LCRA Approves $15 Million Dams Plan Expansion
The Lower Colorado River Authority wins a go ahead for an immediate 15 million dollar construction program to build Granite Shoals and Marble Falls Dams on the Colorado River. The measure raises revenue bonds to 50 million and aims to add 5 000 Kw total generating capacity with 45 000 Kw at Granite Shoals and 30 000 Kw at Marble Falls. One dam is expected to finish before 1950 end as part of broader regional energy expansion.
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LCRA
Jester
Lower
Colorado River Authority
Reuben Senterfitt
Jimmie Phillips
O. W. Mourland
James B. Pattison
Carlos Ashley
Raymond Brooks
Austin American Capitol
Lower Colorado River Authority
Colorado River
Beauford Jester
Granite Shoals Dam
Marble Falls
Roy Inks
Tom Miller
Granite
Austin
Max Starcke
Buchanan Dam
Red Cross Drives for 1949 Support in Travis County
The Red Cross explains its aid to servicemen including emergency leave to reach ailing relatives. It seeks $65,000 from Travis County residents to fund disaster response and other services in 1949. Drive headquarters are in the Driskill Hotel.
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Red Cross
Travis County
Red Cross Drive
Driskill Hotel
Anti-Red Tempest Quieted as El Pasoman Calls Calm
In a tense Texas House session Representative S J Isaacks of El Paso urged restraint and postponement of debate on a bill to oust Communists from state colleges. Sam Hanna of Dallas pressed the measure but agreed to defer until Thursday amid dyeing tempers and looming education bills. The proposed law would require loyalty affidavits from teachers students and staff without naming Communism and faces further floor consideration.
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S. J. Isaacks
el Paso
House
Sam Hanna
Dallas
Hanna
Gilmer- Aikin
Isaacks
Attorney General’s Office
Demo's Dinner Profit Hits Forty Three Thousand
Mayor Tom Miller announced that about $43,000 from the Jefferson Jackson Day dinner will go to the Democratic Party campaign treasury. He noted $48,500 in Texas Democratic contributions but said some expenses remain unpaid and the total campaign cost will be about $5,500. A Corpus Christi dinner planned for April 8 reports advance ticket sales and a third dinner is slated for Lubbock.
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Tom Miller
City Coliseum
Democratic Party
Warren Phillips
Corpus Christi
Lubbock
Boy's Wild Ride Ends Against Freight Train
A Pennsylvania Railroad freight train halted 18 year old Thomas Helline after a 12 mile chase through Masillon streets and open highway. Police fired six shots at his tires and he skid into a tree but continued until his car struck the freight. He pleaded guilty to reckless driving, fined 50 dollars and costs, and had his license suspended for one year.
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Massillon
Pennsylvania Railroad
Thomas Helline
US Protest Secret Czech Conviction of Two GIs as Spies
The United States protested a secret Czech trial that sentenced two soldiers to 12 and 10 years. Hill of Pampa Texas and Jones of Owensboro Kentucky crossed from the US zone in Germany last December. Both deny espionage and say they were absent without leave. officials plan to visit Hill and Jones next week.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
United States
Germany
US Army
Clarence R. Hill
George R. Jones
US Constabulary
Sixth Armored Regiment
Hill
Pampa
Jones
Owensboro
Alexander Jones
Hunter
Munich
Joseph E. Jacobs
Foreign Ministry
Frankfurt
Driver Education Moves Up In Austin Schools
The Austin School Board approved preliminary plans for a $700 000 Tarrytown Elementary School and approved driver education as a required eighth grade course in several junior high schools. Lions Club donated driving aids and local dealers will provide cars for practice. The new elementary wing includes a handicapped education wing in partnership with the University of Texas.
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Tarrytown
Austin School Board
Tarrytown School
Exposition Boulevard
University of Texas
University
Fred S. Nagle
Austin Lions Club
Nagle
Austin Automobile
Lions Club
Allen
Fulmore
Baker and Keahling
Austin
Anderson
Lee J. Wilborn
Anderson High School
Defense Chief Moves to Unite Armed Services
Defense Secretary Johnson unveils a plan to end interservice squabbles and streamline the armed forces. He orders consolidation at the Pentagon, abolishes many boards, bans partisan politics, signals personnel changes, and names General Joseph T. McNarney to coordinate reforms.
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Washington
Defense
Johnson
Navy
Air Force
Joseph T. McNarney
Rare cold front raises hail and tornado fears for Austin
A rare cold front moving east toward Austin from the south portends possible hail and tornadoes. Weather officials stressed tornado forecasts are uncertain, with hail more likely. Panhandle reports of hail and light snow noted as front passes Central Texas.
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Austin
Weather Bureau
Panhandle
Texas
Texas Panhandle
Amarillo
Dalhart
Knitted Turkey Steak Debuts At Farm Chemurgic Dinner
Memphis dispatch reports a diet novelty as scientists demonstrated a knitted turkey steak at the National Farm Chemurgic Council annual meeting. The Bureau of Chemistry showcased 12 items to expand markets for farm products and boost farm profits, using a 20 pound plus turkey meat fibered into steaks without sacrificing flavor.
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National Farm Chemurgic Council
Bureau of Chemistry
US Department of Agriculture
Price cuts signal inflation ebb as stores trim prices nationwide
New price reductions across autos radios refrigerators and other goods stretch the dollar further amid a broad readjustment from wartime highs. Major cuts include Westinghouse radios Kaiser-Frazer Ford autos and steel maker price reductions while sugar refiners raise refined cane sugar prices.
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New York
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Philadelphia
Westinghouse Electric
Congress Approves Home Rule Rent Control Bill
Congress passed a 15 month rent control measure with a home rule escape clause sent to President Truman. The bill lets states repeal federal controls by legislature vote and governor approval or assume control with an adequate state rent law. It sets ceilings to preserve a fair net operating income and establishes nationwide eviction rules.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Senate
House
Truman
Bricker
Earlier Bird Putting Bite On the Fairy
In Berkeley California on March 29 Janet Casey age five expected a penny under her pillow for a lost tooth. X rays at a hospital revealed the penny was inside her younger brother Michael age four who woke first.
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Berkeley
Calif
Janet Casey
Brother Michael
Committee Delays Sale Of School Site to City
The state affairs committee postponed action on a bill to let the state sell a Dallas highway site for a new Austin high school. Chairman Pearce Johnson said a three man subcommittee requested the delay to complete a plat appraisal. The subcommittee led by Louis J. Ivey sought a reasonable price to include in the bill.
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Austin American Capitol
House State Affairs Committee
Dallas
Austin
Pearce Johnson
Louis J. Ivey
el Paso
Market Rally Follows Margin Margin Reduction Boost
A margin requirement cut to 50 percent sparked a sharp stock market rally led by gains of one to four dollars on key names. The AP 60 average rose to its highest level since February, with 1.8 million shares traded, the most since November. Major advances included US Steel, Chrysler, US Rubber, Montgomery Ward, United Air Lines, Pepsi-Cola, and Amerada Petroleum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard Storage Battery Company
Electric Storage Battery Company
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Jones and Laughlin
Inland Steel
New York
Associated Press
US Steel
Chrysler
US Rubber
Montgomery Ward
United Air Lines
Pepsi-Cola
Po Amerada Petroleum
Red-Trained Nazi POWs Return Home Compiled From Wire Reports
Berlin reports thousands of German war prisoners indoctrinated with Marxism are being sent to the Soviet zone to bolster the German Communist Party. Russians push for faster steel production in Eastern Germany. In Washington Rep Jensen urges probe into Wall Street power utility profits. In Nanking the Chinese peace delegation head leaves to meet Chiang Kai-shek before Peiping talks. A New York government witness says the US Communist Party was told to go underground and prepare for civil war if Britain joined the war. Rhodes reports armistice terms agreed by Israeli and Transjordian delegates, with UN officials heading to Damascus for talks with Syria. In Washington Republicans denounce the labor bill as a Wagner Act reform push.
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Berlin
Russia
Communist Party
Germany
Nanking
Chiang Kai- Shek
Peiping
New York
Great Britain
Soviet Promotes Sokolovsky as Berlin Chief Relieves Post
Moscow announced Sokolovsky, longtime German commander, named first deputy minister of the armed forces. Bulganin out as minister. Vasilevsky succeeds him. Chuikov to head Germany duties as the occupiers shift signals tougher Soviet policy amid Berlin crisis.
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Associated Press
Moscow Radio
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Germany
Ussr
Nikolai A. Bulganin
Alexander M. Vasilevsky
Bulganin
Russian Communist Party
Sokolovsky
Ussr Council of Ministers
Army Genery
V. I. Chuikov
Berlin
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William R. Stump
R. B. Spacek
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A. B. Spires
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Neal Douglass
Jim Sparks
Sherman
Attorney General
Raymond Tatum
Huntington
Tatum
Demo
Army
Pentagon
Armed Services
Turkey
Memphis
Tenn
Science
Kaiser-Frazer Corporation
Henry Ford II
Ford Motor Company
Federal Reserve’ Board
Wall Street
Marriner Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
OPA
Tighe Woods
Chicago
Ohio
Joint Conference Committee
Sparkman
Ala
Jensen
Pacific Northwest
Rhodes
Trans- Jordan
Damascus
Syria
Labor Committee Democrats
Marshal Sokolovsky
Soviet Union
Kremlin
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