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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1949
Page
8
Georgetown event sets Friday at 6 30 p m for the J C Godbey Sunday School class annual birthday party. Key speaker will be J E Hickman chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas at the First Methodist Church.
Georgetown reports approximately 250000 in utility revenues for the past year as it expands its water, light and sewer systems. City Manager Lee Black cites rising costs, ongoing mains expansion to serve outlying districts, and a 20 percent revenue increase from 1947 to 1948 with 100 new customers.
Burnet expands the Burnet County Vocational School for Veterans with a new part time machinist class. The regular full time class shifts to daytime hours. Joe Blackburn directs the full time class, Rex Blackburn leads the new part time group meeting three nights weekly starting Feb 10. The facility uses VA and State Board approved equipment. The count rises to two part time and three full time in Burnet and to 13 full time and two part time in the county.
San Saba Jaycees sign contract with Earl and Jack Sellers of Del Rio to present the 12th annual Jaycee rodeo in San Saba on June 16 17 and 18. Glenn Williamson highway patrolman and Jaycees director serves as rodeo committee chairman.
The Williamson County Singing Convention will be held at Jonah High School Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Chester Cocke will preside and several quartets have indicated they will be present.
Burnet County Producers Association selected Marion Tumlinson Alfred Shifflet and Edgar Shelburn for three year terms. two year terms went to T. F. Cox Ellis Taylor and one year to Bob Cook Bill Jones. The group opened Feb. 15 1948 with $15 000 in stock and posted a year one net profit of $519 72.
Johnson City report says a blue darter hawk was nabbed by M. C. Stewart after being awakened by the cackling of chickens. The hawk was seized by Stewart in a sudden kitchen confrontation, marking his first such capture.
In Bastrop on January 25 1950 eleven defendants faced 21st District Court. Jurors sentenced Robert Cohen Jr to 99 years for part in the I C Nichols peach peddler death at Giddings July 4. F M McClendon earned the death sentence. William McClendon got life. Additional pleas yielded varying terms for burglary arson theft and forgery.
San Marcos outlines National Boy Scout Week events February 6 to 13 with church services at First Christian and Mexican Baptist Churches. Troop 118 to broadcast on February 5, Troop 123 to receive troop charter, and Father and Son banquet set for February 11 at First Baptist Church.
In Georgetown and Taylor plans were discussed for the 39th annual Boy Scout pot-luck suppers. Dates not yet set. Attendees included Williamson County Scouts chairman George Dorroh and Leander members W. E. Cravens and J. W. McBride along with Taylor and Georgetown leaders and executives from Austin.
Johnson City January 25 Spl O Y Fawcett has opened his drug store temporarily in the N T Stubbs Building. The drug store and entire stock were destroyed by fire December 30.
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