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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1948
Page
5
In Schenectady New York on November 15 engineers describe the rotochute or supersonic parachute a bullet shaped capsule with a tip propeller for high altitude use. It would be ejected from rockets at high speed and could carry delicate instruments to the ground safely as it slows during descent.
Washington R. Tamayo an Ecuadorian official arrived in Austin to study the Texas Department of Public Welfare. Director John Winters welcomed him praising Texas supervision and noting foster home care use by cities and counties. Tamayo said Texas compares well with Kansas and Virginia and will recommend foster care in Ecuador. He leaves for Washington to study the Labor Department. UN fellowship runs through December 1948 with a $300 monthly stipend.
Oscar Ewing said a new Congress would push federal aid to education. Speaking to 2,500 Future Farmers of America delegates in Kansas City he warned of a school crisis and a serious teacher shortage with 5 to 6 million students not in school.
Harris County deputies patrolled county roads on Monday seeking a Black man who broke into a cottage on Beaumont Highway near Sheldon and assaulted a 50-year-old white woman before fleeing in a nearby black sedan. Sheriff Neal Polk ordered five patrol cars to search the area.
In Sofia a district court sentenced eight top Social Democratic leaders to prison. They pleaded guilty to treason and urging peasants to hoard food. Party general secretary Kosta Lulchec received 15 years.
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