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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1949
Page
18
In a note posted on the Lorraine Cleaners front door workers report the steel strike affects operations. The sign asks customers to bring their own hangers due to shortages, echoing wartime practices.
A Dallas physician reports radium loaded needles, similar to sewing needles, as a cost effective addition to cancer treatment. The needles deliver long lasting radiation, are implantable and removable, and show 60 percent primary lesion healing in a five year review of 96 advanced skin cancer cases on the face, neck and ears.
Fort Worth October 27 Mrs Sybil Hollis 27 of Waxahachie was hospitalized with serious injuries after the family car crashed into a gate column at the Masonic Home entrance. Her husband Jack T Hollis received minor injuries. she has a broken right leg and arm and severe head lacerations.
The Belgian Senate approved a bill for a plebiscite on whether exiled King Leopold II should return to the throne. The vote was 109 to 65 and moves to the Chamber of Deputies for approval, with the monarch demanding 55 percent support to return.
Amarillo witnesses a store burglary as criminals cut through a wall to enter the Sand M Drug Store and steal $300 in cash and narcotics valued at $75 on Wednesday night. Police investigate the break in and seek leads.
Samuel W. Watkins, 23, stole a Piper Cub at Clearwater airport and terrorized residents for two hours by diving and skimming rooftops and a bridge. He landed, shot himself as police closed in. death confirmed at 3:10 am. Police linked the incident to a call to a girlfriend the night before. Watkins hailed from a Virginia family. body sent to Farmville, Virginia.
Oyster Bay observes Theodore Roosevelt's 91st birthday with a school pageant and leaf ceremony at Young's Memorial Cemetery. Mrs. Richard Derby, Roosevelt's daughter, attends the observance as the Navy omits its former sponsor birthday due to service unification and Armed Forces Day.
An advertisement invites readers to shift their hearing concerns to a trained consultant at A G Small Sonotone in Austin located at 804 Littlefield Building and offers phone contact 2 7958 for hearing aid services.
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