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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1950
Page
5
F C Mc Connell announces faculty housing will reserve emergency units for students. Profs and Army Navy personnel lose housing now, though some units opened to them in 1946. About 500 to 600 students wait for slots in the low rent projects.
Review notes Battleground centers on a World War II platoon amid the Battle of the Bulge era for a compact character study. Van Johnson George Murphy John Hodiak Denise Darcel Douglas Fowley and William Wellman direct with Robert Pirosh screenplay as humor, danger, and sacrifice play out on screen.
Austin designated as state headquarters for the Catholic War Veterans of Texas. Joe Grimes, re elected state commander, announced the decision after the Victoria convention. Four more Austin CWV members named state officers and Harlingen named 1951 convention city.
The City Board of Education accepted a 223471 dollar expansion to Travis Heights Elementary School in Austin. Architects Jessen Jessen Millhouse and Greeven and contractor Yarbrough Construction presented the four first grade classrooms a large playroom and a combined cafeteria auditorium. An open house is tentatively planned March 12.
Police hunted Friday for a man who shoved two year old Jeffery Keith from his tricycle in East Orange New Jersey. The thief placed the toy in his car and drove away in front of the boy's home, prompting a highway robbery report.
Hugh M. Sandlin, governor of the Texas-Oklahoma Kiwanis District, will address the Central Texas Kiwanis intercity meeting Monday at 7 p.m. at the Austin Hotel. An administrative clinic precedes the dinner at 4 p.m. Transportation will be provided for University of Texas entertainers touring Temple.
San Marcos announces early dismissal Wednesday afternoon to allow teachers to conduct the 1950 school census under Superintendent Fred Kaderli.
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