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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1949
Page
2
In Terrell on September 26 a stove explosion destroyed a one room home killing Lois Jones and her 18 month old son Larry. Deputy Sheriff Pete Richie said natural gas fueled the blast and the coroner ruled death from an exploding stove. Neighbors heard a scream and found the scorched wreck with the infant in a crib and the mother on the floor.
London reported that Sir Ralph Stevenson the British ambassador to China has been ordered home for consultations the Foreign Office announced on September 26.
Bell metal is an alloy of roughly four parts copper to one part tin.
A six story atom smashing machine will be on exhibit at the 1949 State Fair of Texas atomic energy show. The American Museum of Atomic Energy will supply a 250000-volt Van De Graaff generator model. Two atomic scientists from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, will attend.
ENNIS September 26. Leo Christian engineer at the Texas and New Orleans Railroad shops has 25 acres of whitening cotton and has hired only one experienced picker. Fellow employes and their families aid in spare time. Volunteer pickers include machinists electricians coppersmiths crane operators and porters. They earn the prevailing wage of 3 per hundred.
Hereford plans to expand to a total of 4,715,000 bushels with five new elevators adding 2,275,000. Fraser Grain Company pours 900,000 bushels and aims to finish by Oct 15 while Pitman Grain Company adds 400,000 and targets around Nov 10. Fraser will have 1,800,000 and Pitman 1,700,000 bushels.
Arizona offers to export a beauty to Alameda California to compete for Miss Hellcat at the naval air station. The station lamented no contestants. The Phoenix Chamber of Commerce offered one candidate. It highlights Jacque Mercer Miss America as an Arizona product.
Trout are now being planted in remote lakes by helicopter, delivering fish to otherwise hard to reach waters. The aerial stocking aims to boost local fisheries and support anglers in distant regions.
After 27 years, Mrs. Allie Scott of Fort Worth was reunited with her brothers H. W. Faulkner of Brownwood and Arthur Faulkner of Ardmore and sister Mrs. James A. Ellison of Dallas in Brownwood. Faulkner last saw Allie in 1922 in Hutchinson Kansas. The reunion followed personal notices in Fort Worth papers and news stories in Brownwood and Fort Worth with plans for a larger family gathering in Brownwood.
San Antonio officers seized five and one sixteenth ounces of pure heroin with a $200,000 black market value. A 32-year-old man, possibly from Chicago or New York, was arrested and held for federal narcotics officers. The drug was hidden in a suitcase at his residence. officials say it was likely smuggled from the Mediterranean. He was booked on a vagrancy charge and to be arraigned before US Commissioner Paul Lockhart.
Henri Servais of the Jacksonville Salvation Army had his 250 pound St. Bernard cooling in heat when an ice company provided an air conditioner to help him cope with the hot day.
Burglars pried open a cafe safe in Six Points early Monday rolling out a bright red safe loaded with nearly 1100 dollars. The same crew is suspected in a $150 take from Houston Natural Gas offices and a theft of over 1000 dollars in golf clubs at the city course. Police call the weekend spree the worst in months.
The program committee reports a tentative schedule of speakers for the mid winter meeting on January 28 in Austin. Walter Buckner of the San Marcos Record presided as committee chairman at Sunday's Fort Worth meeting.
The Comal County cooperative opened a $150,000 creamery plant in New Braunfels on Monday. Charles Mergele serves as president and Willard D. Hill as secretary of the co-op which handles milk cream buttermilk cottage cheese ice cream and milk drinks.
Federal Judge T Whitfield Davidson refused William Larry Martin a new trial over lack of counsel when the 15 year bank robbery sentence was imposed. Martin had asked for appeal after attorney J P Coseley sought to withdraw for a state case. Court noted defense had not objected and that Martin waived counsel. The 1947 crime netted $2149. Martin captured 55 minutes after the Dec 5 robbery in Big Spring. He had prior death sentence commuted, later released to Army service. He claimed courtroom self‑education from Leavenworth library.
John D. Mc Pherson, 30, built Airborne Flower and Freight into an 80 000 dollar business in Berkeley California due to strong demand for local flowers.
On September 27 1882 the Fort Worth and Denver City railroad reached Wichita Falls marking a defining milestone. Platted by the Scott heirs in 1876 the town shifted south after a rain flood and offered 55 percent of lot proceeds to builders. Early settler W T Buntin dug in at Tenth Street and Kemp Boulevard.
Sherman scene details the 100th anniversary of Austin College with a 50 page Presbyterian Outlook issue from Richmond, Virginia. Messages from Dr. W. E. Price Dr. Edward R. Grant and Dr. R. E. Sherrill highlight the college’s Huntsville founding Sherman move in 1876 and current expansion. The publication also carries the Texas and Oklahoma synods meeting program in Sherman October 4 to 6.
West Texas will host a Fort Worth meeting November 22 with Interior Secretary Julius Krug to address domestic water issues. The West Texas Chamber of Commerce expects about 1,200 attendees and plans to organize a West Texas Domestic Water Association. The Bureau of Reclamation survey of the Brazos and Colorado river basins advances, aiming to designate dam sites. The group also opposes confirmation of Leland Olds to the Federal Power Commission.
Carl Ellis Crow, 22, of Nocona, died in a head on automobile motorcycle crash on Highway 82 west of Gainesville Sunday night. Loretta Dawson, 16, of Saint Jo, was seriously injured after being thrown from the motorcycle Crow drove.
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