Texas House approves two year state college funding boost
The House passed a two year appropriation bill granting Texas state colleges about 60 million dollars, 2 million more than requested, in a 108 to 17 vote. The measure increases funding for University of Texas Dentistry, M. D. Anderson Hospital cancer research, and new facilities while defeating cuts to salaries and maintenance. The bill moves to the Senate as other key appropriations await action.
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Cotton Research Committee of Texas
Texas A&m College Rodent Control Service
University of Texas School of Deniistry
M. D. Anderson Hospital For Cancer Research
Houston
Appropriations Committee
Atomic Energy Laboratory
Texas Aam College
Texas Forest Service
A&m
James K. Presnal
College Station
Arthur E. Gromatzky
Priddy
Leslie King
Smith
Secret ballot bill derailed by technicality in House
A technical error halted a secret ballot bill pending fix after Representative Reed of Dallas obtained unanimous consent to hold the measure. The bill as written requires separate ballot and stub boxes at each election with stubs kept under court-ordered custody.
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Senate
Verner
W. Reed
Dallas
Wardlow Lane
Center
Reed
Solon Pushes State Motor Pool to Save Millions
Representative Harry Whitworth of Smithville and Eugene C. Williams of San Antonio back a rider to transfer all state passenger vehicles to the Board of Control. The plan requires departments to requisition cars only for official trips and aims to end widespread personal use of state vehicles, with daily return of cars to Travis County.
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Solon
Harry Whitworth
Smithville
Whitworth
Eugene C. Williams
San Antonio
Board of Control
Austin
Travis
Britain and Belgium ratify North Atlantic pact
In London the House of Commons approved the North Atlantic treaty by 333 to 6 after urging by Foreign Secretary Bevin and Prime Minister Churchill. Canada and Belgium completed ratification, with Belgium’s Senate voting 127 to 13. Churchill warned no lasting peace while Soviet influence endures. Bevin cited East West tensions and Berlin blockade relief as a potential new settlement.
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Winston Churchill
Canada
Belgium
Senate
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The
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Europe
Asia
Elbe
Kremlin
Berlin
Washington
St Stephen's Episcopal School planned on Lake Austin
Plans announced for St Stephen's Episcopal School to open in September 1950 on a 400 acre Lakeside tract west of Austin on Bee Caves Road. The coeducational boarding school will serve grades 8 through 12 with initial facilities including dormitories classrooms and dining and recreation halls and a six member faculty plus headmaster.
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Austin
Lake Austin
Episcopal Diocese of
Rob Roy
Bee Caves
Everett Looney
Edward Clark
Brewster
John E. Hines
Diocese of Texas
Bishop Hines
Beaumont
St. Stephen's
Lakeside
Fehr and Granger
Texas
Waco
Houston
Galveston
Yale
Aetna
Hartford
Conn
Episcopal Theological School
Cambridge
Mass
Massachusetts
Connecticut
St. Mark’s School
Southborough
Benjamin Brewster
Western Colorado
Maine
Dana X. Bible
Charles Sumners
Walter Bremond Jr
Everett G. Smith
Davis Faulkner
Ttage
Senate Faces Major State Employee Pay and Rating Plan
The Senate received the House backed 50 million dollar salary plan rider aimed at 30 000 state workers. It would retain 15 percent emergency pay raises and introduce a merit based rating with a job classification survey and five percent increments every three years up to 20 percent. The Board of Control would itemize department budgets by funding source for next biennium.
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Austin American Capitol
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Senate
James E. Taylor
Kerens
Finance Committee
Highway Department
Board of Health
Board of Control
Rider
General Revenue Fund
Truman Keeps Demand for 4 Billion Tax Hike
President Truman reiterated his request for a 4 billion tax increase and anti inflation powers to prevent red ink and stabilize the economy. He told reporters the twin programs are still needed while opposing Congress efforts to trim federal spending and citing his own record of rigid government economy.
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Truman
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Tru
Byrd
D-Va
Army
Navy
Housing Plan Clears House Banking Committee
The House banking committee approved Truman's expansive housing program on a 14 to 7 party line vote, backing 1,050,000 federal low rent units over seven years with slum clearance and farm housing aids. Senate support lagged on some figures, and a House Senate conference will resolve differences before a public House showdown next week.
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Truman
House Banking Committee
Banking Committee
House
Senate
Senate House
House Committee
Baby Dies After Being Crushed By Mother's Car
Linda Yvett Thomas, 17 months old, died after falling from a car being backed from a Childress driveway. The tragedy occurred as her parents, Hud son Thomas and wife, were moving the vehicle. the infant lived about 20 minutes after the incident.
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Childress
Hudson Thomas
Secret Session with Spanish Banker Sparks US Political Clash
Americans for Democratic Action protested a Tuesday secret session with a Madrid banker to work out a large US loan to France for cotton purchases. Senator Connally admitted helping arrange the meeting amid debates over non recognition of Franco. In New York FBI informant William Cummings testified Reds in Toledo and noted most were Negroes. Burmese Army claims a 40 mile advance through Central Burma.
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Democratic Action
France
United States
Connally
Dtexas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Madrid
New York
William Cummings
Communist Party
FBI
Toledo
Ohio
Cummings
Soviet joker appears in Berlin blockade lifting deal
American officials report a Soviet joker in the Big Four agreement that ended the Berlin blockade. Traffic resumed into Western Berlin as Soviet barriers were removed, but Moscow may require stamps or Soviet backed certificates for exports. Brig. Gen. Howley warned Western Berlin must export to survive and noted the airlift can’t last forever. The openness follows the May 23 Paris conference setup and earlier 1948-49 tensions over export control and the blockade.
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Germany
Western Berlin
Frank L. Howley
Western
West
Russia
Paris
New York
Howley
US Halts Reparations to Japan in Self-Support Push
The United States ordered MacArthur to stop further reparations deliveries to Japan and limit preliminary transfers of machine tools to four Pacific Allies. General McCoy told the Far Eastern Commission the U S will oppose revived reparations payments and Japan must use its own resources to end reliance on American aid. About 20 000 machine tools shipped since 1947 to China the Philippines the Netherlands and Britain were part of advance deliveries awaiting a final plan. The move is expected to provoke criticism from Russia and other Pacific Allies and ends a long inter allied reparations dispute.
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United States
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Frank R. McCoy
Plaiin
T-Nation Far Eastern Commission
United State
McCoy
China
Philippines
Netherlands
Britain
MacArthur
Commission
Russia
West approves German constitution in Bonn amid reservations
Western Allies approve the West German draft constitution with five reservations to safeguard occupation limits. An occupation statute remains in force for 45 million people in western zones as Bonn hopes for an all Germany agreement if East Germany holds free elections. The move follows Bonn’s assembly approval and ahead of a Paris ministers' council meeting.
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Germany
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Foreign Ministers’ Council
Paris
United
Britain
France
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Berlin
Ruhr
Adenauer
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