TB Hospital Costs To Stay High Warns Cavness
The Weaver H. Baker Memorial Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Mission shows high operating costs from its scattered layout. Auditor Cavness notes patient to staff ratios near 100 to 96, with costs averaging 213.04 per patient monthly and limited efficiency due to distant units on the former Army air field.
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Capitol
Weaver H. Baker Memorial
Mission
Stat
C. H. Cavness
Cavness
Army Air Field
Home Demonstrators Will Hold Discussion
The Lytton Springs Home Demonstration Club will meet Wednesday from 2 to 4 p m at Mrs De Fla Strain s home. Discussion centers on landscaping canning problems and decor for windows and walls. Members urged to attend.
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Lytton Springs
Top Czech Aide To UN Resigns Seeks US Haven
Dr. Vladimir Houdek, the Czech delegate to the United Nations, resigns and seeks refuge in the United States alleging Russia destroyed his country's freedom. He cites Prague's Communist government installing Rokossovsky style methods and notes Czechoslovakia ceased to exist as an independent state. He sent wires to Truman and UN official Byron Price and a cable to Stalin quoting Lenin and Marxist theory.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations
Vladimir Houdek
United States
Russia
Houdek
Byron Price
Trygve Lie
Czechoslovakia
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Poland
Prague
Truman
Price
Josef Stalin
Lenin
House Panel Backs 10 Percent Dividend Withholding
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 16 to 9 to impose a 10 percent withholding tax on corporate dividends, aiming to curb tax dodging and raise about 150 million dollars yearly. The panel rejected President Truman's proposed increases in estate and gift taxes to fund 400 million dollars annually.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Truman
Congress
Representative Mills
D-Ark
Internal Revenue Bureau
Treasury Department
Senate
Treasury
Colombian UT Student Victim Of Car Vandals
Nestor Jaramillo, petroleum engineering student from Colombia at the University of Texas, had his parked car looted at Barton Springs. Thieves took a billfold with three dollars and a $220.70 check drawn on National City Bank of New York, a handmade gold and silver watch, and a gold onyx mother’s picture ring. He lived in Dormitory B at 2100 San Jacinto and was with Jim Thompson who lost his new shoes. looters smashed a car window to enter.
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Nestor Jaramillo
Colombia
South America
Barton Springs
Jaramillo
University of Texas
National City Bank of New York
San Jacinto
Jim Thompson
Thompson
State Makes New Schools Payment On Per Capita Funds
The state issued a $4 per pupil disbursement to Texas schools totaling $6,219,095, announced Tuesday by Dr. J. W. Edgar, commissioner of education. This brings the year’s total paid to $39 per capita with $11 remaining to be distributed monthly as funds accrue.
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Texas
J. W. Edgar
Edgar
War Any Time Says Symington on national defense
Denver May 16 W Stuart Symington, new chairman of the National Security Resources Board, warned America faces war at any moment and must prepare for instant mobilization. He urged wartime control legislation and a plan for atomic age disaster readiness to be presented to every governor by September 1.
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Denver
W. Stuart Symington
America
National Security Resources Board
Russia
Symington
Goynor
War Dead Honored in Erath County Ceremonies
Erath County observed ceremonies in the courthouse plaza to honor dead from both world wars. Atty. Gen. Price Daniel served as the principal speaker at the event in Stephenville on Tuesday.
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Stephenville
Erath County
Atty. Gen
Price Daniel
Texas Crash Damages Bill Sent to Senate
The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill awarding 19,135 dollars to five Texans for deaths and injuries from a January 10 1941 highway crash near Blanco. Awards go to Ruth B Moore Dallas guardian of John Robert Lusk III Minnie P Pruitt Colorado City Billie John Bickle Hamilton and to John Robert Lusk Sr Ballinger and John Lusk Jr burial costs.
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House
Senate
Blanco
Blanco River
Ernest W. Tillinghast
John R. Rusk Jr
Burleson
Texas
Ruth B. Moore
Dallas
John Robert Lusk
Moore
John R. Lusk Sr
Ballinger
Minnie P. Pruitt
Ernest Tillinghast
Colorado City
Billie John Bickle
Hamilton
John Robert Lusk Jr
John Lusk Jr
Centex Highway Bids Open in Texas Across 165 Miles
Texas State Highway Department opened low bids totaling 3,656,561 for 37 highway maintenance and construction projects in Centex as part of a two day bid program covering 165 miles on non farm roads and 535.5 miles of farm to market roads. Wed expects 38 more bids to raise the month total to about 8,775,000 funded by the last Legislature. Central Texas projects include Burnet County and Williamson County lines with bids from Kilian Keller Company and Rogers.
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State Highway Department
Texas
Burnet—Farm
Burnet
Kililan-Keller Company
San Antonio
Williamson
Cotton Merchandising Clinic Set for New Orleans May 19 20
Southern cotton men will discuss modern methods for selecting cotton to meet mill requirements at the third annual Cotton Merchandising Clinic in New Orleans. Merchants, mill buyers and researchers will attend May 19 and 20, sponsored by the Cotton Research Committee of Texas and the University of Texas, aligning with an American Cotton Shippers' meeting. Professor Joel F. Hembree of Texas A&M is referenced in the report.
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New Orleans
Spociers
Cotton Research Committee of Texas
University of Texas
Joel F. Hembree
Princess Fathia's Egyptian marriage annulled by royal council
In Cairo on May 16 the royal council nullified Princess Fathia's marriage to Riad Ghali, a Coptic Christian, and ordered control of her and Queen Nazli's properties. Fathia and Ghali wed secretly in San Francisco on April 25, while moslem law disallows such unions.
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Cairo
Egypt
Farouk
California
Fathia
Nazli
Faika
Riad Ghali
San Francisco
Nazii
Fouad Sadek
Ghali
Weather and river notes from Texas region forecast
Partly cloudy weather with scattered afternoon or evening showers across West Texas and Pecos Valley. Readings show highs near 90, lows in the 60s, with rainfall totaling 14.27 inches since January 1 and an accumulated excess of .33 inch. River stages around Montopolis and Lake Buchanan show little change with forecasted stable conditions.
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St Texas
Rene
Paandie
Pieins
Pecos Valley
M. Bees
Justin
Colorado
Montopolis
Pet
Lake Buchanan
Ake
Avis
Marshall Ford
Texas
Abilene
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Houston
Austin
Fire Destroys Engelking Weekend Home
Fire totally destroyed the S P Engelking weekend home off Bee Caves Road Monday night. Damage estimated at $10000. home poorly insured. Antiques and heirlooms lost. only two chairs a bed and a table salvaged. Cause under investigation Tuesday.
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S. P. Engelking
Bee Caves Road
Engelking
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