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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1950
Page
5
A runaway bus in St. Louis scattered pedestrians and motorists as it hurled over a curb and into a storefront. The driver Everett J. Crownover said he set the brakes and left the vehicle unattended for a few minutes. no injuries were reported.
Ten choice Texas goats travel from Sonora to Bombay and Poona in crates for cross breeding experiments with Indian stock. The project is run by the Indian government and the India Supply Mission in Washington. American Airlines handles the first leg to New York.
General Douglas MacArthur marked his 70th birthday with a low key celebration at his Tokyo office. Diplomatic greetings came from Sir Alvary Gascoigne and flowers were sent by the Emperor and Prime Minister Yoshida. The Philippines awarded the Legion of Honor and locals sang as he left for lunch.
Two Texas lawmakers Beckworth and Regan urge amendments to the cotton acreage allotment bill to aid small East and West Texas farmers and veterans. They seek 5 acre entitlements for genuine farmers and at least four bales for honored veterans, criticizing current 3 percent carveout for unrecorded farms and noting potential ruin for many in Smith County.
Fort Worth report notes Roy McDonald, 3, seated at a cafe counter, drank a beer near a jar. Detectives arrested two ex convicts inside the cafe. Later they searched for a jar left behind by the arrested men, which held nitroglycerine jelly capable of blowing up a large building. McDonald reacted by pushing away the beer and taking something for his nerves.
Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan resigned Thursday from the joint congressional atomic energy committee citing slower recovery from a lung operation. He will stay on as ranking member of the Senate foreign relations committee and Bricker of Ohio is in line to succeed him on the atomic panel.
In Austin on February 1861, 158 delegates convene to secede Texas from the Union. Governor Sam Houston had called an extraordinary session, and a secession ordinance is approved to be submitted to the people on February 23. If approved, secession takes effect March 2, 1861, making Texas part of the Confederacy.
The National Surety Company announced British underwriters will cover the Brinks Armored Car Service robbery in Boston Jan 17. The loss, about 1 million in cash with over 500,000 in checks, is fully covered under a five million dollar all risk policy written by Commercial Union Assurance Company Ltd with reinsurance placed in London.
More than 150 Negro grade and junior high students returned to segregated classes after a board of education meeting where two leaders urged them to resume attendance due to crowded conditions. A $1 million expansion project is under way, and leaders say court action to end segregation could follow next fall if progress relieves crowding.
Lee County residents purchased 79 909 75 in savings bonds during 1949, per a sales report by county savings bond chairman Paul Nerger. The total trails 1948's 103 888 50. FE series led with 78 991 25 versus 99 023 50 in 1948. F and G sales were 518 50 compared with 4 865 00 the prior year.
C. B. Mobley, 83, remains eager to uncover pirate gold off Miami Beach despite previous failures. He tours the shore with a German divining rod and two 19th century bottles found in shallow water, while Captain Thomas Newman funds the dig and mobley aims to live in the finest hotel if gold is found. Experimental labels include a blue glass jar dated 1858 and a wine bottle from 1853.
A 20 year old Royal Air Force veteran, Brian Hume, was acquitted of murdering London air dealer Stanley Letty and dismembering his body, but convicted as an accessory after the fact and sentenced to 12 years. Letty, Iraqi by birth, vanished October 4 after cashing a 1005 pension check and his remains were found off the Essex coast.
An advertisement from San Antonio Texas features Mrs J R Kahn praising Baker's Hair Tonic for dandruff and itchy scalp after radio ad exposure. It urges trying Baker's Hair Tonic and Baker's Lathe rmist Shampoo with a money back guarantee via local drug stores barber shops or beauty shops.
Advertisement promotes Syrup of Black-Draught as a pleasant laxative for children and a cost effective option for adults. It highlights its ease of use, relief of sluggish constipation, and four generation reputation of the maker. It urges parents to ask their dealer for the product in preferred form.
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