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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1949
Page
2
Citizens urged to share rides in bus strikes
Beaumont and Port Arthur faced a bus strike as drivers and mechanics walked out after deadlocked negotiations with National City Lines. Mayor Otho Plummer urged residents to carpool and use taxis to ease transport. Budgets show wages at $1.10 for drivers and $1.22 for mechanics, with a 25 cent demand from the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaumont
Otho Plummer
Port Arthur
National City Lines, Inc
AFL
Hudson Bay Company Men Carry 90 Pound Pack 80 Miles
Early day workers for Hudson Bay Company required carrying a 90 pound pack plus food and sleeping gear across 80 miles in four days, a test of endurance and logistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson Bay Company
Further Rise Expected For Lake Travis
The Buchanan Dam opened a second flood gate sending more water into Lake Travis. At noon Thursday Lake Travis stood 663.15 feet, 16.85 feet below normal, with officials predicting a rise of about two feet daily and gates to stay open at least through Saturday as inflows from West Texas continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchanan Dam
Lake Travis
Colorado River Authority
LCRA
Colorado River
West Texas
Lake Buchanan
Travis
West
Texas
Austin Weather Bureau
Tax Remittance Aid To Storm Area For Texas Damage
The Texas House unanimously approved a bill by Rep Blake Timmons to remit 112 years' ad valorem taxes in Potter County for Amarillo storm repair. A Fort Worth delegation filed a companion bill for Tarrant County flood damage. Tax relief applies only through 1950 as the state property tax levy ends after Jan 1 1951.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
House
Blake Timmons
Potter County
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Tarrant County
San Antonio Woman Injured in Snowy Greyhound Wreck
A Greyhound bus on the Donner Summit Highway swerved to miss a parked car and truck, plowing into a snowbank. Ten people were injured, none seriously. among the injured was Imogene Grant of San Antonio Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Calif
Greyhound
Donner Summit Highway
State Highway Patrol
Imogene Grant
Placer Drive
San Antonio
Texas
181 Legislators Brace for Weeklong Logjam in Texas House
The Austin American reports 181 lawmakers face a stalled week as committees multiply and optimism fades. Reps McLellan Holt Senterfitt Kirkpatrick warn adjournment may slip three weeks or more, with three big appropriation bills delaying reconciliation and pay reduced to five dollars a day for ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McLellan
Concensus
Reuben Senterfitt
San Saba
I. B. Holt
Olton
Senate
House
Ray Kirkpatrick
Trenton
Zephyr to Pause at Electra for Mail Pickup
Station Agent N M Baird received orders to flag Fort Worth and Denver Zephyr to stop at Electra for first class mail only when more than one bag is ready. The stop is a whistle stop dispute as Electra fights the new schedule delaying long haul passengers. Robert L Hoyt issued the directive effective immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electra
N. M. Baird
Fort Worth
Denver
Zephyr
Streamliner
Baird
Robert L. Hoyt
Texas Gulf Sulphur Declares Dividend
Directors of Texas Gulf Sulphur Company declare an additional 50 cent dividend and the regular 75 cent dividend on common stock, both payable June 15 to stock of record May 27. Similar amounts were paid in March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Texas Gulf Sulphur Company
Glaring Fire Hazards Found at Galveston Medical Branch
State fire insurance commissioner reported to Governor Jester a list of glaring deficiencies in fire prevention at the Galveston medical branch of the University of Texas. The report details six buildings with no fire escapes and wiring hazards, urging monthly drills and an auxiliary fire unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gana Jones Associated Press
Beauford H. Jester
Galveston Medical School
Crippled Children’s Hospital
Jester
Paul H. Brown
Galveston Medical Branch
John Searly
Negro Hospital
Crippled Children's Hospital
State Psychopathic Hospital
Protests Grow Over Jailing of Two Vermont Vets
Protests spread from Rutland to New England as two former soldiers Ralph J. Fugatt and Bernard J. Smith remain jailed for failing to pay about $2,000 in civil judgments. County officials warned lifelong imprisonment perhaps, unless they qualify as paupers. Smith’s poor debtor oath failed. Fugatt mourns missing the birth of his child. Massachusetts Governor Dever urged Vermont Governor Gibson to secure their release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland
New England
Ralph J. Fugatt
Springfield
Mass
Bernard J. Smith
Fair Haven
George Harmon
Smith
Fugatt
Vermont
Massachusetts
Paul A. Dever
Ernest W. Gibson
Pasadena to Seek Rent Decontrol Authorization
Pasadena officials ask Governor Beauford H. Jester to authorize removal of rent controls. A county commission report says a committee studied Pasadena’s rental market and recommended decontrol for the city of about 25 000 residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Beauford H. Jester
County Commission
E. M. Williams
US To Intervene In Ford Strike
The federal government moves into the Ford strike by UAW CIO workers at two plants in Detroit area. Federal mediator Arthur C. Vint will join Friday talks after Ford requests intervention as union protests pace and carmaker seeks steady production. UAW President Walter Reuther addresses a large rally of 72,000 idle Ford workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
CIO
United Auto
Ford Motor Company
Arthur C. Vint
Ford
Viat
UAW
Cyrus 5S. Ching
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Uaw-Cio
Ford Industrial Relations
John S. Bugas
Bugas
Walter P. Reuther
Navy may send carrier to Gulf for reserve airmen training
Texas State Rep Jack Cox said the Navy may deploy an aircraft carrier to the Gulf of Mexico to train Naval reserve airmen. He spoke with Navy officials and Tex Oklahoma Naval reservists near Hensley Air Base Dallas. Rep Thompson noted the Navy favors the move and suggests Galveston as a base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solons
Navy
Gulf
Washington
Jack Cox
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Naval Reserve
Breckenridge
Naval
Hensley Air Base
Dallas
Naval Air Reservists
Oklahoma
Thompson
Dtexas
Galveston
Tenants Plan Meeting on Rent Decontrol Fight
Austin tenants organize a Monday meeting at 7 30 p m in the City Library auditorium to form a committee to represent renters before the Senate state affairs committee Tuesday for the rent decontrol bill. The bill passed the House 93 41 and hearings are set for 2 p m Tuesday. The Rent Advisory Board will hold a fact finding hearing on local decontrol actions on the 10th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
J. A. Devries
West 16Th Street
City
Senate State Affairs Committee
House
Devries
Rent Advisory Board
Plasma Bottle Returns as Liqueur Gift to Cal Lab
Berkeley, May 19. A wartime plasma bottle returned to California filled with liqueur. Dr. Pierre Francois of Janze praised its timing and thanked Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley for the gesture. The bottle reached the lab aboard France's merci train amid plans to share a sip among donors and technicians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Calif
France
Pierre Francois
Janze
Cutter
California
Carrier Commander's Death Ruled Suicide Aboard Antitam
A coroner's jury ruled Navy Commander Everett Olin Rigsbee Jr. killed himself aboard the USS Antitam at Hunter's Point Naval drydock after an inquest into his death last Saturday. The commander, found with a bullet wound to the temple and a .38 revolver nearby, had been despondent since orders to deactivate the carrier. Commander Carter Jennings testified to his low spirits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Everett Olin Rigsbee Jr
Navy
Hunter’s Point Naval Drydock
Rigsbee
Carter Jennings
House Panel Rebukes Army Over Vaughan Medal
A House armed services panel tabled a bill allowing 67 Army officers to wear 93 awards from 20 foreign governments, delaying Major General Harry Vaughan's Order of the Liberator General San Martin amid criticism sparked by Vaughan’s medal from Argentina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Truman
Peron
Argentina
Representative Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
Vinson
Harry H. Vaughan
Army
Vaughan
Drew Pearson
Sob
Order of the Liberator
San Martin
State Department
Congress
Omar Bradley
Autopsy Planned in Death of H H Shelton Jr
US Navy officials in Dallas ordered an autopsy into the death of Horace H. Shelton Jr. a 25 year old UT student who died suddenly in Dallas. Justice of the Peace McBride withheld verdict pending autopsy results. Shelton had signed for a Navy Reserve training course and was in Dallas for a 15 day training at the Naval Air Base. He was found dead after leaving a ball game and near a bus stop. The Navy will ship his body to Austin for funeral rites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
US Navy
Dallas
Horace H. Shelton Jr
University of Texas
Dallaas
Justice of the Peace
Pierce McBride
Shelton
Navy
Navy Reserve
Naval Air Base
United Press
McBride
Charles H. Dillon
Parkland Hospital
L. S. Stone
Louise Shelton
Horace H. Shelton
Austin
Navy Department
Magnolia state flower of Louisiana described
The Magnolia State reference notes Louisiana's state flower as the magnolia. The description states the magnolia is associated with Louisiana culture and identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnolia
Louisiana
Taylor Woman Wins Cadillac In Coffee Contest
Mrs. Sam H. West of Taylor, employed by the Taylor Refining Company, won first prize a Cadillac sedan for the best entry in the Duncan Coffee Company Adoration coffee contest. She chose the car color and style and will receive the prize in Dallas next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor
Cadillac
Sam H. West
Taylor Refining Company
Duncan Coffee Company of
Houston
The
Good Motor Company
H. M. Duncan
Duncan Coffee Company
Mrs. West
Duncan
Austin
Charles Duncan
D. M. Cummings
Actress Rosemary Lane and Buddy Westmore Separate
Actress Rosemary Lane and film makeup man Buddy Westmore have separated and contemplate divorce. Lane told a reporter she left Westmore about a week ago and has asked her attorney to prepare divorce papers. They were married in New York in 1941 and have a 3-year-old daughter Bridget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Rosemary Lane
Buddy Westmore
Miss Lane
Westmore
New York
Bridget
Navy Begins Alaska Aerial Mapping Work
Four Liberator planes of Navy Photographic Squadron 61 left San Diego for Nome Alaska to start the Navy's largest aerial mapping project. Led by Lieutenant Commander A R Barbee the crew will stop at Great Falls Montana and set up an advanced operating base. The expedition will last about four months and aims to produce the first accurate map of the entire Alaska region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Navy Photographic Squadro 61
Nome
Alaska
Navy
A. R. Barbee
Coronado
Great Falls
Mont
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