Council Eyes Sale or Lease of Lake Austin Park Lands
Mayor Taylor Glass signals council effort to find a path to sell or lease 400 to 500 acres of Lake Austin Metropolitan Park to lure the 4 million Butlin Holiday Village project. City attorneys note legal limits and possible legislative or popular approval needed, with past rulings restricting park land sales.
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Austin American
Taylor Glass
Lake Austin
Butlin
William E. Butlin
Austin
San Antonio
Trueman O’quinn
Lake Austin Metropolitan Park
O’quinn
Boy Scouts
Harmon Park
Pease Park
O’ Quinn
Inside Labor Soviet Purge List Revealed
A leaked MVD Operative Register outlines 29 purge targets for post-Red takeover. It names labor leaders, landlords, Jewish and Zionist figures, anti-Soviet activists, officials, merchants, aristocrats, diplomats, spies, and other groups slated for arrest or deportation under Soviet rule.
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Washington
Secret Police
MVD
Red
Russia
Siberian
Baltic
Answers and Questions from the Office of Engineers Q&A
A compilation of Q and A covering bridges on the Mississippi 156 spans plus six side channels. Questions include black roses reality and installment plan auto sales percentages for 1936 and 1941. Other items ask about major league umpires and players, Bible manuscript ages, and the United States Post Office as the world’s largest business.
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Office of the Chief of Engineers
Department of the Army
Mississippi River
United States Post Office Department
Editor's Notebook on Appropriation Policy Deadlock
The House failed to decide on major appropriation bills during an all morning debate. A $45 million cut proposal and a building bond plan were discussed but not voted, with decisions postponed to Tuesday. The session showed partisan tension as conferees must face the Senate’s stance on hospitals, salaries, and higher appropriations.
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House
Allan Shivers
Senate
Horang-Waggonseller
Conference
Durwood Manford
Texas Traffic Safety and Tax Dilemmas in State 51st Legislature
The piece surveys looming tax proposals under the 51st Legislature including an omnibus natural resources tax and potential sales or luxury taxes. It notes a $15 million road program drawn from general revenue, and highlights Texas cities like Dallas and Abilene achieving record traffic safety while overall highway fatalities shift to drownings, fires, and firearms incidents. It also discusses law enforcement focus on driving while intoxicated and hopes that safer driving under the two year old uniform road law has improved outcomes.
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Jester
Senate
House
Texas
Dallas
Abilene
Austin
Communist split fuels China Russia rift in Manchuria row
Washington columnist Drew Pearson reports that Mao's Chinese Communists and the Soviet backed regime clash over the Dairen area. The piece also details Max Truitt's lobbying for Standard Oil and previews bipartisan friction over Truman's Social Security expansion.
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Washington
Orient
Russia
China
Mao Tse-Tung
Dairen
North China
Mao Tse- Tung
Winchell On Broadway REPORT TO THE PEOPLE
Five years after D Day and the Normandy armada the pageant of war remains vivid. Raymond Moley and other critics are debated as columnist Raymond Moley and Charley Michelson comment on debates about government, rights, and the press.
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Raymond Moley
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