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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1949
Page
5
West Berlin requires 1 202 318 676 marks in loans and 250 000 000 in working capital to restore industry and employment after the Soviet blockade. A tri power survey of 5 000 firms found the total loan need and the critical sectors listed by category, with 253 000 jobless today.
Arthur Fry of Bertram presented a Dodge half ton pickup to the Bertram High School vocational agriculture class for a year. The gift from the Bertram Auto Company highlights Dodge Plymouth support in Central Texas, contrasting with prior GM assistance. Other notes cover LCRA equipment itineraries in Travis County and various community farming efforts.
The Austin School Board will meet Monday at 3 p m at the Bickler Administration Building. Dr J W Edgar announced the agenda includes appointing Noble Prentice to the board replacing Paul Bolton who resigned to run for the State School Board. The board will also select architects for emergency classrooms at north and northeast Austin elementary schools.
Dr. Leonor Michaelis a 74 year old medical scientist and physical chemist died at Rockefeller Hospital after a series of heart attacks. A former Berlin assistant to Nobel laureate Dr. Paul Ehrlich he contributed widely to chemistry and biology with medical applications. He spent time in Japan and 1929 to 1940 at the Rockefeller Institute. 1926 to 1929 he lectured at Johns Hopkins. His widow Hedwig and two daughters survive.
The State Board of Education will consider additional requests for refunding bond issues here Sunday before it ends its two day meeting. Saturday the group granted permission to Fort Worth and Goose Creek School Districts to refund bonds.
Washington reports a sharp House Senate split on price floors for farm products. Senator Anderson pushes a flexible plan nearing approval while Senator Aiken doubts talks with House conferees. A looming battle over parity levels and post-1950 supports risks delaying the session’s end.
William Williams, born October 10 1839 in a Park District cabin, says he will be 110 tomorrow. The veteran healer and vaudeville performer toured the Midwest with a medicine show, once using four monkeys and a one man song act before retiring in 1936 at 97. He lives with his cousin Hugh Holcomb at 2002 N Larabee Avenue and moves with aid of a cane, remaining sharp despite some hearing loss.
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