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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1950
Page
2
Government reinforcements were rushed to the delta rice center of Yandoon to aid a garrison under attack by rebel Karens. Yandoon lies 69 miles southwest of Rangoon as of Sunday.
In Travis County under County Agent Elmo V. Cook and the Capital Area Farm and Ranch Club a three stop beef cattle field day tour drew about 200 livestock producers and enthusiasts this weekend. They visited the ranch sites and observed cattle handling and husbandry practices.
In Hays County representatives including General R O Whitaker and Richard Haas join Hill Brothers from Kyle and others on a tour of farms and ranches. The Capital Area Farm and Ranch Club sponsors the event as it considers a large membership drive and potential land purchases.
A dispute arises over land tied to the Austin Country Club on Riverside Drive involving Q C Boatman, a local dairyman, and Claude Voyles. Boatman cites a 20 cent debt to be settled as part of the land purchase price. A poultry price list from a local supplier accompanies the notice.
Search crews with grappling hooks recovered the body of A. J. Tony Esposito 35 from the waters of Lake Worth before dawn Sunday seven hours after he became Tarrant County's 10th drowning victim in 1950. Esposito was a native of New York City and a mechanical employee of the Star Telegram.
Russia is expected to walk out of the UN conference on technical assistance to backward areas, halting participation as Lie’s point six faces rejection. The boycott could join other cominform nations, with Poland urging China’s invited status and the US pledging a sizable contribution from a $35 million Congress-approved fund.
Berlin authorities say Soviet jet fighters buzzed an American civilian plane near Templehof and violated four power flying rules. Colonel J E Barr reported the incident to the Berlin Air Safety Center as routine and said no formal protest had yet been filed.
Mayor Friedrich Ebert ordered the East Berlin public prosecutor to punish vandalism against Jewish cemeteries with full force of law. He also sent a letter of regret to the Jewish community after grave stones were overturned and defaced in the Soviet sector.
Eight scout workers finished instruction at the National Scout Camping School at Possum Kingdom Lake near Graford. Courses covered administration activities aquatic and field sports with attendees including Dieter Moran John Moran Jimmy Witte R. W. Liston Jack Barnes Tom Ford and Ray Ealy.
Belgium's exiled King Leopold and Princess Liliana arrived by train from Switzerland seeking a strictly religious audience with Pope Pius XII in Rome. The visit from June 11 appears aimed at a possible audience with the pope, reported by Messaggero.
Thelma Powell, 31, a former WAC, is jailed without bail in Sussex County on murder charges for killing Granville W. Brittingham in a cottage on the Du Pont highway. Police say her daughters heard her say she would shoot and Brittingham urged her to go ahead as he refused to leave.
A Beech four passenger private plane crashed northeast of Amarillo killing Walter R. Zener 55 the pilot and Clarence Sullins his passenger both from Albuquerque They had left Albuquerque for Oklahoma City and stayed overnight in Amarillo CAA said the craft was destroyed by fire and believed owned by Zener Sullins was manager of Joe Heuston Body and Motor Rebuilding Company
Morristown Tennessee was rocked by dynamite blasts aimed at the homes of two Amer ican Enka rayon workers who were not on strike. Sheriff Medlin said eight people were asleep. no injuries were reported as panes shattered and a mailbox was flattened in the Sunday night incidents. The second blast targeted Hugh Bloomer’s front yard near Bean Station, about 30 miles away, with no injuries.
S O Gourley reports a collision with a pedestrian on Burnet Road. He stopped to help, the pedestrian said he was unhurt, then fled across a nearby field as police were summoned.
East Germany's propaganda chief Gerhart Eisler told a Communist gathering in East Berlin that justice in America stinks. He spoke amid protests against federal prison terms for 11 American Communist party leaders, noting his own escape from US prosecution last year.
A 42 foot sport fishing boat carrying 20 Paramount Steel Company employees sank in the Catalina Channel near Santa Catalina Island. Four men perished including captain Joseph A. Robinson and crewmen William Pelletier James Roberts and John Singer. Sixteen were rescued after a Coast Guard and naval effort.
Police investigate the mysterious slaying of Albert Walkley a 60 year old Connecticut bus traveler found beaten to death in a Camden sewer ditch. He was en route from Washington to Bridgeport and disappeared after a lunch stop with two companions who later continued the trip. His seventy dollars remained undisturbed. He is survived by a widow two daughters and five grandchildren.
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent told 300 graduates at St. Lawrence University that Canadians are impatient about the delay in developing the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence navigation and power project. He urged cooperation with the United States as Canada’s top security concern.
A Canadian passenger ship carrying 400 vacationers collided with a freighter near Quebec on Saturday injuring 25 people and causing heavy damage. The St. Laurent was en route to the Saguenay River via the St. Lawrence.
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