Baylor Stadium Drive Launched By Baylor Exes In Waco
Dr W R White president of Baylor University delivers the keynote as Baylor ex-students and friends start a general solicitations drive in Waco to raise funds for a new stadium. The drive reaches 74 percent of a 50000 goal with about 100 participants and notes support from Pat Adelman F L Kuykendall and Price Daniel among others.
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W. R. White
Baylor University
Baylor
Waco
White
Carlyle Marney
Dr. White
Southwest
Marney
First Baptist Church
Revel Nash
Austin Area
F. L. Kuykendall
Tea House
D. X. Bible
University of Texas
Peppy Blount
Jack Dillard
Baylor Ex-Students Association
Grady Yates
Baylor Exes
Price Daniel
Texas
Explosion injures fourteen at Cedar Springs housing project
An apartment building in Dallas suffered a gas explosion about 10:30 p.m. injuring fourteen occupants, including eight children. Victims, many with burns or head injuries, were treated at Parkland Hospital as authorities investigate the cause. The Cedar Springs federal housing project, built in 1937, suffered total structural damage with little wall left intact.
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Dallas
Parkland Hospital
David Ballard
Virginia Ballard
Michael Staton
Cedar Springs
Charles Lodowski
Shannon
Charles Lodowsky
Mrs. Lodowsky
Bobby Lo Sonsny
Edna Staton
Herbert Staton
Carol Ballard Jr
Burns
Betty Ann Ballard
Mary Lee Shannon
Richard Lee Shannon
Lee Shannon
Czechoslovak bishops ease church state clash
Catholic bishops declare priests may swear loyalty to the Communist government and accept salaries with reservations. President Gottwald elevates his son in law to cabinet head over church finances. Nearly 300 priests already imprisoned. Archbishop Beran remains interned.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Klement Gottwald
Alexei Cepicka
Cepicka
Josef Matocha
Josef Beran
Cardinals name Parker head coach and Handler named VP
Buddy Parker is appointed head coach of the Chicago Cardinals and Phil Handler is named vice president. Jack On Slow remains with the Chicago White Sox as coach Bing Miller is released. Washington leads the NFL on offense but sits near the bottom of the standings. New Braunfels faces Gonzales Friday in top Central Texas matchup.
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Buddy Parker
Chicago Cardinals
Phil Handler
Jack Onslow
Chicago White Sox
Bing Miller
Washington
New Braunfels
Gonzales
Central Texas
Sunshine Returns as Texas Warms After Cold Spell
After two days of cold, cloudy weather the Austin area is forecast to see sunshine and a high near 65 degrees following a morning low around 48. Across Texas, flood threats eased with streams receding and rivers subsiding. Dallas levees held while Dallas Trinity River crest was expected, and San Antonio saw flooding recede with two drownings reported in a Monday flood.
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Austin
Weather Bureau
Dalhart
Amarillo
Dallas
San Antonio
San Angelo
Trinity
James Knight
Mother arrives at bedside of New York playboy
The mother of Allen Thomas Sturges II, a New York playboy who shot himself in Houston, arrives unexpectedly at his bedside as his condition remains critical. Police confirm the self inflicted bullet remains in his brain.
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Allen Sturges
Houston
Allen Thomas Sturges II
New York
E. N. Tavaneriie
New Jersey
Sturges
Boy shoots own brother with father’s gun in garage
In Huntsville on Tuesday a seven year old accidentally shot and killed his big brother while playing with a father's gun. The child, James Hardy, reported to his father in the garage that he had killed him, saying Lynn and he were playing with the old gun when it discharged.
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Huntsville
Pjames Hardy
James
Lynn
Thornberry praises European recovery program and peace gains
Congressman Homer Thornberry told Austin Rotarians that U S dollars invested in Europe under the Marshall Plan and European Recovery Program have produced stability in Europe, with Turkey as an ally Greece ending its civil war and France reducing communist risk. He cited bipartisan support, defense spending shares, and ongoing international efforts.
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America
Homer Thornberry
Austin Rotarians
Thornberry
Europe
France
Italy
Greece
Turkey
Texas
Tom Connally
Lyndon Johnson
House
Sam Raypurn
Arthur Vandenberg
Congress
Wisconsin Coeds Escape Dorm Fire in October Cold
Firemen quenched a dormitory blaze at the University of Wisconsin in Madison on Tuesday night. Four firefighters were overcome by smoke and one student was cut by glass, but no serious injuries were reported as 237 coeds were sent outside into the chilly evening.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Kremlin Demands Recall of Yugoslav Ambassador
The Soviet Union demanded Yugoslavia recall Ambassador Karl Mrazovic for spying and subversive activities as Moscow cited the Rajk trial. The note handed to Yugoslavia in Moscow marked a fresh flare in Yugoslavia Cominform tensions after Yugoslavia joined the UN Security Council.
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London
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
Russia
Moscow
Soviet Monitor
Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Karl Mrazovic
Mrazovic
Yugo
Slavia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Budapest
Laszlo) Rajk
Ussr
Marshal Tito
Cominform
Association of Eastern Communist Nations
Tito
United Nations Security Council
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Veep Barkley and Mrs Hadley Sightsee in St Charles Jewelers
In St Charles Missouri on Tuesday Vice President Alben W Barkley and Mrs Carleton S Hadley visited three jewelry stores to restrung a jade necklace and buy groceries They were recognized at the last shop where Barkley signed autographs for teens The pair then returned to the Skyline estate near St Charles overlooking the Missouri River
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ST. Louis
Carleton S. Hadley
St. Charles
Alben W. Barkley
Hadley
Barkley
Missouri River
UT Prof's Mother Dies in Marlin Texas
Mrs. Mittie Matilda Hackett 86 lifelong Falls County resident died Tuesday in Marlin. She was mother of Dr. Charles W. Hackett UT history professor. Surviving daughters Miss Bess Hackett and Mrs. Albert G. Hubby. son Ernest Hackett. brother John C. Greer. Funeral planned Thursday in Chilton Falls County.
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Marlin
Mittie Matilda Hackett
Falls County
Charles W. Hackett
University of Texas
Ernest Hackett
Chilton
John C. Greer
Waco
Falls Counts
Hackett
Bradley Says Joint Chiefs Session Was Just Normal
Washington October 25. Bitterly estranged admirals and generals met in a “harmonious” joint chiefs session chaired by General Omar N. Bradley. Denfeld, Scrubb and Gruenther attended as lawmakers questioned unified defense policy. Johnson avoided comment on possible Navy leadership changes and on Crommelin’s court-martial.
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Bradley
Joint Chiefs
Washington
Omar N. Bradley
US Joint Chiefs of
Jaff
Denfeld
Arthur Scrubb
Naval Operations
Alfred Gruenther
Army
J. Lawton Collins
Muir Fairchild
Air Staff
Hoyt Vandenberg
Vandenberg
Air
Puerto Rico
Defense
Johnson
Truman
Navy High Command
White House
Forrest Sherman
Mediterranean
Louis E. Denfeld
House
Armed Services Committee
Navy
Admiral Sherman
John G. Crommelin
Naval Aviation
Congressional
Mediation Efforts Continue in Steel Dispute as Walkout Persists
Federal mediator Cy rus S. Ching renewed talks in Washington and met Bethlehem Steel officials. he warned settlement may be unlikely. In Cleveland the United Auto Workers gave the United Steelworkers Union 100000 while CIO leader Philip Murray welcomed aid but said union funds remain ample. US Steel reports 2.2 million tons of lost production since Oct 1. third quarter net income stood at 39171144. Steel strike stretches across industries with 1 million idle workers and service cuts under a government order.
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Congress
White House
Hoover Commission
Washington
Thornberry
Cyrus S. Ching
Cleveland
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Philip Murray
CIO
Murray
Truman
Bethlehem
Joseph M. Larkin
John Morse
US Steel
Irving Olds
New York
Olds
Southern
UMW
Bluefield
W. Va
Northern
Western
Socialists Back Bidault Coalition as Labor Post Debate Ends
Paris October 26. French Socialist leaders agreed in principle to join a Bidault led coalition government after dropping the demand to keep Daniel Mayer as labor minister. Deputies voted to join under conditions while Radical Socialists debated the path forward and staffers prepared further talks.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
Daniel Mayer
Henri Queuille
Bidault
Mayer
Jules Moch
Rene Mayer
Houston High School keeps banned civics text in use
Houston School Board delays removing Dr Frank Magruder's American Government after a paragraph on socialism and communism prompts objections. Attorney Ewing Werlein says the 1947 revision contains the contested material and vows to revisit the issue at a future Austin meeting.
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Houston
Ewing Werlein
Frank Magruder
Werlein
Austin
State
W. E. Moreland
Houston Board
United States
Post Ofice
Olon Rogers
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