Texas Solon Pushing Vote Law Revision in Texas
San Antonio November 15 Representative Marshall W Bell will introduce a joint resolution to form a 15 member bipartisan committee to redraft all Texas election laws starting June 1949. The panel would include three members from each legislative branch the attorney general the secretary of state and seven governor appointees with a report due in 1950 for study by the 52nd Legislature. Bell also backs mandatory primaries and elimination of runoff primaries and aims to remove communists from public service in Texas.
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San Antonio
INS
Marshall W. Bell
Texas
Bell
Student Delegates Return to Taylor
Hilliard Smith and Thomas Swenson returned from Mobile Alabama where they attended the regional convention of the Southern Association of Student Governments. Hilliard, a Taylor High senior, is president of the student council. Thomas, a junior, is the delegate-at-large.
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Taylor
Hilliard Smith
Thomas Swenson
Mobile
Ala
Southern Association of Student Governments
Hilliard
Taylor High
Thomas
Yet Newsman Dies
Charlies Stuart Groves, 80, longtime Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe since 1914, died Monday in Washington.
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Washington
Charlies Stuart Groves
The
Boston Globe
Gillespie Boy 3 Saves Sister 2 From Willow City Fire
In Willow City Frederick County New Mexico a 3 year old Gillespie County boy Ray Moehle saved his 2 year old sister Annabelle Moehle from a house fire that burned to the ground. He led her to safety and then informed their mother. The brothers and sisters were away at the time. The family home and all contents were a total loss.
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Fredericksburg
Gillespie County
Willow City
Ray Moehle
Annabelle Moehle
Clinton Moehle
Ray
Howard Barker
College Names Heads Of Development Plan
Abilene Christian College announces two West Texas businessmen will co chair a long range development program. B Sherrod of Lubbock and F O Masten of Wellington and Sudan lead the effort with L P Bennett as honorary chairman. Gus Bowman becomes treasurer and Charles E Damron serves as executive director.
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Abilene
Don H. Morris
Abilene Christian College
West Texas
B. Sherrod
Lubbock
College
F. O. Masten
Wellington
Sudan
L. P. Bennett
Lubbock and Plains
Gus Bowman
Mercantile National Bank
Dallas
Morris Said
Charles E. Damron
Childress
Mirrors Downfall For Church Thief
Cincinnati Feb 15 Patrolmen Edwin Noll and Embry Grimes used mirrors in Immaculate Conception Church to catch a 20 year old youth stealing from the poor box. He admitted breaking into boxes at other churches and was taken into custody.
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Cincinnati
Edwin Noll
Embry Grimes
Immaculate Conception
Noll
Grimes
Pope Pius XII to Return to Vatican on Nov 27
Vatican sources say Pope Pius XII will leave Castel Gandolfo on November 27 after a three month summer stay and return to the Vatican.
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Rome
Pius XII
Castel Gandolfo
Vatican
Truman Declares Food Key to World Peace
President Truman stated that no single factor is more vital to future world peace than food. He addressed delegates at the FAO conference in Key West, urging sustained international cooperation and noting that science and forests play crucial roles in boosting global food production and soil and water conservation.
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Washington
Truman
Key West
Fla
World Food and Agricultural Ortion
FAO
Norris E. Dodd
United Nations Organization
Dodd
Forestry and Forest Products Division
Alien Reports Jewelry Found in New York Bag
A man in Laredo turned over to Customs a bag of jewelry found in a New York garbage can. Valued at about 10,000 dollars, the owner is jailed awaiting deportation to Mexico after a prior October arrest for illegal entry. He said he came to the US in May then to New York to work at a restaurant. No police in other cities reported the jewelry missing.
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Laredo
New York
J. A. Peeler
Mexico
Chisholm Trail Trip To Be Made By Air
Gainesville residents plan an air bound Chisholm Trail journey along with flying farmers from Texas Oklahoma Colorado and Kansas. They gather Tuesday for a roundup and hold a square dance at the community center in a nod to 1880s cattle trail days.
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Chisholm
Gainesville
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Kansas
Dodge City
Abilene
Kas
James N. Whaley
Cooke County
Wisconsin Daily Papers Consolidated in Madison
Madison leaders announce merger of the Capital Times and Wisconsin State Journal. The consolidation covers production printing and business offices and takes effect soon after January 1, 1949. Officers say dual operation is no longer economically feasible.
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Madison
Wis
Capital Times
Wisconsin State Journal
Probe Finds Insufficient Evidence in Bribery Inquiry
London November 15. Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross told a four hour inquiry into Labour government bribery allegations that investigators had not found enough evidence to justify prosecutions. The House of Commons special tribunal examines officials accused of accepting bribes.
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London
Hartley Shawcross
Labor
Shawcross
House of Commons
Fire Destroys Private School in Weatherford
Fire destroyed Parker County Vocational School in Weatherford early Monday. Owner W. M. Barber estimated the loss at $10,000. Cause of the blaze was undetermined.
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Weatherford
Parker County
W. M. Barber
Wage Increase Halts Bus Strike in Western States
Pacific Greyhound drivers and station attendants in seven Western states avert a 10 to 14 percent wage strike after a settlement reached by AFL Amalgamated Association negotiators and the company. About 3,400 workers to vote by mail on the pact in 20 days. retroactive to Oct 24. Pay rises include 0.5 cents per mile, 14 cent hourly rise for local and overland drivers, new minimums up to 11.60, 25 cents daily for reports, 12 cent raise for station staff, and 1 percent pension fund contributions for both sides.
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San Francisco
Pacific Greyhound
Omar Hoskins
AFL
Greyhound Overland
Intercity
California
Oregon
Nevada
Utah
New Mexico
Texas
AFL Amalgamated Association
Phoenix
Portland
Los Angeles
Hutto High Plans Homecoming Day Activities
Hutto High School announces Thursday homecoming with a 10 a.m. assembly, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. lunch for ex-students and visitors, a 2 p.m. football game vs Florence, 7:30 p.m. queen coronation in the gym, and a community dance from 8 to 11 p.m.
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Hutto High School
V. L. Voight
Hutto and
Florence
Sheriff Holds Cow But Can't Find Owner
The Travis County sheriff's department has a fine Jersey milk cow found at the Travis Howard Nursery with a neck chain. Efforts since Oct. 26 to locate the owner have failed. The owner can claim the cow at the sheriff's department in the courthouse. otherwise it will be auctioned.
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Travis County Sheriff's Department
Travis Howard Nursery
Sheriff's Department
Work on Highways At Taylor Nears
Taylor prepares for major road work as West Second Street and Main Street will be rebuilt using Texas Highway Department crews arriving with equipment from Smithville and Giddings. Pre mix asphalt supplies are arriving to support the project.
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Taylor
Spl
West Second
H. C. Carter
Texas Highway Department
Smithville
Giddings
Dog Wardens Seize Untagged Austin Dogs
Austin dog wardens report 507 untagged dogs impounded since November 1, part of a total near 2000 strays in two and a half months. Police say stricter enforcement seeks to curb rabies risk as owners are reminded to vaccinate and license dogs. Unclaimed animals are disposed of after a set period. No new infected dogs found over the weekend per health department.
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Austin
R. D. Thorp
Thorp
Judge grants leniency to two draft resisters in Philadelphia
US District Judge J Cullen Ganey spared the two men who refused to register for the peacetime draft. James S Lovett 23 of Fal streeton Pa released to Quakers custody to work in China while J Newton Garver 20 of Buffalo was given one week to decide whether to take substantial action toward the draft. Lovett received a suspended sentence and two years probation. Garver did not register and cited Ivy League Swarthmore College as his reason.
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J. Cullen Ganey
American Friends Service Committee
China
J. Newton Garver
Buffalo
N. Y
James S. Lovett
Falsington
Graver
Swarthmore College
Edward A. Kallick
Ganey
Reabens HALF ACRE Reabens HALF ACRE
C. (DUTCH) HOHN, LCRA soil conservation chief, may soon submit 1949 program recommendations while expansion rumors swirl. LCRA plans about 150000 dollars in machinery purchases by year end, with San Saba, Lampasas, Burnet, Blanco, Travis, Bastrop and Fayette in the program.
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Austin American Agricultural
Dutch) Hohn
Big Gun
Colorado River Authority
Hohn
Texas
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Lampasas
Burnet
Blanco
Travis
Bastrop
Fayette
John Babcock
LCRA
Pastor's Policy Funds Church Heating System
The Butler Trinity Lutheran Church will install a $1,100 heating system funded by a pastor led loan. Reverend Hudson M. Clements borrowed $900 from a local bank and distributed it among 110 parishioners who invested with varying contributions. They returned $2,124, enough to repay the loan and buy the new heater.
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Butler
Butler Trinity Lutheran Church
Hudson M. Clements
Former King Ranch Foreman Robert Mair Dies in San Antonio
Funeral services for Robert Leonce Mair aged 68, former foreman of the King Ranch, will be held Tuesday in Kingsville. He died in a San Antonio hospital Sunday. A native of San Diego, he had lived in San Antonio only a few months.
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San Antonio
Robert Leonce Mair
King Ranch
Kingsville
San Diego
Small Nations Act Hinders West in Berlin Clash
AP analysis notes anxiety among small nations over the Berlin crisis and UN effects. It argues four power talks may fail, and that true progress depends on broader political control of Germany, with limited gains expected even if four powers agenda is set.
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United Nations
Marshall
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Stalin
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