Austin Scout Units Win A Rating At Camp Tom Wooten
Two Austin units Sea Scout Ship 17 and Senior Outfit 50 earned A ratings at the senior scout bivouac held April 29 to May 1 at Camp Tom Wooten. Judges included Alpha Phi Omega members from the University of Texas. 124 senior scouts from 12 Central and South Texas units attended with Austin Girl Scouts at a social Saturday night.
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Austin
Camp
Tom Wooten
Sea Scout Ship
Central
South Texas
Alpha Phi Omega
University of Texas
J. C. Carrington Jr
John S. Rudd
Clint McNabb
Travis
Boy Scouts of America
H. E. Speck Jr
State Department Fund Bill Receives House Study
The House committee approved a 192 page departmental appropriation bill totaling about 30 million for two years with 31 million from general revenue, 16 percent above current funding. It retains 15 percent emergency pay increases on the first 3000 of salaries across state departments and related budgets.
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Austin American Capitol
House
Appropriations Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Reply Delayed On Horanys Sell Out Blast
Representative Jimmy P. Horany of Archer City charges that public schools have been sold down the river and awaits official reaction. Fred Niemann of Yoakum prepared a reply but Speaker Durwood Manford asked him to wait for a joint statement. The dispute centers on rural road financing priority over expanded school program allowances.
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Horany
Austin American Capitol
Jimmy P. Horany
Archer City
Fred Niemann
Yoakum
Durwood Manford
Horang
Austin Chamber Board Rescheduled to May 9
The Austin Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors postpones the May meeting from Tuesday night to next Monday. President Joe C. Carrington announced plans for the May 9 session to set the annual summer barbecue and outdoor membership meeting, and to form committees for arrangements and program.
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Austin Chamber, of Commerce Board of Directors
Joe C. Carrington
Negro Housing Need Discussed in Austin Meeting
Maceo Smith, FHA adviser, told Austin Mortgage Bankers Association of an immediate market for more than 400 homes for Negroes. C. T. Macleod, FHA director, attended. Bankers would finance Negro housing if suitable sites existed. A population survey was planned to set price ranges. Smith estimated Austin’s Negro populace at 22,000 with 14 percent earning 3001 to 6000 dollars and 2 percent above 6000.
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Maceo Smith
Dallas
FHA
Austin Mortgage Bankers Association
Austin
C. T. Macleod
San Antonio
Smith
Steamy Weather Stirs Texas Legislature
The Austin American Capitol Staff reports a hot day in the Texas legislature with the Senate kept cool by a breeze and a new system, while the larger House sweltered at about 90 degrees. Lawmakers complained of delays, urging order as coats became uncomfortable.
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Austin American Capitol
Fred Red Harris
Dallas
Durwood Manford
Senate Chamber
County Powers Denied In Easement Dispute
Attorney General Price Daniel ruled that a county cannot block a resident of the unincorporated town of Iola from laying water lines beneath streets. The opinion limits itself to easements not county owned property, stating landowners may use subsurface so long as municipal rights are not interfered.
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Austin
Jury Selected In Davis Murder Trial Opens
The murder trial of J. R. Davis Sr., a Travis County Baptist preacher, began in 98th District Court with a 12-man jury drawn from a special venire. Davis, indicted last October for the July 14, 1948 shooting of J. A. Malone on the old Manchaca Road, may plead self defense per defense attorney Fielding Hammond.
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J. R. Davis Sr
Travis County
98Th District Court
Davis
J. A. Malone
Old Manchaca Road
Fielding Hammond
Burnet
Bob Long
Polk Shelton
Hammond
Board Approves Renovation At Three Austin Schools
The Austin School Board approved renovations costing 145000 for three elementary schools as part of a citywide remodeling program. Wooldridge gains a 25023 cafeteria, Mathews adds a combined cafeteria auditorium wing costing 50805, and Blackshear sees 69482 spent replacing a wall with casement windows and converting spaces to classrooms.
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Austin School Board
Wooldridge, Mathews and Blackshear Schools
Wooldridge School
Mathews
Blackshear
Blacksheer
Woolridge
Obituary notices from multiple area services and burials
Obituaries list services for Mrs. Mary Louise Meacham Jessie Alvarado infant son of Mr and Mrs Julian R Alvarado Private First Class Frank E Glenn and Wesley Hogan with military honors Burial sites include Memorial Park Oakwood Cemetery and Manor Cemetery Olga Vasquez died Monday with services pending Wright Harthur Jones 67 died in Manor with Christian Church service and burial in Manor Cemetery Mrs FE Schmidt died in Fredericksburg Alfred McDougall 67 former Gillespie County commissioner died at home services at First Methodist Church Alvin Striegler 64 prominent Meusebach Creek stock farmer funeral at Schatter Funeral Home burial in Meusebach Creek Cemetery
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Mary Louise Meacham
Cook Funeral Home
Leroy Russell
Dick Seiders
Weldon Seiders
Herman Seiders
Sam King
Robert Meacham
Jim Triggs
Oakwood Cemetery
Jessie Alvarado
Julian R. Alvarado
Guadalupe Church
Nicholas Diaz
Memorial Park
Frank E. Glenn
Mexican First Baptist Church
Carolas
Horace H. Shelton
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Werner Stahl
Travis Post 76
American Legion
Adolph Hohertz
Bergstrom
Wesley Hogan
Cook Funeral
Harry Pesnell
Verner Stahl
Adolph Hobertz
Claude Hallmark
Steve Lightsey
al Boyce
Cecil Jennings
Hubert Sutter
Vernon Raines
Olga Vasquez
Benito Vasquez
Bryant Street
Wright H. Jones
Wright Harthur Jones
Manor
Russell F. Jones
Christian Church
P. E. Hawkins
Manor Cemetery
Hylton Manor
FE. L. Schmidt
Fredericksburg
E. L. Schmidt
Gillespie County
Curt Schmidt
Comal County
Alfred McDougall
McDougall
First Methodist
Beckman Funeral Home
Alvin Striegler
Meusebach Creek
Striegler
O. W. Striegler
Olivia Lochte Striegler
Edgar Ahrens
Bruce Jordan
Andrew Jenschke
Luckenbach
Constance Striegler
Schatter
Otto Lindenberg
Polio Cases Rise in Texas as Influenza Eases
Dr. George W. Cox reports seven new polio cases last week, bringing Texas total to 142 for 1949, more than double last year at this time. Influenza weekly total falls below 1,000 for the first time this year, while measles decline continues. Travis County lists multiple illnesses including 42 chickenpox and 134 measles.
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Texas
George W. Cox
Cox
Ellis County
Travis County
Grand Jury To Get Raid Funds May 9
Several hundred dollars seized from confiscated marble tables and slot machines will be given to the Travis County grand jury on May 9 to aid their gambling investigations. Judge Mace Thurman Jr. ordered County Attorney Perry Jones to deliver the money to jurors. previously it went to the county general fund. The machines were dismantled rather than destroyed, and Thurman provided UT electrical parts and Texas School for the Deaf wooden parts. Twenty six marble tables were dismantled.
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Travis County Grand Jury
Mace Thurman Jr
Foundation voting deadline set for Austin area group
Ballots for the election of 10 directors of the Austin Area Economic Development Foundation were being returned early this week after a nominating committee report. Foundation Manager W. O. Harwell urged members to return ballots before the Thursday night deadline. Ten nominations for two year terms were submitted to complement 10 holdover members. members may submit additional nominations on the ballot. Officers will be elected by the board once the membership is finalized.
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Austin Area Economic Development Foundation
W. O. Harwell
Texas Safety Chief Attends National Parley
George Clarke, managing director of the Texas Safety Association and secretary of an 11 state region, visited Kansas City Missouri Monday for a nationwide meeting of regional officials. The group prepared for the President's Highway Safety Conference in Washington June 13 to evaluate common state problems and advance traffic control programs.
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George Clarke
Texas Safety Association
Kansas City
Washington
Clarke
Texas
State Health Officer Honored by Mexico
The state health official received an official commendation from the Mexican Government for leading an anti-smallpox campaign along the border. Cox accepted a large scroll signed by Dr. Rafael P. Gamboa during the Seventh annual US Mexico Border Public Health Association convention in Nogales Arizona. The meeting applauded Gamboa and endorsed a border mass vaccination effort.
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George W. Cox
Cox
Rafael P. Gamboa
Mexico
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