Bus vs Traffic and Taxis: Reader Proposes Civic Action
A reader argues buses relieve traffic and parking, urges citywide bus ridership drives with round trip tickets for 9 am to 4 pm, and suggests a three-member joint board from the Austin Transit Company and City Council to study complaints. He volunteers on a family representative and cites social benefits. a separate note calls for urgent Greece aid and a 1950 Austin population guess of 97 057.
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Austin Transit Company
A. B. Rosson
West 6Th Street
Austin
Victor Sellstrom
Round Rock
Liberty Bell to Ring in Austin for Independence Drive
The American Liberty Bell replica will travel to Austin on June 23 to promote Treasury Department savings bonds. Fred C. Morse, Sr. says the bell will tour about 120 Texas cities in 87 counties from May 16 to July 4, with kickoff in Fort Worth. The statewide goal is 25 million dollars in Series E bonds, allocated by county quotas.
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Austin
Treasury Department
Fred C. Morse
Travis County Savings Bonds
Texas
Fort Worth
Morse
Austin senior E H Peters elected to Alpha Chi honors
Eugene H Peters of Austin, a Texas Christian University senior, is elected permanent member of Alpha Chi national scholastic honor society. Dr Troy Crenshaw, TCU faculty sponsor, announced. Peters is among 44 seniors scheduled to graduate in May with a BA in sociology and psychology.
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Eugene H. Peters
Austin
Texas Christian University
Alpha Chi
Troy C. Crenshaw
TCU
Malaria Type Mosquito Found Along Lake Austin Shoreline
City Sanitation Engineer H. E. Hargis reported malaria type Anopheles mosquitoes found along Lake Austin shoreline from Deep Eddy to Taylor Slough. He said control measures include weekly DDT spraying and removing standing water to prevent breeding.
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Lake Austin
Deep Eddy
Taylor Slough
H. E. Hargis
Hargis
Austin
City Sanitation Department
Stern
First Moslem Year and the Hegira
The Moslem calendar begins with 622 A.D. the year of Mohammed's flight from Mecca to Medina marking the start of the Hegira.
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Mohammed
Mecca
Medina
CC Directors To Hold May Meeting Tuesday
Directors of the Austin Chamber of Commerce will hold their May meeting Tuesday at 6 30 p m at the Hitchin Post 1011 Lamar Blvd The board will hear reports by department vice presidents and committee chairmen Preliminary plans for the organizations 1950 membership expansion program were to be outlined by membership vice president Noble W Prentice A progress
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Austin Chamber of Commerce
Hitchin
Lamar Blvd
Department
Noble W. Prentice
A Progress
Moody to present report on city auditorium project
Chairman E. B. Moody will deliver the committee’s annual report on the No. 1 construction project for the year. The special municipal auditorium committee oversees the work and outlines progress and next steps for the project.
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E. B. Moody
Austin High Chorus Opens National Music Week in Austin
The Austin High School mixed chorus directed by Miss Emma Virginia Deché presented a 30 minute program before the Austin Kiwanis Club at the Stephen F Austin Hotel to open National Music Week. The 90 voice chorus recently won first place at the Regional Interscholastic League Music Meet in San Antonio and performed a Fred Waring arrangement of Battle Hymn of the Republic. The program included Dry Ones a novelty number with a sextet, a madrigal and several Negro spirituals. Kiwanis guests included Boy Scout troops organized by the club and scoutmasters were presented with American flags by President Gene Beto.
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Austin High School
Emma Virginia Deché
Austin Kiwanis Club
Austin
Stephen F. Austin
90 Voices
San Antonio
Fred Waring
Harriett Bengston
Elaine Smith
Lane
Boy Scouts of the
Pfingerville
Walnut Creek
Kiwanis Club
Gene Beto
Herbert Gaskin
Boy Scout Expeeres
Travis County
Kiwanis
Williann
A. J
Bert) Maloney
Bingham
Eddie Moeller
J. Vernor Blomquist
Sook
Kurteee
Mi Todd
The
Capital Bank
Camp Mabry Veteran Receives State Bonus
Ernest R. Nero, employed at Camp Mabry National Guard headquarters, reports he received a $500 Pennsylvania veterans bonus. Nero said the state pays $10 per month for domestic service and $15 per month for overseas duty, with a 500 maximum.
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Ernest R. Nero
Camp Mabry National Guard
Pennsylvania
Nero
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Alexopoulos
Greece
RE. Voris
Save the Children Federation
Madison Avenue
New York
N.Y
Appeal For Children
John C. Alexopoulos
Secral
Resing Ln
Camp Mabry
Turkey
L. East
East
City Market
Aaala Yasly
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