Peace of Mind Life Goal for Austin High Graduates
William L. McGill urged 422 Austin High School graduates to seek a life goal that yields inner peace through hard work and concern for the common good. He warned against global selfishness and urged youth to combine emotion with time-tested judgment as the nation passes leadership to younger generations.
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William L. McGill
Austin High School
Jerry Chandler
Nancy Paxton Moody
Shirley Mae Cartwright
Alice Gazelle Gardiner
Carl Bertrand Lyda Jr
Stephen Drew Smith
Frank Webster Bomar
Rhoda Davis
Carl Lyda Jr
Phin Washer
Socorrita Tenneyuque
Charles White
Tommye Woodland
Sonia Curd
Kenneth Ashworth
Bill Wright
Delia Nichols
Doris Ruth Hunnicutt
Martha Zuch
W I. Kocurek
Austin School Board
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Burglarized in Chicago
The hotel suite of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz was burglarized on Friday. Jewelry valued at $6,000 was stolen from their Chicago hotel suite.
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Chicago
Lucille Ball
Desi Arnaz
Girls Give $8.25 Treasury to Community Chest
Allan Junior High Future Homemakers of America donated their entire treasury of 8.25 to the Community Chest. Representatives Joyce Burrell Barbara Stone and Lajuana Jolly delivered coins earned from a school dance and bake sale, saying the Chest could use the funds most effectively.
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Allan Junior High
Community Chest
Associa
Joyce Burrell
Barbara Stone
Lajuana Jolly
Neal Douglass
Allan
Future Homemakers of America
Barbara
Lajuana
Mauna Loa Eruption Sends Mile-Wide Lava To Sea
Hawaii's Mauna Loa roared to life on Thursday night delivering a mile wide lava river that reached the Pacific after 25 miles. Eyewitnesses say 50 square miles of slope covered by new lava while 60 to 80 families were evacuated. No casualties were reported though villages and plantations faced destruction of homes a church and a filling station.
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Honolulu
Mauna Loa
Pacific Ocean
George Martin
Hilo
Hawaii
Civil Air Patrol
Milolii
Pahoehoe
Kona
Henry Kuniteme
Lyman P. Lincoln
Ex-Wife disputes ex-hubby proposal amid police lineup doubt
The piece notes a clipped exchange where the ex-wife rejects a new plan after the ex-husband appears in a police lineup for allegedly stealing her car. The line “No, I had enough the first time” frames the reaction in a sharp, stagey exchange.
Salvation Army Endorses 38000 Chest Campaign Support
The Salvation Army advisory board unanimously backed the 38000 Community Chest campaign and offered its services to help reach the goal by June 8. Leaders cited a monthly need of 3000 for youth center and hostel operations and discussed purchasing a transient hostel building for 42000 with a 12500 down payment loan.
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Salvation Army Advisory Board
Community Chest
Jim Novy
James D. Lemon
Salvation Army
Ben H. Powell
Tom Miller
Judge Powell
Salvation Army Board
Second and Brazos
Harold Legge
Citadel
George S. Nalle
George Halden
Marvin S. Vance
First Methodist Church
Vernon Lemens
Steps To Ease Car Jam Taken
Police instituted two emergency traffic measures Friday afternoon to reduce congestion from new one way streets. Left turns from Eighth Street to Congress Avenue are allowed starting Saturday morning. Parking on the east side of Brazos Street in the 700 block is removed to ease the jam.
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Bert Lay
Police Department
Eighth Street
Congress Avenue
Brazos Street
Lay
Eighth
Brazos
San Jacinto Eighth
Lay Sa
Austin Census Effort Rewards Missed Residents
Austin's population count gained at least 100 names as a last minute push offered prizes. The 50th and 100th missed residents were identified with two free theater passes and $16.50 in merchandise. Enumerators and volunteers, aided by firemen, worked from 8 am to 10 pm to capture every resident.
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Austin
Census Bureau
Jesse K. Taylor
East 14Th Street
Eva Evica
South Fourth
Interstate
Harlem
Carver
Austin Area Economic Development Foundation
West Eighth
Dorie Miller Auditorium
Lulac Club
East Sixth Street
Dallas Negro House Damaged by Bomb
Police reported a vacant house in South Dallas recently purchased by a Black resident was slightly damaged by an explosion Friday night. Cause unknown. The area had seen two other Black homes bombed in white neighborhoods in the past two months.
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Dallas
US Develops Guided Atomic Warheads and Missiles
Washington reports that the United States has developed atomic artillery shells and nuclear warheads for guided missiles. Military planners in Atlantic Pact countries see these weapons enhancing Western Europe’s defense without bankrupting allies, while stressing that strong conventional forces remain essential.
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Washington
United States
Western
Europe
Western Europe
North Atlantic
Rusia
Ameri
Rain deluge hits Caldwell-Bastrop with heavy Texas moisture
Rainfall across Central Texas brought higher totals west of Caldwell-Bastrop with Austin recording 0.4 inches by 6 30 p m and Lockhart 3.6 inches in 24 hours. Four inches at Smithville. Colorado River rising nine to ten feet. potential cotton damage if rain continues though oats and light grains risk.
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Austin
Texas
Here
Weather Bureau
Lockhart
Henry Martindale
Smithville
Olin P. McClain
Colorado
Columbus
R. H. Mason
Caldwell County
Mason
US cool to German plan for 25,000 police force
Washington reports that the United States Britain and France are studying West Germany’s appeal to establish a federal police force of 25,000 men. Officials say Washington is cool to the idea but may back strengthening state controlled police units.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
State Department
Adenauer
Houston Woman Dies In Two-Car Collision
Mrs. A. L. Archer, 39, of Houston was killed instantly in a two car crash near Luling on Highway 90. Passenger Mrs. Warren Collie, also of Houston, was injured. The wreck happened on a wet pavement about four and a half miles west of Luling Friday.
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Luling
INS
A. L. Archer
Houston
Communist Tokyo march fizzles as police curb rally
Tokyo authorities blocked a Communist led mass gathering planned for noon in downtown Tokyo and outlawed a plebiscite on foreign bases and a peace treaty. About 25 000 to 27 000 police were deployed to enforce the ban and keep order during election weekend. A desultory mass meeting near General MacArthur’s HQ drew 5 000 attendees with peaceful rhetoric and no anti American statements. Officials said a nationwide general strike failed to materialize with roughly 100 000 workers out across several plants. Japan has 6 250 000 union workers, 460 000 of whom reportedly planned to strike.
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Michael J. McDermott
Frankfort
Acheson
Schuman
Bevin
London
McDermott
Germany
Moscow
Russia
Tokyo
Taney
General MacArthur
Labor Ministry
Japan
MacArthur
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Dorie Miller
Rosewood
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Truman
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