17 Booths Remain for Home Trade Show in City Coliseum
Junior Chamber of Commerce reports 17 booths left for the Home and Trade Show to run March 30 to April 2 at City Coliseum. 99 booths are sold at $60 each, with sales at the Jaycee office in the Driskill Hotel. Firms listed include Sears Roebuck, US Rubber, Capitol Piano, and many Austin suppliers and manufacturers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Chamber of Commerce
City Coliseum
Jack Dismukes
Jaycee
Driskill Hotel
Dismukes
Karotkin Furniture Company
H. M. O¢etting Furniture Company
Sears, Roebuck and Company
US Rubber
Lamme's Candies
Austin Builders Supply
Central Texas Appliance Company
Dill’s
Maytag Appliance
Kruger Jewelers
Cabaniss-Brown Furniture
Harold Eichenbaum Displays
First Austin
Hearings Set on Zone Change Applications
Four zoning change requests are scheduled for the City Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing Tuesday night. Proposals include 9200 Dallas Highway from A residential to C commercial by Ben Lockhart, 407 to 907 South Congress Avenue from B residential to C commercial by Mrs. Johanna Schoenfield, the southwest corner of Lamar Boulevard and West 45th Street from A to C commercial by Jack H. Key, and from C commercial to C-1 at the southwest corner of a Hacock Drive and Burnet Road by Key.
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City Zoning Board of Adjustment
Dallas Highway
Ben Lockhart
Congress Avenue
Johanna Schoenfield
Lamar Boulevard
West 45Th Street
Jack H. Key
Hacock Drive
Burnet Road
Key
Leopards Fear and Detest Humans in Avoidant Behavior
Leopard behavior shows strong avoidance of human presence as they prefer to stay hidden and out of sight when people are nearby. This instinctive wariness influences their daily movements and interaction with habitats.
UT Social Service School Planned by University of Texas
The University of Texas Graduate School of Social Service, authorized by the 51st Legislature, will open in September. A director will be named soon. prospective students are being interviews by appointment. Applications go to Main Building 2210. The fiscal year budget is 37 500 for operation. The new school aims to train workers for state and local agencies and civic groups and will be among the first in Texas. Dr. Walter Pettit is advising on planning and administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Texas Graduate School of Social Service
T. S. Painter
Painter
Department of Public Welfare
Texas
Southwest
Walter Pettit
New York School of Social Work
University
New School
Building Room Brings New Plan for Utilities
Austin grows fast and public works crews struggle to install water and sewer lateral lines. City Manager Guston Morgan said bids from private contractors are being received to install laterals while city crews handle private connections and shift to clear the backlog.
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Austin
Public Works and Utility Division
Guston Morgan
C. G. Levander
City Public Works
Doctor Warns Kiwanians on Socialized Medicine Threat
Dr. William M. Gambrell of Austin warned Kiwanians that socialized medicine in the United States could lead to the government control of other professions. He cited cost estimates and possible service delays, urged citizen involvement in government, and noted opposition from the Texas Medical Association.
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United States
William M. Gambrell
Austin
Gambrell
The
Texas Medical Association
England
Vet Land Bonds Sale Here Today
A $10 million bond issue to finance extension of the veterans land program in Texas will be offered at auction here Tuesday. Sealed bids will be received up to 10 am. Bascom Giles, commissioner of the General Land Office and chairman of the Veterans Land Board, said it is the second bond issue under the $25 million program begun last June. The first issue for $5 million was purchased by a syndicate led by Chemical Bank and Trust Company of New York. The rate was 1.6688 percent.
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Texas
Bascom Giles
General Land Office
Veterans Land Board
Chemical Bank and Trust Company of
New York
Safeway Low Bidder for 8000 Gallons of DDT
Safeway Farm Products Company of Austin was the low bidder at 4,300 dollars for 8000 gallons of DDT to be used by the city against polio this spring and summer. Bids specify 25 and 5 percent DDT at 98 cents and 28 1/2 cents per gallon, respectively, with prices fixed in the bid. Other bidders were Armac Company C J Martin Company of Austin and Costello Manufacturing Company of Chicago.
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Safeway Farm Products Company
Austin
Safeway Company
B. H. Cruce
Cruce
Safeway
Armac Company
C. J. Martin Company
Costello Manufacturing Company
Chicago
Weeg to lead Kilgore Memorial Hospital project
Charles A. Weeg resigns as Brackenridge Hospital administrator to take the post as administrator of Kilgore’s Memorial Hospital. The $1.3 million, 40 bed facility is federally aided and 40 percent built. Weeg will serve as consultant until completion, then assume administration. April 1 is his Brackenridge departure, April 15 start in Kilgore.
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Charles A. Weeg
Brackenridge Hospital
New Memorial Hospital
Kilgore
Weeg
Brackenridge
Unclear OCR Text May Reflect Multiple Local Notices
Fragmented lines mention names and places like QUEEN and TEXAS and CACTUS. likely a damaged collage of notices or ads with no coherent single event or outcome. Entities include Gene, Michael, Lou, and regional markers, but specifics are unreadable.
Shoes and Slippers Produced Reach Record in 1949
United States factories produced 455 million pairs of shoes and slippers in 1949. Data shows strong domestic output across footwear firms and regional plants, reflecting postwar consumer demand and industrial capacity.
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United States
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Eng
East Second
San Jacinto Boulevard
Taylor Glass
A. B. Packard
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Packard
Travis Heights Boulevard
East Monroe Street
Jaycees
South Texas
Reed Sales Company
E. M. Scarbrough
Bridges Furniture
Wear-Ever Aluminum
Nash, Phillip
Copus Company
Alamo Distributing Company
KVET
William Charles Music
Capitol Welding Supply
Zauskey
Charles P. Davis Hardware
Sunbeam Appliance Company
Capitol Seed House
Hoover Company
Austin National Bank
the Hargis Company
Reed
Bridges Farm and Ranch Supplies
Sullivan Paint and Wallpaper
Austin Hydro-Gas Company
Wilbur Vault Company
Landers, Frary and Clark
Wesley Pearson
Investors Diversified Service
Hall-Level Manufacturing Works
Gage and Finch
Straus Frank Company
Pioneer Flour
John Vaught Hardware and Independent Oil Company
Comfort Incorporated
Milstead Company
Cen-Tex Motors
J. R. Reed Music
Southern Union Gas
Tappan
Francis
Perry Shankle
Sinclair Refining
Travis Motors Exchange
H. L. Arnold Company
Lake City Supply
Monroe Calculating
Arno Brill
Abel Stationers
Darby's
A Standard OF Texas
Mea
H. Richards Oil Company
Fast First Street
Austin, Texas
RM Oil
Turkeys
L. East
Turkey
East 8Th Street
City Market
Doctor
Vet
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Equitable Society
Dominion of Canada
National Asociation of Insurance Commissioner
Rex Titsworth
Charles Taylor
W.R. “Link” Lyman
Guadalupe
David Barker
Robert G. Farmer
the Equitable Life Assurance Society OF the
Thomas Parkinson
Seventh Avenue
Poe
Gene Ia
Ne Ead
Michael Wilayng
Ageitien
Fila” Fey
Tilliga Tare
Sehul Erenade
Ee Arvey
Lou Tancret
Vane
Pinel
Rainbow
Cog Tata At
Cher Dre
aranYohen Weei ‘Temo
Bisnn
Cactus
Koehlers
Denver
Dallas
Koehler
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