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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1949
Page
5
Former Governor Ross Sterling remained in serious condition at a Fort Worth hospital where he was admitted September 18 for treatment of a heart ailment.
The 1937 Corpus Christi Caller reminiscence by Eli T. Merriman describes Sallie Skull as a famed Texas horse trader who carried two pistols and shot at critics. She bought horses deep in Mexico and sold them in the United States for about ten dollars profit per head, was married three times, and moved wagon trains into Mexico during the Civil War. Her death is reported vague as being near Goliad by an unknown assailant, leaving one daughter reportedly sent east to college.
Hyrum J. Strong and manager of the Prudential Insurance Company's Home Office in Newark N J will attend the annual district agencies business conference to discuss company plans and agency operations.
In New Delhi on March 8 Prime Minister Nehru told the Legislative Assembly that India should avoid aligning with any power or bloc to maintain world peace. He argued India will become an independent republic and must not accept foreign domination. He noted Europe’s legacy of power politics no longer applies to Asia and emphasized India’s central role in the region.
Frederic Joliot Curie, famed French atom expert, seemed Tuesday to tacitly support Maurice Thorez's claim that French Communists would welcome invading Russian troops. An aide said no comment was made but implied agreement with the Communist leader. Thorez had said French Communists would welcome Soviet troops if East West hostilities arose.
Wyoming will mark the spot where Thomas A. Edison conceived the lamp filament. The State Historical Landmarks Commission will place a plaque on a boulder between Encampment and Savery near the Continental Divide at Battle Lake in southern Wyoming. Edison reportedly tested a bamboo fishing pole fiber there before returning to his lab.
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