Bond Issue Aimed to End Half Day School Crisis in Austin
Austin boards push a 20 million bond plan to fund five years of school building to meet rising enrollment. Officials warn without the bonds, half day sessions could rise to 626 rooms by 1955 and 18,936 pupils would attend only half days by 1960, threatening Austin’s education leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
North Austin
South Austin
East Austin
Austin High School
Texas
Flanders Says Aid Better Than Military Intervention
Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont argues that providing technical assistance and material supplies to backward peoples would be far cheaper than deploying military forces. He frames aid as a cost effective substitute for warlike interventions.
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Washington
Ralph E. Flanders
Vermont
Creager Era Spans Three Decades in Texas Politics
Rene Creager of Brownsville a towering Republican leader shaped Texas patronage for 30 years as national committeeman. The piece notes his rise after Harding’s 1920 nomination, his control of Texas party organs, and clashes within the party while recounting his influence on federal appointments and the GOP’s fortunes. It also covers a separate Fort Worth reunion of WWII veterans from the 36th Division with the Nisei 442nd, remembering the Lost Battalion rescue of Vosges.
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Rene B. Creager
Brownsville
Creager
Texas
Congress
White House
House
United States
Senate
Warren G. Harding
Cox
Harding
Republican Party
Rene Creager
Miriam A. Ferguson
George C. Butte
Austin
Alfred E
Butte
Hoover
Dr. Butte
James E. Ferguson
Nisei 442Nd
Los Angeles
Fort Worth
Texas 36Th Division
Texas National Guard
William H. Martin
36Th Division Association
Nisei
36Th
Vosges Mountains
France
442Nd
Air Force
Gen. Martin
Matt Sakamoto
Pitching Horseshoes Kindness Flows With the Wurzburger
A Milwaukee man Otto Brenner, a gatekeeper, loses his weekly paycheck at Stegmeyer’s bar after giving a panhandler a quarter. His wife Lena later learns the story and, in a forgiving gesture, decides to apologise to the regulars and celebrate their kindness with drinks.
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Mr. Rose
Otto
Lena Brenner
Stegmeyer
Lena
Racine
Stegmeyer’s
Beazers
Little Stevie
Panhandler
Stegmeyer's
Rand miners and bridge paint trivia from a midcentury Q and A
A compilation of quick questions with factual answers on Rand gold mines birth size for elephants paint on the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge nursing statistics and linen storage. Rand denotes Witwatersrand in South Africa.
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Rand
South Africa
Witwatersrand
South Transvaal
San Francisco-Oakland
H.T. A
New Testament with words of the Saviour offered
An offer targets Sunday school children and teachers for a red-letter New Testament printed on thin paper with flexible cover. It promotes scriptural living as civilization hangs in the balance and invites readers to send 25 cents to the Austin American Information Bureau in Washington DC.
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Austin
Austin American Page Four October 27 1950
The fragment shows the Austin American page four from October 27 1950 with staff roles Louis N Goldberg as business manager and Charles Bales as editor. It notes the paper is published by Newspapers Inc Austin Texas and references The American Statesman for Sunday issues.
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The
Austin American
Louis N. Goldberg
Buss Manaager
Charles Bales K. Green
Newspapers, Inc
Seventh and
Colorado Streets
Austin
Texas
the American Statesman
Rain making boosts Prosser wheat yield amid drought debates
Washington dispatch reports cloud seeding by Dr Irving Frick raised Leo Horrigan's Prosser wheat from 8–10 to 20 bushels per acre, increasing total yield by about 500000 bushels. The piece notes possible irrigation savings, California Arizona water tensions, and asks if tapping clouds harms other areas. It also surveys Korea War medical training gaps and a political column on Dewey Hanley notes and Shattuck letters.
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Seattle
Far West
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
Prosser
Wash
Leo Horrigan
Irving Frick
Water Resources Development Board of
Pasadena
Calif
Horrigan
Central
California
Arizona
Colorado River
Clinton Anderson
New Mexico
Col. Shattuck
Washington
Shattuck
Fred Chase
Chase
Republican
Earl Warren
Selective Service
William F. Reichel
Warren
Earl
Winchell on Broadway Memo: New York seeks dissolution of Cancer Welfare Fund
The State of New York asks the Supreme Court to dissolve the Cancer Welfare Fund Inc and bar its director Joseph Brandt from soliciting charity again under penalties. State Attorney General N L Goldstein plans to hand over evidence for criminal action. In the political skirmish foes again accuse Franklin D Roosevelt, who declines to run and faces accusations tied to debts and scandals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tom Dewey
Joe Hanley
Dewey
Hanley
Kingsland Macy
James Leary
Saratoga Springs
William Pfeiffer
Brooklyn
Eisenhower
Macy - Gannett
Joeanley
Ike
Joe
State of
Supreme Court
Cancer Welfare Fund, Inc
Joseph Brandt
N. L. Goldstein
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR
Denen
Haniley
Roosevelt
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Wilson Makabe
Mike Masaoka
Makabe
By Fitzpatrick
Fife
Wurzburger
Milwaukee
Nesselrode
W. A. Nesselrode
Count Karl Robert Nesselrode
W.B. A
American Nurses Association
Korea
Army
Fort Sam Houston
Joseph S. Martin
Raymond W. Bliss
Bliss
Battlefeld
Edward Shattuck
Frank McCarthy
Morning’s Times
Examiner
McCarthy
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Walter Winchell
Broadway
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
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