Free Enterprise group challenges Oil Workers Union in Texas
Fight for Free Enterprise files an injunction in the 57th district court charging the Oil Workers Union with operating without a Texas charter and waging strikes to undermine the free enterprise system. O W I U officials in Fort Worth and union president O A Knight are named in the lengthy petition. The move comes as Gulf Coast oil workers reject a 15 percent wage offer amid 52 hours pay for 40 hours work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
U.P
Fight For Free Enterprise, Inc
CIO
Texas
Onorkers International Union
Free Enterprise Group
57Th District Court
B. P. Matocha
Fort Worth
O. A. Knight
Phil Hopkins
Dallas
Hopkins
Gulf Coast
Navy
Free Enterprise Organization
Oil Workers Union
Fee
At Onbagine
Bombers To Return FEAF Men To U S
Tokyo October 20 Six hundred fifty B 24 Liberator bombers will fly home 5200 officers and men of the Far East Air forces FEAF for discharge. Bombers will be piloted by Fifth Seventh and 13th Air Forces crews with routes from Okinawa and the Philippines. Each aircraft will carry eight high point men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FEAF
U. S
Tokyo
Far East
Submarine Tirante Receives Presidential Unit Citation
Secretary Forrestal awarded the Presidential Unit citation to the submarine Tirante for its heroic first war patrol. The presentation took place in Washington on October 19 with officials noting the crew’s valor and achievements during combat operations early in the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Forrestal
Family Gardens Feed Austerity Era Families
In lean times a mother and child cultivate every patch of lawn for vegetables. Family gardens prove a meager but steady source of food for winter, reflecting communal effort to stretch scarce resources.
Three Farben Plants To Be Blown Up
Berlin reports three I G Farben munitions plants in the American occupation zone offered for demolition under Allied plans to reduce Germanys war making capacity. Five more plants including a Bremen shipyard added as disposal options in part payment of reparations. Twenty one plants now listed for reparations with more to follow next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
I. G. Farben
America
Germany
Bremen
Health Department Laboratory Receives Federal License
Austin report says the Health Department laboratory earned a federal license, making it the seventh state lab nationwide to be licensed. The approval confirms compliance with standards on personnel, premises sanitation, and safety and purity of products for interstate shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Federal Security Agency
State Health Department
George W. Cox
Patrols off Korea Coast Highlight April Operations
Vague report notes naval activity near the Korean coast during April, with ships patrolling and unspecified missions underway. No names, dates, or precise actions are confirmed in the fragment.
School Of The Air Gains Popularity On KFYO Broadcast
Steadily growing program enters its seventh year on KFYO radio at 1 45 p m each Monday and Wednesday. Teachers write plan and broadcast lessons linking Lubbock Public Schools with the community, serving students from pre school to high school and featuring literature science and music from Lubbock High School auditorium. Broadcasters include Mrs J L Teal Mrs Earnest Mader Miss Louise LeMond and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
KFYO
South Plains
Lubbock School of the Air
Lubbock High School
J. L. Teal
Earnest Mader
Louise LeMond
E. F. Pilley
Betty Jo Hubka
Reudy S. Rhodes
David Smith
Imogene Webster
Dimple Watson
Labor Commissioner Carlton to Attend Washington Conference
State Labor Commissioner Leonard Carlton will travel to Washington for a conference invited by U S Secretary of Labor Lewis B Schwellenbach. The three day event is set for December 3 4 and 5. Australia enforces a poll tax charging six dollars to vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
U.S
Leonard Carlton
Washington
U. S
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Insurance Man Ed Hambright Returns to Lubbock Post
Ed Hambright, a district manager for Western Reserve Life Insurance, resumes his role after a two year Army discharge. Serving as a supply sergeant at Camp Crowder in Missouri, he returns with his wife and five year old son to 2619 Twenty-fifth Street in Lubbock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Hambright
Lubbock
Western Reserve Life Insurance Company
Hambright
Ca Crowder
Court reporter pay case upheld by attorney general
The attorney general's department ruled the exclusion of court reporters in Tarrant and Bexar counties from a general salary bill valid, granting higher pay for these reporters. Population brackets used for the purpose were declared void. Abraham Lincoln was appointed postmaster at New Salem, Illinois, in 1833.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tarrant
Bexar County
Attorney General's Department
Abraham Lincoln
New Salem, Hil
Sale Of Texas Factory Being Negotiated
Dallas October 20 portable products of New York is set to acquire nearly all stock of the Southern Aircraft Corp of Texas for about 1 million dollars. The move would fold the Texas firm into Portable Products as a light metals fabrication sub division while management stays in place. Portable Products plans to buy the portion of the plant owned by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
U.P
Southern Aircraft Corp
Texas
Portable Products Corp
New York
Willis C. Brown
Southern Beesigente
Yesteray
Brown
Portable Products
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Also Mentioned on This Page
Back
Avalanche-Journal
Farben
Health Department
Korea
Paschall
Tex. Ave
Dial
Nicoon
Feigo
COROC
Cook
Roll Cook
School of the Air
Australia
Churchill
Roosevelt
Marshal Stalin
Mackinaws
Ises
Daughter
Levine
Bonn
Piace
Gabardine
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!