Deficiencies Found In State Hospitals And Schools
Experts report ongoing deficits in Texas state hospitals and related institutions. Overcrowding and fire hazards were noted, with calls for building modernization and better operation. Several schools for the blind and epileptics urged program reforms, expanded education, and expanded bed capacity for tuberculosis care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hospitals Board
J. C. Lysen
Minnesota School For the Blind
State School For the Blind
School For
W. FE. Allen
Texas School For the Blind
Sadie Aaron
Houston Public Schools
Austin State School
Mexia State School
Austin
Miss Aaron
Abilene State School
Talking Horses Of Elberfeld Probed By Scientists
A 1950 Billy Rose column recalls Wilhelm von Osten training Clever Hans and other horses to answer arithmetic and cognitive tasks. Berlin researchers tested the animals. Maeterlinck praised their feats, while doubts and humor about talking horses persisted and the tale ends with a library check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Green
Berlin
Wilhelm von Osten
Elberfeld
Clever Hans
von Osten
Herr Krall
Hanschen
Berto
Muhamed
Stumpf
Pfungst
Maeterlinck
Eberfeld
The Rural Roads Association Dallas Meeting News
The Rural Roads Association heads to Austin to push the last mile program and extend all weather roads to far back farms. It contrasts rural road needs with city congestion in San Antonio and Austin while urging broader funding fairness for through arteries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rural Roads Association
Austin
Texas
Dilley
Eagle Pass
el Paso
San Antonio
Sergeant York in Tennessee farm leadership and welfare work
Ser geant York, WWI hero, lives on a Tennessee farm directing a 3000 acre tract six miles from home. He preaches, runs a Bible school with 127 students, leads the York Agricultural Institute as president, and participates in welfare causes. He is married with a large family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Sergent York
Tennessee
York Agricultural Institute
Rct
Labor union tax fraud case may still be prosecuted
Three United Textile Workers organizers Toby Mendes Frank Bartholomew and J H Turner faced charges for guiding workers at Simmons Mattress Roanoke Rapids NC to file false tax returns. The probe began in 1947 and 1948 but prosecution remains opposed by Bryce Holt US attorney Greens boro NC who sees risk of labor management clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mid-Continent Petroleum
Internal Revenue
Truman Administration
Big Oil Company
Alse
Justice Department
United Textile Workers (Cio
Toby Mendes
Frank Bartholomew
J. H. Turner
Simmons Mattress Company
Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Simmons Company
United Textile Workers
Treasury
Mendes
Methodist Church
Mendez
T-men
Bartholomew
Post Office
James White
Woodrow Blue
Arthur Selby
Joseph A Taglieri
Intelligence Unit
Selby
Treasury Department
Frank Williams
Bryce R. Holt
Greensboro
Holt
the Bell Syndicate. Inc
Broadway Notes Mix Smiles and Snaps from Nightlife
The column surveys Broadway and film chatter with snappy sketches. It mentions The Member of the Wedding reception for Ethel Waters and Julie Harris, Tallulah Bankhead in Private Lives, and gossip about Gable, MGM, and British tourism, highlighting reviews and showbiz ironies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welkins
Ethel Waters
Julie Harris
Aisle-Sentinels
Larry
B. Meredith
Texas
Lil’ Darlin
Tin Pan Alley
N. Y. Sun
Tallulah Bankhead
Southland
Lester Lanin
Birmingham
Joe Frisco
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Raymond Brooks
Capitol
The
Austin American
Mexia
American Foundation For the Blind
New York
Child Welfare League of America
Waco
Corsicana
Negro Orphans Division of the Blind, Deaf and Orphans School
H. E. Butt
Corpus Christi
Elliott Mendenhall
Texas Tuberculosis Association
C. M. Hendricks
State Medical Association of Texas
Myron Miller
United States Public Health Service
Miller
J. Thomas McIntire
Arizona
Hartmann
Cologne
Sarafin
Bale
Muhammed
Schnapps
Maurice Maeterlinck
Talking Horses
Editors
College
University of Texas
University of Texas and
A&m College
University Permanent Fund
Southwest Texas State Teacher College
San Marcos
Balance of Power
By Smith
Bureau
Eye Street
N. E
D. C
Sergeant Ork
A. M
Sarah Longacre
United States
A. James Barton Longacre
Sarah
Mint
London
American Information Bureau
Washington, D. C
F.J
National Bureau of Standards
E.C.T. A
Yankee Stadium
J.B.B
Y Stadium
Drew Pearson
NEW Yorker
Iwo Jima
Funn
Roz Russell
Miguel Rooney
Joan Bennett
John Wayne
Fred Allen
Bill Goetz
Universal
MGM
Gable
Lady Ashley
the Times
Lilli Palmer
Caesar
Cleo
G. J. Nathan
N. Y. Journal-American-Sun
Roxy
Madeleine Carroll
Henry Morgan
Berle
Teevee
Billy Holliday
Decca
Ted Brown
Spivak
Orcury
N. ¥. Times
W. B. Huber
People
Repubs
Britain
Jack Carter
England
Glnne
Congress
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
TED Press
Associated Press
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