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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1949
Page
11
Civil Service announced clerk appointments for the Taylor Post Office. Eligibility requires passing the exam and residing in the Taylor carrier area.
Carl O. Bergquist joined Southwestern University as art department instructor and director of art in the arts shop. He is a Georgetown native, Southwestern alumnus, studied art in Chicago, served in the Navy during World War II, training at Corpus Christi Norfolk Banana River and Alameda before overseas duty and return to the US in 1945.
A designer who studied on the West Coast returns to San Josquin Valley area town to assume leadership at a local institution after time in Georgetown.
Briggs October scene shows cotton coming into town amid picker shortages. Townspeople including teachers post workers housewives and students join the effort. Schools run 8 30 a m to 1 30 p m so children can help pick the crop.
Bids on $5 650 000 in bonds for new buildings at Texas Teachers colleges will be opened by the Board of Regents of State Teachers Colleges at a meeting scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. The issue was authorized by a constitutional amendment approved at the polls years ago. The board will also take up routine matters per executive secretary Claude Isbel.
Florence boys 4-H Club elects officers for the year with Bennie Allen Wiley as president and Max Gene Atkins as vice president. Harme y Norman Baker serves as secretary and Frank Howell Jr. as reporter. Adult leader is J. W. Wilson. Next meeting is Monday Oct 3 on Soil Conservation.
Max Eisele Jr. begins freshman year at Southwest Texas State Teachers College. The 20-year-old Houston native lives in a one room apartment, studies business administration, cooks, does laundry, and plans to join track. He comments on friendly upperclassmen and the pull of home.
Capitol Livestock Auction Company Monday sold 890 head with all classes steady. Top hogs reached $20.60, cattle across grades ranged with steers up to $23.50 for calves and cows from $12 to $17, various liveweight hogs and shoats priced through the day.
The Taylor Compress addition with 5,500 bale capacity is nearly filled, manager Tom Robertson reports. Built for government loan cotton, the new 186 by 292 foot warehouse is fire protected by water lines, bringing total storage to 17,000 bales.
Caldwell County District Court convened the fall term in Lockhart with District Judge J. R. Fuchs presiding and grand jury members impaneled: W. H. Cochran of Luling as foreman, J. W. McClain of Luling, G. A. Long of McMahan, Royce Williams of Lockhart, L. F. Allen of Luling, Frank Elms of Lockhart, William Germer of Maxwell, Alton Gomillion of Lytton Springs, Aubrey Voigt of Elm Grove, Ralph Cavazos of Lockhart, Victory Storey of Lockhart, and E. R. Westmoreland Jr. of Lockhart.
State Representative Harry Philip Whitworth has opened law offices in Smithville in the former W F Taylor quarters. Whitworth moved from Austin with his wife and child and will make Smithville his home. His mother Mrs Gladys Whitworth lives here. Taylor, city attorney for Smithville, will commute to Austin for council meetings.
Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto was installed Tuesday as governor of Nuevo Leon state in Monterrey ceremonies attended by high government officials. President Miguel Aleman sent congratulations with Interior Minister Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Other attendees included Representatives Mario Colin and Milton Castellanos and General Sanches Taboada.
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