Truman administration defeats House rules change vote
In a 236 to 193 roll call, the Truman administration wins narrow party line clash over a 21 day limit on the rules committee. The result preserves the president's fair deal move and blocks a new barrier to civil rights measures like FEPC, with Southern Democrats and Republicans split on the issue.
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Truman
Abhington
Jan
White House
Allen
Illinois
Rayburn
Rules Committee
House
Violence Flares In Coal Dispute Near Kitanning
In Pennsylvania 90,000 United Mine Workers debate returning to work as violence flares during a picket clash near Kitanning. A bystander, August Truskell, 62, is wounded and a truck driver faces possible charges after firing at pickets.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine
Uniontown
Salvation Army
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Kittanning
Chester P. Hoover
August Truskell
Seminole
Hoover
Truskell
City offers schools services to replace cash transfer
City officials floated the idea of supplying services worth 175000 dollars to public schools instead of cash transfers from the water and light department profits. School Superintendent J W Edgar described the plan at an informal meeting, citing a mayoral proposal and legal questions surrounding the 1945 charter amendment and AG instructions.
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City Board of Education
J. W. Edgar
Edgar
City Hall
Counci
R. W. Byram
Taylor Glass
Water and Light Department
Austin Independent School District
Byram
J. M. Patterson Sr
Austin Firefighters Stage Polio Benefit Rally on Congress Avenue
One hundred Austin firemen will stage a five hour musical rally on Congress Avenue to aid the March of Dimes polio drive. They will tour city centers in an old hose wagon collecting funds, led by John E. Ross of Engine Five. Jane Douglas, a polio survivor, is guest of honor and queen for the event.
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Jane Douglas
Austin
Fire Department
Travis County
Austin Fire Department
Congress Avenue
March of Dimes
John E. Ross
Seventh Street
Zockeiden
Jane
N. H. Douglas
Keating Lane
Jesse James
Golden West
Alice Villasano
Marble Falls Man Tops Burnet Livestock Show
A 21 year old Burnet County 4 H Club feeder won the grand champion steer title at the Burnet County 4 H Club and FFA livestock show. Robert Lee Ebeling of Marble Falls exhibited an 860 pound Hereford bred by his father to secure the top prize. Other winners included Glendale Crooks Bertram taking the Hereford second and reserve, and multiple classes awarded across Hereford Shorthorn Brahman cross and other stock with participants from Marble Falls Bertram Burnet and Briggs. The Blanco County 4 H Club and FFA boys stock show is slated for Monday at Blanco beginning 1 p m with O L Patterson and E J Hyatt directing.
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Bertram
Burnet County
FFA
Robert Lee Ebeling
Marble Falls
Young Ebeling
Hereford
Glendale Crooks
Harry Glimp
Nancy Shifflett
Gena Shifflett
Hudson Glimp
Jerry Ross
Bible
Phil Rodgers
Darwin Hill
Lake Victor
Lamb
Bill Halley
Briggs
Bobby Cox
Burnet
John Poage
Charles Shelburn
Baylor Names George Sauer Coach and Athletic Director
George Sauer, former Kansas and Navy coach, is named head football coach and athletic director at Baylor University. He signed a five year contract to succeed Bob Woodruff, amid previous resignations within Baylor athletics. Sauer, 39, played for Nebraska and coached at Nebraska New Hampshire St Mary's pre flight Navy and Kansas, and arrives after Woodruff left following friction with Baylor’s Ralph Wolf.
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Waco
George Sauer
Kansas
Navy
Baylor University
W. R. White
Baylor
Sauer
Bob Woodruff
University of Florida
Woodruff
Ralph Wolf
Wolf
Florida
Dr. White
Baylor Athletic Committee
University of Nebraska
University of Kansas
Geor Sauer
Slayer of Child Declared Sane
Fred Stroble, 68, convicted of first degree murder in the sex slaying of 6 year old Linda Joyce Glacoft was declared sane by Superior Judge Charles W. Fricke after waiving a jury for the sanity hearing. The finding means a mandatory death sentence will be imposed in California. Sentencing set for next Friday.
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Los Angeles
Fred Stroble
Charles W. Fricke
Stroble
Gir
Linda Joyce Glacoft
California
Misty Warmer Weather Forecast For Austin
Misty and warmer weather were in store for Austin Saturday with mostly cloudy skies. No freeze danger expected this weekend, and a low around 42 degrees was forecast for Saturday morning. Rainfall Friday totaled a trace, keeping the yearly total at 6.5 inches and a moisture deficit of 6.8 inches. The Associated Press reported no statewide moisture shortages by late Friday.
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Austin
Perce
Jated
Soviet minister calls Acheson lies in China claim
In Moscow on Saturday January 21 Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky dismissed Dean Acheson’s assertion that the USSR seeks to annex four northern Chinese provinces as monstrous and awkward falsehoods. Vishinsky praised China’s government in Peking and stressed mutual friendship as he cited Angus Ward’s remarks denying Soviet control of Manchuria.
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Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Dean Acheson
Russia
China
Acheson
National Press Club
Washington
Ussr
State Department
Vishinsky
Manchuria
Inner
Outer Mongolia
Sinkiang
Chou En-Lai
Kremlin
A. P. Frantsev
Tass
Pravda
Izvestia
Chinese People’s Republic
Angus Ward
Mukden
Soviet Union
Sandra Peterson Convicted of Murder in Brady Case
A jury in Brady, Texas, found 18 year old Sandra Peterson guilty of murder with malice aforethought in the Patterson killing. The jury sentenced her to life imprisonment after the state sought the death penalty. Loretta Mozingo, 15, who testified the gun was fired by another, remained a key figure in the case.
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Jan
Sandra Peterson
Lewis Patterson
Somerville
Mass
Sandra
Patterson
A. B. Willborn
Texas
Clarence Nordyke
Massachusetts
Loretta Fae
Willborn
McCulloch County
Howard Patterson
Loretta Fae Mozingo
Petterson
Austin
State Youth Development Council
Travis County
Frank Campbell
J. Harris Gardner Campbell
Gainesville
L. Bellamy
The
Good Shepherd
San Antonio
Columbus
Neb
William Mozingo
Alger Hiss Fate In Jury Hands After Deadlock
The Alger Hiss jury remained deadlocked after five hours seven minutes of deliberation locking in at 9 45 p m CST Friday night. Eight women and four men will resume at 9 a m Saturday after being escorted to the Knickerbocker Motel 1230 West 46th Street. The panel has debated perjury charges tied to 1938 alleged secret disclosures and subsequent denials against Hiss a former State Department aide with maximum penalties of 10 years and 4000 dollars in fines. Hiss and his wife Priscilla appeared calm as they left the federal building later. The jurors sought rereads of testimony and copies of disputed Woodstock typewriter evidence.
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New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
Knickerbocker
West 46Th Street
Hiss
Grand
Whittaker Chambers
Priscilla
Federal
Woodstock
TB XRay Box Score Update
The report notes 41 additional X rays Friday bringing total to 6 782 X rays to date. The mobile X ray unit will be stationed at the Rosewood Community Center Saturday.
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Rosewood Community Center
Gillespie Boys Place in Show at Hill County Livestock Show
Elgin Marquart of Comfort FFA exhibited the grand champion Southdown fat lamb at the Hill County Show in Kerrville winning after prior honors at Comfort and Kendall County events. Wesley Ellerbracht, Kerr County Southdown breeder, produced the grand champion and reserve champion lamb. Other division champions included Alton Ernst Fredericksburg Hereford steer, Melvin Brown Fredericksburg bull, Davene Schmidt Harper Angora goat, Gene Simon Junction ewe, H D Bode Harper ram, and Marvin Pfeiffer Boerne Jersey heifer in milk among numerous 4-H and FFA exhibitors.
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Kerrville
ANS
Comfort
Elgin Marquart
Comfort Ffa
Kendall County
Roy Crenwelge
Fredericksburs Ffa
Ellerbracht
Kerrville Ffa
Bill Oliver
Alton Ernst
Fredericksburg
FFA
Melvin Brown
Keifer
Elmer Tats
Fat Barrow
Marvin L. Pfeiffer
Boerne Ffa
Brackenridge Hospital wing bids near. city to call March 15
City Manager Gus ton Morgan told the council bids for the proposed 1 500 000 Brackenridge Hospital wing may be asked about March 15 after six weeks for plans. The city will share half the cost with a federal hospital aid fund. bonds and paving projects were also noted.
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Guston Morgan
Morgan
Collins Construction Company
Piste
Ppital
Federal Hospital Aid Fund
Herman Smith
Chicago
James A Hamilton
Noble Larson
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