Laws Tighten On Sex Crimes In State
Bills passed by the Senate tighten penalties for sex crimes against minors and make fondling a minor a felony with up to 25 years in prison and a $2,000 fine. Other measures bar inviting a under 14 into vehicles for immoral purposes and exposing oneself to a minor under 16. Sponsored by Cecil Storey and W. R. Cousins, the package was part of a Criminal Code overhaul led by the State Bar Association with PTAs and civic groups backing the move. The House approved a cancer research center appropriation of 1.35 million for UT Houston, funded from cigarette tax surplus, effective Sept. 1.
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Senate
Cecil Storey
Longview
W. R. Cousins
Beaumont
House
Snate
State Bar Association
State Parent-Teachers Association
Houston
Allan
Senate votes mild version of phone bill compromise reached
A Senate compromise watered down a bill creating federally financed rural telephone coops. It bars cogops from areas with adequate private service and leaves enforcement to the courts. The measure mirrors the rural electrification act and faces House consideration next session.
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Senate
House
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Congress
Southwestern Bell
Dorsey B. Hardeman
San Angelo
Murder Charges Filed In Mexia Deaths
Neely Ray Medlen of Wortham and Lester Sawyer of Streetman face murder counts in the hit and run deaths of Mr and Mrs J F Gates in Mexia. Both men waived examining trial. bond set at 10000 each. Gates were killed as they walked home from a Mexico lens tour around 12 15 a m Sunday. Sawyer was a passenger in Medlen s pickup.
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Groesbeck
Neely Ray Medlen
Wortham
Lester Sawyer
Medlen
Sawyer
Limestone County
Norton Fox
J. F. Gates
Mexicalens
Attorney Truman Seeks To Save Cousin Harry
Long Beach California February 27 Attorney Rolland Truman says he will run for Congress to rescue his cousin President Truman from leftwing abductors.
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Truman
Cousin Harry
Long Beach
Calif
Rolland Truman
Congress
President Truman
Bulgaria Listed Off Limits For American Travel
The State Department barred private American travel to Bulgaria with passports stamped not valid for travel in Bulgaria. About 62 Americans in Bulgaria may not return if they leave. The move follows US actions against Bulgaria for harassing diplomats and ties to Hungary and Romania.
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Bulgaria
State Department
Russia
Balkan
Department
Donald R. Heath
Hungary
Robert A. Vogeler
Dean Acheson
United States
Romania
Chicago Hen Dodo Lathers Up For Daily Bath
Dodo, a white Chicago hen owned by Harry OConnell, enjoys daily warm soapy baths in the kitchen. The hen reportedly lays two to five eggs weekly, a sign of her evident pleasure with cleanliness.
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Chicago
Dodo
Harry O'Connell
O'Connell
Plane crash hunt near Galveston Bay ends with flare find
A widespread search in the Galveston Bay area for a missing plane yielded only an expended parachute flare found near a Highway 225 underpass. Ground crews, CAA investigators, Coast Guard and Air Force personnel scoured Barbour's basin and Sylvan Beach, but no wreckage was located.
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Houston
CAA
Coast Guard
Air Force
Galveston Bay
Ellington Air Force Base
Morgan’s Point
Tabbs Bay Causeway
Baytown
Barbour's
Sylvan Beach
Barbour
S. Morgan
Husband Denies Asking Doctor To Ease Wife's Pain by Death
Reginald Borreto testified he never asked Dr. Hermann Sander to shorten his wife’s life to end her suffering. A nurse admitted signing a statement that the cancer patient was dead before an air injection in an alleged mercy act. The trial of the 41 year old country doctor continued with defense presenting the nurse’s signed statements.
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Manchester
N. H
Reginald Borrreto
Hermann N. Sander
Borreto
William L. Phinney
Dr. Sander
Sander
Miss Rose
Louis E. Wyman
Senate approves boosts in cotton wheat plantings
The Senate voted 54 to 24 to allow larger wheat and cotton plantings under government programs and to cut off potato price supports in 1951 unless marketing quotas are adopted. Debate touched on adding 1.4 to 4 million acres to wheat and expanding cotton allotments, with a 64 to 14 vote on an Irish potato price support cutoff without quotas.
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Washington
Senate
House
Wherry
Canada
Nebraska
Truman
Elmer Thomas
D-Okla
Lucas
D-Ill
Ellender
D-La
D-Fla
Robertson
D- A
Aiken
Johnson
D-Cole
Millikin
R-Colo
Rocky Mountain
Agriculture Department
Thomas
Senate Agriculture Committee
21 480th and Last X Ray Given in City TB Drive
The 21 480th and last free chest X-ray was given in Austin Monday marking the finale of a joint Travis County and Texas Tuberculosis Associations effort to detect TB early. The mobile unit was at St Edward's University with 519 X rays, after 3 500 at the University of Texas in the prior ten days.
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Austin
Travis County
Texas Tuberculosis Associations
St. Edward's University
University of Texas
University
UMW Pleads Innocent In Back-To-Work Case
The United Mine Workers Union pleads not guilty to contempt charges over defying court back-to-work orders during a coal strike led by John L. Lewis. The trial opened as wage talks stalled and a 12-hour Sunday bargaining session was proposed to break the 10 month deadlock.
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Washington
United Mine Workers Union
David S. Cole
Truman
Cole
Richmond B. Keech
Keech
John L. Lewis
UMW
Welly K. Hopkins
Hopkins
Lewis
Showers and Warm Weather for Austin and Texas
Scattered thundershowers expected Tuesday and Wednesday with mostly cloudy skies and warm temperatures. Austin saw a rise from 64 degrees at 4 a.m. to 79 by 3 p.m. with similar showers forecast for East and West Texas.
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Austin
Texas
Leopards Hunt Baffles Oklahoma City Zoo Search
Weather rain aids a city leopard hunt after the creature fled the Oklahoma City Zoo. Zoo Director Julian Frazier orders a long-range plan with doped meat bait, dogs, and rangers tracking northeast toward Meeker as officials call off hunts at dusk. Rancher Glen Fowlkes bets on his pack of dogs to help tag the leopard.
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Jack Reynolds
Marine
Oklahoma City
Sooner City
Frazier
Pyke Department
Deer Fork Creek
Floyd Crabb
Zoo
Leopard
Ward Bridge
Cameron
Bridge
Meeker
Crabb
Oklahoma City Zoo
India
Texas
Glen Fowlkes
Fowlkes
Big Bend
Alpine
Churchill Looms Over Attlee as Conservatives Weigh Next Move
AP analysis links Churchill's Conservatives to governing timing as Attlee faces left wing pressure and nationalization odds. Observers expect Labor to pursue gradual policy while Conservatives consider repeal of steel nationalization and possible new election signals. Washington aid attitudes may shift to pressure Attlee.
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Winston Churchill
Conservative
Britain
Attlee
Labor
Stee
Congress
Ttlee
Churchill
Labor Party
Daily Worker
Scotland
Attacks Rise as Ships Reach Chinese Port of Tsingtao
Two American freighters Pioneer Dale and Flying Clipper were attacked near Tsingtao in a bid by Chinese Nationalists to widen their blockade of Red ports. One crew member injured aboard Pioneer Dale. Flying Clipper details unavailable. US Lines ordered the Pioneer Dale to proceed to Japan.
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New York
North China
Tsingtao
Washington
Shanghai
United States
Dale
State Department
Isbrandtsen
Flying Clipper
Isbrandtsen Company
Flying Arrow
Yangtze River
Arene
Formosa
US Lines
James F Knowlton
Japan
National Crime Probe Submitted
The Senate judiciary committee moved to investigate gambling racketeers and gangsters with national reach. It aims to draft new laws if current statutes fall short and seeks $100,000 for the inquiry, with state gambling regulation left to each state.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Pat McCagpan
D-New
Senate Rules
Senate
Attlee to Drop Industry Nationalization Program
London reports Labor's Commons majority shrinking to seven as Prime Minister Attlee eyes shelving planned nationalization to salvage the government. King George's throne speech may omit the issue. Attlee meets the king and forms a cabinet lineup amid ongoing party calculations.
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London
Labor
House of Commons
Attlee
British Press Association
King George
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Grady Hazlewood
Panhandle
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Mexico
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Neal Doulass
Reginald Borroto
Neb
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