Truman Outlines Regime Change
President Truman outlined seven far reaching reforms to reorganize the government and create a new Cabinet level Department of Welfare within 60 days unless Congress vetoes. The plan shifts agencies including the Bureau of Employment Security and Public Roads Administration, expands the executive office, and reorganizes the Post Office and Civil Service.
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Ohio
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National Security Resources Board
House Hopeful 4 Money Bills Report May Push Adjourning
House members will hear a report on the status of four major appropriation bills to shape the timing of adjournment. Rep. Ray Kirkpatrick said a Tuesday update covers higher education, judiciary, departmental, and eleemosynary funds as debates focus on when the 51st Legislature ends.
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Associated Press House
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Trenton
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Kirkpatrick
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Big Four Agree on Way To Write Austria Treaty
President Truman plans a bold new program to aid backward areas with a $48 million appropriation. The proposal includes a UN supervised effort and guarantees to attract private capital, targeting Latin America Asia the Near East and Africa with health education and resource development projects.
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Heat governs start of national intercollegiate tennis meet
In 90 degree sun at Texas, 33 colleges watch as all 10 seeded singles advance. Howard Startzman of Texas upsets Rice's Chick Harris 6-3 6-1, while James Brink of Washington revives to beat Tulane.
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Texas
Bill Ackerman
University of California At Los Angeles
Buddy Jungmichel
University of Texas
Ackerman
Howard Startzman
Houston
Chick Harris
Rice Institute
James Brink
University of Washington
Tulane
Pedernales Coop Split Ends Claim as Largest
Johnson City voters approved dividing the Pedernales Electric Co operative after a session at Johnson City High School. About 150 of 12 000 members attended the meeting voting 619 to amend bylaws and form Central Texas Electric Co operative to serve four thousand rural customers in 10 Central Texas counties.
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Texas
Llano County
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Blanco and Burnet
Johnson City
Co-Operative
Central Texas Electric Co-operative
Pedernales Co-operative
Electrical Service Organization
Pedernales Cooperative
M. C. Hyltin
Texas Rural Electric Cooperatives
R. O. Smith
Marble Falls
New
Pedernaies Co
Blanco
Liberty Hill
Bertram
Buda
Veteran Taylor Lawyer Elva H. Lawhon Dies at 65
Elva H. Lawhon long time Taylor lawyer and former Williamson County assistant district attorney died Monday at Seton Hospital at age 65 after extended illness. Born in Lee County he practiced in Taylor for 32 years and served as city attorney 1933 to 1941 before becoming Williamson County assistant district attorney in 1941. Funeral at Condra Funeral Home will be held Wednesday at 4 p.m. with burial in Taylor. he leaves a daughter two sons five sisters and five grandchildren.
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Williamson County
Seton Hospital
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Lee County
University of Texas Law School
Ben H. Critz
Texas Supreme Court
Condra Funeral Home
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Beaumont
William H. Lawhon
Carlsbad
New Mexico
Vera White
E. M
H. J. Robbins
Austin
S. D. Thornberry
Houston
Building for DPS Opected by House
The House approved with the Senate a bill to create a State Department of Public Safety on state land along the Dallas Highway in Austin. The measure passed 111 to 2, and an amendment protects selling 25 acres to Austin Public Schools for a new high school. The building will be funded from drivers license fees. The Adjutant General’s Department seeks possession of two old Camp Mabry barracks used as DPS HQ.
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General Revenue Fund
State Board of Education
Austin American Capitol
Dallas Highway
Austin
James E Taylor
W. S. Jameson
Pearce Johnson
Austin Public Schools
Public Safety
Adjutant General's Department
Camp Mabry
Department of Public Safety
Babich Convicted of First Degree Murder in Tattler Slaying
Milton Babich, 19, was found guilty of first degree murder for the shooting death of Patricia Birmingham, 16, after she alleged he ta ttled her sister. The verdict, delivered in about an hour and nineteen minutes, carries a mandatory life prison sentence and set a record for speed in Wisconsin murder trials.
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Milton Babich
Patricia Birmingham
Wisconsin
Hawaii faces threefold economy strain as dock strike lingers
Honolulu reports Hawaii's economy relies on sugar, pineapples and tourism, all stalled by a strike. Two thousand nine hundred longshoremen began May 1 demanding 32 cents more per hour, halting most sea commerce to the territory and slowing business activity.
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Hawaii Visitors Bureau
McLELLANS PLAN Bond Issue Proposal Fails in House
The House blocked a $25 million state building bond constitutional amendment after an 80 to 36 vote to permit introduction. McLellan proposed $18 million for hospital buildings and $7 million for higher education projects, aiming to address immediate needs and postwar construction lag.
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Geneva
R. B. Spacek
Fayetteville
Wilson
Allan Shivers
Shivers
State Building Commission
Durwood Manford
Senate
New Braunfels Rent Controls Ended in Texas Cities
Washington reports rent controls ended in New Braunfels Denison Sherman Miss ion and Bryan Texas after city governing bodies passed decontrol resolutions approved by Governor Beaufort H Jester. The Housing Expediter Tighe Woods decontrolled counties housing all cities except Mission and removed controls in Wilson Kendall and Fannin Counties.
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Wilson
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Fannin
Republi can Leaders Reunite After Election Victory
In Colorado Springs on June 20 1948 Thomas E Dewey and Earl Warren met for the first time since the November election. They exchanged smiles and light talk, with Warren noting Dewey had a tan and both men saying they stay in close contact by telephone.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
California
Earl Warren
Warren
Dewey
Parley Ends as Last-Minute Red Plea for Change Fails
The four power conference in Paris ends with a six point communique guiding Germany talks. Russia fails to alter the Big Four statement and agrees to drop opposition to East West trade revival. Western powers settle the $150 million Soviet claim on Austrian assets and move toward Austrian independence.
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Germany
Council of Foreign Ministers
Big Four
Berlin
Austria
Marshal Tito
Acheson
United States
Vishinsky
Yugoslavia
San Saba Blaze Damages Circle Motor Building
A $110,000 fire at the Jim Circle Motor Building in San Saba injured two people, with Jim Circle severely burned while trying to fight the blaze. Mrs. C. A. Harkey was lightly burned. the attic origin caused the blaze as the San Saba volunteer fire department saved neighboring structures.
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C. A. Harkey
T. Weldon Goar
Circle Motor Company
Eighty Years Life Term For University Slaying
Boulder Colorado June 20 a district court jury found 33 year old Joe Walker of El Dorado Springs Colorado guilty of second degree murder in the death of Theresa Foster a University of Colorado coed last May 9 and sentenced him Monday to eight years to life in prison. District Judge George Bradfield denied a motion for a new trial last Saturday.
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Boulder
Colo
Joe Walker
Theresa Foster
el Dorado Sprigs
University of Colorado Coed
George Bradfield
Refunds on GI Life Insurance To Start About Next January
VA will begin refunds about January 1950 to some 16 million WWII veterans who held GI life policies. Each eligible veteran or heir could receive about 175 dollars from an $8 billion surplus and future earnings, with nearly 20 million policies issued and 7.2 million still active.
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Carl R. Gray Jr
Gray
Capitol Hill
Keating
R-N.y
Congress
New York
House
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