808 Displaced Persons Arrive Seeking New Homes in U S
Boston dispatch reports 808 refugees from ravaged Europe arrived aboard the General Omar Bundy to be resettled across the United States. Governor Bradford welcomed the group, with about 50 war orphans in high spirits and Latvia families among the largest bloc. An American committee will arrange adoptions and farming placements for many. Local contact A T Calicott will assist Latvian families from Senatobia Mississippi.
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Boston
United States
Europe
Omar Bundy
Robert F. Bradford
Feaer
United States Committee For the
A. T. Calicott
Senatobia
Miss
Calicott
Army Quartermaster Corps
Kasenkina Rejects Return to Russia Plans to Stay in US
Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, 53, told reporters at Roosevelt Hospital that she will never return to Russia. The former Soviet consulate jumper praised American police and said she intends to stay in the United States, even seeking citizenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Oksana S. Kasenkina
Russia
Senator Bridges Undergoes Gall Bladder Operation
Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire underwent a successful gall bladder operation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota on Friday morning. His secretary notified friends in New Hampshire by phone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
N. H
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire Friends
Bridges
Rochester
Minn
Mayo Clinic
Truth serum recording played in murder trial
In Martinez California jurors listened as a sodium pentothal recording was played. Kenneth Long 26 a Air Force sergeant denied killing his wife Barbara Jean 22. The defense introduced the tape to show Long's psychological state rather than direct crime testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinez
Calif
Hugh Donovan
Law
Kenneth Long
Air Force
Barbara Jean
Long
Meyer A. Zeligs
University of California Medical
Alaska
Donovan
Acting Fire Chief Named at Kerrville
Kerrville names Marvin Dechert acting chief of the fire department succeeding W. C. Shives. Police Chief W. M. Hobbs will supervise the fire department until a city department of public safety is organized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kerrville
Marvin Dechert
Nurse License Reciprocity Urged At Two Day Institute
Miss Bernice E. Anderson of Columbia University urged interstate nurse licensing reciprocity at a Texas two day nursing institute. She noted safe practice matters over varied education requirements and cited a 40 state standard nursing examination as a step toward reciprocity, with about 200 nurses in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice E. Anderson
Columbia University
Anderson
Texas League of Nursing Education
State Organization For Public Health Nursing
Texas
Trainman Alert Recaptures Convict Escaped Farm
An alert railroad worker spotted Raymond Pitts in a freight car at Brazoria County and alerted police. Pitts, a five year robber from Smith and Gregg Counties, was recaptured and sent back to Darrington Prison Farm.
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EL Campo
Darrington
Brazoria County
Raymond Pitts
Smith
Gregg
J. C. Roberts
Prison System Records Bureau
Pitts
Angel's Stepoff Suit Dismissed by Jurist
Seattle judge dismisses John P Angel personal injury suit against a filling station operator for 61000 after ruling no evidence showed the driver knew Angel was in the car when a five foot lift was activated.
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Angel
Seattle
John P Angel
Malcolm Douglas
King County
Obituary notices from a Texas county newspaper
Death notices and funeral details for multiple residents and relatives, including Margaret Townsend Vista Sheets Sam Allred Betty Birkner Grady Jackson Griffith Nan Furman Mowdy Robert Rawls Daniel McMillin John Lewis King Oscar Griesenbeck Oscar Hurta and infant Prewitt. Services listed with locations: Hylton and Cook Funeral Homes Oakwood Memorial Park Memorial Park and Fairview Cemetery.
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Margaret Z. Townsend
Hylton Funeral
L. R. Cole
Oakwood Cemetery
J. M. Rich
Sam Allred
Walter Pollan
Steve Heffington
L. R. Parsons
Norman Crumley
Grady Jackson Griffith
Hyde Park Baptist Church
Scott Tatum
Cook Funeral Home
Robert Reynolds
Frank Cook
A. R. Kavanaugh
Jimmie Holder
Dewey Harrell
L. G. Sloan
H. F. Bolding
Joe D. Huffman Sr
Hood Pitts
Robert Ransd
Nan Furman Mowdy
John Hintz
Memorial Park
Daniel Jefferson McMillin
Betty Jean McMillin
Austin
Jimmie McMillin
Jessie Thomas McMillin
McMillin
Tails Used to Power Cattle Plows in 17th Century
The record notes that cattle were compelled to pull crude plows by their tails as late as 1631, illustrating harsh agricultural practices of the period and the endurance of regional farming methods.
Austin firms donate merchandise for community chest auction
Fifteen Austin firms pledged goods for a cashless auction in front of the Longhorn Waffle Shop on Congress Avenue Monday. Neville Johnston said proceeds in pledges will support 16 Chest welfare and health agencies through the Red Feather drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Community Chest
Congress Avenue
Neville Johnston
Chest
Joe DeWitt
Johnston
Congress
Guggenheim - Goldsmith
Merritt, Schaefer and Brown
L. East Produce Company
Armour and Company
Swift and Company
Nelson Davis Company
John Bremond
Clark Produce
Reynolds-Penland
Leutwyler’s
Hutchins Brothers
Episcipal Group Buys Belton Lodge for Conference Center
Northwest Convocation of Episcopal Churches buys the 4 SC lodge near Belton a native stone two story building and 50 acre tract held by trustees for the Episcopal Diocese of Texas St Luke s Church Belton acts as custodian for reservations Trustees are Walter Dosgett Percy Pendypacker Horace Belton Lodge to be used as conference center summer camp Canterbury Club headquarters and recreation center for University of Texas. The Convocation comprises churches in Austin Bastrop Georgetown Taylor Calvert Rockdale Cameron Temple Marlin Lampasas Belton Burnet and Waco.
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Belton
Spb
Northwest Convocation of Episcopal Churches
Episcopal Diocese of
Young Peoples
Canterbury Club of Texas University
Northwest
Episcopal
Austin
Bastrop
Georgetown
Taylor
Calvert
Rockdale
Cameron
Temple
Marlin
Lampasas
Burnet
Waco
Marble Falls Dam Site Being Sought
A Dallas core drilling crew works this week below and above Marble Falls along the Colorado River to locate possible dam sites for the LCRA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marble Falls Dam
Marble Falls
Dallas
Colorado River
LCRA
Briton Fined in Whip Attack on Ex-Airman
Horace Caro of Mayfair was convicted of horse-whipping Kenneth Coates a former RAF officer and the daughter's lover. He received a 200 fine and three days in jail. Coates testified to intimacy with Caro's daughter Jacqueline who is expectant in February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maidstone
England
Horace Caro
Caro
Kenneth Coates
Jacqueline
Coates
Eight-Eyed Spiders Vary in Eye Count Across Species
Most spiders possess eight eyes but several species show variations with only two or six eyes. The article notes that eye number ranges reflect adaptation and lineage among arachnids.
Former UT Librarian John E. Goodwin Dies in Los Angeles
John E. Goodwin, a former University of Texas librarian, died of a heart attack at his Los Angeles home on November 18. He later served as librarian at the University of California Los Angeles.
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Robert Miller Rawls
West 18Th Street
Mary Earle Rawls
Austin
Betsy Rawls
Robert Miller Rawls Jr
F. A. Dale
North Carolina
Edward Taggart
Indiana
E. B. Herrick
New York City
James McCrea
Los Angeles
P. S
John E. Goodwin
University of Texas
Goodwin
University of California In
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Mrs. Kasenkina
Sequoia
B.T.U. Es
Comfort, Inc
Vista B. Sheets
Vista Buena Sheets
Travis County
William T. Sheets
Arthur Daughtery
Scott City
Kan
Wilke Funeral Home
Sam E. Allred
Wilke
Hugh R. Baker
Betty Birkner
Betty Broyles Birkner
Dock Hickerson
San Antonio
Guss Birkner
Joe Kemp
Fred Pitcher
New Mexico
Jack Elliott
Linton
Lena Dean
Manchaca
Ed Boyles
Lockhart
W. G. Birkner
Luling
John Lewis King
Katy Daphner
John Lewis King Jr
Alfred King
Alice Welch
Annie Priest
J. W. King
Oscar Griesenbeck
J. W. Griffin
Bertha Griesenbeck
Charlie Griesenbeck
Houston
Tignal Jones
R. T. Perkins
E. F. Pearcy
B. C. Schaefer
Allie Schilling
Ben Grohman
Fairview Cemetery
Oscar M. Horta Taylor
Oscar Milburn Hurta
Joseph Barton
Nelsonville
Graham D. Lund
American Legion
Sidney Pierce
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Louis Bond Prewitt
R. C. Calvert
Taylor City Cemetery
St. Joseph
Rae ST
St.joseph
Freund-Gammon-Cuthbertson
Capital Stock Insurance
SALE
Forsythe Surgical Supply
East Sixth
Tulsa
Okla
National Bank of Tulsa
Mercantile Commerce National Bank of St
Episcopalians Bay Lodge
Co. M. Wilson CO
Bel River
Colorado
Austin's
Trurlow
B. Weed
Jack Corley
Lavaco
Eldon Powell
Florist
Hillyer
Lavaca
Hyltin Funeral Home
Guadalupe
Scarbrough
Roy Roger
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