Plan to ban slaughter of ewe lambs discussed in Fort Worth
At the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association convention in Fort Worth, J Fawcett of Boston outlined a possible U S plan to prohibit slaughter of ewe lambs amid a tightening wool market. He urged incentive based limits rather than direct orders, proposing grazing expansions, keeping tariffs, and capping slaughter at 20 percent of breeding flock.
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America
Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association
J. Fawcett
Boston
Mass
National Wool Marketing Corporation
England
Fawcett
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
United States
Four Million Marked For Bergstrom Units
Plans for about four million dollars in civilian housing at Bergstrom Air Force Base move forward. Colonel Oo Houston and Ben Wayne Greig of the Austin Chamber of Commerce report FHA authorization and awaiting approval of program details.
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Bergstrom Air Force Base
Oo Houston
Military Affairs Committee
Ben Wayne Greig
Bergstrom
Austin Chamber of Commerce
FHA
Austin
Chamber of Commerce
Flying cigar shaped object spotted over Hanford area
Pasco Washington reporters and many residents observed a cigar shaped flying object over the restricted Hanford atomic works for about eight minutes on Tuesday afternoon. The witnesses described a high gliding arc moving with tilt and shimmer above Richland and Pasco, insisting it was not a plane or vapor trail.
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Pasco
Wash
Hanford Atomic Works
Perry Torbergson
Jack Anderson
Columbia Basin News
Torbergson
Deaths and Funerals in Austin and Nearby Towns
Obituaries list George William Peterson Sr. 64 of Austin. Henning Johnson 56 killed in crash. infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin Martinez buried at Oakwood. Clarence J Viehman 52 of Galveston. Tom Goddard Edwards 44 buried at Capital Memorial Park. Annie Elizabeth Cameron pioneer Texan dies in Dallas. Henry Luck singer funeral at Cook Funeral Home. Bailey H Adderhold 68 Georgetown death. Justice of the Peace William C Dickson 84 Smithville dies at home. service details and survivors noted throughout.
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George William Peterson Sr
South Congress
Dalarna
Sweden
Austin
National Association of Letter Carriers
Ebba Peterson
Joe Lee Johnston
G. W. Peterson Jr
Hyston Manor
Henning Johnson
Hylton Manor
J. E. Chester
Memorial Park
Martin Martinez
Santa Rosa Street
Oakwood Cemetery
Hylton Manor Funeral Home
Clarence J. Viehman
Gladys Viehman
Galveston
Weed-Corley Funeral Home
Tom Goddard Edwards
Weed-Corley
Carlyle Marney
Capital Memorial Park
Allan Shivers
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Ralph Lawrence
Bill Falls
Jesse James
George B Butler
Melvin Martindale
L. W. Blanchard
Frank Swartz
W. J. Noad
Floyd Herring
Meteor N
Frnka
Maurice Rush
Annie BE. Cameron
Annie Elizabeth Cameron
Dallas
Cameron
David Thompson
Thompson
First Methodist Church
Travis County
Eulalie Gibson
LT. Cameron
Alvin J. Cameron
John
Georgetown
ANS
Bailey H. Adderhold
Wichita Falls
Friedrich Funeral Home
Jan McMurray
Orveal Spencer
Magnolia
Ark
J. D. Young
Charlestown
S. C
Mary Faught
Jack Adderhold
Longview
Billy Adderhold
Bobby Adderhold
Scott Lay
Atlanta
D. D. Bunt
Lansdale
Oddfellows
Smithville
Marrs Memorial
William C. Dickson
Tom C. Dickson
Dickson
Missouri- Kansas-Texas
Fred G. Dickson
Kingsville
Steve Gragg
Chandler
Okla
K. C. Stedman
Oak Hill Cemetery
Woman Held After Knife Slaying in Travis County
Mary Lou Jackson of 1304 Po Quite Street is jailed in Travis County on a $5,000 bond for the knife slaying of James Arthur Swisher. He died at Brackenridge Hospital after being stabbed with a ~3.5 inch blade at about 11:30 p.m. Monday. Autopsy cited stab wound and a prior .32 caliber bullet in the lung from a 3 year old shooting.
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Mary Lou Jackson
Poquite Street
Travis County
James Arthur Swisher
Swisher
Brackenridge Hospital
Jackson
Justice of the Peace
Frank McBee
Justice McBee
J. Warren Jackson
Education Hearing Set Monday At Capitol
The Texas Legislative Council calls a public hearing on higher education for Monday in the House Chamber at the Capitol. Chairman Callan Graham outlines three focus areas from a staff report: coordination of higher education, community college concerns, and issues in connection with education. An advisory council of civic educational business and professional leaders joins the council and committee for the hearing.
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Texas Legislative Council
House
Capitol
Callan Graham
Graham
Senate
Wardlow Lane
Council
Beauty Operator Endorses Baker's Hair Tonic For Dandruff
Thrall Texas beauty operator Mrs Willie R Glover endorses Baker's Hair Tonic for dandruff and itchy scalp after six years of use. She also recommends Baker's Lathernist Shampoo for clean scalp and lustrous hair. The ad promises a full refund if not delighted.
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Thrall
Tex
Willie R. Glover
Baker's
Truman Lands Training Given US Boy Scouts
President Truman wrote to Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, urging Boy Scouts to continue their civil defense work. He highlighted scouting's 40 year record in service and called on adult volunteer leaders to keep guiding units so boys gain citizenship training and emergency skills.
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New York
Truman
Boy Scouts
Arthur A. Schuck
Boy Scouts of America
Scouting
Judge Beauchamp Named to Scout Council
State Supreme Court Justice Tom L. Beauchamp has been named a member at large to the National Boy Scout Council. Beauchamp has long served in Austin Scout work with the Capitol Area Council spanning 15 counties.
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State Supreme Court
Tom L. Beauchamp
National
Boy Scout Council
Judge Beauchamp
Austin
Capitol Area
Immi grant George Wilkins Kendall settles near New Braunfels
Curtis Bishop notes that in 1852 George Wilkins Kendall, founder of the New Orleans Daily Picayune and first modern war correspondent, chose a site seven miles northwest of New Braunfels for a sheep ranch. He later moved near Boerne after bringing his family in 1856.
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George Wilkins Kendall
New Braunfels
New Orleans
Picayune
Kendall
New Mexico
Boerne
Republic of Texas
Curtis Bishop
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