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Newspaper

Austin American

Location

Austin, Texas, United States of America

Date

Mar 22, 1950

Page

12

First Color TV Demonstrated for Fort Worth Doctors

Medics in Fort Worth will witness a color television demonstration at the State Medical Association meeting on May 14. St. Joseph's Hospital surgeons will be viewed in color from a camera above the operating table with physician narration. Smith Kline and French Laboratories sponsor the display to educate doctors, with 10 color receivers in the Hotel Texas Crystal Ballroom and capacity for 500 viewers at a time. Continuous colorcasting will run several hours daily during the convention.

Southwest Fort Worth State Medical Association Texas Deaton Association Dallas The Medical Association St. Joseph's Hospital Philadelphia Smith, Kline and French Laboratories Columbia Broadcasting System

Danger Seen From H-Bomb Gases Says Dallas Physicist

Dr. Allen F. Reid of Southwestern Medical School warns at the Dallas Technical Club that hydrogen bomb released radioactive gases could sterilize the globe. He notes gases may have brief or millennial lifespans, enabling a group to detonate bombs underground and re-emerge later, leaving most dead.

Dallas Allen F. Reid Dallas Technical Club Reid Biophysics Southwestern Medical School Columbia University New York The Atomic Energy Commission

Male Delilah Nets 2-Year Pen Term

Bertus H. Verkay, 41, was sentenced to one to two years in the Arizona State Prison for aggravated assault tied to an unwanted crew haircut of his wife Dorothy Louise Verkay, 27, after their January 7 marriage. He said the haircut would curb her perceived power and mold her as he wished.

Phoenix Ariz INS Bertus H. Verkay Arizona State Prison Verkay Dorothy Louise Verkay

Youth Admits Theft From Durant Home

A 22 year old man confessed to breaking into philosopher Will Durant's Durant home and stealing 314000 jewelry and non negotiable securities. George B Roden formerly of Boston was arrested after detectives found the loot hidden under a chair upholstery.

Durant Hollywood Will Durant Tuesay George B. Roden Boston

Congress Offers Free Cook Books for Members

Washington dispatch reports Congress made 3 000 free copies of a Department of Agriculture cookbook available to lawmakers. The volume covers cooking meal planning and advice on food buying and calorie counting. Lawmakers voted 10 000 dollars to prepare the book and provided 156 000 dollars to the Government Printing Office to print it.

Washington Department of Agriculture Tang Congress Government Printing Office

Car Wreck Victim's Body Shipped Home

The body of Charles W. Merriweather Jr. 28 an Aftosa Commission inspector who was killed Saturday night in an auto wreck near Celaya Guanajuato Mexico will arrive in Laredo Wednesday for funerals and burial.

Laredo INS Charles W. Merriweather Jr Aftosa Commission Celaya

Jaycees Seek Hoover Reorganization Plan Adoption

National Junior Chamber petitions signed by over 200000 urge Congress to adopt the Hoover Report on government reorganization. The effort on Constitution Avenue won bipartisan support from Vice President Barkley and Senator Taft, who back the plan’s efficiency and cost savings.

Washington National Junior Chamber of Commerce Congress Herbert Hoover Constitution Avenue Capitol Barkley Jaycees Truman

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