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Newspaper

Austin American

Location

Austin, Texas, United States of America

Date

Mar 10, 1950

Page

2

Texans Auction Big Livestock at Travis Fair Ride

The sale featured high prices for steers lambs and hogs with buyers including Capitol Livestock Auction Company and Sears Roebuck. Champion steer paid $1 474 while the grand champion barrow earned $2 per pound and polio donations rise from bidding. Dozens of Austin area bidders paid above market premiums averaging 38.4 cents per pound for calves and 55 cents for lambs with numerous names and weights listed.

Capital Livestock Auction Company Martin Gene Rader Austin Schwertner Travis County Red Cross Austin Meat Company Ann Marie Kuempel Pflugerville Sears, Roebuck and Company John W. Byrne Jr Hempill Park Sears Kermit Hees Robert Coe Roy Sansom Harold Sandifer Manor Handy Andy Sidney Tetens Joe Lunch Cafe Alejandro Delgadillo del Valle Austex Chili Company Jack Hennig Superior Dairies Don Lee Weiss M. H Buddy) Deetz Donald Newman Fidelity State Bank Curtis Neidig Elgin Kash Karry Norman Weiss Capitol Livestock Auction Company John O’banan West Monroe Lydia Randig Cele Texas George Spillmann Buda Dowell Peterson Kimbro Maurice Roebuck Kenneth Patton Star Route A Jimmie Starwater Safe Way Harrell Wallace Austex Chili Joe Seiders Seider’s University Motors Frank Voelker Otto Bohls Jr Massengale Company Adolph Burrell Anderson Lane Maufrais Klebert Jacobson Round Rock Mary Jo Fuchs Lackey Construction Company H. L. Weiss Jr Shirley Mae Weiss Marion Newman Checker Front Alice Wagner HEB William Weiss Pflugervile Buddy Deetz Gerald Boyd Nelson Provision Company Jimmie Robinson Union Stockyards Kash-Karry Jim Collins Enfield Breakfast Club Charles Laws W&r Tom Witt Claudia Gattis Leach and Company Edmon Randig Southwestern Foods George Lovett Duck Boles Del Jimmie Jenkins Enfield Food Ernest Lawrence Rome Caldwell Jr Robert Lehman Odell Gattis Stanley Lawrence Enfield Food Store Martin Wiginton South Third Street Hemphill Park Donald Bowles

Chapman Will Lead Truman Tour Again

Secretary of Interior Chapman announced he will be advance man for President Truman on the forthcoming western tour. He said the trip includes the Grand Coulee Dam dedication in Washington probably in May and possibly the Korter Dam dedication in Wyoming as part of the Missouri Basin program. Chapman described the trip as non political and justified in every way.

Washington Chapman Truman Grand Coulee Dam Wyoming Korter Dam

Plumbing Group Wrangle Likely At Friday Meet

A likely clash between the Associated Plumbing Contractors of Texas and the National Association of Master Plumbers is set for Friday in APC Headquarters. The meeting will review the ten principles adopted last summer and related guarantees, including a state backed work guarantee and dec al display oath.

Associated Plumbing Contractors of Texas, Incorporated National Association of Master Plumbers State Association National Association State Plumbing Association APC San Jacinto Boulevard Plumbing Contractors Texas

Potato block cuts for printing simple designs

Instructions describe making printing blocks by halving a potato, carving a design, and printing by hand. The method emphasizes simple, low cost design reproduction using basic carving and manual inking.

Atom Plant To Get AA Gun Protection

The Defense Department plans to move an anti aircraft unit into the Hanford atomic plant area in Richland Washington before April. The unit will be housed in tents trailers and surplus buildings with permanent quarters to be built after July 1 and ready by next winter. The exact number of soldiers remains undisclosed for security reasons.

Washington Hanford Atomic Plant Richland Wash Defense Department Congress Hanford Works Army

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