Board Rejects Glass Plan to Swap Funds for Services
The city board of education rejected Mayor Taylor Glass' proposal to supply services to public schools in place of the annual $175,000 transfer from the utility to education. Board president R. W. Byram said accepting the plan would imply paying for illegal transfers and questioned the council's future mood. The measure aims to resolve a legal tangle about funds from the water and light department used for school support.
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Wray Weddell
City Board of Education
Taylor Glass
R. W. Byram
Glass
Glazing Ice Hits North Texas as Norther Drops Temps
A glazing ice cover affected North Texas from Dallas to the Red River as a norther pushed south. Lows reached 37 in Austin and many areas stayed near freezing. Coasts and Rio Grande Valley saw warm, 80s, while bridges and windshields iced in the glaze region.
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North Texas
Texas
Houston
Austin
South Texas
Dallas
Red River
San Angelo
Wichita Falls
Sherman-Denison
Highway Patrol
Rio Grande Valley
Fair Skies
Mercury
Laredo
Alice
Corpus Christi
Mexico
Weather Bureau
Japs Barred From Boston City Council Visit
Thirteen Japanese National Diet members were barred from observing a Boston council meeting after Councillor James Coffey proposed to keep them out and not educate them. The motion passed 11 to 8 amid remarks recalling Pearl Harbor and citing restraint for the group touring democracy with MacArthur’s sanction.
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Boston
Here
James Coffey
Pearl Harbor
Douglas MacArthur
Coffey
General MacArthur
Telephone Workers Call Walkout for February 8
The Communications Workers America CIO calls a nationwide telephone strike for February 8 with a general stoppage at almost every exchange. About 100 000 workers across eight divisions vote to walk out at 6 a.m. local time. Bids to avert the action continue in St. Louis with federal mediators.
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American Wire
Communications Workers America
CIO
Joseph A. Beirne
Washington
Beirne
CWA
Western Electric Installers
Bell System
St. Louis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
CIO Communications
Division 20
Arthur E. Johnson
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Cincinnati
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Illinois
New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Thousands of Austinites Face Poll Tax Deadline
Thousands of eligible voters in Austin must pay their poll tax by Tuesday midnight to qualify for the 1950 election. As of Monday afternoon 19,089 had paid, with many more expected by mail or in person before the deadline. The 1948 record of over 36,000 voters may be missed.
Northern Democrats use filibuster to delay cotton quota vote
Washington January 30 Northern Democrats again used the filibuster to slow action on the 1950 cotton quota bill. Rep John Lesinski Michigan forced a time consuming quorum call to nudge the measure toward a vote while FEPC supporters signal possible settlement. Senate consideration opened on a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college with President Truman not opposing swift passage.
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Washington
House
John Lesinski
Michigan
Lesinski
FEPC
Senate
Scott W. Lucas
Truman
Dean Acheson
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Special Texas lawmakers begin off year session in 30 day aim
Special session opens with House Speaker Durwood Manford and Senate leaders in Austin as Governors Shivers and leaders push to resolve eleemosynary funding within 30 days. Four new House members sworn in. Senate adds one new member, George Nokes, youngest ever with 26 at start.
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Texas House
Senate
Allan Shivers
House
Durwood Manford
G. C. Morris
Grady Hazelwood
Amarillo
George Nokes
Corsicana
James E. Taylor
Kerens
Nokes
Shivers
Fred W. Meridith
Terrell
James Sewell
Blooming Grove
Harold M. LaFont
Plainview
Woodrow W. Bean
el Paso
Manford
LaFont
Howard Carney
Atlanta
Morris
Ford
Selecmosynary
X Ray Unit Staged at Travis County Courthouse
A mobile X ray unit will be stationed at the Travis County Courthouse on Tuesday, providing on site radiography services to county residents and officials.
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Travis County
Negro Professor Enrolls in UT Graded Courses
W Astor Kirk a Negro professor at Tillotson College signed up for two graduate courses at the University of Texas Monday. UT officials say he will receive instruction across Guadalupe Street at the University YMCA under a contract to offer graduate courses not available at Houston’s Negroeses schools, with segregation clauses. Kirk may attend segregated classes. enrollment fee payment not completed and staff to teach include Dr. C A Timm and H A Calkins.
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W. Astor Kirk
Tillotson College
University of Texas Graduate School
University
J. C. Dolley
Kirk
University Ymca
Guadalupe Street
Texas State University
Houston
Solon Demands Coal Action Now
Senator Byrd of Virginia urged the Senate to press President Truman to intervene under the Taft Hartley Act to end the coal strike amid cold weather forecasts. The walkouts spread among about a quarter of John L Lewis’s 400000 soft coal diggers, raising fears of a critical situation within hours.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Senate
Truman
Virginian
White House
John L. Lewis
Kremlin Eases Berlin Barrier To Cargo Flow
The Associated Press reports Russia lifted the truck traffic blockade to Berlin temporarily, allowing normal movement since January 22 while awaiting possible new checks at Helmstedt. Western protests remain unresolved.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Russia
Helmstedt
Britain
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Uniscan
Paris
Halvard Lange
Paul Hoffman
Europe
Lange
France
Germany
Roger Garreau
United Nations Trusteeship Council
Geneva
Holy
Senators Push U S Hydrogen Bomb Development
The story reports Senator Tydings urging immediate hydrogen bomb development, arguing delay invites attack. Chairman Connally also backs arming with the H bomb, both leaders of key committees, as the atomic program moves toward a presidential recommendation. Secret cost estimates range widely from 100 million to 4 billion dollars.
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Washington
Tydings
D-Md
Senate Armed Services Committee
United States
Senate Committee
Connally
D-Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Joint
Senate House Atomic Committee
Truman
United Nations
Pierre Billettee
Harold Urey
Bernard Baruch
Louis Johnson
Dimes March Here Enters Last Week Far Short of Goal
Austin's March of Dimes drive entered its third week with a total of 26 790.38 collected by the second week. A double header at Gregory Gym netted only 873.04 toward the drive, with 3 215 in attendance. Another basketball game at Manor added 125, and a five hour event at Dorie Miller Auditorium featured Anderson High Tillotson and Bergstrom All Stars plus a benefit dance to boost donations.
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Austin
Gregory Gymnasium
Elgin
Manor
Dorie
Tillotson
Jesse James
Ed Palla
G Gymnasium
Drive. Com
Plane crash mars Yukon search for vanished airliner
A US Air Force C47 crashed while probing the vanished C54 with 44 aboard southwest of Whitehorse Yukon. Five or six crew injured. crewmate Lt Charles Harden trekked to the Alaska Highway to report the crash. Other occupants remained at the scene as Hardy was treated. journalist Jack Borges traveled with the party and was said to be fine.
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Y. T
Here
Charles Harden
Alaska
United States Army
Harden
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