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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1949
Page
15
UT Regents will meet to accept gifts including $500 for scholarships from the Austin Sigma Delta Chi chapter. The journalism fraternity raised the fund after a Pixiecrat mock convention last fall, with funds earmarked for five $100 scholarships.
The body of Private Victor Ledesma will arrive at Cook Funeral Home Friday afternoon. He was killed in action June 14, 1944, in France. Survivors include his father Manuel Ledesma, two sisters Sally Torres and Rachel Clark, and brother Johnnie Ledesma, all of Austin. The hearse will transport him to 68 Comal Street by 10 a.m. Saturday. Funeral services will be at Guadalupe Church Sunday 2:30 p.m., Rev. Nicholas Jaz officiating. Burial at Memorial Park.
University of Texas instructors train college teachers to teach high school educators to train students in driving. The program, led by Norman Key of the AAA, combines classroom lessons with hands on driving tests to assess skill, reaction time, visual ability, and speed control in a lab near Zilker Bay.
The board plans annual scholarships for deserving male students pursuing journalism degrees starting in September. It will review business dockets for the Main University and branches. 1949-50 budgets will be delayed awaiting final state Legislature appropriations for higher education institutions.
Residents along the San Fernando Creek reported dead fish and a rotten onion odor from waste runoff. A Wednesday hearing fined two Celanese Corporation officials $150 each for polluting the creek with plant waste.
O. T. Martin Jr., Travis County district clerk, has returned to his office after an illness during the past two weeks.
Austin polio case count rises with Richard Hunt three year old son of Connie Hunt admitted to Brackenridge in fair condition while Penny Hallmark two years old daughter of C B Hallmark at 502 Nelray Street remains in fair condition in the polio ward.
Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug outlined a federal plan for tidelands management at a Houston dinner. He said Supreme Court suits to recognize federal rights to Texas and Louisiana tidelands would be filed promptly. He proposed invalidating state leases, negotiating new ones, and sharing production with states on a royalty basis, with rapid development to aid peacetime needs.
Austin's public library on wheels enters its second year with air conditioning and a larger daily reach. The two-person trailer circulated 28 215 books in January through April, more than double last year, and continues year round visiting schools apartments and main library stops.
Chief R. D. Thorp announced officers will collect and store children’s air rifles at police headquarters to curb property damage from BB gun use. He urged parents to surrender firearms to halt vandalism across the city, under a city ordinance banning air rifle shooting.
Lupe Portillo and Ernest Herrera won all expense trips to the state marble tournament in Abilene June 9. Portillo defeated Herrera in the Austin City Coliseum playoff to claim the marble championship of Austin. Three winners in each class were honored with medals by VFW leader Eugene O. Horton, with local officials and Recreation Department staff overseeing the event.
An application filed with the Federal Communications Commission seeks to transfer the license of radio station KNOW from Frontier Broadcasting Company to a new formed corporation. The deal exchanges ownership interests among KNOW WACO in Waco and KRIO in McAllen, with Wendell Mayes of Brownwood to serve as president and Louis R. Cook as vice president and general manager.
Rembert Gilman Smith, 71, a retired Methodist minister and pamphlet author, is in Austin for several days to spread his gospel in a pamphlet titled Communism Attacks Civilization.
Mrs. Emma Amos, 45, died in a Houston hospital from injuries suffered Saturday night when struck by a hit-and-run driver. The fatality brings the city traffic toll to 18 for the year, compared with 20 at the same point in 1948.
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