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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1949
Page
3
The Taylor Soil Conservation District seeks a Central Texas show in Austin with a resolution from its board of supervisors. Members include Herman Kruger, George Dollinger, Thrall, A. W. Butts, W. A. Lennon, and W. F. Voelker.
Directors of the Austin Area Economic Development Foundation will meet at noon Wednesday at the Austin Hotel to review a year of progress. The year saw payrolls for the Austin area exceed 1.5 million dollars annually and the creation of new industrial areas near Austin. The foundation also outlined a 4.5 million dollar lakeside tourist resort project and state headquarters moves, with about a dozen industrial expansions in progress. President C B Smith said reports cover ongoing Butlin Texas vacation facility negotiations on the lakes near Austin. The foundation was chartered March 31 and moved quickly to build local payrolls.
Jews are streaming from Czechoslovakia to Israel, aiming to leave by May 15 as Israel sets a strict immigration deadline. Up to 20,000 Jews may depart by then, with four thousand planned in April and another four thousand in the two weeks before the date. Emigration faces restrictive moves by Hungary and Romania, while Prague repurposes the Vinohrady Synagogue into a sports hall due to dwindling local Jewish communities.
Java dispatch reports no peace in sight as guerrilla warfare claims about 100 lives daily in Java and Sumatra since December. UN Commission members from the United States Australia and Belgium push talks, but observers warn talks may be months away.
Britain produced 17.242 million metric tons of coal in the four weeks to Feb 26, the highest since the war, aided by good weather for strip mining. Continental output fell across Ruhr Poland France and Belgium as shorter working months reduced gains. US coal shipments to Europe rose to 1.209 million tons, limited to ER P participants.
Tokyo reports a Sunday fire in central Hiroshima destroyed about 700 flimsy postwar structures, including Hiroshima Railroad Hospital, injuring ten. The blaze lasted two hours and was blamed on a boiler used to heat bath water with losses around 200 million yen.
A six weeks educational school sponsored by the Austin Association of Insurance Agents will be conducted Monday at 7 30 p m with a talk by Herbert Crate sales manager for Hodell and Company of Houston Crate will speak on Sales and Office Management The meeting will be in Calcasieu Auditorium
West Virginia 4 H and Future Farmers of America members run chicken of tomorrow contests over 12 weeks. Each start uses 100 straight run chicks or 50 cockerels to develop good meat fowl.
Texas senior scouts will camp at Camp Tom Wooten Randolph Field and Houston during the summer. The program opens with a bivouac at Camp Tom Wooten April 29 30 and May 1 hosted by the Capitol Area Council for scouts from Heart of Texas Alamo Gulf Coast and Rio Grande Valley Councils. Activities include archery mapping sailing and more. The Air Encampment at Randolph Air Force Base San Antonio June 1925 features orientation flights navigation radar and basic link trainer instruction with athletic events and sightseeing. The senioree at Camp Strake Houston August 8 14 closes the season with field sports bay fishing boating a Gulf cruise and a Big Thicket expedition. Costs are 10 for the air encampment 15 for the senioree Applications are being accepted at Capitol Area Council Headquarters.
New York reports the United States Golf Association has revised Rules of Golf removing roads from hazard classification, affecting course play and strategy.
The ad extols Camels as mild and flavorful based on a long-running Camel 30-Day Test. It invites smokers to evaluate taste and throat smoothness using a personal T-Zone test, claiming Camels use aged blended tobaccos for a cool mild experience.
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