Revenue Bureau Adopts Summer 40 Hour Schedule
An Austin internal revenue bureau employee announces a summer schedule reducing daily hours to 7:30 am to 4 pm with a 11:30 to 12 lunch. The change applies to main offices at Eighth and Colorado and Sixth and Colorado and the West Sixth Street field office during June July and August.
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Austin
Frank Scofield
The
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Colorado
Sixth and
West Sixth Street
Austin School Board Curbs Closed Clubs
The Austin School Board voted unanimously to withdraw sponsorship of 14 high school clubs at Austin High but allow meetings after school with outside adult sponsors. Officials cited continued club influence on student life and emotional impact on ninth graders, and urged parent teacher student involvement to reach teens.
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Austin School Board
Austin High
Austin High School
Edgar
Hal P. Bybee
Ronald Byram
Man Wins Degree From Girls College at Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania awarded a bachelor’s degree to a male student, the first undergraduate degree conferred to a man at the historically women’s college. Richard Logan, a World War II veteran and married, joined 147 female graduates in the class as he benefited from the GI Bill after government enrollment requests for men at women’s colleges.
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Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr College
Richard Logan
Logan
Ancient Egyptians painted enemies on sandals soles
A historical note describes how ancient Egyptians mocked foes by painting their figures on leather sandal soles to step on them daily, turning footgear into a crude but symbolic insult.
Kinney Baptists To Open School
The Kinney Avenue Baptist Church announces a parochial school opening in September for kindergarten and first grade. Applications are being taken at 1801 Kinney Avenue. Pastor Rev Jerrel Gaddy says the school will serve children not yet eligible for public school by Sept 1. Classes at the church with two full time teachers planned.
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Kinney Avenue
Jerrel Gaddy
Crowd Laughs As Boy Burns At Thrill Show
In Sonora California on May 31 17 year old Robert Carlson was engulfed by flames during a county fair thrill show. He stood beside a 50 gallon gasoline drum when it ignited and fuel showered over him. A clown rolled him in sawdust and extinguished the blaze. Carlson is recovering rapidly in hospital.
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Sonora
Calif
Robert Carlson
Carlson
Bomba Leads St. Edward’s Ex-Students Association
O J Bomba Jr of San Antonio was elected president of Saint Edward’s University Ex-Student Association at the campus reunion. Ed Norris becomes vice president, Jacques Carrouzet treasurer, with Rev James J O Brien CSC and Harold C Simon re elected as chaplain and secretary. Ex students from Texas Louisiana and Oklahoma attended the two day reunion which welcomed the first postwar graduation class into membership.
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O. J. Bomba Jr
San Antonio
Saint Edward's University
Bomba
Gus Strauss
Halletsville
Ed Norris
St. Edward’s
William Sullivan
Dallas
Jacques P. Carrouzet
College of Engineering
Saint Edward's
Ford Kernane
Austin
James J. O’brein
CSC
Saint Edward’s
Harold C. Simon
Texas
Louisi
Ana
Oklahoma
Association
Polish Archbishop Appeals to End Church State Clash
London May 31 The London Daily Telegraph reports Archbishop Joseph Beran of Prague asked Communist President Klement Gottwald to end the church state conflict as Prague intensifies a campaign against the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia.
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London Daily Telegraph
Joseph Beran
Prague
Klement Gottwald
Czechoslovakia
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