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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1947
Page
7
A Tech press pamphlet shows West Texas and Panhandle oil growth raising duties for the college to train petroleum engineers and scientists. The brief notes oil industry demand, enrollment rising from 18 to 317 between 1931 and 1946 47, and federal and state officials slated to receive the document.
London papers front pages rally around Henry A Wallace urging Great Britain to help avert a death struggle between the United States and Russia. The Times notes Wallace’s fear of war but calls his pessimism excessive and cautions against misreading Soviet aims. The Daily Herald reports Wallace’s remarks under a streamer headline without editorial comment.
The veterans preferente act of the 1945 Texas legislature is deemed valid despite a caption-body discrepancy. The act extends employment preference for war veterans in public works while restricting use of raw tax collectors. It prevents the county from levying a general property tax when state tax has been remitted for public works.
In Plainview on April 12 a 12 year old boy Gene Wright said he slept and dreamed people were digging him out with a steam shovel after a cave he and companions were digging collapsed. Albert Norton revived him with artificial respiration.
Local Red Cross chapter asks for voluntary gifts of money clothing and food to aid Texas Oklahoma panhandle storm victims. W C OMara says disaster personnel including doctors and horses are on scene and supplies moved in by air. No special fund drive planned. contributions welcome at City Hall and sent to disaster relief HQ.
Patrolman Jack Livingston of Grand Prairie reports that Brennan a 50 year old local hospital employee was fatally struck by a bullet when his pistol slipped from its holster and fell to the bumper of the patrol car as he bent to cover the radio. The gun fired on impact penetrating his chest.
The New York Herald Tribune reports Axel Wenner-Gren, a top global financier once blacklisted during the war, as a potential director for a multi billion dollar Metropolitan area railway network. He seeks fixed rate high speed transport linking New Jersey and Long Island via Manhattan underground stations, with profits directed to the Viking Fund Inc. He names no personal gain, pledging any proceeds to scientific and educational causes.
A high ranking Navy officer announced that the U S Navy and Naval Reserve will no longer bar Americans of Japanese ancestry. Previously restricted, the change opens service to those previously ineligible. The decision comes as part of broader wartime measures to repurpose manpower.
Yoshio Ogimoto, a former wartime prison camp guard, was sentenced by an Eighth Army military commission in Yokohama to five years at hard labor for mistreating Allied prisoners. The sentence follows today’s conviction amid postwar war crimes proceedings.
Jimmy Wilson local housing expediter says controls over non residential construction have not been lifted despite rumors. Frank Creedon national housing expediter calls for continued limits to prevent material shortages and secure housing needs, noting past CPA backlogs and the risk of higher costs if non residential work surges.
In Lynn Massachusetts an 8 year old boy was chained to a pole atop a metal barrel and doused with kerosene then set ablaze by a 10 year old playmate. Neighbors found him and police questioned the suspect who reportedly said he got the idea from a movie he had seen recently and the boy’s mother named the other child as the culprit. The victim’s condition was described as not serious.
The railroad commission completed four days of show cause hearings to determine if natural gas is excessively flared in Texas oil fields. Testimony covered North Cowden Ector McElroy Slaughter Wasson fields and others as operators cited delays in material availability hindering gas utilization projects.
Baltimore police report two officers found their badges stolen from their coats inside the station. They said the shields disappeared while coats were left behind for wagon duty.
Armed trucks with doctors and medical gear roll through Calcutta to map a cholera epidemic that has claimed 72 official deaths. Police guard the convoy amid communal disturbances as the city undertakes a wide canvass.
Abilene Texas April 12 Ranch week at Hardin-Simmons university runs Sunday with an intercollegiate rodeo to be held next Friday and Saturday. More than 45 colleges and universities will send contestants. Events include goat tying cow milking team tying saddle bronc bareback riding wild bull riding calf roping and wild cow milking. Prizes include a western saddle for the champion cowboy and a riding habit for the champion cowgirl along with regular cash awards.
A discussion notes that efficiency could rise if a uniform production rate were attainable, outlining potential benefits and implications for consistency across operations. The statement emphasizes steady output as a key goal for improved performance.
Andrew Jackson became the first U S president to ride a steam railroad signaling an early era milestone in American transport.
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