Koreas Smash Five Drives In Area of Wonju
In central Korea a fierce battle near Wonju saw 8,000 to 10,000 Chinese forces strike US Second Division lines in the Sobaek passes. Allied troops held the line as air and sea units reported 1,300 communist deaths. General McClure warned the terrain limited mobility and favored the attackers in the rugged Wonju area.
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Wonju
Tokyo
Sobaek
Korea
Eighth Army
Seoul
William Barnard
Robert B. McClure
McClure
Air Force
Navy
Kin of A A Oxford Dies in Beaumont
Mrs Blanche S Gambrell sister of Mrs A A Oxford wife of the Austin American Statesman classified advertising manager died Friday at her Beaumont home. She was related to Judge D H Doom and Dr William M Gambrell of Austin. Survivors include her husband John Gambrell of Lockhart two daughters Mrs Joe Richardson Genoa and Mary C Gambrell Beaumont and son John N Gambrell Jr all UT alumni. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Blanche S. Gambrell
Beaumont
Gambrell
A. A. Oxford
Austin American-Statesman
Oxford
Austin
William M. Gambrell
March of Dimes Drive Opens In Austin With Three Year Old Donor
City officials and civic leaders kicked off the 1951 March of Dimes in Austin. Three year old Paul Lonnquist placed the first dime at 12:03 as Mayor Taylor Glass pledged a dollar, later contributing himself. Campaign chairman John C. Ross aims for forty thousand dollars within nineteen days, with multiple booths and hundreds of volunteers statewide.
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Seventh
Congress Avenue
Taylor Glass
Mike
Paul Lonnquist
K. J. Lonnquist
Paul
Glass
Charles 8. Eskridge
John C. Ross
AS YOU LIKE IT Harvey the invisible rabbit on screen
The article notes Harvey the invisible Broadway rabbit has moved to local screens bringing infectious charm, with Dudley Early quoted on its appeal. A Brown-Root injunction case against Texas construction unions nears closure with a Friday ruling by District Court Judge Charles O Betts. SWC basketball features unbeaten teams at College Station and winless teams at Little Rock this Saturday.
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Harvey
Invisible Rabbit
Dudley Early
Hare
Brown-Root
Texas
District Court
Charles O. Betts
College Station
Little Rock
Truman Signs $3 Billion Civil Defense Bill
President Truman signed the civil defense bill authorizing about 3.1 billion dollars for air raid shelters and home front defense. The act creates a civil defense administration with federal state matching grants, directs defense employee training, and empowers a new administrator Millard F. Caldwell to implement the program.
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Truman
Washington
Congress
Mr. Truman
Millard F. Caldwell
Florida
Civil Defense Administration
United States
1 000 POUNDER Gillespie Show Features Steer As Top Winner
Gillespie County FFA and 4-H fat stock show crowned grand champion 1000 pound Hereford steers led by Andrew Tatsch tutored by Charles Stone. Reserve went to Wilbert Ransleben with a heavy Hereford. Other winners included Dayton Crenwelge and several 4-H members in heavyweight, medium, and lightweight classes. An auction would close the fair after Friday’s record attendance amid light rain.
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Fredericksburg
ANS
Andrew ‘Tatsch
Gillespie County
Wilbert Ransleben
Tatsch
Charles Stone
Ransleben
Joe Tatum
FFA
Frederiksburg High School
Dayton Crenwelge
Stanley Ernest
Bernice Duderstadt
Caroline Behrends
Samuel Bethge
Calvin Chumann
Curtis Eckhardt
F. C. Lochte
Reinhold Sagebiel
Thomas
Robert Pape
Tivydale
Robert
Gillespie
San Antonio
Hampshire Barrow
Kathen Smith
Dayton Ransleben
Page
Two-Truck Collision Kills Austin Man Near Taylor
An Austin man, James A. McClellan, 55, died at 10:30 am in a Taylor hospital after a head on collision two and a half miles west of Hutto at 7:20 am involving his bakery truck and a truck carrying railroad workers. Ten people were injured including Essie Johnson of Taylor who suffered internal injuries and broken ribs. several workers remained hospitalized.
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Taylor
Austin
Here
James A. McClellan
Avenue G
McClellan
Hutto
Mose
Essie Johnson
Johnson
Jesse Silva
W. L. Luna
Luna
A. C. Foster
Salvador Ordaz
Hylton Manor
Myrtle McClellan
A. W. McClellan
Dime Box
Carl Bridges
Anna McClellan
Alice McClellan
C. W. Froehner
Asbury Methodist Church
Austin Memorial Park
Ted Klaus
Carl Munson
Howard Johnson
Harry Johnson
W. H. Westphal
G. C. Daniels
Fredericksburg Wreck Kills One In Gillespie County
A Friday noon highway crash on the Austin Highway seven miles east of Fredericksburg killed Emma Baag 76 of Stonewall and sent her son Walter Baag and F R Brown to the hospital. Brown, a California resident with a Brenham address, faces negligent homicide charges in justice court. Hilmar Nebgen of Stonewall aided at the scene when a following crash damaged a parked truck and a UT student James Kent Lewis blamed slick roads for losing control. Services for the deceased will be held Sunday at the Schaetter Home.
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Fredericksburg
Gillespie County
Austin
Frederiksburg
Emma Baag
Stonewall
Baag
Walter Baag
F. R. Brown
Brown
California
Brenham
William Schneider
Justice Court
Hilmar Nebgen
University of Texas
James Kent Lewis
Lewis
Schaetter
Collision With Trucks Kills 2 Texas Women
Two Texas women died when their car collided with two trucks 14 miles southeast of Lufkin. The victims were Mrs. W. F. Laroe of Whitewright and Mrs. May of Jacksonville. The accident occurred Friday near the roadside.
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Texas
Lufkin
W. FE. Laroe
Whitewright
May
Jacksonville
Here
Defense Department increases manpower targets to 3.46 million
The Defense Department aims to have 3,462,000 men under arms by June 30 and requests a 4,000,000 man rise in defense work. Assistant Secretary Anna Rosenberg told the Senate committee the goal could come earlier and may require bigger draft quotas. Marine Corps mobilizes 4,750 officers and non coms, with about 2,000 for ground forces and 250 for aviation, plus 2,500 sergeants and corporals.
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Washington
Defense Department
Anna M. Rosenberg
Senate Preparedness
Marine Corps
Becaues
Truman
Armed Forces
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Sen. Johnson
Defense
Congress
Pentagon
Air Force
Austerity Shockers Push Tax Hikes and Defense Drive
President Truman asked Congress to raise taxes by much more than eight billion dollars annually and to fund a sweeping defense program totaling 314 position. He pledged wider wage price controls and 1 million more troops within months with four million more in defense production by year end. The plan signals a period of shared sacrifice and a fiscal year 1951 budget likely around seventy billion dollars.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Wall Street
Capitol Hill
Champion Shoot Nets San Saba Show Top Price
Buddy Oliver earned the top price at the 18th Annual 4-H and FFA Club Show in San Saba on January 12. R B Bagley and Sons paid 32.5 cents a pound for Oliver’s 228 pound champion bar row hog auctioned after prize awards. Other high prices included Tommy Taffs reserve champion, Emmett Peavy for lambs, and top calves sold to W T Vogel and Sons.
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ANS
Buddy” Oliver
R. B. Bagley and Sons
Oliver
Barrow
Tommy Taffs
John Lee Walker
Emmett Peavy
Emmett Peavy Jr
W. T. Vogel and
George B. Walker
A. D. McKinnerney
J. W. Edwards
James Robbins
Wes Giffay
Glenn Gage
San Saba News
Worth I. Sham
Sam Laird
Joe Kuykendall
San Saba Production Credit Association
Sammy Smith
City National Bank
James DeVoll
Richland Springs Peanut Growers Association
Harold Kennedy
Sammy Pierce
Joe Allan Robertson
San Saba Hardware
Warren Spivey
San Saba National Bank
Emerson Brister
San Saba Commission Company
Robert McClean
Richland Springs Peanut Growers
Modernway Grocery
Jim Lewis
Vernon Gunter
Robert McLean
Paul Jefferies
Bobby Ratiff
Lovell Kuykendall
Option Acquired On School Site
T. N. Porter reports the city schools have an option to buy a West Austin junior high site for 46000 dollars on H. H. Lenthe property next to the municipal golf course. The 13 acre plot is the largest of three, others not yet settled. Negotiations continue for two additional sites and for a North Austin High School site near Koenig Lane. A low bid around 102000 dollars from Yarborough Construction Co. for gym renovation at Austin High was approved.
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T. N. Porter
West Austin
H. H. Lenthe
Lenthe
Porter
North Austin High School
City
Koenig Lane
Austin High School
Yarbrough Construction Company
Austin
UT Aide and three others die in collision near McGregor
Four people killed in a head-on crash on Moody Highway three miles south of McGregor. Victims include Sergeant T. Water a Fort Hood sergeant and Oliver J. Vinour or Dallas. George T. Reynolds Jr. of Dallas. Ina Molina of Waco. Four others injured include Jerry Gunter Geanne Pickens Yvonne Dyer all of Waco and Corporal Camp of Fort Hood. Reynolds was UT Austin architecture assistant.
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University of Texas
Here
Moody Highway
Vinour
Reynolds
Sergeant Water
Corporal Camp
Water
Miss Quote
Occasional Rain Falls Across Austin Area
Austin saw light rainfall Friday with total accumulation about 0.05 inch per Weatherman Hoye Dunham. Most sites logged a trace while Austin enjoyed slightly more, and a colder, clearer weekend forecast followed.
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Austin
Hoye Dunham
Dunham
Solon levels bribery charge at RFC amid prober's denial
Representative Sutton charges the Reconstruction Finance Corporation with bribery on the House floor, claiming officials took thousands in bribes over a Lustrom foreclosure. A Senate banking subcommittee report reportedly finds no bribery, while RFC officials decline comment.
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Solon
RFC
Prober
Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
House
Sutton
D-Tenn
Senate Banking
Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate
Lustrom Corporation
Columbus
Ohio
Tennessee
Lustrom
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L. H. Klaeveman
C. J. Schmid
Carl C. Hardin
Lewis F. Hatch
I. H. Douglas
Don Grimes
Jessie H. Shelton
William S. Drake
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Rosenberg
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Laurence Hamrick
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Walter Dunham
Merl Young
Rex Jacobs
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