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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1950
Page
3
United Press dispatch says Rosa Al Youssef will publish revelations about the royal marriage to Farouk and Narriman. Engagement announced after delays due to the bride’s father’s death and customary accustoms, with both families approving.
J L Swindle managing editor of the Pampa Daily News died after falling from a sixth floor hotel room in Ponca City Oklahoma while accompanying Texas Panhandle boosters for a US Highway 60 Association meeting. He was 33 and had been in journalism since 1941. Funeral plans were set for Poplar Bluff Missouri with survivors including his wife Dorothy and two children Arthur and Jill Riley.
The State Board of Education votes to study centralizing textbook depositories in Austin funded by savings from reform. It appoints an advisory textbook commission for the $4 million book adoptions and forms a committee to evaluate consolidating five depots into one central site. Local officials and board members attend, with plans to issue bonds if savings allow. The board also approves a second election for Hillsboro Junior College and a vocational agriculture training program at three teacher colleges.
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