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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1949
Page
10
William Robert Whitenberg, 93, a retired Bosque and Coryell County farmer, died after a short illness on Monday night in Laredo. In Chicago, Commerce Magazine reports that a factory plant loses 50 to 500 dollars per quitting or fired worker, more if highly skilled.
The AP report outlines seven rules to reduce polio risk for both adults and children. Key actions include avoiding crowded areas during outbreaks, steering clear of polluted water, maintaining good rest and cleanliness, controlling flies and garbage exposure, and watching for early symptoms. An eighth rule: don’t worry excessively, as polio is not common but can surge in epidemics.
Public Affairs Committee illustration shows outcomes per 100 000 population. Recovery chances are good with between 40 and 60 percent recovering completely or almost completely. Between 23 and 30 percent have mild paralysis and 15 to 25 percent may be more or less severely handicapped.
At Camp Hood on June 21 a War Department General Staff officer arrived to hear complaints and suggestions from twelve Organized Reserve Corps units from Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. Lieutenant Colonel B V Bryan represented Major General Clift Andrews and visited all units during the two week training cycle.
Fairmount City Illinois police chief Arthur J Wylie resigned at a city council meeting as a union delegation pressed for his ouster Local 82 CIO Mine Mill and Smelter Workers had circulated petitions. Two union members were seriously wounded in a riot Friday night tied to a ten month strike at the American Zinc Company plant with the metal workers seeking bargaining rights.
Mexico's Treasury Ministry added a 17 page list of restricted imports to curb the trade deficit. The new bans target dried fish minerals textiles shoes hats guns and ammunition, with emphasis on textiles from the struggling industry. The move follows a peso pegged at 8.65 per dollar and comes amid ongoing unfavorable trade balance since 1937 except 1943.
Thirty-one 4 H Club youths depart from a national camp to study in Europe under the international farm youth exchange program. The group includes participants from 47 states and Puerto Rico, plus foreign extension workers, with destinations in Belgium Denmark Holland Ireland and Sweden.
Nearly 400 displaced persons from Europe are employed on the Central Australia Rocket Range. They include Poles Estonians Latvians Lithuanians and Yugoslavs. All have been screened for security reasons.
Peter Kiewit Sons of Denver wins a $2,919,000 general construction contract to add 250 beds to the Albuquerque Veterans Hospital for tuberculosis patients, announced by the Veterans Administration on Tuesday.
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