Senate Accepts Red Report in Heated Session
In Washington on July 20 the Senate approved a Democratic report denouncing Joseph McCarthy as false and red-baiting with a 45 to 37 vote. A clash between Senator Wherry and Edward P. Morgan led to a near confrontation outside the chamber as Tydings tried to play McCarthy's voice on a phonograph.
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Washington
Senate
McCarthy
Rwis
Kenneth S. Wherry
Nebraska
Millard Tydings
Maryland
Senator Wherry
Edward P. Morgan
FBI
Tydings
Wherry
Morgan
Senate Chamber
Senator Tydings
Senator McCarthy
Wheeling
W. Va
State Department
Nator Tydings
Unidentified body pulled from Colorado River investigated
Police and Justice of the Peace searched for identification after a man was recovered from the Colorado River near South First Street. Firefighters retrieved the body with a 48 hours to one week decomposition window, noting no laundry marks and several coins. Det M M Lee described a stout, gray headed man, 5 ft 8 in, with a scar on his left leg and clothing including a blue striped shirt and black wool pants.
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Colorado
Department of Public Safety
DPS
Justice of the Peace
Frank McBee
M. M. Lee
Robert E. Lee Road
South First Street
Lee
Red Cross Sends 11 Workers to Korea Including Three Women
Washington July 20 Eleven American Red Cross workers are on duty with U S troops in Korea. General George C Marshall announced that eight men serve as field directors with combat units and three women work in hospitals. Two more field directors are en route and three others await transportation from the West Coast.
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Washington
Red Cross
Korea
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Animal fats as early lubricants before petroleum rise
The article notes that animal fats served as lubricants prior to the development of the petroleum industry, highlighting an early chemistry and industry transition.
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Petroleum Industy
North Austin Plan Commission Approves Sam Clark Negro Subdivision
The City Plan Commission approved nine new subdivisions including the Sam Clark Negro development east of North Lamar Boulevard and St Johns Avenue. It will include 98 low cost homes with integrated shopping, school and playground areas. Final approvals were also given for Highland Village Section 2 Schieffer Place Bergstrom Addition Kincheon Subdivision Fiset Place resubdivisions Cherrywood Annex Melridge Terrace and preliminary approvals for Joseph Brothers Chipps Jung and Sylvester subdivisions.
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City Plan Commission
Austin
Sam Clark
North Lamar Boulevard
St. Johns Avenue
Clark Avenue
William Parker
Russell Lombard
Crescent Industries
Highland Village
Hancock Drive
Bull Creek Road
Schieffer
East 34Th Street
Melridge Terrace
Melridge Place
Robert E. Lee Road
Joseph Brothers
East Fifth Street
Allen Street
Fiset Place
Chipps
49Th Street
Strass Drive
Jung Subdivision
Perryne
Sylvester
Anderson Lane
Hardy Drive
Condon Urges Solar Power Parity With Atomic Energy
Dr. Edward A. Condon, director of the US Bureau of Standards, says solar energy plants show equal or greater practical promise than atomic plants. He spoke at the dedication of the Bureau of Reclamation engineering center serving 17 Western states. Governors and a Missouri Basin committee attended.
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Denver
Edward A. Condon
US Bureau of Standards
Bureau of Reclamation
Truman
Reclamation
Michael Straus
Mr. Truman
Straus
Columbia River
Canada
Colorado
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Oklahoma
Missouri Basin
National Societies of Professional Engineers
TV brings wounded son into Cushing home
In Cushing Oklahoma the Jones family watched WKY TV televise a war newsreel from Korea showing their Army sergeant son Lowell wounded and carried on a stretcher. The parents identified him on screen and recalled his letter from a California post about being transferred to Japan. They had not heard official word of his injury.
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Lowell
Missing Texas teens vanish on Padre Island trip
A 16-year-old boy Edwin Earl Hart and his 16-year-old companion Peggy Houser disappeared Sunday after leaving Linton for a swimming party on Padre Island near Corpus Christi. State police and local authorities launched a statewide search by plane and car, finding no trace of the missing pair or their 1950 green Ford car. Houser described Peggy as five feet eight inches tall, 115 pounds with light hair and grey eyes, and Edwin as five feet eight inches, 150 pounds with slightly curly blond hair and a large scar on the right side of his face.
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Linton
Texas
Edwin Earl Hart
Peggy Houser
Carroll Houser
Padre Island
Corpus Christi
Houser
Young Hart
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Cape Cod
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I. E
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Izer Irae
Cy Ny
Kromex
West Bend
Llassifude
Toni
Toni Crome
Reguler
Absorbine, JR
Rhinall
Percy
Paris
Jack Frost
Reese
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