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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1949
Page
3
Washington reports that the forthcoming military pay raise bill will discontinue family allowances for armed forces personnel by July 1 1952 with staged cutoff dates. The bill totals about $300 million annually and grants increases in basic pay while phasing out dependent allowances under various enlistment rules.
Distributors announced the price of milk will rise one cent a quart in New Orleans starting Saturday due to amendments to the federal milk marketing agreement. The new formula calls for higher prices in winter and fall when supplies are tight and lower prices in spring and summer. The increase covers butte milk chocolate milk bottled milk drinks cream cheeses breakfast cream and plain milk.
A League of Women Voters forum in Austin featured R. W. Byram and Dr. J. W. Edgar among others outlining the school system. Edgar described 1,071 employees and 34 schools serving about 20 000 students while Byram cautioned that at least 12 million dollars are needed for new buildings and 300 000 annually for space. Wilborn spoke on teacher philosophy centered on moral physical and ethical values.
Two teenagers ages 16 and 15 told police they enjoyed the thrill of lying beneath railroad tracks while six suburban trains passed overhead. Detectives stopped their stunt after spotting them entering a shallow trench beside the Chicago and Northwestern line. They said they opened a sheet to shield their clothes from soot. Authorities were checking if any laws were broken and whether this could spark a youth fad.
In New York on September 28 an undertaker named Herman Moskowitz aged 60 hanged himself after completing his own death certificate except for the line noting the cause of death. He was found in the basement of a Brooklyn mortuary.
Attorney General Price Daniels’ office releases three opinions. One says half the cash surrender value of life insurance is taxable for inheritance when community funds paid premiums. A second allows constables’ salaries to be paid from fees with limits, no mileage reimbursement. The third clarifies that a married minor living in Texas for 12 months with wife and child is a Texas resident for tuition fees.
Governor Allan Shivers appointed five new state officials including two Water Board members James S. Gulerie and Andrew P. Rollins. two Game Commission appointees Walter Lechner and Scott Schreiner. and Pecos River Compact commissioner J C Wilson. The terms run to specified future dates with biographical notes on each appointee.
Los Angeles dated report states Sam Wood heirs must file a loyalty affidavit to benefit under his will. Widow Clara L. Wood is exempt. Daughters Jeane Hiestand and Gloria Marlowe receive $1000 monthly each with their children and a household servant excluded from exemption. Estate valued between $100,000 and $500,000.
A bull and a pickup truck collided near Clovis New Mexico. The bull returned to its pen while the damaged pickup required hauling for repairs.
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