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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1948
Page
9
The Taylor Volunteer Fire Department faced a Monday fire that started in the John Kopecky beer parlor at Vance and Third Street. Flames gutted the parlor interior and damaged the adjacent warehouse, owned by Lars Ernest Groba Sr., with partial insurance coverage.
Dallas Representative Blankenship was appointed by Governor Beauford Jester to serve as judge of the 101st District Court effective January 1, 1949. He would succeed W M Cramer who moved to the Fifth Court of Civil Appeals. Blankenship later declined the Democratic nomination for state office to accept the judgeship.
Cedar Creek Oct 20 Mrs Floyd Martin was re elected president of the Cedar Creek Home Demonstration Club. New officers include Mrs Dan Smith as vice president Mrs J J Voss as secretary treasurer and Mrs Arthur P Smith as reporter. Miss Lena Sturges demonstrated ag shades. Present were Mesdames J C Ellis S T Simmons Dan Smith Tommy Templeton Dewey Turner J J Voss O F Wamnel W P Watts and Mrs Lee Alexander plus Miss Sturges and Tommy Templeton.
The mobile x-ray unit of Texas Health Department tuberculosis division will operate in Williamson County from Dec. 11. It starts in Georgetown through Dec. 13, then Granger, then Taylor from Dec. 17 to 20. X-rays are for ages 15 and up and open to all taxpayers. Reports are confidential with the family physician.
John Henry Jones, an African American odd-jobs worker, faced burglary and theft charges after allegedly taking a sack of cash and checks from a Temple bank night depository. Police and FBI agents arrested him. all but $55 of $1,110 cash was recovered and $3,390 in checks were burned.
Dismissed divorce case Brigida R Saime v Theodore Jaime appears alongside partition and name change matters in 98th and 126th district court dockets. Other entries show multiple divorce filings Alice Reinke v Theo Reinke Wylises D Clay v Nona D Clay and Simona Xabarro v Filomeno Yabarro with clerk notes and registrations.
The report lists over 1000 Negro members among Texans and highlights Uncle Mark a famed slave evangelist. He was a Washington County figure who preached to both Black and white congregations and helped convert many. Accounts differ on how he gained freedom, with claims of purchase by a Masonic lodge or self-funded release through white donations. Methodists and Baptists admitted slaves and encouraged separate Black church groups.
Lindsay Warren orders Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing to stop using a $62 weekly government code as his personal servant. Ewing defends the arrangement as for public interest and says he will seek Congress authorization to continue. Neaser James Kelly testified the cook spent about five hours daily in the FSA kitchen, earning $3225 yearly while on St. Elizabeth Hospital payroll.
Elliott Roosevelt son of the late President paid his third speeding fine in recent years. He sent ten dollars to cover a ticket issued October 7 for 52 mph on the Saw Mill River Parkway where the limit is 40. He was fined ten dollars last July and fifteen dollars in June 1946.
J H Buster Compton is newly elected president of Georgetown Club. A planning committee will survey clubhouse and grounds, with Dr A J Rice Dr H Gaddy Dr J Frank Clark and others named. Committees include greens ground and tournament chairs H E Sullivan John Rodgers and Leonard McLaughlin.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad will survey Manchaca to assess need for signal light protection at Banister Lane crossings. The Travis County Commissioners Court was notified midweek and requested signals due to school children and vehicles. The survey will include a traffic count and start immediately.
USDA reports progress in small grain seeding in northern counties thanks to recent rain, while northern and western areas with no rain show standstill. Central Texas rains improved surface moisture but slowed harvests as cotton harvest advances in the High Plains and North Central regions. Vegetables advance, late-season planting active. range feed remains short and ranges show generally poor conditions despite showers along the Red River and in East and Central Texas.
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