Austin Seeks Fifth City Glory in Census Push
Missed residents flood Austin census office hoping to lift the city into Oklahoma top five behind Houston Dallas San Antonio and Fort Worth. City officials, merchants, and Chamber of Commerce prize program aim to count all residents with theater passes prizes and public encouragement to boost business appeal.
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West Eighth
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Rosewood
Lulac Club
East Sixth
Census Bureau
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Dallas
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Louis Novy
Interstate Theaters
Frank Lucchese
Harlem
Carver Theaters
Karotkin Furniture Company
Cabaniss-Brown Furniture Store
Texas Furniture Company
J. R. Reed Music Company
the American Statesman
Southern Union Gas Company
Merritt, Schaefer and Brown
Joe Koen
Four Escape In Crash Of B29 Near Roswell
A B29 bomber from Walker Air Base crashed on a test flight near Roswell New Mexico killing three of seven crew. Four fliers parachuted to safety as the aircraft went nose down from 9000 feet and exploded on impact observed by local residents.
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Roswell
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Air Force
Fred Barnes
Census Drive Seeks Count With Open Hours
Census office announces daily hours from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Dorie Miller Auditorium and the Lulac Club 1007 East Sixth Street. Residents may register at fire stations Saturday and Sunday with forms collected by Monday.
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Dorie Miller Auditorium
Lulac Club
East Sixth Street
Soviets walk out again as UN trusteeship vote fails
In Lake Success on June 1 the United Nations Trusteeship Council rejected a Russian bid to expel Chinese Nationalists. Russia walked out after the vote, with Britain and Argentina abstaining and the rest opposing. United States delegates condemned the Soviet tactic and warned against undermining UN democracy.
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United Nations Trusteeship Council
China
Russia
Britain
Argentina
Council
Ernest Bevin
House of Commons
J. Fletcher- Cooke
Security Council
A. A. Soldatov
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Roger Garreau
France
Soldatovs
Liu
Soldatov
Kuomintang
Garreau
Francis B. Sayre
United States
Sayre
United Nations
Geneva
Trusteeship Council
Austin Faces One Way Confusion and Throttle Mishaps
The article notes confusion in Austin as residents adapt to a new one way street system with drivers initially going wrong way. By evening most motorists adjust and follow directions. A train engineer was arrested after pushing throttle too hard across towns, with police stopping him at each station. A welfare fraud case features a driver using his daughter’s money to buy household goods while claiming welfare payments. A science note claims a boiler cleaner dissolves kidney stones.
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Austin
Scattered Showers Forecast for Friday
The forecast calls for more scattered showers Friday afternoon and night following a Thursday downpour. A Thursday shower at the airport totaled 0.19 inches, lifting the 24 hour rain to 2.09 inches and the yearly total to 17.58 inches, 148 inches above normal. City crews completed patching main electric wires after high winds, with fifteen primary lines blown down in the north and east. Weather Bureau expects moderate temperatures Friday with a warmup Saturday.
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Austin
Weather Bureau
Peter C Woods 92 San Marcos Dies After Illness
SAN MARCOS June 1 ANS Peter C Woods 92 lifelong resident of San Marcos died Thursday afternoon after an extended illness He was Cornell Institute graduate and a member of the Methodist Church and San Marcos Masonic Lodge Survivors include his wife four sons Eugene C Austin Maxey Round Rock Milton Seguin Clifford Houston four daughters Winifred Caldwell San Antonio Leonora Morrison Butler Pa Mattie K Taylor Austin Funeral services set for 10 am Saturday at First Methodist Church with Rev Allen G Roe officiating Burial in San Marcos Cemetery Pennington Funeral Home in charge
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Cornell Institute
The
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Air Force Unveils RB45C Four Jet Scout Bomber
North American Aviation introduces the RB45C a four jet reconnaissance and bomber aircraft for the U S Air Force. It completed its maiden flight and acceptance tests. The jet bomber is in the 550 mile per hour class can reach 40000 feet and has a range over 1200 miles. It carries a crew of three.
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Los Angeles
North American Aviation Corporation
Thurday
U.S. Air Force
Air Force
Truman Johnson urge longer draft for swift action in war
Secretary Johnson urged a three year extension of the draft law with no strings to allow instant presidential action if a crisis arose. General Bradley backed the extension noting allied perception of American leadership. lawmakers debated emergency powers and 1952 timing.
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Secretary of Defense
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House
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Saltonstall
R-Mass
Knowland
California
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Omar N. Bradley
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North Atlantic
Peace Prospects Brightest Since World War II, HST Says
President Truman voiced optimism that the world is closer to real permanent peace than at any time since World War II. He told a news conference the peace outlook is the best in five years and said he would do everything to prevent war despite recent Cold War tensions.
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Truman
Russia
Peac
Auriol
France
United States
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Republican Party
Census votes show Amarillo and Lubbock near 1950 marks
Preliminary 1950 census figures put Amarillo at about 73,737 and Lubbock above 70,000. Final counts due Saturday. Panhandle counties show mixed changes with Hansford and Oldham up while Briscoe Hemphill and Donley decline.
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Associated Press
Lubbock
Amarillo
Panhandle
Hansford County
Oldham County
Briscoe
Hemphill
Donley
114 Year Old Resident Passes in El Paso
El Paso mourns its oldest resident Alvino Flores 114 who died Thursday at the home of his only survivor Micasio Otega Flores born in Chihuahua Mexico on April 18 1836 and had lived in El Paso for 84 years.
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EL Paso
Texas
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Micasio Otega
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Chihuahua
Mexico
Truman seeks $1.22 billion foreign arms aid program
President Truman asks Congress for a new $1.2225 billion foreign arms aid program for the next fiscal year. He seeks authority to divert funds to crucial allies and to sell arms to nations outside the program to bolster global defense against the Soviet threat. The plan follows a current $1.314 billion Western European rearmament effort and aims to assist the Middle and Far East as needed.
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Jap Communists Call for General Strike Amid Elections
Tokyo reports 400000 unionists and thousands of students urged to join a Red called general strike on Saturday to protest the US occupation and a recent trial. Officials expect limited trouble as police prepare. The event blends student and labor action with anti American themes ahead of Parliament’s upper house vote.
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Japan
General MacArthur
United States
Reds Slow Berlin Traffic After Luebeck Rally
Soviet reprisal slows western trucks at Helmstedt checkpoint as West Berlin youths end sit down protest. West Germany probes kidnapping claim while 10000 youths and others disperse after temperature and police examinations.
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