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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1950
Page
10
Agricultural editor notes farmers face policy conflicts as Fortune magazine criticizes government farm programs. The piece discusses price supports, storage, and potential yield limits, with regional poultry and livestock price quotes and a local health update for Jim Donaldson of Buda Austin.
Georges Claude, 77, famed French scientist credited with neon lights and liquifying air, was released from prison where he served a Nazi collaboration term. Arrested in 1944, the life sentence was reduced to 10 years and he was paroled on Friday. Papagos denies entering politics, calling dictatorship the grave of this country.
The Whitney Reservoir on the Brazos River in Texas will flood more than 60 old Indian habitation sites, area officials say, prompting concerns about cultural losses as water levels rise.
In Buenos Aires on January 2 1950 a Peronista congressional committee ordered the communist newspaper La Hora closed for anti Argentine activity for not marking 1950 as the year of San Martin and for publishing editorials attacking the committee. The panel investigates funds used to oppose President Juan D Peron and has entered newspaper offices during the inquiry.
The Monobia Development Company reported a Barada Nebraska oil well producing nearly 600 barrels daily with about 75 percent oil content. Observers believe a new field has been tapped.
Police investigated reports that several local dogs were poisoned near 500 block East Mary. W F Scott, 510 East Mary, said his fox terrier died after consuming sardines laced with strychnine. He noted multiple other neighborhood dogs were affected. The Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel reported scrap demand fell in 1949 for the first time since 1946.
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