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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1950
Page
3
The Agriculture Department forecast a national wheat crop of 944.514 million bushels with Texas at 24.687 million. Spring wheat new forecast is 23.358 million. winter wheat 710.156 million. rye 22.446 million. Oats 1.380 billion. fruit and milk outputs also noted.
The Austin Youth Organization hosts a formal teen dance at Kourtin' Korner Han cock Recreation Center 41st and Red River Streets from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Van Kirkpatrick performs, Harold Brumley says. Mayor Taylor Glass and city councilmen are invited for a 10 p.m. visit and 11 p.m. floor show.
Dr. C. L. Hanes a Baton Rouge psychiatrist was named clinical director of the Austin State Hospital and will assume duties around July 1. He is a 1944 UT Medical Branch graduate, served in the Navy two years, practiced in Winkler County, and trained in Galveston. Mrs. Hanes is Dorothy Mae Bowman of Austin. they have two daughters aged 3 14 and 1% years.
Dallas police report burglars broke into the Sands Electric Company office early Friday and used the firm’s own tools to crack the safe. They escaped with several hundred dollars.
Central Texas expects warm humid conditions with partly cloudy skies on Saturday and isolated showers likely in a few areas. East Texas may see scattered thundershowers with cooler temps inland while West Texas trends partly cloudy with scattered storms in the south and Pecos Valley.
Austin will paint directional arrows on one way streets next week. Traffic Engineer Bert Lay says arrows mark street centers for straight ahead traffic and large arrows show lanes for right and left turns. Turn lanes arrows will appear in block centers and at intersections with new signs to warn drivers going the wrong way.
Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press, urged access to courtroom images. He said it is the public’s right to see justice at work and predicted bans would be removed. He advocated seeking permission to photograph the U.S. Supreme Court to set an example.
An 11-year-old Austin boy held at Travis County Juvenile Home faces a preliminary hearing over the river shooting of Billie Joe Simpson on May 21. Police say ballistics tied the bullet to the boy who says he fired at turtles across the Colorado River. Billie Joe, 8, is recovering in fair condition after dismissal from Brackenridge Hospital.
University of Texas bursar C L Lindahl said Friday that first term summer session enrollment should reach about 7,500 by Monday. He reported 7,332 registered on Friday with roughly 200 more anticipated. Undergrads must finish by Monday, with limited post deadline registration for graduates. Heaviest numbers appear in the College of Education led by teachers pursuing advanced study under the Gilmer-Aikin program.
Southern Lloyds Insurance Company sues Humble Oil and Refining Company in 98th District Court seeking 703 dollars. The claim states the insurer paid 703 dollars to the owner of a filling station at 4501 Guadalupe Street after a fire and explosion caused by negligence of the lessee Humble Oil Company.
The Senate agriculture subcommittee led by Senator Guy M. Gillette urged the Justice Department to prosecute speculators and to regulate coffee trading under the Commodity Exchange Act. It called for immediate distribution of stocks held by foreign interests and recommended measures on loans to Latin American coffee producers, taxing foreign speculation profits, and barring Marshall Plan funds for coffee buying.
The statutory rape and sodomy cases against Foley Ford Gephart were reset for October 2 in 98th District Court. Judge Betts granted a continuance after denying a bond reduction. Gephart’s wife, who would testify he was elsewhere, had a June 3 childbirth. Several defendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced to terms up to five years for burglary theft narcotics and robbery.
Elizabeth Glasco, a longtime Austin resident for 86 years, died Friday at age 96. Funeral services are set for Monday at 4 p.m. at Ebeneezer Baptist Church with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. She is survived by four daughters and two sons.
Washington report from June 9 describes the House Ways and Means Committee voting to close a tax loophole allowing short sales to convert short term gains into long term gains. The plan would tax short sales as short term and set a 30 percent capital gains rate on speculative profits, aiming to raise about 5 million annually and permit loss carrybacks and carryforwards.
FRANKFURT Germany June 9 Private First Class Florentino Penilla Jr was killed when a mortar shell dropped short and exploded during firing practice at Grafenwoehr He is survived by his widow Mary Lou Penilla of Corpus Christi Texas
The Texas Military District joins efforts to fund Austin's Community Chest. City officials seek donations from civic clubs and firms, with progress reports due Monday. As of Friday, contributions totaled $21,460 with $16,540 still needed, plus expected gifts from life insurance agents and 200 firms.
Senator McCarthy told Wisconsin delegates at the Republican state convention in Milwaukee that Dean Acheson should be fired as Secretary of State. He described Acheson as working on a world strategy to create Red China and Red Poland and praised his own resistance to communists with a sharp, combative style. A State Department spokesman in Washington called the Milwaukee speech several misstatements and promised a point by point analysis.
In Kumanohara, about 60 miles northwest of Tokyo, a landslide buried 70 people as they repaired a railway track damaged by rain. At least 26 were killed, 24 injured, and 23 missing. many homes nearby were crushed and rescue teams continued digging through mud for more victims.
City detectives Friday investigated shoplifting at Central Appliance Company on 904 Lamar Boulevard shortly before 6 p.m. A portable radio was stolen. Joy A. Larson reported windshield damage on two cars at his used car lot caused by air rifle pellets sometime Thursday night.
The University of Texas confirms W. D. McClennan, a Samuel Huston College faculty member, has registered and will start doctoral work in mathematics this Monday, becoming the third Black student accepted into UT's graduate program.
Washington officials report a week of secret talks on a national civilian defense pilot plan for all American cities against atom bombs. Commissioner Gordon Young says the meetings yielded insights on manpower and water supply, with Seattle and Chicago pilots to follow. By September a federal guide may guide communities, with emergency coordination and public policy decisions ahead.
East Germany and Hungary moved to suppress Western broadcasts on Friday. Neues Deutschland urged intensified effort against listening to anti democratic radio and Western news. Budapest ordered mass production of radios limited to Hungarian and Soviet broadcasts. RIAS in Berlin labeled especially dangerous as bans on Western papers persist in Russian-occupied zones.
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