Church Work Beyond Walls Stressed by Rev Lesher
Rev Royal F E Lesher urged Exchange Club members that church work must touch daily life not just church walls. He said religion should influence economy and society, not become a pressure group, and noted the big task for big men. Proceeds from two Snow White performances funded Boy Scout Jamboree trips.
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Royal FE. Lesher
United Lutheran Church In America
Exchange Club
Austin
Lesher
Poe
Austin High School
Valley Forge
Lockhart Fliers Plan CAP Rally Tonight
Major R. J. Morey commander of the Central Texas Civil Air Patrol group will meet aviation enthusiasts in Lockhart at 7 30 P M Thursday in the American Legion Hall Part of Morey s staff will accompany him to Lockhart to assist in planning a patrol group for the area
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R. J. Morey
Central Texas
Civil Air Patrol
Lockhart
American Legion
Junior Sized Hot Rods Run Wild in City
Austin hosts the Austin Miniature Racing Car Association with 30 members racing 15 inch, five pound cars at speeds over 130 mph. The group shares a track at Zilker Park, built in 1947 by local dealers who funded the design and turned it to the city. Races follow National Miniature Racing Car Association specs with two car types, conventional and prototype, using small engines powered by a mix of alcohol and castor oil.
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Austin Miniature Racing Car Association
Zilker Park
Austin Auto
Les Sawyer
Peace Parley With Labor Chiefs Fails at City Hall
Taylor Glass urged Austin union labor not to halt work at the municipal power plant after a conference at city hall failed to settle a dispute between Brown & Root Construction and the Austin Building and Construction Trades Council AFL.
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Taylor Glass
Austin
Brown & Root Construction Company
City Hall
Big Construction Company
Austin Building and Construction Trades Council
AFL
City
Glass
Trades Council
Brown & Root
Brown & Root Company
Lonnie Estes
Company
Alvin Wirtz
Ben Powell Jr
Estes
W. H. Leslie
W. M. Powell
Paul Sparks
Texas State Federation of Labor
Chester Smith
Bob Hill
Creekmore
Last Minute Tax Rush In Austin Frustrates Quick Turnaround
Austin residents scramble to file by the March 15 deadline with the IRS as hundreds rush last minute returns. Story highlights include G W Arlitt handling 500 files, Manuel Andrada misreading the date, and a mix of taxpayers seeking refunds or facing penalties.
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JO Ann Eidom
Austin
G. W. Arlitt
Federal Income ‘Ax Service
City Paves Four Blocks of West 34th Street
West 34th Street paving from Jefferson Boulevard to the Shoal Creek bridge began Wednesday as part of the citys $100000 assessment paving program. The project covers four blocks near Bryker Woods Elementary School with 40 percent of the cost for the school frontage to be paid by the public schools per Noble Larsons note.
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West 34Th Street
Jefferson Boulevard
Shoal Creek Bridge
City Public Works Department
Bryker Woods
Noble Larson
Public Works
City Sanitation Head Attends Composting School at A&M
William Osborne, superintendent of Austin sanitation, attends a one day composting school at Texas A&M. Fifty percent of Austin garbage is sent to St Edwards University for composting and spreading on the campus garden and farmland. Brother Marcus Coogan, director of the St Edwards farm, also attends.
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William Osborne
College Station
Texas A&m
Austin
St. Edwards University
Marcus Coogan
St. Edward's
A&m
Miss Texas Heads to Shamrock Hotel Anniversary
University of Texas coed Ysleta Leissner departs Austin for Houston to attend the Shamrock Hotel's first anniversary gala. The Fort Worth native won the Miss Austin title last August and later Miss Texas at Port Arthur before competing in Miss America in Atlantic City.
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University of Texas
Austinite Still a Close Friend Of Troublesome Lake Travis
Mrs. Harry P. Hensel, long weary partner of Travis Peak’s uplift, watched her land vanish under Lake Travis yet stayed devoted. She helped win post, mail, roads, school, electricity for the Cedar Park area, then moved to Austin while remaining tied to Travis Peak.
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Lake Travis
Harry P. Hensel
Austin
Hensel
Travis Peak
Travis County
Daily Mail
Marble Falls
19th Street Extension Nears Completion in Two Months
Extension of West 19th Street to Lamar Boulevard will be finished within about sixty days city public works director C. G Lewander predicted on Wednesday. The project from Robbins Place down a steep bluff is 30 percent complete and part of a plan to create a through thoroughfare between the western and eastern city limits.
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West 19Th Street
Lamar Boulevard
C. G Lewander
City Public Works
Robbins Place
19Th Street
Prank Call Involving Student Isn’t Serious
Mrs. Eugene B. Davis of 4907 Wood row received a cruel practical joke on Wednesday claiming her son Bobby, a junior at Austin High School, had been injured in an explosion. Officials knew nothing, and Bobby later phoned home to say all was well.
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Richard J. Gerth
Rotan
Dorothy M. Gann
Maude Pulliam
Hazelle Pulliam
S. E. Mangrum
Eugene B. Davis
Woodrow
Bobby
Austin High School
Wichita oil men sue over well drilling near parcel
Five Wichita County oilmen file suit in 53rd District Court against the Texas Railroad Commission and two Smith County men, seeking an injunction after the commission approved a nearby well near their Montague County tract. They allege the order deprives them of oil from the Richardson-Caddo Pool and lacks production limits.
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Wichita County Oil
Texas Railroad Commission
Smith County Oil
53Rd District Court
Weilmen
John Wrather
Francis Penn
Tom B. Medders
J. Newton Huff
Ralph O. Harvey
Eugene B. Harvey
Frank B. Harvey
Mayor Seeks Change In Street Hearing Date
Mayor Taylor Glass plans to move a public hearing on one way streets to Wednesday night at the City Library auditorium to avoid conflicts with council members and other engagements. The boulevard program remains on the March 23 council agenda.
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City Library
Taylor Glass
Water cooled Grand Coulee dam with long water loop
Britannica notes that to cool the concrete at Grand Coulee dam water circulated through 2200 miles of one inch tilting conduits, describing a massive cooling system used during construction.
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Grand Coulee
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