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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1949
Page
9
About 1,400 magicians pour into Denver for the Society of American Magicians 21st conference. The three day event features magic shows contests and lectures drawing attendees from across the nation.
Texas Democratic chair John C. Calhoun denied a Texas Democratic Executive Committee business session in Wichita Falls for June 9 to 11. He said the official party is not sponsoring the event led by Wichita Falls committeewoman Mrs. H. W. Weir and that most committee members oppose the quarterly meeting. Calhoun may attend the opening day.
Railroad commissioners will hold a statewide oil proration hearing Thursday at 9 am in the Driscoll Hotel Corpus Christi to evaluate whether Texas oil production declines can be reversed. The session follows repeated market demand cuts and may influence two year oil tax revenue estimates and prices nationwide.
Opening arguments concluded in a pre-trial hearing in 98th District Court as 10 key oil companies face price fixing charges under Texas anti-trust laws. Judge Betts hear objections and requests for separate trials amid crowded courtroom. Defendants include Arkansas Fuel Oil, Continental Oil, Cities Service, Humble Oil and Refining, Magnolia, Standard Oil of Texas, Texas Company, Sinclair, and Phillips Petroleum.
The Senate privileges and elections committee will hold a 2:30 pm hearing Tuesday on five election law revision bills. Committee members include Senator Carlos Ashley as chairman. The bills from Whitesides Heflin Kelly Cousins Ashley Phillips and a voter registration general bill by Rep. Frank C. Oltorf Jr. are grouped for review.
The House closed its mascot list for the session on Monday. A daughter was born Monday to Representative and Mrs. B. McGregor at Waco. After a delay, the mascot list was approved and about 90 children of 51st Legislature members will appear in the official group photo.
Firemen dragged a section of Mountain Creek Lake in Dallas on Monday for the body of James Foreman a 19 year old who drowned while trying to swim ashore from an abandoned rowboat.
The 100th anniversary of the six million dollar waterfront fire of May 17 1849 will be marked with a wreath-laying ceremony in St. Louis on Wednesday.
Finance chairman Sen. James E. Taylor says the Senate finance committee is shaping the eleemosynary appropriation to include a hospital building program. The panel weighs nearly 22 million in hospital and special school construction for the two-year period, balancing revenues and possible tax actions.
District Attorney Bob Long announced James Ware resigns as assistant DA after two and a half years to join the insurance division of Guarantee Finance Co. Thomas Blackwell will fill Ware's post and Jerome Smith will succeed Blackwell as head of the domestic relations division. Smith, UT law graduate, lives at 1713 East 38th Street and is a Florida native who served as a major in Allied HQs in North Africa England and Italy. He later worked for Lieut. Gen. Somerville in Washington and is Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 41 at First Presbyterian Church.
The secret ballot measure faces a conference committee to resolve defects after Senate amendments changed its machinery. Rep. Reed noted some amendments targeted wrong sections and a revision is needed. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters and allied groups, the bill aims to guard against voter coercion and boss influence.
William III of England ascended the throne after the 1688 Revolution, being the grandson of a British king and the husband of James II’s eldest daughter, Mary, linking him to royal dynastic connections.
The modern public health movement started in England in 1848 with passage of the first Public Health Act and the creation of the Central Board of Health in London, marking a formal shift toward organized sanitary reform.
A historical note traces blue Monday to 18th century naval crews where offenses were tallied and punishments, including floggings, were carried out each Monday, yielding the nickname black and blue Monday across the week.
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