Austin Eyes 20 Million Bond for Schools and City
Austin mayor says bond issue will be trimmed to not exceed 20 million dollars for four to five years of city and school needs. discussions cover new revenue ideas including sewer service charges and possible meter advertising, with opposition to some schemes and focus on equitable funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Weeg
Austin
Taylor Glass
Guston Morgan
Glass
W. S. Drake Jr
Will T Johnson
Emma Long
Stuart MacCorkle
Houston
Korean pact backing to the hilt urged by GOP chair
Guy Gabrielson, Republican National Chairman, calls for full backing of the Korean effort. The piece notes pact nations’ strong peace leverage and offers a wry aside about marital money matters. It ends by contrasting Reds spreading color worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Guy Gabrielson
New Year opens new state fiscal year and programs
The article notes the state fiscal New Year on Friday marks the mid point of the two year budget. Unspent first year funds lapse to general revenue while hospitals eleemosynary programs gain from new appropriations. A $1 million DPS headquarters project and penny a pack tax financing begin. The year also brings school funding from Gilmer Aikin and county road money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Public Safety
Gilmer-Aikin
Texas
Board For Hospitals and Special Schools
Youth Development Council
Galveston
Judy Garland Star Power Boosts Nation Says Billy Rose
Billy Rose writes to Judy Garland from Lake Tahoe praising her film Summer Stock and calling her a national asset. He notes cinema audiences of about sixty million weekly and argues her work warms countless lives, urging her to recover and return to the screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy
Broadway
46Th Street
Garland
Longest Streets and Odd Almanac Questions
A reader asks where the world’s longest street lies noting figures from Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. The column answers questions on health, travel, and miscellaneous topics including Dresden china origins and a 1950 Almanac offer.
Austin American Statesman page notice from 1950
The text lists the Austin American publication details with editors and business manager names and states the Sunday issue is The American Statesman. It notes the paper is published every morning except Sunday by Newspapers Inc in Austin Texas. The date is September 1 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin American Information Bureau
Fye Street
Washington
Newspapers, Inc
Seventh
Colorado Streets
Austin
Texas
the American Statesman
Postoffice
Congress
Trent Sete
Austin American
Austin States
Eeman
National Organizati
United States
Associated Press
Formosa Clash Deepens as MacArthur Policy Sparks Row
Washington reports reveal President Truman ordered General MacArthur to retract his Formosa statement after officials nationwide learned of the release. Averell Harriman and Navy-Defense aides contested unilateral U S policy while Joint Chiefs of Staff fear a wider China Korea flare up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArthur
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Formosa
Carlton Kent
Chicago Sun- Times
Roger Tubby
State Department
Tubby
White House
Defense Department
Henry Wallace
Jimmie Byrnes
Truman
Navy
Forrest Sherman
Army
Joe Collins
Tokyo
Averell Harriman
Harriman
Newsweek Magazine
Chiang Kai-shek
United States
United Nations
China
Korea
Acheson
Defense Johnson
Johnson
Pentagon
Japan
Nimitz
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Philippines
Mao Tse-tung
Molotov
Mao
Russia
Straits of
Jack Lait On Broadway
Five years after the Japan occupation began General Douglas MacArthur declined a proposed diplomatic aide from Washington due to pro Russian leanings. The piece notes hotel gambling in Atlantic City, Nucky Johnson, Shelley Winters, Gloria DeHaven and John Agar in public life, and various Hollywood figures with scant detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Washington
State Department
Fancy MacArthur
MacArthur
Dean Acheson
Shelley Winters
Nino Flanga
Marina Koshetz
Dick Kerr
Gloria DeHaven
John Agar
Shirley Temple
Sam Coslow
Carol Brewster
Pat O'Malley
Sheila
Edwin Miller
Bobby Permane
Hollywood
Rae Stillman
Dreamland
Seventh Avenue
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Yam
Pact
Foreign Distribution Dept
By Herblock
Judy Garlana
Lake Tahoe
Calif
Harold Arelen
A! Jolson
Maurice Chevalier
Judy Garland
Billy Rose
Austin American Information
Eye Street
B.C.M A
American Transit Association
L.T
Dresden
Meissen
Saxony
Johann Friedrich Goettger
Dutch New Guinea
Y.S.M. A
United Nations Security Council
Cuba
Equador
Egypt
India
Norway
Yugoslavia
The
Louis N. Goldberg
Charles E. Green
Drew Pearson
General MacArthur
Morse
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Jack Lait
Atlantic City
Rudolph Halley
Kefauver Committee
Enoch
Nucky) Johnson
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