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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1950
Page
5
Houston police Lt. Sam Clauder cited Mayor Oscar Holcombe for a stop sign violation. The mayor, flustered, retrieved his driver’s license from a City Hall drawer, joking he needed proof he has one.
Three tiny boys, the first triplets born in Oak Ridge, Tenness ee, died within 12 hours of birth. The infants weighed under two pounds and passed in the birth order. Parents Mr and Mrs Kyle Abernathy were hospital employees.
A 13 year old Fort Worth girl with cancer inspires the creation of the Carolyn Ragsdale Club. M B Hale a 76 year old former Gulf Oil employee started the effort to support the girl and her widowed mother Katharine Ragsdale with cards funds and medicines. Hale donated 10 to start the club and urged funds be saved for monthly aid. Carolyn’s illness was diagnosed after an March exploratory operation and she has deteriorated with pain losing use of her right leg and appetite.
In Mineola New York on June 15 a mistrial was declared in the case of Jacob Kiefer charged with manslaughter in the Long Island train wreck that killed 32. Defense argued district attorney investigators questioned jurors about union ties and opinions of the railroad. The jury panel was dismissed.
Eleven Dallas firemen rested com fortably at Parkland Hospital after being overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from a film fire in a downtown vault. Six more were released overnight and one treated and released earlier, totaling eighteen affected. Doctors watched the eleven remaining as officials feared delayed nitrous poisoning from burning television western films at Sacks Amusement Company.
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