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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1949
Page
7
Major Hoyt Bean Templeton, chief land appresser for the Southern Pacific Railroad for 30 years, died in a Houston hospital on Tuesday at age 57.
Mrs. George Leffler notes her dog Lucky fetches items from the store with a note. Last week he brought New Perk instead of soap. She claims Perk cleans well and saves one third, making housework easier.
The ad spotlights Margaret Bourke-White in a cheerful Blue Bonnet margarine promotion. It touts flavor nutrition and economy, urging use on vegetables bread and table. Includes a quick color note and a cue to savings bonds.
A typhoon and floods struck southern Japan causing many deaths and thousands of missing. The storm crossed Kyushu to Shizuoka injuring cities including Osaka, with 4500 farms flooded and over 500 homes destroyed as lines and railways were severed.
Leonard B. Baldwin, former Huntsville postmaster, named executive secretary of the Sam Houston State College Ex-Student Association. Baldwin, a 1912 Sam Houston football alumnus, was the first SHSU player to score a touchdown.
Fear of atomic war and Soviet aggression push the Atlantic democracies toward a federal union concept. Atlantic Union Committee led by Owen Roberts seeks Senate ratification of the Atlantic Pact and a possible convention to craft a federated world government among democracies.
Two new polio cases raise the year’s city tally to 77 with one county case confirmed and five from nearby areas. Named victims include Geraldine Wheiles age 8 in Lytle Evelyn Wilson 20 Yancey Carmen Casanova 23 months Flor esville Jo Ruth Windsor age 3 Kerrville and Miles Pienemann New Braunfels. A second New Braunfels case follows last week’s.
Plainview reported Carl Smith seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Wendell R Smith died Tuesday while playing in her swing. The swing overturned and her head was crushed by a cross bar. She was dead on arrival at the hospital.
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