School Body in Final Meeting
AUBIN NOV 15 The 9 member state board of education, soon to be replaced by a 21 member elected board, held its last regular meeting. The session was not harmonious as members debated new textbooks for next year. A motion by R B Cousins Jr to pause contracts failed, but four civics texts were approved including a revised version Houston’s board banned for an objectionable paragraph about U.S. government trends, now reworded.
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Aubin
Uty
Board of Education
Cousins Jr
Houston School Board
U. S
Jae Eee
Edgewood area school survey cites squalor and poor housing
Teachers from five Edgewood district schools reported dismal living conditions and inadequate housing in Stafford Elementary. They detailed 140 dollar monthly family incomes, widespread pit toilets, dirt roads, and 2 to 4 room homes with limited plumbing, calling for improvement as a fertile field for progress. The district spans Tom Kelly AFB to Leon Creek and Callaghan to Barclay.
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Edgewood
Teachers Association
Stafford
U. S. Congressional Committee On Education and Labor
San Antonio
Jany
Ellen Ah
Burleson School
Coronado
T. J. Portier
Sorsnada
Staffords School
Louis Tomaino
Tomaino
Mary Hull
Edgewood Elementary
Carver Negro
Elizabeth Wrenn
Cenius
Tom Kelly Afb
Leon Creek
Callaghan,rd
Culebra
Barclay St
Bloody Harlan Suspect Killed in Slaying Case
Harlan county police chief slaying case links to Ford Sizemore who was killed by shotgun blast as his car stopped in an alley near Harlan. Sizemore was connected to the earlier Ambrose Metcalfe murder. Metcalfe died alongside a woman friend when leaving a heater. Coroner notes a metal slug shell fired. another suspect, Arthur Jackson, was tried and acquitted in October.
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Harlan
Greenlee
Sizemore
Oma Wilson
Henry Skidmore
Metcalfe
Arthur Jackson
Football Star Kills Self After Eloping to Marry
Tommy Lee Schnader a 20 year old Compton Junior College student was found dead in his car in Los Angeles after marrying Edna Irene Hamman 16 in Yuma Arizona. A note on the back of the marriage certificate explained he was hurt after Betty Jean Crow 16 the girl he loved spurned his plea to go steady. Police said death by his own action.
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Los Angeles
INS
Tommy Lee Schnader
Compton
Yuma
Ariz
Schirader
Arizona City
Edna Irene Hamman
Betty Jean Crow
Miss Hamman
Miss Crow
Tommy
Theft guilt appeal set for Adams theft conviction
Homer B. Adams of San Antonio will appeal his theft conviction over $50 to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin on Wednesday. Prosecutors Willam Hensley and M. C. Gonzales will argue for the state. Adams was charged in 1946 on 13 counts of fraud for taking money in home construction schemes. He was found guilty on one indictment in March 1949, with a three year state prison sentence recommended. His motion for a new trial was overruled.
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Homer B. Adams
San Antonio
Austin
State Court of Criminal Appeals
Willam WW. Hensley
M. C. Gonzales
Eo Adams
C. J. Bowlé
Criminal District Court
Coplon Spy Case Highlighted In Federal Hearing
Judith Coplon, convicted of spying for the Soviet bloc, appeared in federal court as a government worker who uncovered subversive groups for the Justice Department. Her lawyer Archibald Palmer defended her conduct while FBI agent Granville corroborated selections from Tom Clark’s list and described the arrest by a 20 man G‑men team after a March New York pursuit.
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Newsone
Judith Coplon
U. S
Archibald Palmer
Valentin Gubrichev
FBI
Robert R. Granville
Palmer
Granville
Miss Coplim
Gubrichev
New York
Miss Coplon
Gubitchev
Mayo Doctor to Speak on Cervical Cancer at Hospital Meet
Dr Joseph H Pratt of Mayo Clinic Rochester will address the Baptist Memorial Hospital staff meeting on surgical treatment of cancer of the cervix. Pratt spoke to a medical society in New Orleans Monday night and will speak in Austin Tuesday.
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Joseph .H. Pratt
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Hoover Praises Ads But Scolds Advertising Men
Former President Hoover praised the advertising profession for shaping the top layer of the American standard of living while chiding about 200 advertising executives for sins such as singing commercials and billboards cluttering the countryside during a New York event.
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New York, Navy
Hoover
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