Business Failures Rise in Week Ended March 3
Dun & Bradstreet reports 185 business failures in the week ending March 3 up from 180 the prior two weeks. Through March 3 this year failures total 1,415, with 162 liabilities of 5000 or more. Retail accounts for 86 failures, wholesale 13, manufacturing 45, construction 21, and commercial services 20 across regions from Pacific to East North Central.
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Dun & Bradstreet
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Bradstreet
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Middle Atlantic States
New England
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West North Central
County Buys Year’s Food Supply Today
Travis County Commissioners set a 10 a.m. meeting to open bids for a year’s groceries meats and bakery items for the jail and Austin Travis County Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
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Travis County
Commissioners’ Court
Austin-Travis County
Damages Sought in Cab Crash Injury Suit
An Austin woman, Lois Fisk, filed a $6187 damage suit Tuesday against cab driver R M Johnson over a February 20 accident at 30th and Whitis. She alleged negligence for failing to use a windshield wiper, causing poor visibility and a severe forehead laceration requiring 26 stitches.
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Austin
Lois Fisk
R. M
Jack) Johnson
Johnson
Varsity Theater
US urged to use Russian tactics to aid anti Reds
Dr. Edward Taborsky former Czech official urged the United States to employ Russian tactics to aid anti Communist forces in Eastern Europe. He warned that abandoning Eastern states could lead to a solid Soviet bloc and possible war, urging NATO support and European economic strengthening.
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Europe
Edward Taborsky
Benes
Sweden
Russia
Taborsky
Greece
Farmer Albert Graf Indicted for Income Tax Evasion
Albert Graf, a Wilbarger County farmer, was indicted by a US district court grand jury for evading income taxes from 1943 to 1947. Prosecutors say he owes about $45,000 in taxes penalties and interest.
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Fort Worth
Albert Graf
Wilbarger County
Frank Potter
Graf
New Field Has Second Oil Well
AMARILLO March 8 The second well in what oil men believe may develop into a new deep oil gas and distillate field in the Northeast Panhandle of Texas came in Monday It is the No 1 Kathryn wildcat of the Phillips Petroleum Company near the southeast corner of Sherman County and in the western part of the Anadarko Basin In a test the well produced an estimated 10 million feet of gas with an undetermined amount of distillate in the bottom of the hole Production came below 5300 feet in the Pennsylvania Formation the same formation where gas and distillate were found in the No 1 Lipps well of Sinclair Prairie 40 miles east and 10 miles south in Roberts County Oil men say the two wells point to heavy exploration in the near future.
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Panhandle
Texas
Kathryn Wildcat
Phillips Petroleum Company
Sherman County
Anadarko Basin
Pennsylvania
Sinclair Prairie
Roberts County
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