Dairy Leaders to Meet at Lake Buchanan Outing
Representatives from about 100 to 125 dairy plants in Texas and Oklahoma will attend a two day outing at Lake Buchanan announced by Mayor Taylor Glass. Glass of Polar Ice Cream and Texas Dairy Products Institute and John L. Simpson of Superior Dairies will lead Friday night meetings at the LCRA club house with invited health officials from state and city agencies.
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Taylor Glass
Glass
Polar Ice Cream Company
Texas Dairy Products Institute
John L. Simpson
Superior Dairies
LCRA
Texas
Oklahoma
Austin
Lawrence Jones
Austin Maid
Horace Glass
Ray Sorden
Polar
Ed Moeler
Buster Cox
Superior
Fred Barge Jr
Harry Peterson
Hillcrest Farms
Joe C. Carrington
Clyde Boatman
Milky Way Dairies
Layton Smith
Prewitt Creamery
George Cox
Ben Primer
Herbert E. Hargis
City Sanitarian
M. L. Raines
Milk Division
Food and Drug Department
Texas State Health Department
Bear hunting tale ends with two bears killed
In Marshall Alaska on May 3 Pete Williams recounts a Yukon River incident. While hunting with friends he killed a black bear and, following a tip, poked a second bear from its den. Unable to reach his gun he jumped the second bear and stabbed it to death, the 250 pound animal dying on the riverbank.
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Pete Williams
Yukon River
Williams
Entertainer Turns Newsie After Quitting Stage
Violet Myers Ruegger a former Chicago nightclub singer explains she left entertainment to sell papers on a street corner to avoid leaving her four sons alone at night. Her husband George deserted them. she supports her family with help from sons Jay Grant Bruce and Sherwin as naps in a crib under the stand begin.
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Chicago
Violet Myers Ruegger
Ruegger
George
Jay
Grant
Bruce
Sherwin
Bible Still Best Seller in Postwar Sales Rise
The Bible remains the top selling book for publishers, with 1947 sales nearing 9.25 million copies and a factory value of 9.29 million dollars, about 2.5 times the prewar 1939 figure, per the Census Bureau.
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Census Bureau
Washington
Memorial gift props up Travis County cancer drive quota
The Travis County American Cancer Society drive surpassed its eleven thousand five hundred dollar goal after a two thousand dollar memorial gift from Austin businessman William R. Eldridge in memory of his mother Mildred Eldridge who died in 1945. Campaign leader Fagan Dickson credited the gift with ensuring the top. Plans for the drive’s final days were set for a Wednesday meeting at the Driskill Hotel. An additional three hundred forty eight dollars came from a Texas Employment Commission employee observing Butch Archer Day, honoring Archer a TEC appeals examiner who lost his voice to cancer and learned to speak by belching air.
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Travis County
William R. Eldridge
Austin
Mildred Eldridge
Fagan Dickson
American Cancer Society
Eldridge
Dickson
Driskill Hotel
The
Texas Employment Commission
Butch” Archer
Archer
Commission
TEC
Civitan Club Challenges Austin Fried Chicken Eaters
The Civitan Club austin’s civic group invites a fried chicken eating contest pitting second vice president Tom Harper against any person. The event is set for May 11 at the Civitan meeting with entrants chosen from letters to Civitan headquarters at the Driskill Hotel by Tuesday. It ties to Fried Chicken Week proclaimed by former Mayor Tom Miller.
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Civitan Club
Austin
Fried Chicken
Tom Harper
Civitans
Civitan
Driskill Hotel
Robert Pinkston
Tom Miller
City urged to create full time service bureau clerk
Mayor Pro tem William S. Drake Jr urged creating a full time city service bureau clerk to handle citizen requests and complaints. He cited a Morgan era bureau from 1938 that was discontinued during the war and noted current duties fall to Mrs. Bess O. Beeman.
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William S. Drake Jr
Drake
Taylor Glass
Guston Morgan
Bess O. Beeman
Morgan
Danny Kaye Injured After Visiting Show
Comedian Danny Kaye sustained a bruised left side when his car was rear ended while returning from Avyot St. Lawrence after visiting George Bernard Shaw. The accident occurred Tuesday as the performer traveled with minimal injuries reported.
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Danny Kaye
London
Avyot
Edison Plant First Power Station in 1882
The first central power plant was established in 1882 by Thomas Edison in New York City marking the birth of centralized electric generation.
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Thomas Edison
New York City
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