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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1949
Page
10
Governor Jester signed into law a bill sponsored by Representative George Parkhouse and Senator G C Morris to revise the state municipal employees retirement system and to grant a 350000 repayable appropriation to fund the plan until expansion pays its way. Authors and retirement system representatives attended the signing in Austin.
Austin reporters say disabled veterans groups will ask Senator John J. Bell to replace a permanent land purchase preference with a 90 day non permanent option. The bill would create the Veterans Land Board issuing bonds for veteran land buying with state or federal surplus lands, up to 7500 dollars, financed long term. The board would include the governor land commissioner and attorney general.
Operations Happiness an all airman musical revue will be presented Wednesday night at Bergstrom Air Force Base. It is the second performance at the base and features an 80 member cast from Lockbourne Ohio with a 17 piece orchestra. The show is an all Negro unit of the WAFS and includes women in the Air Forces. All service reserve personnel in the Austin area are invited with no admission.
Five public hearings on proposed House legislation were scheduled by the state affairs committee. March 16 open meetings for all state boards and agencies spending state funds. March 21 Public Accountancy Act amendment. March 23 Texas Quarter Horse Commission creation. March 23 State Real Estate Commission creation. March 28 licensing for child caring institutions.
Allandale, a 160 acre subdivision facing Burnet Road, opens to pre development buyers. The site will host 400 homesites with a nine and a half acre community center and 500 car parking. The Allandale Methodist Church buys a triangular plot and the school board acquires 15 acres for a junior high. Winding streets and full utilities are underway.
At Grand Central Palace General Electric展示 a water sealed phonograph with record turntable motor and speaker submerged in a goldfish bowl. A microphone in the bowl transmits to a speaker above while the goldfish swim unbothered.
Houston police charged Hallie R. Pritchard a veteran dancing instructor with aggravated assault after a 11 year old pupil Patricia Hansen alleged she Beat me and then grabbed my nose and twisted it during a lesson. Pritchard denied the incident claiming discipline issues with many children.
3000 rural residents, county and school officials celebrate as the House revenue and taxation committee votes 15 to 4 to advance the McLellan feeder-road bill. The plan calls for a $30 million annual program financed by a natural gas tax, with Governor Jester signaling concerns and Senate leaders eyeing a parallel $15 million plan.
An 18 year old Milwaukee youth was jailed in Navarro County on charges of burglarizing three church parsonages and one church during worship. Richard Dennis Gainger is held on $5,000 bond. The case may go to the grand jury March 17. All loot except a silver dollar and under $5 was recovered.
City Council to award the contract for two concrete tennis courts at Ram sey Playground 42nd and Rose dale Thursday. John R. Andrews bid $4,411.88, the lowest of four bids. others were Earl Rogers $4,703.60, C W Henson $4,821.30, and Russell Stogsdill $5,397.38.
The House state affairs committee will review creation of a state loyalty board to brand Communist and subversive groups and to check non affiliation affidavits of state workers. Representative Bell leads a bill to investigate prescribed Communist agencies as part of Wednesday hearings.
GREAT GALLS Mont March 8 A 19 year old girl was sentenced to life imprisonment for the poison murder of a soldier Corporal Robert M Burt 19 of San Marcos Texas Donnie Sue Hughett was found guilty of first degree murder by a jury. District Judge C F Holt pronounced the sentence and urged Bible study while in prison. The defendant a mother of a small child was described as a reader of whodunit mysteries and was accused of lacing Burt’s coffee with arsenic in her apartment.
Ambassador Robert D. Murphy arrived from Berlin by plane on Tuesday to set up a new office of German affairs in the State Department.
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