March of Dimes Workers Plan Hirst Meeting
Ed S. Stewart Texas chairman for the 1949 March of Dimes fundraising appeal announced a meeting of workers from surrounding counties at the Stephen F. Austin Hotel in Austin on November 16 at 10 am. He said the Texas outbreak has cost the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and Texas chapters $150 000 monthly to hospitalize cases and urged local involvement to push the campaign over the top.
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Texas
Stephen F. Austin
Austin
Ed. S. Stewart
National Foundation For
New Congress May Okeh UMT
Representative Durham predicts a friendlier House next year for Universal Military Training though he doubts passage before January. He notes Democratic control aids compulsory service bills and cites Army manpower needs and doctor shortages as justification for UMT.
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Washington
House
Representative Durham
D-Nc
Congress
UMT
Durham
House Armed Services Committee
Rules Committee
Leo E. Allen
Armed Services Committee
Truman
Indians to Register for Draft in New Mexico
The Indian Service will oversee registration of about 4500 Indians eligible for the present draft in New Mexico.
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The
Indian Service
New Mexico
Texas Penitentiary Admits Out of State Convicts in Civil War
On November 15 1864 the Legislature ordered Huntsville State Penitentiary to admit any person convicted by Louisiana Arkansas or Mississippi. Transportation maintenance and release payments were to be handled by the other states. Few prisoners arrived as governments in those states were strained. Convicts built cloth utensils and machinery for military and civilian use.
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Huntsville
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Texas
Reds Mid East War Policy Cited
Damascus dispatch reports observers say the Soviet Union pursues a double edged policy in Palestine. Arms to Jews via Czechoslovakia and stirring Arab Communist parties risk wider conflict. Neutral observers warn oil interests and Western defenses would suffer if Moscow succeeds.
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Damascus
Syria
Russia
Palestine
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Israel
United States
Britain
Holy Land
Middle East
Granger Lovers of Good Literature Honor Husbands
The Granger club fete honored their husbands at a Thursday night party hosted by Mrs. J. B. Arthur. A buffet supper was served to members and guests including Mrs. Billye Bob Brookshire Mr. and Mrs. James Brookshire and others.
Gilmer Aikin Report to be Explained by AAUW Monday
The Gilmer Aikin Committee report will be explained at a public AAUW meeting in the City Library at 7 30 p m. Dr J W Edgar Austin schools superintendent and committee member will speak. The report urges drastic changes in state public school organization and has been discussed in AAUW meetings across Texas.
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Gilmer-Aikin Committee
American Association of University Women
J. W. Edgar
Austin
Edgar
AUUW
Katherine Cook
UT Austin Initiates George W Foster Jr in Phi Kappa Tau
George William Foster Jr of Austin is initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau social fraternity at the University of Texas. Foster, a business administration student, is the son of Mr and Mrs George W Foster of 3208 Clawson Road Austin.
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Phi Kappa Tau
University of Texas
George William Foster Jr
Austin
Foster
George W. Foster
Clawson Road
Export Drop Called Balance Aid in US Trade Outlook
US exports may fall about 15 percent below 1947 peak of 15.3 billion dollars this year while imports rise. Blaisdell says the export decline, with higher imports, narrows the trade gap from 1947 levels and may move toward freer world trade by 1952 if domestic production stays high.
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Washington
United States
Thomas C. Blaisdell
Commerce Department
Office of International Trade
Blaisdell
Department
Foreign Commerce Weekly
Saldanas Welcome Laura Ann Born at Brackenridge Hospital
Mr and Mrs Leonel A Saldana of 224 Pedernales are parents of a daughter Laura Ann born November 3 at Brackenridge Hospital in San Antonio.
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L. A. Saldanas
Leonel A. Saldana
Pedernales
Laura Ann
Brackenridge Hospital
Oklahoma language school at the University of Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma runs the only language school of its kind. Directors say Oklahoma with about thirty Indian languages provides the richest laboratory in the world for linguistic study.
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University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma
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Okeh
Schaffer’s
the Greeting Card Center
Ee Weasler
Guadalupe
Granger Literary Club
Fetes Husbands
L. EA
AAUW
Gilmer-Atkin
By d’Alessio
Sternenberg Lumber Co
R. K. Shannon
G. W. Shelfer
Optometrists
Zale Jewelers
Aebens Co-Stari
Zed
Universal-International
Eaiak Tobacco
Chad
Galen Tobacco Farmer
MT. Sterling
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