New Members Added To Foundation Board
The foundation expands its board with Snyder William Lawlor Jr Ed J St John Pat Dooley and Tom Graham. The board remained incomplete since the chartering last March as the finance campaign proceeds in the coming months. Existing directors include C B Smith president A C Bull Max Starcke vice presidents Hulon W Black Fred Weaga Jr Dr W A Cunningham W S Drake Jr Taylor Glass A J Maloney E A Moelier Henry V Ramsey Louis Shenks A B Spires and Raymond Brooks.
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C. B. Smith
A. C. Bull
Max Starcke
Hulon W. Black
Fred Weaga Jr
W. A Cunningham
W. S. Drake Jr
Taylor Glass
A. J. Maloney
E. A. Moelier
Henry V. Ramsey
Louis Shenks
A. B. Spires
Raymond Brooks
New Orleans Item and WDSU form cooperative news plan
The New Orleans Item and radio station WDSU announce a working arrangement to improve news coverage and dissemination. Publisher Ralph Nicholson and WDSU President Edgar B. Stern Jr. say cooperation will apply to WDSU’s AM FM and new television operations with no changes in ownership. WDSU plans to install an AM station at the Item offices.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Item
WDSU
Item
Ralph Nicholson
Edgar B. Stern Jr
Nicholson
The
Item Company, Inc
Aircraft Officials Plan Flying Wing Output
Four Northrop Aircraft Company officials conferred with Consolidated Vultee officials in Fort Worth this week as plans for the B49 Flying Wing were pushed. Two more Northrop officials remain to aid starting the program. Twenty nine of the eight jet bombers will be built at Mentvair under sub contract from Northrop.
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Fort Worth
Northrop Aircraft Company
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Northrop
Menvair
Trees Planted Across 325 Farms in Salt Creek Watershed
More than 1,700,000 trees have been planted on 325 farms of the Salt Creek watershed near Zanesville, Oklahoma, marking a major conservation effort.
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Salt Creek
Zanesville
Okla
Original Grant to Houston Land Found in State Office
The 1476 acre tract between White Oak and Buffalo Bayous in Houston west end, once to Flowers heirs, had its original 1862 patent found in the state land office. Experts warn missing patent may affect title and could trigger legal conflicts if second patents exist, as in the Chambers case in Travis County.
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Houston
John Flowers
General Land Office
West End
G. C. Crosby
T. B. Lubbock
Land Office
Flowers
White Oak
Buffalo Bayous
Capital Land Law
Harris County
Travis County
City of
Austin
Chambers
Planning chiefs to discuss Philadelphia city plan Friday
Samuel B. Zisman director of the Philadelphia Citizens' Council on City Planning and architect B. Stonorov will review Philadelphia reconstruction plans in a joint lecture Friday at 7 30 p m at Hogg Auditorium Austin area event sponsors include the Austin Area Economic Development Foundation the School of Architecture UT and the Austin City Plan Commission The talk contrasts remaking a mature city with pre planning for a growing city and follows a showing attended by more than 1 000 000 people
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Samuel B. Zisman
Philadelphia Citizens’ Council On City Planning
Texas A&m College
Corpus Christi
Philadelphia
Hogg Auditorium
Zisman
B. Stonorov
Philadelphia Planning Council
Hogg
Austin Area Economic Development Foundation
School of Architecture
The
University of Texas
Austin City Plan Commission
Austin
Five Million Sheep Die In Australian Drought
Canberra reports more than five million head of sheep and cattle have perished in Australia’s drought. West Queensland and Northern Territory have seen three years without adequate rain. Experts fear soil recovery if rain does not come in the coming months.
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Canberra
Australia
Queensland
Northern Territory
UWF Head Addresses Local Federalists in City Hall
Melvin B. Jaschke, field director for the Texas United World Federalists, spoke at City Hall Auditorium. He reported on the Minneapolis national convention and praised Congress members likely to support world government. Mrs. St John Garwood discussed talks with Clarence Streit of Federal Union.
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Melvin B. Jaschke
Texas
United World Federalists
City Hall
Jaschke
Minneapolis
Sen
Astronomers question solid surfaces on giant planets
Astronomers doubt whether Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune possess solid surfaces. The debate centers on interior structures and atmospheric compositions of the outer planets.
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Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
Youth Spoils Chance Faces Seven Year Term
In Fort Worth a 20 year old, James Lester Simmons, guilty of theft and linked to a fatal crash, is sentenced to seven years in the State Penitentiary after a prior two year suspended sentence. He had promised to reform after a prior incident in Abilene and McKinney.
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Fort Worth
James Lester Simmons
Willis McGregor
McKinney
Simmons
W. C. Perini Jr
Abilene
Huge Utah Air Base Will Be Reactivated
The Strategic Air Command plans to reactivate Mountain Home Air Base near Boise Idaho. Lt Col J F Starkey of the 311th Air Division announced the move after surveying enlisted living accommodations and said the base will open with an aerial mapping and survey unit under his command.
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Boise
Idaho
INS
Strategic Air Command
Mountain Home
J. F. Starkey
311Th Air Division
Topeka
Kans
War and Cold Leave Nagoya with Wood Manhole Vanishing
In Nagoya Japan reports say residents may vanish from sight as wooden manhole covers are lifted for firewood during wartime shortages. Old metal covers were removed for scrap earlier, with cement lids replacing some but holes still common each morning.
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Nagoya
Japan
Georgetown FFA to Elect Sweetheart
Georgetown FFA plans a box supper and hayride Friday at the Legion Hall to crown the Sweetheart who will advance to the statewide contest. Proceeds fund a father and son banquet in the spring.
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Georgetown
Legion Hall
FFA
Lanes Expensive Marking Highways With White Paint
New York State spends about 100000 gallons of white paint each year to mark traffic lanes on its highways. The figure illustrates the cost of maintaining roadway visibility and safety through road markings.
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New York State
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