City to Expand Municipal Building with New City Hall Quarter
Acquisition of a quarter block north of City Hall completes a long effort led by City Manager Guston Morgan to relieve overcrowding. The move allows future expansion of the Municipal Building and a larger, modern police department and court facility as Welter Seaholm prepares to take office.
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Ninth
Colorado Streets
Guston Morgan
Morgan
Municipal
Recreation Department
City Hall
Corporation Court
Tom Miller
Nalle and Company
Red River
Sixth Streets
Police Courts
Fifth Street
Sixth Street
Taylor Glass
Fifth and
San Antonio
Public Courts
Red River-Sixth
Will T. Johnson
Travis County Law Enforcement Commission
Travis County
Oswald G. Wolf
Legal Department
Police Department
Colorado
Republic of Texas
W. S. Drake Jr
Welter E. Seaholm
Texas
Raymond D. Thorp
Riot Angers Berlin Rally and Police Wives Move in Chicago
A Town Hall rally in New York described as pro Berlin met with Communist staged riots and mass pickets led by a special agent while AFL Seafarers protected speakers including General Clay. The piece also notes Chicago cops and wives forming the Police Wives Association to press for unionization across many cities.
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Berlin
New York
Germany
RIAS
Voice of America
Bill Green
Phil Murray
Common Cause
General Eisenhower
Tom Dewey
David Dubinsky
Cardinal Spellman
Clare Booth Luge
Matthew Woll
Alan Dulles
Gilbert
General Clay
Washington
Bart
California
William Z. Foster
Hall
CIO
Gus
TNT
Russia
United States
Truman
American Jewish Labor Council
AFL
Paul Hall
Gen. Clay
Gus Hall
Communist Press
World Radio
Chicago
Police Wives Association
Sticks
Bobby Bretag
Walter
United Nations
Australia
Canada
South America
Italy
Venezuela
John R. Steelman
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Colleges Beckoning Texans as GI Enrollment Recedes
Texas faces a shift in higher education as GI bill graduates dip and overall college enrollment falls. Junior colleges expand access near home, boosting local training while potentially draining traditional teacher and general colleges, with UT and state schools adjusting budgets and programs to new patterns.
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Texas
University of Texas
Urban roads lead in 1949 traffic after rural dominance
A 1949 traffic estimate shows total vehicle miles at 425 billion, up 25 billion from 1948, with urban roads surpassing rural highways for the first time in years. The report notes rural highways carried more travel until 1949, when urban areas again led.
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Bureau of Public Roads
The American Statesman page four June 1 1950
The Austin American daily newspaper page four dated June 1 1950 lists staff names including Louis N Goldberg business manager and Charles E Green editor with publishing details in Austin Texas. The Sunday issue is The American Statesman.
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Austin American
Louis N. Goldberg
Charles E. Green
Newspapers, Inc
Seventh
Colorado Streets
Austin
Texas
the American Statesman
Steen
Congress
The
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Newspaders
McInerny Sealed Amerasia Prosecution Ties to White House
Testimony before the Tydings committee reveals pressure from the White House to prosecute Amerasia defendants. McInerny cites a phone call from the President urging pursuit, then details illegal searches and a Saturday court session to save the case.
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Washington
Jim McInerny
Tydings Committee
Amerasia
McInerny
Justice Department
Criminal Division
Senate Committee
Ed Morgan
FBI
Jim
Morgan
White House
McIinerny
OSS
Emmanuel Larsen
Ireland
James Proctor
Proctor
Larsen
Philip Jaffe
Jaffe
Jaffee
District of Columbia
Washington Star
Senators
Winchell on Broadway A Peek at Times and Ties in Hollywood
A splashy column notes Craig Rice’s upcoming marriage to P. Byron Bishop in Mexico on June 5, with Meg Mundy and Evelyn Keyes in the mix and Errol Flynn planning a private island honeymoon. It cites rumored lordly figures, legal loopholes, unions, and a mass of showbiz chatter from Paris to New York, including politics, marriages, and industry gossip.
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Craig Rice
P. Byron Bishop
Mexico
Meg Mundy
Gilbert Roland
Evelyn Keyes
Movietown
Errol Flynn
Princess Ghika
Solomons
John Payne
Eileen Stanley, Jr
John Doolitties
Jimmy
Japan
Sheldon Dicks
Barbara Ashley
D. Graham
Baron G. Wrangels
Reno
P. B. Farrell
Joan Lang
Kitchener
Ont
West Point
T. F. Farrell
NYC Housing Commission
Gigi Durston
Don Brown
Peggy Wilcox
Harper's Bazaar
Lee MacGregor
Zanuck
AP Exclusive Rights Notice Plan
The notice states that the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to local news and AP dispatches printed in the newspaper and restricts republication by others. It outlines the newspaper’s entitlement to AP material and usage terms.
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Ace
Associated Press
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Editors
By Manning
Ret Manninen
Lim
Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett
Haiti
Grant
Drew Pearson
Francis Walter
Pennsylvania
Europe
Western Europe
MAN About Town
Carlson
L. Budenz
Alger Hiss
Shaikh Ali Alireza
Newanager
Lenny Kent
Jean
Penguin
Bob Lyon
Oklahoma
Annie
Lois Johnson
Kansas City
Ava
Spain
Hollywood
Musicians’ Union
Petrillo Debunks
Eisenhower
Ike
Ted Prez
M. Todd
Philly
Winter Garden
Johns
Portland
Oregon
Teevy
Nelson Rockefeller
Jock Whitney
Newfoundland
Communist Party
Manhattan
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