Capital City Docks Plan Faces University Easement Hurdle
City seeks a 50 foot public access easement from Lake Austin Boulevard to the lake for a municipal pier and lakeside park near Tom Miller Dam. The University of Texas would grant the easement without monetary payment as public and student benefits are the consideration. The plan awaits a formal city council and regents agreement with covenants on maintenance and prohibition of buildings or vehicular parking.
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Trueman O’quinn
Board of Regents
University of Texas
Lake Austin
Tom Miller
C. D. Simmons
University
Brackenridge
Simmons
Regents
Guston Morgan
Municipal Pier
Lake Austin Boulevard
Lake Front
City of Austin
City of
Austin
Commies Seek CIO Favor as Funds Dry Up
Victor Riesel reports that Communist circles internal to the CIO face a cash crunch after foreign funding was cut. The FBI has learned international leadership is withholding support and the group is frantically raising money to bail out the Politburo Eleven. Phil Murray accuses the movement of trickery while UK leaders seek peace talks to avert a labor civil war.
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CIO
Joe
FBI
United Electrical Workers
Phil Murray
Murray
Daily Worker
Cleveland Auditorium
Cleveland
Albert Fitzgerald
Emil Rieve
Joe Curran
Walter Reuther
Editors Notebook: Texas Chemicals Surge Behind Oil Boom
The Austin based screen highlights Texas rapid chemical industry growth driven by oil refining and government security shifts. It cites Dow, Monsanto, alkali plants from Corpus Christi to Baytown, and new sites in Corpus Christi Victoria Longview. The Austin Development Foundation lured Jefferson Chemical’s labs to UT campus, with plans for broader national industrial research.
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University and Industrial Research and
Austin Development Foundation
Austin
Texas
East Texas
Dow Chemical
Monsanto
Texas City
Corpus Christi
Victoria
Bishop
Longview
Port Neches
Baytown
Orange
Corpus Christi-Victoria
Rockport Triangle
Brownsville
Consolidated National Research Laboratories
Jefferson Chemical Company
University of Texas
National Chemical Industries
American Cyanamid
Texas Company
Jefferson Chemical
Sion
Eastern
Seaboard
School Fire Warden Demonstrates Training Value
John Schneider of Govalle School, former fire marshal, calmly directed the response when infant Robert Gow fell into an abandoned well. He dialed the fire department, bringing trucks and rescuers within ten minutes, showcasing trained pupils’ safety impact amid rapid professional action.
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John Schneider
Govalle
Robert Gow
John
Abide With Me author’s faith and opera debut facts
The hymn writer Rev Henry Francis Lyte, born in Scotland, joined the Church of Ireland in 1819 and later became a Methodist. Adelina Patti, at 16, debuted in Lucia di Lammermoor in 1859 in New York. Football player numbering began in 1908 in the Jefferson game era.
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Henry Francis Lyte
Scotland
Church of Ireland
Lyte
A. Adelina Patti
Lucia In
Navy Watchdog Recovers Millions in Navy Contracts
Captain M. C. Barrett leads the Navy supervising inspector of naval material unit that uncovers overpayments and waste in contracts. The watchdog group negates Canonsburg Steel overcharges, recovers funds from Westinghouse and Mesta, and resells idle Navy property for a profit.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Navy
Pittsburgh
Naval
Canonsburg Steel and Iron Company
Canonsburg
Admirals
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Perle Mesta
Luxembourg
Truman
Mesta Machine Company
Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation
Elliott Company
M. C. Barrett
Ge Ye P. Page
J. K. Kennedy
Broadway Talk and Críticas from the London Times to Brassy Broadway
A column surveys theater and film chatter from London and New York. It notes Jane Russell publicity, the Winter Garden ballet act, Virgil’s critique of Carmen, Kate Hepburn in Adam's Rib, and various gleeful arts anecdotes. It mentions Ike and MacArthur fashion, Ingrid on Stromboli, Helen Morgan’s Body and Soul reissue, TV gag fatigue, and references to Horace Greeley’s print ethos.
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Jane Russell
London Times
Pip-pip
Britain
Russell
Virgil N
Trib
G. J. Nathan
Cosmopolitan
Kate Hepburn
Adam
N. Y. Times
Ingrid
Helen Morgan
Jack Dempsey
Shor's
Cal’m
Lindy
Marseetrioter
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Klaftsmen
Post-Mall Syndicate Inc
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Editors
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Austin American Information
New York
H. Med
Pittsburgh-Washington
Austin American Information Bureau
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Drew Pearson
Missouri
Wallace Graham
White House
Graham
Senator McFarland
Walter Lynch
Ways and Means
Lynch
Bob Doughton
North Carolina
Insurance Execs
A. J. McAndless
Lincoln National
Fort Wayne
Ind
McAndless
Treasury Department
Congress
iCoovright
UY Well Byngicare, Inc
Dee
Bradley
Ike
MacArthur
Hoyt Vandenberg
Vaughan
Fancy Dan
Lucius Beebee
Horace Greeley
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Red Nervo
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Austin Statesman
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Associated Press
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