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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1949
Page
10
The Agriculture Department reports farm prices declined about two percent from mid May to mid June led by truck crops and food grains. Parity measures show farm price levels at seven year lows while hogs rose about five percent. other commodities such as wheat, corn, oats, and cotton posted declines with multiple prices listed for mid June figures.
A gas explosion in Hobbs New Mexico wrecked the $110000 country club injuring two refrigeration repairmen J W Beck and William Prolock who were trapped briefly. Most of the structure was destroyed and president Billy Walker put damage at $50000 as workers finished the building before a planned July opening.
GE displays the worlds first office building built of stainless steel in Schenectady New York. The four story 460 foot structure houses offices for a $30 million turbine plant at GE works. Allegheny Ludlum Steel and N H Robertson helped develop and erect the panels as curtain walls. Stainless steel metal resists corrosion and may replace traditional materials despite building codes needing updates.
The Diomede Islands area in the Bering Strait is labeled the land of twos for marking a boundary between two hemispheres two continents two countries and two time zones.
Two former convicts, Darius Goleman and Robert Alex Leviness, were charged with the murder of Eloise Mitchell, a Beaumont merchant seaman's wife. Mitchell's body was found Oct. 4 near Kountze after disappearance Sept. 28 en route from Beaumont to Colmesneil.
Socialite Ruth Dickens, 43, wife of a cotton broker and mother of two, was convicted of hacking her 69 year old mother Idella Long Thompson to death with pruning shears in Greenville Mississippi. An all male jury could not agree on a death sentence, so Judge Arthur Jordan imposed life imprisonment. Dickens did not testify in her defense.
Thermophone insulating glass is used in most solar type houses with large window areas to cut heat loss and allow the sun’s heat rays to penetrate the room.
Chicago on June 29 reports a panel of executives at the National Secretaries Association convention urged that the boss secretary bond is second only to marriage in delicacy. They advised compatibility, diplomacy with the boss’s wife, clear messages, and professional conduct to keep focus on work.
Georgia designates Noontootly as a national game refuge, expanding protection for wildlife and offering new public access paths for hunting and conservation use under state management.
The port of Southampton processed 557000 passengers last year with 377897 crossing the English Channel. This marked a 17 percent increase over the prior year, according to British Railways.
In Long Beach California Emma the five ton elephant balked at entering a tunnel device for a children's benefit. Trainer George King forced her to crawl but Emma stood up and the ramp burst open trapping the pachyderm. Workers freed her and she will perform outside the auditorium for the rest of the show.
In Yarmouth England on June 29 readers learn E. J. Longcroft a 64 year old grandfather is listed as a mother in National Health Service records. A WWI staff sergeant ill six months sought why his industrial sick benefits stopped and received five pounds five shillings in maternity benefits as compensation.
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