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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1950
Page
6
Senator Kilgore said powerful forces in the oil industry seek to cripple the coal sector and harm independent oil producers by excessive imports. He cited 685000 barrels daily, with about one third residual fuels competing with Atlantic wet coal markets, and named six major oil companies among 30000 producers.
In Caracas on May 7 the military junta dissolved 45 oil workers unions and shut secondary schools nationwide. An official statement charged the Communist Party and the outlawed Democratic Action Party with promoting the four day oil strike costing at least 5 million daily. Martial law was cited in oil districts as unions faced impounded funds and inventories.
Los Angeles May 7. Floyd D. Young head of the US Weather Bureau here is the region's most listened to weather voice. His nightly forecasts aid California and Arizona farmers guiding temperatures and dewpoints across 96 agricultural areas. He broadcasts from Pomona 25 miles east and uses data from Alaska Canada ships and Mexico to warn citrus avocado and date ranchers of subfreezing weather.
In a Railway Progress survey by Richard V. Weekes railroads posted 32 million dollars in dining car losses for 1948. The Pennsylvania Railroad lost 1.45 dollars per dollar spent and the Baltimore and Ohio faced two dollars in losses per revenue dollar. Labor costs dominate, with 70 cents per dollar to labor in diners. Modernization is stalled as railroads avoid more spending on a losing proposition. Some lines tested coach meals during strikes, prompting passenger shifts to rivals.
A US Air Force B-17 bomber left Iceland to search for the British trawler Milford Viscount missing three weeks with 13 crew. A faint wireless call from Tarbat Ness near Inverness suggested a Greenland ice locked position, prompting renewed hopes and concern from Milford Viscount’s managing director J C War.
Hollywood officials plan a May 18 banquet to honor Pakistan Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan. George Murphy will be toastmaster as studio chiefs and top film personalities attend. Khan will tour area film studios and aircraft plants over two days.
A study notes chinchilla follicles can generate as many as 80 hairs from a single follicle. This finding highlights unusual hair growth patterns in the species and may inform fur research and breeding considerations.
The body of Charles Walker, 27, of Wenatchee Washington, was found along a railroad right of way near Marysville on Sunday. Coroner H H Hurley ruled the death accidental, saying the man apparently fell from a moving freight train.
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