Austin City Council rejects cut in summer water rates
City Manager Guston Morgan convinced the council no reduced summer rates would be granted. He cited ample supply and limited peak demand, noting consumption may rise 4 percent and that the 6 cent per ton rate remains below other Texas cities. Mayor Glass and Councilman Long backed the stance while addressing garbage- disposal needs and other budget concerns.
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William J
Austin Americar
Austin
Guston Morgan
Morgan
Rob Roy Ranch
Emma Long
Dallas
Texas
More Council
Missing U235 Found Buried in Waste Box at Argonne
Senator McMahon announced the bottle containing enriched U235 was recovered from a buried waste box at Argonne Laboratory Chicago after investigators dug up three boxes. The loss, discovered February 8, is said to involve likely dumping into unenriched material. one eighth of an ounce remains unaccounted for.
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Washington
McMahon
D-Conn
Chicago
Congressional Investigation of the
Atomic Energy
David E. Lilienthal
Bourke Hickenlooper
Iowa
Lilienthal
Eniwetok
Atomic Energy Commission
Atomic
Hickenlooper
AEC
Joint
Senate House Committee
Argonne Laboratories
FBI
Paul Fields
Argonne Laboratory
Polio Epidemic Spreads Across Texas Prompting San Angelo Lockdown
Polio moves through Texas with San Angelo closing schools churches swimming pools and the city declaring the epidemic stage. San Antonio deploys helicopter spraying and guard planes as Waco Austin and other towns report more deaths and rising case counts while a new polio ward is formed at a San Angelo hospital.
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Texas
San Angelo
San Antonio
Waco
Austin
City Commission
Goodfellow Air Force Base
Charlotte
N.C
Health Department
Civil Air Patrol
Cox
Big Spring
Tornado Hits Southwest Oklahoma Farmland
Carnegie Oklahoma June 2 A tornado struck between Algaiga and Eakly in southwest Oklahoma early Thursday night. Editor Harry Jolly reports no immediate word on injuries or property damage. The storm damaged wide areas of open farm land with hail and rain following.
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Carnegie
Okla
Algaiga
Eakly
Oklahoma
Harry Jolly
Carnegie Herald
Jolly
Here
Tyson Funeral Scheduled Today
Tom L. Tyson a 44 year old attorney and leader in Texas Democratic and Baptist circles died of a heart attack at 7 40 am at his Corsicana home. Funeral services set for 10 am Friday at First Baptist Church with Dr Jared L Cartlidge in charge. Tyson was a dynamic organizer and foe of Texas Regular forces who supported Roosevelt and Truman. He served on multiple boards including Mary Hardin Baylor College and Buckners Orphans Home.
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Austin
Jared Smith
Sidney Smith
Waco
Kenneth Burns Jr
Kenneth H. Burns
College Station
Texas A&m
Dallas
Corsicana
Tom L. Tyson
Texas
Democratic Executive Committee
First Baptist Church
Jared L. Cartlidge
Tyson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fort Worth
Harry Truman
Beauford H. Jester
Mary Hardin Baylor College
Belton
Buckners Orphans Home
Navarro County Foundation
First Baptist Church of
Truman shelves tour plans amid program push
President Truman said he may skip a cross country tour to promote his program as Congress debates the bills. He indicated the trip is shelved for now and suggested it may not be necessary, while reaffirming support for the program and opposing a Spain Export-Import Bank loan.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Mr. Truman
Spain
Curtis Calder
Girl Seeks New Teeth After Circus Rope Trick
Barbara Bellamy, six, of Lockhart, watched a circus performer swing by a rope held between her teeth and attempted the stunt. The attempt resulted in loss of two front teeth, with her parents reporting she will need new teeth by Christmas.
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Lochart
Barbara Bellamy
Lockhart
Barbara
William R. Bellamy
Barabara
Chambers Links Alger Hiss to Soviet Spy Ring
Whitaker Chambers testified before a federal jury that Alger Hiss fed government secrets to a prewar Soviet spy ring through him. He described secret meetings in New York City and a Chinatown restaurant exchange, noting Hiss and his wife Priscilla refused to leave the Communist Party.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
State Department
Chinatown
Chambers
Hiss
Donald
Priscilla
Time Magazine
Nye Committee
Senate
Woman dies as husband battles cancer while son lies in state
ABILENE June 2 A 53 year old Mrs. E C Jackson died of a heart attack in a rocking chair at her husband’s bedside after a three day vigil. Her son N L Jackson said she refused to leave her dying husband. Private Talmadge H Jackson, killed in action in Europe in 1944, has awaited burial here since April 28.
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Abilene
E. C. Jackson
N. L. Jackson
Talmadge H. Jackson
Europe
Wind tunnels plan to test high speed planes fuels defense bill
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson said armed services planes exceed 1000 mph as 22 wind tunnels are funded in a $311 million bill. The program includes 13 small university tunnels, two large centers, and six more at national labs and bases, with site choices under study.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Dtexas
Armed Services
Senate Armed Services Committee
Johnson
Air Force
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Tennessee Valley
National
Ai- Mange Committee For Aeronautics
Ames
Calif
Cleveland
Ohio
Ana Langley Air Base
Naval Base
Action-Filled Day as Texas Legislature Sends Six Bills
The House and Senate sent six measures to Governor Beauford H. Jester. A House vote of 92 to 25 approved a bill establishing a mandatory minimum wages and hours scale for cities over 40 000, with cities 10 000 to 40 000 allowed to vote on it. The moves include a bid to ban high school secret societies.
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Associated Press
House
Senate
Beauford H. Jester
Jester
University of Texas Regents
San Antonio
Dallas
Temple
Livestock Sanitary Commission
House Revolt Signs Abundant in Texas Legislature
Legislative fight intensifies as House members decry chair rulings and floor refusals while battles over the soldiers bonus, school reform, medical schools, and insurance code loom. Key figures include Speaker Durwood Manford, Rep. Jack Ridgeway, Rep. J. Issacks, and Sen. Walter Tynan in tense proceedings before Monday adjournment.
States Pressure Congress on Tidlands Claim in Brief to Rayburn
California Texas and Louisiana attorneys general and state officials outlined proposed tidelands legislation to Speaker Rayburn. They urged quit claim title to submerged lands within harbors, revenue sharing of oil from three mile limits, and federal rights limited outside harbors while preserving state policing and legal positions.
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Washington
Tidelands
Rayburn
Dtexas
California
Texas
Louisiana
Gneral Price Daniel
Austin
Supreme Court
Triplet Girls Born to Dallas Mother in Surprise Birth
Mrs. John Lancione gave birth to fraternal triplets in Dallas on Thursday. The babies slept in incubators Thursday night and both mother and infants were reported doing well. When asked for names, Lancione quipped Eenie Meenie Miney and no mo.
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Dallas
John Lancoine
Lancione
Miney
Helicopter Rescues Airman From Padre Island Crash
A naval helicopter rescued flight instructor B. F. McGinnis after his TBM Avenger crash landed on Padre Island near Corpus Christi. McGinnis, of Big Falls Virginia, was uninjured and blamed engine trouble for the trainer crash at Cabaniss Field.
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Corpus Christi
Padre Island
Here
B. F. McGinnis
Big Falls
Cabaniss
Law Turns To Drug In Effort To Cure Woman of Gambling
In Long Beach California a 49 year old grandmother Lula Bell Stimson faced a court ordered medical treatment after a compulsive gambling urge appeared in 1948. Doctors proposed glutamic acid to curb impulses and restore her personality, with Superior Judge Fred Miller approving the plan.
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Long Beach
Calif
Fred Miller
Lula Bell Stimson
Marcus Graham
Albert Marinacci
Los Angeles County General Hospital
Gardena
Crahan
Marinacci
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