City Council Seeks Bond Vote to Back Growth Needs
Austin voters will decide on a multi million dollar bond issue as the council touts a record of housing buses paving boulevard plans one way streets wreckers revenue bonds sanitation job classification hospital liquor control and taxi franchising progress. The issue tests voter confidence in the council and its ability to spend wisely amid growth. Mayor Taylor Glass pushes quick agenda completion to sell the need and highlight achievements.
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Austin
Taylor Glass
Glass
Brackenridge Hospital
Science Probes Paths to Revive Oil Fields in Texas
Texas scientists and the Texas Petroleum Research Committee pursue secondary recovery methods to extend life of aging oil fields and even revive abandoned ones. The program, led by William J. Murray Jr. and Dr. George H. Fancher, explores injecting fluids to boost petroleum recovery and may extend production across many Texas fields.
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Texas Petroleum Research Committee
William J. Murray Jr
The
Railroad Commission
George H. Fancher
University of Texas
Murray
Pennsylvania
Pitching Horseshoes Actress Memory Lapse Ends In Death
A famous actress, famed for forgetfulness and theatrical feuds, dies at her Long Island home after planning a solitary party to seek forgiveness. Her lawyer reveals she never mailed invitations, and the late notice party became a fatal night before she passed.
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Long Island
Harriet
Billy Rose
Technical Aid Flows To Southeast Asia
Five Southeast Asian governments have filed requests for technical assistance from the United States totaling about 64 million dollars for the next 15 months. Burma Siam Malaya and Indonesia follow Viet Nam Indochina with the largest request. The aid aims to deploy 3500 experts in medicine education agriculture mining and engineering, with possible two year engineering contracts for Burma and Siam.
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Southeast Asia
United States
Viet Nam
Indochina
Burma
Siam
Malaya
Indonesia
Southeast
Asia
China
State Department
R. Allen Griffin
Monterey, Calif
Peninsula Herald
Roger Lapham
Ho Chi Minh
Sim
Answers and Questions About Rainbows and a Laureate
The text explains multiple observers see distinct rainbows due to different light paths and eye positions. It notes that many rainbows exist in the sky and describes color-filled light. It also asks about a poet laureate buried standing up and answers Ben Jonson was buried upright in Westminster Abbey.
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England
Ben Johnson
Westminster Abey
Charlie Chaplin Jr Mimics Father In TV Show
The text describes Charlie Chaplin Jr impersonating his actor father on television and notes on family, fame, and social issues. It references jokes about weight, retirement, theft, welfare, sardines in a can, and a family road trip to a Sunday School picnic.
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Charlie Chaplin Jr
Charlie Sr
Parties and Games booklet offers entertaining ideas
Advertisement for a booklet titled Parties and Games promising amusing ideas for all occasions including teas showers anniversaries and children parties with games. Priced at 15 cents and available from the Austmerican Information Bureau at 1900 Eye St NW Washington DC.
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Austmerican Information Bureau
Eye St. NW
Washington, D. C
Army studies lethal gas rumors. report debunked
Washington column cautions against sensational claims of a painless gas and explains tabun and sarin cause madness and death. Detailing experiments at Dugway Proving Ground, the piece notes risks, protective clothing, and German origins. It also discusses Truman diplomacy and antiwar propaganda in Europe.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Detroit
Anthony McAuliffe
Army Chemical Corps
American Chemical Society
Dugway Proving Ground
Utah
Joseph Goebbels
Hitler
Albert Speer
Dr. Speer
Broadway musings and mixed world news roundup
A collage of items notes black market birth certificates in Puerto Rico, film industry mergers, Howard Hughes flying boat exhibits, society marriages and travels, Nazi and Peron era commentary, and quirky historical anecdotes. The piece blends entertainment gossip with political reflections and international curios.
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Mary Lothrop
Harvard
McGeorge Bundy
Stimson
Ronnie Annenberg
Miami
Tony Sweet
Joan Davis
Freeno
Richard Koret
Adam C. Powell
Oxford
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