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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1949
Page
12
Five New York doctors prove a regimen can break the laxative habit. Start with two Carter's Pills nightly for a week then one per night, then one every other night, then none, while drinking eight glasses of water daily. Carter's Pills unblock the lower digestive tract and help natural regularity without habit forming drugs. Available at drugstores for 33¢.
Ben F McDonald Jr of Austin a 24 year old UT law graduate was named special attorney in the anti trust division of the US Justice Department He will report to the Kansas City Kansas office December 1 and leave Austin this Saturday He previously led independent circles at the university and ran for student body president in 1948 losing a runoff to Barefoot Sanders.
Public Records from 98th District Court include dam ages granted, various divorce filings, notes on swindling with worthless checks, tax refund protests, annulment actions, and suit on note. Marriage licenses issued list numerous couples. New car registrations show Ford and Mercury models, plus Central Auto Parts Cadillac.
Earl E. Simms of Austin proclaimed divine love and Christian Science healing in a public talk at the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Building. He cited cases of patients cured by practitioners, interpreted the 23rd Psalm through Mary Baker Eddy, and urged love and faith as keys to health.
Counties may raise salaries for officials under the 1949 pay law without boosting criminal district attorney pay. Attorney General Price Daniel ruled that district attorneys are excluded, as they already receive a separate statutory pay increase, while commissioners must not raise their own pay without increasing others.
President J G Flowers of Southwest Texas State College warned at an Austin Rotary Club speech that withdrawing U S troops and officials from Germany would be a terrible crime starting events that could lead to World War III He urged continued occupation and democratization to deter Russia and preserve democracy. Flowers noted German reconstruction, critiqued the Marshall Plan as cheap, and contrasted the Hitler generation with a need for a new Germany Separate biosheet details his prior posts in Lock Haven and Montclair.
The Marshall Ford Game Protective Association plans action to save wildlife in the Marshall Ford area. At Pleasant Valley School a meeting will update members on distributing 100 posted signs, with 60,000 acres already protected in the Marshall Ford vicinity per secretary F. H. Barnhouse.
Austinite Bertram E. Giesecke leads a new National Housing Commission sworn in by Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. The group will study uniform housing for all services, survey 15 Army Navy and Air Force officers, and seek legislation by April 1 with Alaska and remote posts like Okinawa in focus.
The City Council schedules a quiet routine session Wednesday at 10 a.m. with a taxicab rate ordinance likely to advance to second reading and layover for two more readings. A 2:30 p.m. public hearing will consider four zoning changes, three not recommended by the zoning board, including E L G Alexander 1807 McKinley Avenue a filling station W E Phillips 1207 Chicon for a beer zone and Elbert Van Dyke north side East 11th Street between Waller and Lydia Street plus a San Antonio Street block petition for commercial designation to bar beer taverns in the area.
An employee at John T's Snack Shop on Guadalupe Street was released by police after being questioned about a Tuesday morning burglary. A rear door entry yielded $43 from a counter box and two wrist watches stolen from Gordon Fulcher at his West 18th Street apartment.
Fragmentary report describes a distressed woman on Main Street crying for help. The text references pain and a mention of Ice Mint products as a distracting aside with unclear context.
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