Easter Fires pageant to air on Voice of America
Fredericksburg officials announce the Easter Fires story will be recorded for and broadcast worldwide by Voice of America during Easter season. The tale, linked to local German colony origins, recalls a pioneer mother and a treaty with tribes. Austin Boy Scouts of the Tonkawa lodge will perform as the first Indians seen by settlers.
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Fredericksburg
ANS
Voice of America
New York
Austin
Tonkawa Lodge
Order of the Arrow
Texas Hill Country
Ashen-Faced Firefighters Battle Williams Store Inferno
Firemen, policemen, and volunteers rushed into the smoke filled basement of the T. H. Williams Department Store on West Fifth Street. Dozens collapsed from smoke inhalation as crews battled the blaze and rescued others. Chief John Woody praised his men after all escaped serious harm though three trapped workers perished, with crowds watching and medics treating the exhausted responders.
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West Fifth Street
Neal Douglass
Fifth Street
T. H. Williams
Bridges Furniture Company
Red Cross
Woody
Emmetes of
Climate, Incorporated
He Firm
Williams
West Fifth
Cake Left Untouched as Family Mourns Gordon
Edwin A Gordon III died at 28 in the T H Williamson Company fire. He was an employee of Climate Inc. and the birthday cake at his parents home remained uneaten as the family prepared his funeral. His brothers Jim and Robert and brother in law Ralph Davis were among mourners. His father works for the State Liquor Control Board. Gordon had served as an Air Force captain in Europe and was a Texas A&M engineering graduate.
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Sam McClure
E. A. Gordon
Rosedale Avenue
Edwin A. Gordon
Gordon
Climate Inc
T. H. Williamson Company
Jim
Robert L. Gordon
University of Texas
Ralph da
Vis
Walter Kieke
Kieke
State Liquor Control Board
San Antonio
Austin
Jane Gordon Denison
Betty Gordon
Davis
Europe
Engineering School of
Texas A&m
Crawford Olivia Win Oscars For 1949 Honors
The Academy named All The King’s Men top picture of 1949. Broderick Crawford won best actor for the same film while Olivia De Havilland won best actress for The Heiress. Mercedes McCambridge received best supporting actress for All The King’s Men. Other awards went to Baby It’s Cold Outside for best original song and A Letter To Three Wives for best screenplay and direction. Battleground and Twelve O’Clock High also earned honors.
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Hollywood
Motion Picture Academy
Broderick Crawford
Olivia de Havilland
Mercedes McCambridge
Frank Loesser
MGM
Stratton
Douglas Morrow
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
20Th Fox
Battleground
Robert Pirosh
Fire at T H Williams store kills three workers
A basement blaze at the T H Williams Company on Fifth and Congress kills Edwin Gordon III Milton King and Walter Dyer. Fire Chief J E Woody calls it one of Congress Avenue’s worst fires. Twenty firefighters were overcome and nine treated at Brackenridge Hospital.
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Austin
Department
T. H. Williams Company
Fifth
Congress
Brackenridge Hospital
Edwin Gordon, III
Milton King
West Avenue
Walter Dyer
East First
Hill
J. E. Woody
Congress Avenue
Dyer
King
Marie Antoinette Store Closed After Smoke Damage Survey
The Marie Antoinette Store will shut Friday for a smoke damage survey per manager Albert L. Fish. The next door ladies shop was blocked off by fire crews Thursday with large fans removing smoke. Fish reported damage confined to smoke, with no fire or water damage.
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Marie Antoinette
Albert L. Fish
T. H. Williams Company
Fish
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Wray Weddell
John Woody
Brackenridge
Pital
Southern Union Gas Company
Fifth and Congress
Leen B'Agze
Neal
Climate, Inc
H. L. Hunt
Douglass
Crawford
Olivia
Dixie
Dixie Dugan
Austin American
T.h.williams
Blaze
BY Fred Williams
Vadie
Red” Hill
East 2Nd Street
Alex P. Loney
Loney
Alex Loney Jr
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