Radiation clash on Kerr bill fuels White House pressure
Editorial notes round of Sunbelt tempers as Kerr bill to curb FPC gas-rate power prompts a Senate House push. George Miller leads a California driven appeal to the President with John Shelley broadening scope. Only two of California’s 11 Democrats voted for it. Republican Senator Knocheland opposed. Downey pairs off as he retires.
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Key West
Federal Power Commission
Senate
George P. Miller
Calif
California
John Shelley
Miller
Clinton D. McKinnon
Harry R. Sheppard
William Knochland
Sheridan Downey
U.S. Senate
Morton Downey
Robert Kerr
Rayburn
Kerr
Oscar Chapman
William Boyle
Truman
The
Power Commission
Ohio Fuel Gas’ Company
el Paso Natural Gas Company
Pavilion “Natural Gag Company
Penn York
Natural Gag Company
West Texas Gas Company
Hope Natural Gas Company
Atlantic
Seeboard Corporation
Baytown street renumbering causes council debate
Baytown council faced a tense public debate over renumbering portions of Market Street. Citizens urged retaining the current system to avoid a cascading change across the city. The discussion reflected broader questions of consistency and local governance amid a busy election year.
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Baytown
Market Street
Houston Homicide, Confession, and Easter Service Promises
Front page features a Houston homicide confession about the idling of a woman and another column details a 25-year-old wife killing her 46-year-old husband in a pistol struggle. The city’s murder rate tops national charts, with 1948 figures around 260 and rising toward 1950. Easter sunrise service at Memorial Stadium draws thousands with robed choirs and band music, broadcast by local stations. Baytown’s Robert E Lee High Band earns a perfect score in interscholastic competition, praised for flawless performance. A lighthearted society vignette jokes about writing dinner notes for two clients and the challenge of pink candles in a dinner feature.
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Houston
Harris County Council of Christian Leymen
Memorial Stadium
Wayne McCloskey
St. Mark’s Methodist Church
Robert & Lee High School
Lee High
Lee College
Bertown
Robert HB. Lee High School
Baytown
Jake Burkett
Jake
Acé
Society Aabwt
Fulia
Janet McKinney
Virginia Meyer
Sun
Virginia
Julia
Janet
Have A Laugh By Boyce House THE TEMPLE Telegram
A collection of humor from relief workers reports includes quips about cultured conditions. In a small town luncheon club, two preachers were absent so the chairman asked a merchant to pray. the merchant, unprepared, ended with a simple thanks to the Lord.
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Temple Telegram
No Title Yet Tells of Hirohito and Elections
Telling Me by William Pitt quotes Emperor Hirohito confined to his cot with a cold and fever while Japanese cherry blossoms lag Washington. Moscow accuses the Fugoslavia vote of being forced and organized. Zadok Dumkopf jokes elections in April. The St Louis Browns hire a psychiatrist to help players think they are stars, while fans remain skeptical.
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Hirohito
Washington
Japan
Zadok Dumkopf
St. Louis Browns
Browns
St Louis
Baytown Sun Publisher and staff details noted
In Baytown Texas The Daily Sun Company lists office staff and rates with names including Matherme Fred Hallman editor S Gould Mae Jackson and Sybeoe. The fragmentary entry shows subscription rates and management roles but lacks complete figures or dates.
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Daily Sun Company
Pearce and
Ashbel
Baytown, Texas
Matherme
Fred Hallman
Sya
S. Gould
Ee Sing
Mae Jackson
Sybeoe
How Do You Know If You Are In Love
Erich Brandeis muses on love's certainty through a luncheon chat about an engagement. He recalls a married 28 years and admits, despite no classic symptoms, he is in love. A Vermont traffic jam and Buckingham Palace cigar note provide humorous contrasts to the central question.
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Truman
Washington
Trumen
John Foster Dulles
Dean Acheson
Dulles
Manney
Skirmers
Alaska
Skinner
Bnet
Edward L. Bartlett
Sam Rayburn
Barkley
Tany
England Review Stand by Henry Mclemore
Review stand offers wild tongue in London notes as Henry Mclemore prepares a strutted lecture tour through Britain before returning to the United States He jokes about impressions of pubs and public life while promising a costumed, provocative show addressing nationalization and socialized medicine.
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Henry McLemore
London
Ireland
New Foundland
New York
Britain
Scotland
United States
Idlewild
British Isles
Alaska Crisis in Justice Dept Battle over Skinner Empire
Washington dispatch reports a Justice Department push to dismantle Gilbert Skinner and the Alaska Steamship Co as a major monopoly controlling Alaska's economy. FBI evidence to a grand jury targets Skinner’s empire including banks docks oil real estate timber and fishing while Thurman Arnold defends.
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Roberts
Allen Washington
Congress
Alaska
Justice Department
U.S
FBI
Department
Aven
Washington
Skinner
Alaska Steamship Company
Lfe-Line
Seattle
McGrath
Interior
Oscar Chapman
Ernest Gruening
Grand Jury
History of taxation quoted by Henry W. Flagg in Texas
In Galveston attorney Henry W. Flagg warned before the United Daughters of the Confederacy that history shows the downfall of great nations stems from excessive taxation of the people. He delivered the address in Galveston.
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Henry W. Flagg
Galveston
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Dancing Not Dancing Says Earl Wilson Salons and stage chat
New York gossip frames dancing as conversation and scene chatter rather than pure motion. Miss Bettis and peers discuss graceful performers like Ray Bolger Beatrice Lillie and Monty. art, room to move, and personalities shape dancing’s appeal amid cafe culture and Broadway talk.
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Suse Pettis
Monty
Wilson
New York
Central Park Mall
Bettis
Fay
Miss Bettis
Quick Pack Of Easy Knowledge Quiz From The Press
A jumble of trivia questions and short notes spans boxing floor wax, Patagonis geography, shell danger in army slang, and miswritten civics. It mixes birthdays, history dates, famous figures, and a Who Was He prompt with a puzzle on Italian composer Verdi.
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Hawelien Islands
le Roncole
Tali
Milan
Conservatorio
San Bonifacio
Chicago
Riso
University of Chicago
Five Years Ago in Brief Headlines and Notices
A look back at five years ago covers a ship sinking, wartime notes on Patton’s army, and a wounded officer’s status. It notes Boy Scouts awards to Martin Wayne Gelsendor and Milton Barnwell, a church site planned by Central BP Charca and Paul’s Lutheren Church, and April 4 marriages at Liberty Miss Delphis Sun Besty O Houston and Marvin 188 Ragtown.
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Abe Bremen
Hannover Oatskirts
Sisus
Vienna
Martin Wayne Gelsendor
Milton Barnwell
Charles W
Tank Warfare & Era
Patton
Lester
Bell
Oklahoma
B Paul's
Lutheren Church
M. HL Bielstein
Migs Frances Thelda
James Morell
Liberty
Delphis
Houston
Marvin
Ragtown
Marie
Ape Bride
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Sonty
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Charlie Chaplin
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Louisiana
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Tika Chase
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Charles E Burchfield
Leon Blurm
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