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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1949
Page
16
A small tornado struck south of Hoyt Kansas at 3 p m with downed telephone lines a tipped tandem truck and three cars barns struck by lightning burning sheep and bricks hurled into a living room but no injuries or deaths were reported Hoyt lies about a dozen miles north of Topeka.
The United Nations flag will be unfurled Saturday at Memorial Stadium during a Texas Rice game intermission and raised at the Capitol Monday at 10 a.m. Texas officials including Secretary of State Ben Ramsey will participate. Congressman Homer Thornberry, Bergstrom honor guard, and League of Women Voters leaders sponsor and attend the event.
Texas Attorney General Price Daniel will address the Texas Women’s Press Association convention in Uvalde October 28 and 29. Other speakers include Vern Sanford of the Texas Press Association, Harry Hornby Jr of the Uvalde Leader-News, Fred Gipson, and Don Hinga of the Houston Chronicle.
In Houston Local 227 of the CIO oil workers union defies an international ouster order. Ousted secretary Arthur Harecate and president Billie Kieke refuse to surrender records as administrator Ira Haven appointed by the OWIU takes control. The dispute follows clashes with Mathieson Chemical Co and mass arrests under anti strike violence laws.
Los Angeles report says actor David Brian, already entangled with two wives, faces a suit from his first mate dancer Winsome Courtney for 9950 dollars. Courtney claims he did not repay a loan she lent for his career from 1937 to 1945. Brian recently married Adri an Booth after a Mexican divorce from wife Bonita Fielder. He later had a California interim decree set aside, leaving him technically married to two wives.
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