Capital City Police Shortage Amid Rising Crime Wave
The city faces a police manpower crisis as detectives and patrolmen resign for higher pay in private industry. With vacancies widening, rookies fill top posts while crime climbs 53 percent in seven months. City officials warn the department could shrink to a small-town force without salary reforms.
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T. Q O. Lang
Lang
O. M. Doherty
Bill Griffin
Larry Ballard
M. E. Mobley
Charlie Rogers
Glenn Wotipka
Aubrey E. White
Bruce D. Davis
Police Association
Homer Garrison Jr
Department of Public Safety
Garrison
Texas
Austin
Banditry Lifted to High Plane After Aerial Getaway
A western bandit attempted a flight escape in an airplane, illustrating crime elevated to a high plane as he tried to flee. The narration notes the unusual route and the audacity of the attempt.
Grubstake Plan Aids Graduates Start in Business
Business consultant Richardson Wood promotes a grubstake venture capital pool to fund enterprise fellowships for qualified graduates and motivated individuals. The Austin Development Foundation would supervise and advise recipients, creating a revolving fund repaid as ventures succeed and expand community opportunity across Texas.
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Richardson Wood
Wood
New York
Austin Development Foundation
American Marketing Association
Austin
Foundation
University of Texas
Texas
Austin urged to grow small enterprises and attract residents
A plan argues for attracting hermits to Austin and expanding small ventures to balance job opportunities. It proposes send off support for young entrepreneurs, with the American Marketing Association selecting proposals as a study basis, backed by Texas investment pools and venture capital from local financiers.
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Austin
Wal
Abil
Ity
American Marketing Association
Texas
Southwest
Labor strife pits unions at GE and Chrysler over power
The piece vents about pro Communist UAW and UE influence at Westinghouse and GE plants, and notes the Chrysler strike’s cost and impact. It argues unions pressure health care, pensions, and welfare while government bodies lag in action, highlighting labor conflicts shaping atomic era industries.
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National Labor Relations Board
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Labor Board
United Electrical Workers
Westinghouse
Pittsburgh
Washington Boys
General Electric
Schenectady
N. Y
Jane Russel
Atomic Energy Commission
General Electric Company
Knolls Laboratory
Ae Ty
CIO
House of Representatives
Department of Justice
FBI
Phil Murray
New International Union of Electrical Workers
Commie UE
Julius Emspak
Congress
New Mexico
Communist Party
Atomic Energy
Chrysler
Marysville
Chrysler Company
Auto Workers’ Union
Chryser
Epg
Halley's Comet Set to Return in 1986
Scientists say Halley's comet will reappear in 1986. They caution that the body is slowly dismantled by planetary gravity and could break up into meteors within a million years.
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A. Halley
Cadillac
Washington
White House
Truman
Plan To Aid Small Business Divides White House
White House advisers debate promoting RFC loans or creating private banks for small business lending. The plan aims to supply long-term capital overlooked by banks and insurers, with supporters for private banks backed by government funds and critics fearing government subsidy. A broader push to abolish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is noted.
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Washington
White House
RFC
Commerce Sawyer
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Federal Reserve
Tom McCabe
Stephen Spingarn
Taft
GOP
Commerce Department
Commerce
Sawyer
O’mahoney
Federal Reserve Board
Capitol Hill
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Wall Street
Europe and McCarthy Undermine US Foreign Policy
The column argues McCarthyism harms US aims abroad. It cites China misperceptions of MacArthur, Albania’s Tito expectation, and neutralist shifts in France Italy Belgium as reactions to McCarthy charges. It notes Rivers vs Sims and quotes Acheson defending Berlin readiness and noting arms flows to Southeast Asian guerrillas from the Philippines.
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China
McCarthy
MacArthur
General MacArthur
State Department
Far East
USA
Albania
Tito
United States
France
Italy
Belgium
Russia
Western Europe
Europe
Acheson
Senate’ Foreign Relations Committee
Berlin
Yugoslavia
Southeast Asia
Philippines
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Broadway gossip and industry chatter flares in January notes
Winchell on Broadway surveys celebs and shows with mentions of Ann Owens and Joe DiMaggio courting two women at one hotel. Notes merger delays, industry intrigues, and high society moves, including Tallulah Bankhead praise and Pulitzer winners.
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Broadway
Elliott
Loverboy
Roosevelt
Ann Owens
Gigi Durston
Oliver Thorndge
Nona Howard
E’s A Simpkins
Boston
Jean Golden
Jean Goulden
Joe
Betta St. John
Darling
Gilman
Chablis
Biggie Files
Philly
AP News Policy Note
A brief notice states the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to local news and AP dispatches printed in the newspaper, restricting republication by others. The policy emphasizes rights to both local content and AP wires.
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Associated Press
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