Fight Pledged On Phone Toll In Austin Over Rates
City Council members warn against another telephone rate hike unless private lines are guaranteed for all residents. Emma Long denounces proposed increases as unacceptable, noting high profits and urging a rate expert study before any new request.
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W. T. Johnson
Austin
Doom
Johnson
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Emma Long
American Telephone and Telegraph Pany
Southwestern Bell
St. Louis
Long
Davis
Texas
Loyalty check ordered on Commerce official Remington
Secretary of Commerce Charles W. Sawyer ordered a new loyalty investigation of William W. Remington based on evidence from the House Committee on Un American Activities. The 32 year old economist, suspended before and later cleared, is accused by two former Communists of participating in Red activities about 13 years ago.
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Washington
May
Charles W. Sawyer
William W. Remington
House Committee On UN
US Rail Mediators Press for All-Out Settlement
Federal mediators push an all-out bid to end a six-day railroad strike. The walkout halted a major rail segment coast to coast and spread slowly to other lines as pickets in Pana Illinois blocked Chicago and Eastern Illinois freight trains from using New York Central tracks into St Louis.
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Chicago
Pana
Ill
Eastern Illinois
New York Central
St. Louis
Johnson Slaying Case Near Jury
Amarillo May 15 The district judge told the jury it may consider three defenses in the murder of W A Tex Thornton. Ewald Johnson 30 is accused after the body was found in a tourist cabin in Amarillo on June 22 1949. The defenses include justifiable homicide self defense and insanity with arguments to be finished by noon Tuesday.
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Amarillo
Henry S. Bishop
Ewald Johnson
Johnson
R. W. Heaney
W. A
Tex) Thornton
Thornton
Diana
Tucumcari
N. M
Bishop
Burglary tale and lawmen chase on coastal gamble tale
A brief collage notes a burglar ready for a perfect crime with a warning radio, but missing the flash and cash. The piece mentions the law not reaching a gambling hall off the Virginia coast as winds move a tug and ship. It references a Viennese romance delaying a wedding, and science at Lone Star Texas testing jet engines high above.
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Virginia
Centex Leaders Honored In FFA Achievement Day
Central Texas FFA members from the Hill Country to the Blackland Prairies received public acclaim at the first Area XII Achievement Day at the Driskill Hotel. Melba Bloomer of Brady and Betty Dinges of Lockhart named sweethearts. Jim Wilkinson of Luling chosen public speaking representative, defeating Donald Irvine of Georgetown. Honors went to four honorary Lone Star Farmers and four outstanding agricultural leaders, with multiple high school teams earning state and district recognitions in meats, dairy, livestock, grass, and poultry judging.
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Dave Shanks
Central Texas
Hill Country
Blackland Prairies
FFA
Driskill Hotel
Melba Bloomer
Brady
Betty Dinges
Lockhart
Jim Wilkinson
Luling
Donald Irvine
Georgetown
Lone Star Farmers
F. P. Cherry
Burnet
J. Z. Hattox
Elgin
R. F. Wilson
Stockdale
T. D. Tanksley
Llano
Lone Star Farmer
H E. Stewardson
San Saba
Ralph G
Joe Freeman
San Antonio
Rowe Caldwell
John Byrne
James Stone
Slane
Albert Anks
Theo Crenwelge
Hudson Long
Hugh Spring
Donald Brown
Glen Blundel
Billy Toungate
Benny Johnson
Dickey Brown
Liano
Charlies Upton
Bobby Garrett
Walter Lee Wallis
J. M. Auld
Kerrville
Texas
Jack Moore
Doug Symmank
Giddings
Houston
Ed Willingham
Austin
Jimmy Pearson
Fulmore Junior High School
Wo Ie
Bobby Woods
Robert Crane John Schodel
Robert Pape
Fredericksburg
Heavy Hail Hurts Cotton on Plains
Hail damaged young cotton and clogged highways west of Lubbock Texas on Monday. Three to four inches of hail hit Smyer and Hurlwood near Reese Air Force Base while rain fell across the central South Plains. Crop damage was expected to be light due to soft hail and limited planting.
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Lubbock
Texas South Plains
South Plains
Panhandle
Big Spring
Laredo
Smyer
Hurlwood
Reese Air Force Base
Lubbock-Levelland
Engelking Lodge Home Destroyed by Flames
The S. P. Engelking two story rock home ten miles northwest of Austin off Bee Caves Road was destroyed by fire Monday night. Neighbors reported the blaze around 9 p.m. and firefighters prevented spread to nearby structures though they could not save the house and its antiques and family heirlooms.
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S. P. Engelking
Austin
Bee Caves
Austin Fire Department
Stalin Confers With UN Head On Peace Plea In Moscow
United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie, touring European capitals on a save the UN mission, met Monday night with Soviet Premier Stalin in Moscow. Others present included Vyacheslav Molotov and Andrei Vishinsky. Moscow radio noted Iran was accused of using American experts for border surveys, a protest relation to military significance.
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United Nations
Trygve Lie
Save the UN
Stalin
Moscow
London
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Andrei Y Vishinsky
Moscow Radio
Ussr
Iran
Kremlin
Tehran
Census Round-up Urges missing persons to report to Census Bureau
The census office reports missing individuals in the 1950 count and asks those not counted to call the Census Bureau at 6-4396. Enumerators can be sent to add them to the count, stressing that just two minutes of time may complete the 100 percent goal.
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Census Bureau
March Opens Race Urging Tax on Gas
South Bend Texas May 15 Free barbecue beans and a scorching political speech opened Case March 1950 campaign for Texas governor. March vows to tax natural gas heavily and to challenge major oil firms, accusing Governor Shivers of betraying the people on four counts. Crowd of about 1200 cheered as he attacked labor laws and federal control of tidelands. He positioned himself as friend of the little man against the big firms.
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South Bend
Texas
Case March
March
New York
Austin
Uns
Shivers
Tao
Gilmer-Aikin
Graham
Circus Performer Reports Theft At City Coliseum
K Krenkel of Chicago with the Polack Brothers Circus reported Monday that two suitcases containing six suits shirts ties underwear books papers and other personal items were stolen from an unlocked truck at the City Coliseum. The circus will be in Waco until May 29 before returning to Chicago.
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K. Krenkel
Chicago
Ill
City Coliseum
Polack Brothers
Waco
Krenkel
Rescue over Niagara Falls saves woman and crew
A Bell Helicopter dipped over Niagara Falls to rescue Mrs Jeannette Bugay and belatedly pull two crewmen from the rapids. Pilot Owen Neihaus and co pilot Joseph Cannon escaped as the craft nosed into the river while a second helicopter arrived to aid.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Horseshoe Falls
Roaring Rapids
Owen Neihaus
Bell Aircraft Corp
Prospect Park
Goat Island
Neihaus
Joseph Cannon
Bell
Bugay
Joe Cannon
Joe
William Gallagher
George White
Jeanette Bugay
Niagara River
Horseshoe Falll
Joseph A. Cannon
Owen Q. Niehaus
Senate House Group Approves 3 Billion Foreign Aid Package
A Senate-House committee approved a 3,121,450,000 foreign aid program and sent it to the House for a vote. The conferees agreed on 35 million for Truman's point four technical aid to backward areas and limited guarantees for American Overseas investors against expropriation in Marshall Plan countries.
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Washington
Senate
House
Kee
D-Wyva
House Foreign Affairs Committee
President Truman
Truman Opens 1950 Campaign With Fair Deal Push
President Truman launched a political tour urging defeat of obstructionists in Congress as he champions the Fair Deal agenda. He vowed to press for Taft Hartley repeal social security education aid housing and civil rights while stressing international cooperation and a strong defense amid a broad Democratic push for November elections.
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Chicago
Truman
Congress
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Victor A. Johnston
GOP
Johnston
House
Democratic Party
Russia
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