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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1950
Page
6
Former Austin mayor Tom Miller will chair a drive to maintain 13 welfare agencies. The event opens Tuesday with a breakfast at the Driskill Hotel hosted by Miller for volunteers and community leaders to discuss the campaign and subscription goal for continued welfare agency support.
Leland Antes Jr of 2315 Sabine is a long time Circus Fans Association member preparing Austin for Ringling Brothers show on October 3. The UT journalism student, 21, has a 5000 piece miniature circus collection valued at 2500 and has helped circuses from Tyler to Austin with clowns, hospital visits, and camel duties.
A five member planning committee named Butler Park in South Austin between the Colorado River and Barton Springs as the top site for a proposed city auditorium citing ample parking. The panel seeks 2500 to hire planners from the International Association of Municipal Auditorium Managers with Acting Mayor Drake and City Manager Seaholm proposing the request next week. The committee intends to keep four association members for guidance in the planning process.
Staff Sergeant Morris Pearson, stationed in Korea, has been granted a leave of absence to fly to the United States and visit his seriously ill mother in a Lockhart hospital. He will return by airplane after the visit.
A digest shows multiple civil actions filed including divorces for Mary Lee Calhoun and Lorene Shannon cases, and various name changes for Andrew Szemetko Jr and Lindon Earl James. It lists sworn account actions, contract disputes, tax refund suit, probate matters, executrix appointment, and a batch of marriage licenses issued with numerous couples and vehicle brand mentions.
Jimmie Terrill, a Kyle native and English major at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, wrote an article in Farm and Ranch. The piece highlights a neighbor in Kyle whose hobby of button collecting drew statewide attention.
An old promotional snippet touts a tonic described as a grand strength booster for the body. It markets a “favorite” blood tonic claiming to replenish energy and vitality over time in personalized fashion.
State Highway Engineer D P Greer predicted the Interregional Highway through Travis County could be in use in about four years though he called the forecast a wild guess dependent on world events. The project will be built in four sections with East Avenue from East 19th to East 46th Streets under construction and other legs planned toward US 81 near the Williamson County line and Pleasant Hill. Routing was designated by the State Highway Commission, pending city approval.
Travis County’s second contingent of 32 inductees, including transfers from other cities, left Friday for the San Antonio induction station to be assigned for basic training. The first group from Draft Board No. 119 went Thursday.
Ex students anticipate record turnout for Southwest Texas State Teachers College homecoming with Oct 20 and 21 events. Ronnie Locke Ex-Students Association secretary says invitations will go to more than 15 000 former students.
Dudley Early its Amusements editor previews a likely Abbott and Costello routine as a panel of entertainers, including poet Are “i bs” and critic Stern, prepares a spoof of a World War II themed Foreign Legion sketch for the show.
This fragment describes a comic adventure featuring the Dirty Dozen style group chasing Abdullah the wrestler promoter through the Foreign Legion and a desert mirage chase. The tone notes humor and danger with a camels versus jeep chase and a desert thirst sequence that kids may enjoy.
Travis County Representative Johnnie B. Rogers says he will back a bill in the 52nd Legislature to empower counties to control subdivision development outside cities. The measure aims to curb uncontrolled growth around major Texas cities after discussions with Austin planners.
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