canasta, forty two, dominoes, bridge and a 20 minute talent scout show with Shrine units. Shriners are asked to wear fezes and admission is by 1950 card. Refreshments will be served.
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Ben Hur Temple
Shriners
Pat Adelman
Jay Leutwyler
Shrine
Adelman
Travis County Property Valued Over Six Million Dollars
Travis County owns assets exceeding six million dollars including the courthouse, a half-interest in a tuberculosis sanatorium, juvenile home, old court house block, parks, cemetery, roads and bridges, rights of way, road equipment, and warehouses. Delinquent taxes amount to 686,926.30 covering 1919 to 1948, with current obligations at 1,413,?10.80 and available appropriation 61,218.51 alongside sinking funds and capital totaling 5,073,544.36.
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Travis County
James Berger
City- Sunty
Courtoase
Berger
State of Texas
City of Manor
Texan Spends Weeks in Seattle Boxcar in Cold
Frank Zehnder 48, a Houston transient, said he lay in a Seattle boxcar for two weeks eating candle wax after freezing feet left him in critical condition. He was found emaciated by cement workers with no shoes. another man allegedly fed him before vanishing. Zehnder, a former Merchant Marine cook, came to Seattle six months ago searching warmth.
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Seattle
Frank Zehnder
Houston
L. F. Ormsby
Zehnder
Ormsby
Zelinder
Cement Company
US WAFs Arrive For Britain Duty
The first two officers of the US Women's Air Force arrived in London for a two year exchange with the RAF. Major Gladys M. Nelson of Fergus Falls Minnesota will serve with the RAF Technical Training Command at Brampton while Major Grace M. Barth of Marysville California will work in the personnel section of London RAF headquarters.
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London
US Women's Air Force
Royal Air Force
Gladys M. Nelson
Fergus Falls
Min
Grace M. Barth
Marysville
Calif
Nelson
RAF
Brampton
Barth
Women’s
America
Britain
Insurance Exchange Plans First Banquet
The Mutual Insurance Exchange of Austin will hold its inaugural banquet Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Austin Hotel. Robert Munn of Dallas, a special agent for Grain Dealers National Mutual Fire Insurance, will speak and present the charter to Tom Harper, president of the exchange. Wray Clark of Fort Worth, president of the 1752 Club, will be an honored guest.
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Mutual Insurance Exchange of Austin
Austin
Exchange of Mutual Insurance Agents
Robert Munn
Dallas
National Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Tom Harper
Exchane
Harper
Wray Clark
Fort Worth
America
Actress Ann Sothern Undergoes Thyroid Tumor Removal
Hollywood report states actress Ann Sothern had a thyroid tumor removed in a Wednesday operation described by her surgeon as successful. The illness prompted immediate treatment and she is listed in good condition.
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Hollywood
Ann Sothern
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