50 4-H and FFA Boys Sign Up For Scrambles
About fifty Travis County 4-H and FFA boys signed up for pig and calf scrambles at the 1950 Travis County Junior Livestock Show at Austin Coliseum. The event features ten Aberdeen Angus calves worth 130 each and other cash prizes. details list participating clubs, alternates, and donors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FFA
Travis County
Austin Coliseum
Texas
Elmo Cook
Robert Ceder
University Junior High School
Alejandro Delgadillo
Elroy
Raymond P. McElroy
Daniel Olle
William Weiss
Pflugerville
H. L. Weiss Jr
Virgil Weiss
Riebert Jacobson
Three Points
Stanley Lawrence
Fiskville
Sidney Tetens
Billy Sakowitz
Robert Coe
Austin Merchants
Frank Utrecht Burnet Farmer Dies at Ranch
Frank Utecht a Burnet farmer and rancher was found dead in his bed at his ranch home seven miles east of Burnet Sunday afternoon. An inquest by Justice H. H. Heffington ruled natural causes with death occurring Friday. He left a widow Mrs Frank Utecht of Houston and two daughters. The body lay at Edgar Funeral Home awaiting relatives.
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Houston
Edgar Funeral Home
Seaman Harry Hills Who Captured Reich Raider Dies
Auckland New Zealand obituary notes the death of Harry Clifton Hills aged 65. He captured Count Felix von Luckner, the German sea raider, during World War I. The report recalls his wartime feat and honors his service.
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Auckland
N.Z
Harry Clifton Hills
Count Felix von Luckner
Margaret Truman Aims for Opera Career Despite Public Spotlight
Margaret Truman, daughter of the President, discusses her singing career in Austin before a Gregory Gym recital. She aims to sing opera, knows four roles, plans summer recordings, and will study with Helen Traubel while continuing concerts through 1951. Travel on campaign tours differs from performing.
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Margaret Truman
Austin
Gregory Gymnasium
Cultural Entertainment Committee
Miss Truman
Helen Traubel
Father and 5 Tots Die in Home Fire
CAMPTON N H March 5 A father and his five children per ished early Sunday in a fire that leveled their small white cottage. The dead Charles H Smith 33 and all his children Robert 11 Roberta 9 James 7 Sandra 6 and Wayne 3 Police said the bodies were found in their beds. Sole survivor in the family was the children's mother Mrs Frances E Smith 30 who with her mother Mrs Nettie Courcey was visiting a neighbor in this small town. The tragedy brought to 19 the toll of New England's five deaths in the past four days.
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Campton
N. H
Charles H. Smith
Robert
Roberta
James
Sandra
Wayne
Frances E. Smith
Nettie Courcey
New England
Sinclair ruling won't change county levies for property
Sinclair Refining Co won a tax suit that requires the county to equalize Sinclair land taxes with adjoining property. Judge J Harris Gardner ordered equalization based on true value, while County Judge Tom Johnson said Sinclair lands would be assessed like nearby property. no broad increases expected. The five unimproved Austin lots bought in 1946 for 118000 were at issue.
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Travis County
Tom Johnson
J. Harris Gardner
Sinclair Refining Company
Gardner
Johnson
Sinclair
S. D. Heffington
Heffington
Board of Equalization
Commissioners Court
Austin
Veteran Slovak Comrade Izidor Tausinger Killed in Prague
The veteran Slovak Communist Izidor Tausinger was murdered in his Prague office on Friday, according to Pravda. The Pravda article offered no clues about the suspect or motive and noted Tausinger joined the party in 1921 and was an early Bolshevik ally.
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Prague
Czechslovakia
Izidor Tausinger
Pravda Reas
Javda
Tausinger
Communist Party of
Blind See With Ears Say Psychologist
Dr. Karl Dallenbach and Philip Wordel report that audition forms the basis of obstacle perception for the blind. Burns Taylor, nine, cites a self developed echo method to navigate, while deaf blind subjects largely lack the so called obstacle sense.
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Karl M. Dallenbach
University of Texas
Dallenbach
Philip Wordel
Cornell Psychological Laboratory
Ameri
Can Journal of Psychology
Texas
Austin
Wordel
Tulane University
School For the
Cornell
Mally
Ithaca
N. Y
Drs. Worchel
American Journal of Psychology
Seeing is believing on photo page in Austin Statesman
Austin citizens may view a full page of timely photographs starting this afternoon. Local people places and events will be featured on the picture page with a different theme each Monday under THE CHANGING SCENE in the Austin Statesman the afternoon newspaper.
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Austin
Austin Statesman
University student cleared in mop burglaries case
Detectives failed to tie a University of Texas student to the long running mop burglaries. He was caught Saturday night breaking into a Blanco Street residence and claimed to have blacked out. He faces possible charges for a car theft and the attempted break in, with the case turning to District Attorney Bob Long.
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University of Texas
Austin
Ted C. Klaus
1300
Blanco Street
Klaus
Liklihood
Bob Long
Blanco Illet
Soft coal pact ends bitter strike for 28 months
Washington reports the bitterly fought soft coal strike ended with a 28 month contract praised as good for the industry by John L. Lewis and mine operators. The pact raises wages to 14.75 a day, adds 30 cents per ton to a disability fund, retains the union shop, limits layoff periods, and opens wage talks after April 1, 1951.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
George H. Love
Statler Hotel
North
West
South
Steel
Brooklyn Knife Attack Kills Four in crowded Streets
A 19 year old man, newly released from a state mental prison, stabbed seven strangers with a 14 inch knife in Brooklyn. Four victims died and two more were critically wounded. Police captured the assailant after a spree that began near police headquarters and ended on Warren Street.
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New York
Brooklyn
William Jones
Jones
Poindexter
Joseph Bondolato
Austin Sees Half Cloudy Half Sunny Weather Outlook
The Weather Bureau predicts half cloudy and half sunny skies for Monday in Austin. Morning clouds should clear to sun by afternoon through Tuesday with temperatures around 75 degrees. strong southerly winds expected Tuesday.
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Austin
Weather Bureau
Spellman Warns From Rome War Danger Mounting
In Rome Cardinal Spellman warned that signs of war are increasing and urged Catholics to be always prepared for death. He cited fears of a bomb capable of destroying all life and noted the abomination of desolation as a signal of coming ruin.
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Rome
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Judea
Jerusalem
Cardinal Spellman
Delake Oregon Sea Monster Sideshow Draws Crowds
At Delake Oregon a washed up sea monster was displayed chained to a piling as crowds and veteran fishermen gathered. The creature measured about 16 feet with a large tail and multiple smaller tails while biologists struggled to identify it. The beast appeared freshly dead but decomposed in the sun.
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Delake
Ore
Lelake Beach
Leslie V. Wolf
University of Washington
Oregon State College
Wolf
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