Easter egg hunt cracks Austin safe in Hill Country
Det. Wilkes led a cross region Easter egg style hunt from Fredericksburg Road to Marble Falls and Johnson City tracing clues from a Fehr Baking Co. break in. He recovered $468 in bills, torn money bags, charred checks, a milk bottle with $24 in silver, and other loot before surrendering to detectives.
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Hill Country
Austin
Fehr Baking Company
Colorado Street
Ty Wilkes
Fase
Von
Aes Oe
Bill Sterzing
Siew
Econ
Bob Miles
W. H. Harvey
Herbert Taylor
Sterzing
Wilkes
Johnson City
Marble Falls
Highway 281
Bee Caves
49Th Eculvert
Colonel Davis speaks to guard at ROTC review
Colonel Joe Davis of the Fourth Army chaired ROTC program review for the Capital City Area Chapter Texas State Guard Association Tuesday night at the Commodore Perry Hotel. Officers elected included Dr. C. W. Castner as first president, Robert Collins and Harry S. Pollard as vice presidents, and Homer Speer as secretary treasurer. General Allen D. Texas State Guard Reserve attended as a guest.
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Reserve Officers Training Corps
Texas
Joe Davis
Fourth Army
Capital City Area
Texas State Guard Association
Commodore Perry Hotel
Col. Davis
Texas Military District
C. W. Castner
Robert Collins
Harry S. Pollard
Homer Speer
Allen D
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Civic Officials Welcome AAA Austin Texas Division
The American Automobile Association opened its Texas division in Austin with a dinner and plans to aid highway safety and tourism. State leaders praised AAA’s expansion and highlighted safety education, road development, and Texas’ growing tourist trade as major benefits. The new headquarters will open Wednesday at 403 West Sixth Street with public open house and demonstrations of driving skill testing devices.
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American Automobile Association
Austin
Texas
AAA
J. W. Edgar
Education
Fred Wemple
Midland
State Highway Commission
Ike Ashburn
Texas Good Roads Association
Wotorists
Edgar
Wemple
Texas Highway Department
Holland
Paul Kulp
Ken McClure
West Sixth Street
Tayior Glass
R. D. Thorp
Smithville CC Opens Membership Drive
The Smithville Chamber of Commerce membership committee led by L. E. Hampton launches a campaign to grow general and associate memberships. Amendments would grant associate members voting rights for committee service. Railroad workers clerks and nonbusiness individuals urged to join at 3 dollars annually. farmers and ranchers encouraged to participate in a farm and ranch program.
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Smithville
20 Cars of Freight Derailed at Woodbine
About 20 freight train cars derailed and splintered from the track at Woodbine six miles east of Gainesville. No injuries were reported.
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Woodbine
Gainesville
Here
Texas Weather Worsens Across State With Deep Freeze
The Panhandle area saw stock losses and fear of more as freezing rain and snow hit Western and Central Texas. In the Lower Rio Grande Valley tomatoes and potatoes froze solid while the citrus industry faced heavy damage. Southwestern Bell logged 368 long distance circuits down in Texas, with 226 from Houston and 100 from San Antonio. Crews battled cold to repair lines as motorists were warned to avoid treacherous ice. The heaviest rain fell at Port Arthur 2.11 inches, all frozen on impact, and the cold is forecast to persist through February 3 with continued below normal temperatures. Lone Star Gas ordered a 20 percent cut in gas use by large industrial users across Texas and Oklahoma with full shutoffs in Abilene, Sweetwater and Colorado City.
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Demon
Rio Grande Valley
Southwestern Bell
Texas
Houston
San Antonio
The
Highway Commission
Brownsville
Corpus Christi
Palacios
Alice
Victoria
Galveston
Beaumont
Bryan
Waco
Tyler
Texarkana
Si Dallas
Jefferson County
Ben Browning
San Angelo
Port Arthur
Weather Bureau
Lone Star Gas Company
Oklahoma
Abilene
Sweetwater
Colorado City
Lone Star
Cruiser Rochester Returns to States
The heavy cruiser Rochester arrived in Long Beach California with 1 250 cheering sailors after nine months in the Far East It had patrolled the Korean coast during the early war period and served as flagship for the Seventh Fleet commander during the Inchon invasion Homely reunions awaited sailors with families for the first time since the war began.
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Long Beach
Calif
Rochester
Aon
Far East
Koreal
Pusan-Taegu
Seventh Fleet
Inchon
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