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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1950
Page
5
Mamie Grandon a washwoman is jailed on murder charges for killing neighbor Matt Parrar. Authorities say she beat him with an axe, dismembered his body, and buried the torso near her home. Arms and legs were reported found near a pigsty. bail set at 511,000.
Texas trailblazer J R Howell Burnett works with the Alamo Soil Conservation district to near finish a five year plan on a San Antonio area farm. He has built 3700 ft of channel terraces and seeded waterway with Bermuda and KR bluestem while contour farming cropland. The article notes other farms in the area improving pastures, brush clearing, and planned irrigation and grazing expansions amid National Farm Safety Week observations.
Ottawa reports the death of former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King from pneumonia. State funeral planned in Ottawa, burial in Toronto. Tributes from King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, President Truman, and Prime Minister St Laurent mark the end of the Mackenzie King era after a record tenure from 1921 to 1948. King died at his cottage near Ottawa.
In Jersey City on July 24 Rachel Gilly a palm reader who uses a crystal ball asked police for a day to locate her stolen car. She claimed the thief broke the ball and took the vehicle as she looked for answers.
Treasury agents and state police raided a still near Lancaster early today and confiscated 90 ten gallon jugs of untaxed liquor along with a felt hat. John Aumon of slate police said the illegal liquor was being strained through the hat.
FT Worth brief. William Rawlings, 51, a retired Fort Worth insurance man, died yesterday here.
In a head on collision near Pampa two people died and sixteen were hurt while returning from a swimming party. Mildred Ones age sixteen of Pampa and Mary Jo Harris age nineteen of Hoover Texas were killed. The Pampa car was driven by John Thomas Dawes seventeen who attempted to pass a car when it met Val Laverreges twenty of Hoover driving the other vehicle.
Hong Kong reports the official Chinese news agency outlining a five year plan starting next year to develop heavy industry and agricultural production. The program aims to manufacture autosized machine tools and notes coal and iron ore distance as a major handicap.
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