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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1950
Page
2
Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron told Congress that civilians face confusion over who handles atomic defense and called for a single agency. He urged better public information and warned against overreach by federal authorities while stressing state roles and local responsibility.
Twenty six crew members were saved from six liferafts after the USS Elder, a 163 foot Net Tender, caught fire 660 miles east of Eniwetok during a buoy laying voyage to atomic test areas. Fourteen men remained aboard to fight the blaze as a rescue effort tracked the drifting vessel and located survivors aboard lifeboats.
Four Western European nations receive approval to purchase $20.2 million in American cotton under the Marshal Plan. France gets $14 million, Belgium Luxembourg $3 million, Greece $3.2 million, with total ECA commitments reaching $8.55 billion in 23 months.
Weatherman Hoye S. Dunham observed two bands of showers approaching Austin from the south Friday night. Showers are expected to reach the city early morning and again late afternoon or evening with a 55 to 80 degree temperature range on Saturday amid partly cloudy skies across Central East and West Texas.
Perry Eakin of Nicopolis Illinois proposes a starch based breast padding using plastic perm starch dunked underwear to create a rigid shape. He claims the starch lasts up to 15 washes and will still resemble Jane Russell.
City officials reach a harmony plan to stage a city wide cleanup. Mayor Taylor Glass and Health Officer Ben Primer announce details later. A survey of pit toilets is to be presented to the City Council next Thursday.
Irby B. Carruth will become Austin Public Schools superintendent June 1 with a three year contract. His first year salary will be 11000 dollars and rises by 500 dollars each year. he leaves Waco where he earned 10000 dollars. Carruth was chosen from 38 candidates for his proven leadership, curriculum study, and building program experience.
In New York on March 17 the St. Patrick's Day parade drew about 100000 participants with 2,000,000 spectators along a 2.5 mile Fifth Avenue route. Mounted police, students, white-clad women, bands, majorettes and colorful uniforms filled the eye catching procession under sunny spring weather. Paper cascades drifted from office towers as crowds pressed barriers.
The Jaycees defend their forthcoming Home and Trade Show electrical contract as not yet let and low bidder Harper Plumbing and Electric Service named by the union as nonunion. Marcus Loftis of the Electrical Workers Union accuses unfair awarding. Jaycee director Hibbetts says board will decide March 30 to April 2 Coliseum show.
In Port Huron Michigan a mother and father and their four young children were killed in a fast moving early morning house fire. Kenneth Chase 42 Phyllis Chase 32 an expectant mother and their children aged two to six perished.
Hundreds report a sky spectacle as residents describe 20 to more than 100 disc shaped objects at about 15 000 feet seen over Farmington. A Dallas Naval Air Station officer described a bright disc interacting with a B36 bomber, adding a 15 second sighting with no wings and no fire. The Air Force says investigations do not confirm such objects.
Jose Villalobos, the admitted slayer of Sheriff O W Blackie Morrow, remains jailed in Ojinaga as Texas officials push extradition. District Attorney Travers Crumpton prepares formal documents, including the 1899 treaty, while Mexican authorities require a written order before moving the suspect to Chihuahua City for trial. Norman Davis anticipates cooperation despite delays.
Former Governor Coke Stevenson plans a bid for Place No. 3 on the Texas Supreme Court, signaling a comeback after his break with W. Lee O Daniel. The Aust in American reports the move amid other court races and potential candidates for Places 1 and 2.
N M Hobbs March 17. Blonde Jimmy Mullins a 15 year old junior high school student dyed his hair green with cake coloring for St Patrick's Day.
Mrs. Essie Mae Chicken Lang, a young Black woman, died after being found stabbed in the chest and back near the Montopolis Bridge on Carter Lane. Her nude body was located in a roadside ditch and she was taken to Brackenridge Hospital where autopsy is to be performed. Local detectives noted recent vagrancy and disturbance arrests. Deputies could not be reached for details in East Austin.
Major General Muir H Fairchild vice chief of staff of the United States Air Force died suddenly Friday of a heart attack at his quarters at Fort Myer Virginia. A native of Bellingham Washington he entered service in 1918 as a second lieutenant and rose to major general in 1942 after serving in Italy in World War I and later with the French air forces on the Western Front.
Nev. heiress Mrs Ann Cooper Hewitt Nichol son plans a bid for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat held by Democrat Pat McCarran. Her husband said she would run to fight communism and help fix things up for the kids.
London dated report states Kenneth de Courcy editor of Intelligence Digest claimed eight atomic blasts occurred in Central Asia between March 4 and March 10 as predicted. The press release cites Soviet experiments as the basis for the claim.
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