Solons Ponder Weaker Rent Controls Today
Washington March 20 Senate considers a watered down rent control extension for 12 more months with Cain proposing four amendments to ease landlord burdens and reduce government role while administration leaders expect passage by midweek. Baker and Sparkman steer debate as House already okays 15 more months with local decontrol option. Cain seeks six month extension plus tenant buffer and other loosening changes.
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Washington
Senate
Cain
Truman
John J. Sparkman
Dala
House
Teacher Killed One Injured In Center Wreck
Two English teachers from North Texas State College in Denton were in a Sunday wreck four miles south of Highway Valerie Mangum 26 of Greenville died on arrival at Brackenridge Hospital. Mary Tom Osborn 35 of San Antonio was seriously injured with four broken ribs.
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North Texas State College
Denton
Valerie Beth Mangum
Greenville
Brackenridge Hospital
Mary Tom Osborn
San Antonio
Miss Osborn
J. W. Davidson
Nixon City Business College
Osborn
Davidson
C. H. Davidson
Austin
University of Texas
Miss Mangum
E. P. Mangum
Texas House of Representatives
Weed-Corley Funeral Home
Famed Clarinet Player Dies in New Orleans
Irving Fazola Prestopnik 36 renowned clarinetist and jazz idol died Sunday at his home in New Orleans after a heart attack. He had played in French Quarter clubs since 1942 and earlier with Horace Heidt Gus Arnheim Claude Thornhill and Bob Crosby among others.
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New Orleans
Irving
Fazola
Prestopnik
French Quarter
Horace Heidt
Gus Arnheim
Claude Thornhill
Phill Harris
Bob Crosby
Teddy Powell
Pollack
Bonus and Taxes Top 51st Agenda
Texas lawmakers weigh a $400 million World War II veterans bonus and a large education and science package while considering more than $35 million for state hospitals. The agenda includes liquor board leadership confirmation, bond plans for power facilities in Central Texas, and a sweeping omnibus tax proposal with refinery levy implications.
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House
Senate
Education Committee
Leonard R. Brown
Kerrville
Liquor Control Board
Lower
Colorado River Authority
AC County
Texas
Russians Sign Pact With Korean Satellite
The Soviet government and the Korean People's Democratic Republic signed an agreement on economic and cultural cooperation in Moscow. Premier Kim Il Sen led the delegation, which arrived in Moscow March 3 to negotiate the pact.
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London
Moscow Radio
Kim Il Sen
Moscow
The Shame of Texas Senile Patients in State Hospitals
A published sensational expose describes Texas mental institutions as overcrowded and likens them to concentration camps. It highlights 5,000 senile patients, with 30 to 80 percent of inmates deteriorating mentally, and follows a case of John Doe showing aging, memory lapses, and social consequences leading families to seek confinement.
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J. P. Porter
Texas
John Doe
Doe
Iceland Nearing Pact Decision in early talks with Acheson
New York reports Iceland will decide soon on joining the North Atlantic pact after talks with Secretary Acheson. Washington notes flooded coal mines in Pennsylvania. Belgrade cites a Yugoslav cabinet shake up amid Cominform pressure. Maryville reports a Detroit man and four others injured in a Tennessee plane crash with is supplied by helicopter. Boston covers Anna Louise Strong condemning the pact as war moves. The piece then shifts to a lengthy essay on alcoholism treatment and mental hygiene in Texas, noting high costs and calls for dedicated facilities for criminally insane patients.
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New York
Iceland
Bjarni Benediktsson
Acheson
Reykjevik
Maryville
Tenn
Stephen A. Walker
Detroit
Tennessee
West Texas
Ozro Woods
Texas Society For Mental Hygiene
Dallas
West Bank Soviet Mark To Split Up Berlin's Economy
Fifty five senators favor the Atlantic pact principle with one public opponent. The AP canvass of 93 of 95 senators shows 39 Democrats and 16 Republicans inclined to back the pact while 12 declined to state a position.
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Berlin
Malone
R-New
Associated Press
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Byrd
Connally
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Downey
Eastland
Ellender
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Fulbright
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Green
Hill
Hoey
Holland
Humphrey
Hunt
Kefauver
Kerr
Kilgore
Lucas
Magnuson
Maybank
McClellan
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McKellar
McMahon
Murray
Myers
Neely
O’mahoney
Pepper
Robertson
Sparkman
Stennis
Thomas
Okla
Johnston
Long
McCarran
McFarland
Miller
Russell
Taylor
Aiken
Bricker
Bridges
Butler
Capehart
Ordon
Donnel
Ferguson
Flanders
Hendrickson
Jenner
Kern
Langer
Lodge
Martin
Hope for Solving Capital's Monetary Tangle
Berlin economic split deepens as United States Britain and France outlawed the Soviet east mark in Western Berlin. Western Berlin now uses a single currency, severing ties with the eastern sector and signaling the Allies have given up on a Berlin money agreement with Russia.
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Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Lifting Blockade Urged on Reds
American commandant in Berlin urged the Russians to admit failure of their policy and lift the blockade. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley said it would be in their self interest to discontinue the tactics. The Western Allies noted dual currency problems and ongoing airlift since June.
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Berlin
Howley
Elbe
G. K. Bourne
Brighier
Jean Ganeval
Gusty winds sweep Texas as storms claim life
A violent spring storm roared across West Texas on Sunday marked by gusty winds and heavy rain. Lightning killed 12 year old Marvin Bullard near his Brownfield area as the front moved into Central Texas. the Weather Bureau forecast more thundershowers statewide with cool air arriving by Monday.
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Associated Press
Texas
Marvin Bullard
A. G. Bullard
Brownfield
Weather Bureau
Clarendon
Corpus Christi
Victoria
Alice
Lubbock
Abilene
Childress
Midland
San Antonio
Bergstrom AFB Becomes Home of 27th Air Fighter Wing
Bergstrom Air Force Base officially hosts the 27th Air Fighter Wing after a brief ceremony at 11:59 p m. The base transfers from Continental Air Command to Strategic Air Command and will operate under the Eighth Air Force. About 95 percent of the move from Kearney Nebraska was completed by Sunday.
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Bergstrom Air Force Base
27Th Air Fighter Wing
Ashley B. Packard
Charles J. Lutz
Bergstrom
Continental Air Command
Strategic Air Command
Eighth Air Force
Kearney
Neb
Tornado Touches Down in Melrose Business District
A small tornado struck Melrose New Mexico around 1 p m Sunday causing limited damage in the towns business section. No injuries were reported and authorities began assessing the affected area.
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New Mexico
Melrose
N. M
Railroads, unions settle 40 hour week and seven cent raise
Chicago March 20 UP The nations railroads and 16 non operating unions end an 11 month dispute with a 40 hour work week and seven cent pay raise retroactive to last Oct 1. Yardmasters get 10 cents hourly boost while still on six days. Overtime rules and two consecutive days off are outlined. Estimated annual cost to railroads is 640 million dollars.
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Chicago
Rail
National Railway Labor Act
Man Killed as Hoist Contacts Power Line
GRAND PRAIRIE March 20 Carl Hayward 26 was killed Sunday at 11 am when a crane hoist on Gulf Coast Pipeline Coating Co. property touched an electric line. Hayward was welding a pipe on the truck. Electric service to several points in Grand Prairie was disrupted.
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Grand Prairie
Carl Hayward
Gulf Coast Pipeline Coating Company
Hayward
Texas Electric Service Company
Cycle Car Collision Ends Baylor Student's Life
Waco March 20. Donald Everett Porter 18, a Baylor University student, was killed Saturday when his motorcycle collided with an automobile. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Don Porter of Eldorado Illinois.
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Waco
Donald Everett Porter
Baylor University
Don Porter
Eldorado
Fort Worth Merchant Dies After Long Illness
Adam H. Herdman 76, president of Well Machinery and Supply Company, died in Fort Worth at a hospital after a three month illness. Herdman and his wife settled in Fort Worth in 1948 after returning from San Angelo where he had been active in the business he founded in 1909.
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Fort Worth
Adam H. Herdman
Well Machinery and Supply Company
Herdman
San Angelo
Six Rail Cars of Food Wrecked Near San Ysidro
Six freight cars carrying vegetables and lemons derailed south of San Diego near San Ysidro, California. A broken wheel flange is blamed for the wreck, with no injuries reported.
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San Diego
Calif
Here
San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway
San Ysidro
Mexico
Swiss Paper Attacks Communist Party as Fifth Column
Der Bund, a Swiss conservative newspaper, denounces the Communist Party in Switzerland as a fifth column and calls for its elimination, arguing there is no Swiss Communist Party but a fifth column of international communism in Switzerland.
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Bern
Switzerland
der Bund
Communist Party In
Communist Party
Dr. Wooten Rites Scheduled Today
Funeral services for Dr. Joe Sil Wooten will be held Monday at 10 30 a m at the family residence 1800 Lavaca Street with Dr Carlile Marney officiating. The pioneer Austin physician and surgeon died in his sleep Saturday at 7 15 p m at age 77 after six weeks of illness. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Survivors include son Greenwood S Wooten and two sisters Miss Tommie Wooten and Mrs Maud Johnson.
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Joe Sil Wooten
Lavaca Street
Carlyle Marney
Austin
Wooten
Hugo Auler
Robert Bratton
J. F. Thornhill
K. F. Lane
Bruce Greenwood
J. W. Gibson
Oakwood Cemetery
Greenwood S. Wooten
Tommie Wooten
Maud Johnson
Russian Newspapers Publish Full Text of Atlantic Treaty
Moscow papers on March 20 published the full North Atlantic Treaty text, with Pravda Szestia and others running nearly two full columns abroad. Radio disseminated the text, and Izvestia quoted Henry Wallace denouncing the pact, while Italian reaction drew critique of Italian leaders joining the alliance.
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Europe
Russia
Britain
United States
Canada
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
France
Norway
Pravda
Szestia
Moscow Radio
Communist Party
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Chamber of Deputies
Alcide de Gasperi
Y. Victorev
Italy
North Atlantic
Izvestia
Henry Wallace
Wallace
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Alcoholics Anonymous
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