Texas Organized Reserve Corps Shows Progress in 1949
The Texas Military District in Austin notes gains in economy and training for the Organized Reserve Corps during 1949. Highlights include the Industrial College course in Houston, the two week general staff program at multiple Southwest locations, Exercise Cactus II at Fort Sam Houston, and expanded home station training amid funding limits.
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Texas Military District
Organized Reserve Corps of
Texas
Austin
Organized Reserve Corps
Regular Army
National Guard
Industrial College
Houston
United States
Dallas
Texas Organized Reserve Corps
Southwest
Fortn Houston
Eagle Mountain Lake
Fort Worth
Fort Sill
Okla
New Orleans
Pine Bluff
Ark
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Hood
Camp Leroy Johnson
Fort Bliss
Hawaii
Caribbean
Departef Army
E Corps
Unions Back AA Help To Save Drunk Workers
A 1950 feature describes Alcoholics Anonymous aiding major firms like Eastman Kodak DuPont and others to rehabilitate workers once viewed as problem drinkers. It highlights 300 ex-alcoholics in DuPont, 65 percent of targeted cases, and notes industry costs from lost workdays while urging unions to seek AA support to save jobs and families.
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Big Elmer
Alcoholics Anonymous
Eastman Kodak
Rochester
N. Y
Philadelphia
DuPont Company
G. H. Gehrmann
DuPont
Wilmington
Del
Gehrman
C. Nelson Davis
Broadcasting Company
Post-Wall Syndicate, Inc
Editors Notebook Hospital Program Aims at Texas Medical Advances
The program, to be wrapped into a Jan 31 appropriation, promises long term benefits through research in mental illness cancer tuberculosis and epilepsy. Texas researchers may extend brain therapy and apply findings statewide, improving care and potentially reducing need for institutionalization. The effort centers on expanding medical and psychiatric staff and leveraging facilities like the M. D. Anderson Cancer Research Center to push cures and preventions.
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Texas’ Hospital
Texas
M. D. Anderson
Houston
Highway Department Streamlines Its Work
The Texas Highway Department reorganizes to improve efficiency. The Highway Commission adds a deputy engineer two assistant engineers and three chief engineers to head major sections. Officials say the move reduces overlapping duties and confusion within the vast department.
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Highway Department
Texas Highway Department
Administrative Code Commission
The
Highway Commission
Department
D. C. Greer
World War II decorations for women and escalator origins
DoD notes the highest U S decoration for women in World War II was the Distinguished Service Medal awarded to Colonel Florence F Blanchfield and Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby in the Army and to Captain Sue Dauser and Captain Mildred McAfee Horton in the Navy. The first escalator debuted at the Paris Exposition 1900 built by Charles Seeberger. later a Jesse Reno design opened at the New York L station.
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Department of Defense
Army
Florence F. Blanchfield
Army Nurse Corps
Oveta Culp Hobby
WAC
Navy
Sue Dauser
Mildred McAfee Horton
WAVE
F.B. A
Charles Seeberger
Gimbel's
Philadelphia
Jesse Reno
Third Avenue
59Th Street
New York
Seeberger
Red Letter New Testament Offered as Christmas Gift
Today’s booklet offer presents a red letter New Testament with the Saviors words in red. It includes Bible-named flora, fauna, and landmarks and notes such facts as the longest book and the shortest verse. 254 pages, thin paper, black cover. Send 25 cents to Austin American Information Street, NE, Washington for order.
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Austin American Informa
E Street
Washington
Costello Influence Aims At Crime Respectability
Washington column details Frankie Costello and the Maraon-Costello network pressuring crime into respectability. It cites government influence, deportation leverage, and ties to tax cases, Whiteley Company whisky deals, and internal revenue entanglements across 1930s 1940s with Kastel Helis Haim and Maragon.
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Washington
Costello
New York
Miami
Los Angeles
United States
Italy
Justice Department
Harry Bridges
Sanrancisco
Bridges
Truman
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Clyde Hoey
White House
John Maragon
Phil” Kastel
Bill Helis
Golden Greek
Maragon
el Paso
Texas
Underworld
General Vaughan
California
Tanforan
Helis
Irving Haim
House of Lords
Whitney National Bank
New Orleans
Phil Kastel
William Helis
Fran Costello
Kastel
C. D. Jennings
Chicago
Robert Friedberg
Alliance Distributors
White National Bank
J. G. Turney and Sons, Ltd
King’s Ransom
Lloyd Cobb
A. G. Reynolds
London
Frank Costello
Interoffice
Phil Kaste
Alfange
Dean Alfange
New York State Liquor Authority
Haim
J. G. Turney and Son
Whiteley Company
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Lafayette College will not use tainted funds for scholarships
A Lafayette College donor’s $140,000 bequest for scholarships was refused after it barred Catholics and Jews and favored second generation Americans. The decision followed student activism and a Lancaster News exposé, with editorials praising the college for a tolerant stance and swift action.
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United States
Lafayette College
General Lafayette
Lafayette High Command
Lancaster
New York
Lafayette
Julius Rosenwald
Fragmentary AP Dispatch Policy Note
A partial Associated Press copyright line appears, noting exclusive use rights to dispatches and related material, with unclear full wording. The excerpt references AP ownership and distribution limitations.
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Absociated Press
Associated Press
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Yom
BY William Weeg
BY Victor Riesel
Editors
Fort
By Herblock
Bureau
Eye Street
N. E. Vechingsen
Austin American
Winnipeg
Canada
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
LL. A
Drew Pearson
Franklin Roosevelt
Frankie Costello
Time
Newsweek
Edward Folliard
Washington Post
Waldorf
Wall Street
America
Police Department
Gable
Lady Ashley
Elsa Maxwell
Park Sheraton
Dolly O’brien
Elsa
Ashley
Dolly
Clark
Sylvia
King Peter
Yugoslavia
Mae West
Mae
Carol Channing
Phillips H. Lord
Maine
Mai Poreten
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
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