Court Moves Ten Cases Back and Insanity Declarations
Ten criminal cases were reset for trial in the September term of the 126th District Court after continuances granted by defendants. Two men were declared insane and two others committed to the state hospital. one man declared sane faces assault charges. Several fugitives and swindling with worthless checks also featured in the docket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
126Th District Court
Bob Long
Austin State Hospital
Mancil Glossup
State Hospital
Charles S. . Gardiner
Benjamin Johnson
Gloster Braimer
Jack Roberts
O. B. Williams
Robert Thomas
Howard Thompson
Lee Bauer
R. J. Ives
Alvin A. Spain
Lucille Hamilton
Johnny Bookman
Charles A. Crawford
Thomas W. Scott Jr
Luke
Youth Drowns in Lake Crockett at Lake Crockett
Billy Larue 15 of Honeygrove drowned while swimming in Lake Crockett. His body was recovered late Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Bonham
Billy Larue
Honeygrove
Lake Crockett
City Flags Bids on Fluorination Equipment
City seeks bids for equipment to inject sodium fluoride into the water supply. City Manager Walter Seaholm announced receipt of cost quotations but withheld figures and said delivery schedules will be reviewed before awarding a contract. Fluorination is endorsed by local health and civic groups and linked to a 23 percent drop in tooth decay in Marshall schools after 29 months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Seaholm
Travis County Medical Society
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Travis County Dental Society
Marshall
State Department of Health
Union Laborers Resume Work At City Plant
Union laborers returned to the city power house project after a four month stoppage caused by a labor dispute with Brown and Root Construction and the AFL Austin Building and Construction Trades Council. The contractor completed its boiler erection in 110 days, half the contract time, and union workers resumed after withdrawing a picket line.
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AFIL
Dirl Thorne
West Milton
New City
J. M. Odom
Brown and Root Construction Company
AFL
Austin Building and Construction Trades Council
Brown and Root
Trades Council
Board Faces Heavy Zoning Docket Tonight
The City Zoning Board of Adjustment has a three week backlog with six petitions for changes and twelve appeals to the zoning ordinance on tap. Hearings begin at 7 20 p m in the City Hall Council Chamber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Zoning Board of Adjustment
Jewell Osborn
Edward Joseph
Wilhelmine B. Sheffield
West 34Th
Fruth Streets
Sam McDonald
Lamar Boulevard
Charles S. Heacock
J. M. Patterson Jr
Colorado
West 15Th Streets
Leola Slaughter
Annie Mae Vance
Prospect Avenue
East Eighth Street
Tom Johnson
Annie Shieffer
Lydia
Juniper Streets
Jennie M. Hale
Katie Gannaway
R. G. West
West Sixth Street
Nueces
San Antonio
City Council
City Hall
Corpus Christi Realtor to Speak at Austin Real Estate Lunch
Fred Quaile, president of the Corpus Christi Real Estate Board, is scheduled as guest speaker for the Austin Real Estate Board weekly luncheon Tuesday noon at the Stephen F. Austin Hotel. Claude Wilson, past president, will introduce Quaile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Quaile
Corpus Christi Real Estate Board
Austin Real Estate Board
Stephen F. Austin
Claude Wilson
Quaile
Crime rising forecast by Texas DPS identification chief
Glen McLaughlin, head of the Texas Department of Public Safety identification and records bureau, told Austin Kiwanis that 600000 fingerprint records exist for arrested individuals and about 7000 new records are added monthly. He expects at least 1500 cases this year and cites daily 1949 crime totals including murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, assaults, thefts, and auto thefts. William D. Campbell announced the Kiwanis Optimist benefit base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas City
Austin Kiwanis Club
Texas Department of Public Safety
Glen McLaughlin
Bureau of Identification and Records
Kiwanians
Texas
McLaughlin
New Mexico
Arkansas
Louisiana
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R. A. Lindig Construction CO
General
Austin Transit, Inc
Opes
eVelope
Frances Reinhardt
Francis Reinhardt
The
American Statesman
American-Statesman
the American-Statesman
Corpus Christi
William D. Campbell
Disch Field
Austin
Treadwell
Optometrist
Polar
Central Texas
Mily
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