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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1949
Page
13
Harris County Sheriff Buster Kern received a two way police radio for his own car after the Commissioners Court authorized installation. The project costs an estimated 553 dollars.
Colonel Bernard L. Robinson, head of the Galveston Army Engineers office, has been moved to Atlanta. Lieutenant Colonel Ellsworth I. Davis will take over on June 20 after arriving from Sacramento, California.
Paul R. Dozar, 37, seeks $200,000 in damages in a Houston suit filed Tuesday against Butcher-Arthur Inc. for injuries from an April 3 tugboat accident near New Orleans that resulted in the loss of both legs.
Twenty four ministerial students were admitted on trial at the Texas Methodist Conference 111th annual session in Houston. Eight admitted in full connection, nine received deacon's orders, and nine earned elder's orders, signaling progress toward ordained ministry. The meeting, with about 600 Methodists from Texarkana to Houston, also heard about the Lakeview Methodist encampment near Palestine and its $40,000 borrowing authorization for campsite contracts.
Kentucky leads the nation with more miles of navigable river water than any other state, highlighting extensive inland waterways and potential for commerce and transport.
Fort Worth four Sum mers brothers earned four diplomas in six months. George C. Sum mer, 27, earned a master in electrical engineering at MIT last February. Charles L. Sum mers, 23, earned a bachelor in civil engineering at Texas A and M. Bobby Sum mer, 21, finished an associate bachelor at North Texas Agricultural College. Thomas Sum mer, 18, graduated from Polytechnic High School. The brothers turned earnings over to their father to finance their education.
San Angelo area wheat harvest halted by wet fields after heavy rains. Thunderstorms swept the South Plains and Southwest Texas. Pecos faced a potential new flood with high water and a three foot wall along Highway 17 to Balmorhea. Pecos endures second flood in a week.
Heat builds in the Lower Rio Grande Valley as Willacy Starr and Hidalgo counties report open cotton balls. The first 1949 bale is expected within days with no county yet declared winner. The race echoes prior years with Rio Hondo and Harlingen pilots in 1947 and Pablo Rivera of La Grulla in 1948 earning the honors and prize money.
New Delhi reports Indian troops have taken control of the mountain state of Sikkim on the Tibet border to prevent possible violence. The move was disclosed Tuesday in a government statement.
In Fort Worth a flood cleanup turned fatal when George W. Nelson 34 died after trying to clean a damaged electric locomotive with gasoline fueling a gas heater lit blaze. His 6 year old son Benny had loved the toy. Nelson died in a hospital several days after the incident.
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