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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1949
Page
4
Austin and Travis County crews defied motorists to finish the new low water bridge over the Colorado River. They blocked roads with boulders after dynamite tests and ended the project with heavy safety measures. The piece also notes ongoing legal challenges to Travis County’s alcohometer tests and mixed jury outcomes in drunken driving cases.
A string of wry observations on peace at home and abroad. Comments on two fighting families, lame duck politics, hush hush legislation, and condescending tourists. The piece notes John L. Lewis biography portrayals and warns against reduced funding for The Voice of America while promising it won’t become an echo.
In a Berlin report, Germans age and class reveal stark clothing gaps. Men mostly wear shabby coats and pants while women dressier but still struggle to buy stock. Blockade fears ease but rents rise, driving savers to gamble on goods amid rationing and scarce housing.
A reader asked about the origin of robbing Peter to pay Paul and the source of the Amazon River. The exchange covers Galileo’s tower experiment, barometer accuracy indoors, a 1935 balloon altitude record, Q fever naming, Shakespearean line counts, Edwin Markham’s poem, official scoring in 0 0 baseball, ink thinning, and US family income distributions.
The Editors Notebook argues federal measures to ease credit aim to spur commercial and industrial building and new business in Austin and Texas. Lower mortgage rates and broadened credit open previously ineligible ventures, with veterans loans fading and high employment policies aiding growth in Central Texas postwar projects.
The Legislature reduced the library extension service by striking a 5750 item, making Texas the only state to abolish the program. Despite cuts, overall library appropriations rise to 305,240 for the coming biennium, with main library, state archives and legislative reference divisions growing, while the extension director, Mrs. Robert H. Wilson, is displaced. The 1925 law still governs the extension service with hopes for future restoration in January.
H A Dunn of Austin Texas collects used textbooks donated by UT students to ship 30 000 books to Philippines for school libraries. The feature notes submarine progress and a Navy press campaign, plus steel wage debates and a MacArthur China aid plan.
Haphazard column styles list Howard Unruh linked to Wolfe scene and a parade of stars. Notes include Ezzard Charles vs a Denver model Carmen Bowers, Gloria Swanson canceling a merger, Kath Hepburn and Howard Hughes visits, Winthrop Rockefeller fined, and Osborne cables in Hiss defense.
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