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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1949
Page
12
Israel in 18 months has topped half its five year population goal, rising from 750000 to over 1 million as 300000 new immigrants arrive at about 17000 monthly. Tel Aviv swells to 250000 Jews and Jaffa's Arab townships fill with new arrivals.
In observance of World Fellowship Week girls at the YWCA Residence staged a program. Doris Daniel spoke on YWCA work in Greece and the World Fellowship Offering. Eveline L. Foley presented world YWCA slides, Winifred Beeman read a script, and plans for the year were outlined. Offerings totaled $9. Alma Leigh Hicks provided piano, Ira Lee Knipple kept the register.
The term kinescope refers to filming a television program as it is broadcast so the show can be viewed later. This process captures the live image from a video monitor onto motion picture film for archival or rebroadcast use.
The Commerce Department reports the world coffee shortage may persist with no early relief. Brazil's output declines while demand rises, with 14.4 million bags exports forecast this year versus 22.5 million prewar. A drought end and lighter Guatemala flood damage offer small bright spots for next year.
Madam Pierre Laval, 60, widow of the late Vichy premier, resisted men who claimed an order to requisition her Paris house off Avenue Foch for a six child family. She said she would not surrender after her husband was executed for treason. The group included a Communist councillor and visited Saturday.
The Arab population around Nazareth remains sizable while Jews flood into Israel. Camps along the coast hold about 80,000 immigrants, most unemployed, living in tented quarters as Ben Gurion’s austerity plan curbs prices and restricts menus.
Navy officials warn that 100 San Antonio families could be homeless if a time extension on the Camp Cushing housing lease is not granted. Parks and Sanitation Commissioner Henry Hein sought a five year extension in Houston after Southern Pacific Rail road, owner of the Camp Cushin property, requested the land be returned. The units were turned over to the city by the federal government for wartime housing.
In Goshen New York a county welfare inmate Charles Storms aged 100 recalls few schools in his youth saying there were hardly any schools around when I was younger. The brief reminiscence notes the limited educational options during his era.
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