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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1949
Page
9
Mesquite publisher Corinne Neal Cook of The Texas Mesquiter is invited to address the National Editorial Association in Utah on June 7. She will depart Thursday to report on her round-the-world air tour.
Williamson County farmers begin a two part insect control demonstration this week. On Thursday 10 a m at the Alvert Freels farm south west of Thrall a training session will be held and at Florence 2 p m a meeting follows at the P A Wales farm. The county cotton committee endorses state insect control recommendations and both ground and air spraying methods are praised by county agent Roy Huckabee.
Nelson Elroy farmer and director of Elroy Farmers' Gin Company was chosen president of the new Travis County Farm Bureau Federation. James Marley is first vice president and Walter Gustafson second vice president. W. F. Sassman serves as secretary-treasurer as by laws and a state charter are pursued.
Names of community leaders Carlson Lund Delvalle Gar field and Colorado Pecan Springs Decker include WIGS and BIG AND SMALL members. Farm bureau attendees are Frank Taylor Louis D. Barbour Marvin Carter Res Shannon Elmo Cook Thomas Hooks Jr. and H. C. Stewart. Poultry and cattle prices listed with buyers and local agents.
The record lists numerous buyers and sellers from Austin Creedmoor Lockhart Georgetown Bastrop Cedar Creek Dale Del Valle and other Texas locales with hundreds of hogs cattle and calves sold at prices ranging from about 13.60 to 25.60 per 100 pounds and bulls cows steers heifers and Brahman stock noted among buyers like Tom Beckett Joe Carson F O Cullen Fred Sternberg J O Robinson Dr Ben Eppright and others.
CENTRALIA May 31 A three year old boy, Robert Brines, son of Mr and Mrs Howard Brines, was nearly injured in a moving car collision with his tricycle. He then fell from a footstool at home, requiring nine stitches for a head wound.
General Omar N. Bradley warned that inadequate pay and limited opportunities threaten to produce a leadership of second raters. He spoke to the Political Study Group of Washington noting the armed services pay bill is the first major overhaul in over 40 years and urged Congress to fund officers and enlisted personnel to maintain quality commands.
District Judge Dan Blair sentenced Fred Jones to death in the electric chair for the 1946 slaying of H C Love Jr outside a Floyodada grocery store. Jones, 40, was convicted twice and the Court of Criminal Appeals denied a rehearing of the second conviction.
Bradley states that second rate men invite second best security and warns that in war there is no second prize for the runner up. He emphasizes decisive leadership and stringent security without tolerance for mediocrity.
Mrs Marshall Leeson left Berlin ahead of work and arrived Sunday by plane. A son was born Tuesday morning. The Leesons, first child born in Berlin where Leeson was stationed with the U S Air Force, returned last March. He is an unemployed tractor driver. Mrs Leeson is the daughter of a German Army captain. they married in 1947.
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