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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1949
Page
2
Two seven year old friends Jane Marcou and Richard Paul wandered into marshland near UInc y Massachusetts and triggered a large volunteer search. The children hid when they mistook searchers for pursuers and later joined the hunt after a radio station employee identified them.
The Colorado River city county bridge will open next month per County Engineer Jan Morgan. Steel beam flooring on the east side and a completed west section mark progress. A final pier and abutment, concrete deck, and paving of approaches remain, with trial traffic expected late June.
The Texas Good Neighbor Commission schedules its first border meeting in Del Rio to discuss rail service between Texas and Mexico, a free toll bridge, Big Bend Park development, Spanish in schools, and a Chicago to Mexico City rail route via Del Rio. Governor Raul Lopez Sanchez of Coahuila will join in Saltillo after the Del Rio session.
In San Antonio on May 3 a man who had just lost $8 appealed to two Texas Rangers to destroy a confiscated one-ball pinball machine. The officers allowed him to swing a sledgehammer at the machine, which they seized from the cafe, in a public demolition outside the raid scene.
Travis County sues to recover 11 000 paid to former County Judge George S Matthews for uncompensated juvenile board services since August 1941. District Judge Betts ruled payment due despite AG ruling. Commissioners court orders appeal.
The Texas Defense Committee of the National Defense Reserve Facilities Board completed a two day session at the Texas Military District headquarters. Members from Army Navy and Air Force reviewed federal and state facilities for joint reserve use and discussed a long range construction and rehabilitation program under the act. Attendees included Colonels Abbott Berry Kenny Deutsch and others with Navy and Air Force representation. The panel will reconvene on May 16 in San Antonio.
In Goliad County a derrick being moved collapsed killing Alvin Mart Hood 41 of Goldrus Drilling Company at Cuero hospital the next morning. H R Haak of Kenedy suffered serious injuries though not critical. The rig was near final destination in Weesatche when a leg failed and the structure toppled.
A sheriff's posse located Willis Moore age 68 who had been missing since last Thursday from the county convalescent hospital six miles north of Amarillo. He was found in a nearby pasture near a ranch home and appears to have been snakebitten though the coroner has not yet determined the cause of death.
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