Polio Patient Receives Gift of Radio Record Player
Fifteen year old Virginia Simon, bedridden since age four, becomes happy polio patient after friends present her a combined radio and record player. The gift grew from Bill McDonald’s appeal to fund it, raising about $40. Saegert's Furniture Store donated the console and Hays Record Shop provided records.
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Austin
Virginia Simon
Bill McDonald
McDonald
Virginia
Bill
Saegert
Hays Record Shop
Pledge of Allegiance Written in 1892 by Bellamy
The pledge of allegiance to the American flag was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy. It credits Bellamy with the creation of the now familiar oath used in U S schools and public ceremonies.
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Francis Bellamy
Cominform Says Yugoslavs Might Ditch Tito
The Cominform bulletin claimed a genuine underground Communist movement could overthrow Premier Tito in Yugoslavia. It said conspirator groups are forming, exile movements have their own radio station, and four anti-Tito papers circulate inside the country. It noted Yugoslav forces total 800,000, with many secret police agents, while linking past charges of nationalism to Tito’s removal from Cominform.
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Romania
Cominform Bulletin
Marshall Tito
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Cominform Bloc
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Tito
iTto
Belgrade
Cominform
Balkan
Moscow
Mother saves child from 20 foot well in daring rescue
An expectant mother, Mrs Earl Dumont, 29, recovered in a hospital after leaping into a 20 foot well to save her 2-year-old son Garry who had fallen through a 16 inch hole. She held him above water for about an hour until help arrived, saying she was not scared though anxious for his safety.
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Springfield
N. H
Earl Dumont
Garry
Central Texas Weather Forecast and Readings
The Weather Bureau reports partly cloudy skies with scattered afternoon thunder showers and little temperature change for central Texas. Austin sunrise 6:42 am sunset 6:52 pm moonrise 5:04 pm moonset 2:31 am. full moon September 7. Highest temp since January 1 reached 101. rainfall total 24.53 inches with 1.81 inches excess. Colorado River stages Montopolis 3.0 ft, Lake Buchanan 10.1 ft, Travis at Marshall Ford 664.02 ft. Colorado River forecast shows little change. Friday highs and lows: Abilene 89 66, El Paso 86 58, Amarillo 88 58, Port Worth 94 70, Galveston 87 74, Brownsville 93 73, Houston 89 75, Corpus Christi 91 72, Laredo 96 72, San Antonio 95 72, Waco 95 70.
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US Weather Bureau
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Colorado
Montoplis
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Ke Travis
Marshall Ford
Abilene
el Paso
Amarillo
Port Worth Austin
Galveston
Brownsville
Houston
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Rio
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Waco
Top o the Morning and other films at Paramount and area theaters
A mixed movie listing reviews Top O The Morning with Bing Crosby and Ann Blyth, praising Irish charm and humor. It notes additional features at Paramount and other local theaters including The Big Steal with Mitchum and Greer, Ghost Catchers, Dumbo, Kiss of Death, Pride of the Yankees, and various drive-in billings with multiple titles and showtimes.
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Ireland
Bing Crosby
Barry Fitzgerald
Barry
Ann Blyth
Crosby
Poliey
Erin
Bing
Ann
Hume Cronyn
Paramount
Test pilot saved by California guard flier in jet landing
In Indianapolis on September 2 a test pilot for General Motors Allison Division nearly crashed when instruments failed. Lt Walter Rew of San Bernardino guided the plane to a safe landing by relaying instrument readings from his F800 Shooting Star. Rew, a former P40 and P47 veteran, will race to Cleveland Sunday.
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California Air Guard
Jim Younghans
Allison Division
General Mortors Corporation
Walter C. Rew
San Bernardino
Calif
Younghans
Weir Cook
Ren
Rew
Aleutians
Germany
Cleveland
Uranium Detected Near White House Monument
A prospecting reporter using a Geiger counter found indications of uranium ore a few hundred yards from the White House within the Washington Monument. The counter ticked briskly near granite blocks supporting a Colorado memorial stone in the 555 foot high structure, but experts say the ore is not enough to be valuable or dangerous.
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Washington
White House
Washington Monument
Colorado
Big Mo Crew Observes Surrender Anniversary
The fourth anniversary of Japan's surrender was observed aboard the battleship Missouri near Cuba. The ceremony included religious services and a closing prayer by Dr. Joseph F. Thorming, civilian guest from Maryland, as Missouri led a task force of ten ships on a training cruise from Cherbourg to Guantanamo Bay.
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Japan
Missouri
Cuba
Joseph F. Thorming
Carrolton Manor
Frederick
Cherbourg
France
Guantanamo
Final Polish Put On Dollar Plans To Aid England
British American and Canadian officials near final touches on a six point program to ease Britain's dollar crisis. The talks emphasize short term steps while long range solutions are studied. A devaluation of the pound is considered inevitable by U S officials.
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Washington
Sept
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United States
Commonwealth Nations
Economic Council
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
State Acheson
Deaths and Funerals in Texas Several Obituaries Noted
Funeral services were held for L. L. Nusom 69 former Austin resident in San Antonio. Nusom died at his San Antonio home after a long illness moved there last June after living in Austin since 1942 while with the National Youth Administration later a field auditor for the State Department of Vocational Education. Survivors include his widow a daughter and a grandson. Other notices list funeral services for Mrs. Lottie Cordell Pressley L. W. Raley Frances Elizabeth Bonds Wilburn Curry McCarver Dr. Dennis Mason and Mrs. I. B. Cluck with burial in City Cemetery Conoley Cemetery Oak Hill and Cedar Park Cemetery.
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First National Bank
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Bandera
Larry Graham Jr
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Houston
Weed- Corley
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Walter Schutt
Claude Graham
Bill Moore
J. P. Trammell
Roscoe Faubian
Gene Jackson
US Department Store Sales Slip in 12th District
Federal Reserve Bank data show 12th District department store sales down 12 percent in the week ended August 27 from a year earlier, lagging the national decline of about 1 percent. For the four weeks ended August 27 the district fell 8 percent versus 9 percent nationally, based on 85 stores.
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San Francisco
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank
Don’t Ask First For Truth About Falsies
New York September 2 reporters sought opinions on artificial bosoms. Libby Aldrich 18 of Kelso Washington said a man has no right to be disappointed if his girlfriend wears them unless he asked first. Miss Washington planned to fly to Atlantic City for the Miss America contest.
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New York
Washington
Libby Aldrich
Kelso
Atlantic City
Spot More Attentive Than Most Pupils
Amarillo report notes a dog named Spot attended school with 17 year old Donnie McDowell. The teacher said Spot was more attentive than most of her second grade class and stayed beside Donnie's desk until noon.
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Amarillo
Mary
Donnie
Spot
Donnie McDowell
Inventor denies link between disc plane and flying saucer
In Las Vegas, inventor Jonathan E. Caldwell, 66, insists his disc type airplane found wrecked in Glen Burnie, Maryland, bears no relation to flying saucers. An Air Forces officer speculated it as a saucer prototype, but the Air Force later denied such a claim. Caldwell, once based in Glen Burnie, describes test flights in 1939 and outlines the craft’s unusual eight foot diameter rotor wings and 166 feet of wing surface, powered by a jeep engine.
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Glen Burnie
Air Forces
Shucks
Jonathan E. Caldwell
Manhattan Beach
Calif
Air Force
Caldwell
Willard Driggers
Commerce Department
Adolph Rohrbach
Berlin
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