City Council Actions From Page One
Council approved improvements in Jefferson Park and denied Frank K. Johnson a beer license for the Greyhound bus station restaurant. Items referred to committees include alley vacating in University Heights, remodeling plans for the city garage, and a drain layer classification in the new plumbing code. Horace W. Smith bond approved. bonds for Betty H. Bell and Harold Fields canceled. Udall & Udall retained for pending legal matters.
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Frank K. Johnson
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Planning and Zoning Commission
C. S. Campus
Block 6
University Heights
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Blanc Loses Sole Rights To Laugh In Public Domain
Los Angeles October 4. Superior Judge Daniel N Stevens ruled in a 520000 damage suit that Mel Blanc’s Woody Woodpecker laugh may be used by other entertainers without authorization since the laugh type is in the public domain. Blanc sued Walter Lantz Productions Castle Films and Leeds Music Corp for publishing the laugh in a song.
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Los Angeles
Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny
Woodpecker
Daniel N. Stevens
Blanc
Woody Woodpecker
Walter Lantz Productions
Castle Films
Leeds Music Corp
Centurama marks Big Spring 100th anniversary in park
Big Spring Texas hosts a historic pageant centering on a six day cantata by Frank Grandstaff. Governor Allan Shivers and a Tennessee fugitive on furlough attended as 6,000 spectators watched a sunrise to 100 year celebration. Grandstaff died years before, but the event revived the town’s memory.
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Big Spring
Tex
West Texas
Wwe
Tena
Texas
Frank Grandstaff
Tennessee
Grandstaff
Allan Shivers
Gordon Browning
Echo Lake deer shakes motorists with marshmallow bribe
In Echo Lake Colorado Everett Davidson of Denver reported a deer blocked his car yesterday and would not clear the highway until he bribed it with marshmallows. The incident comes as a quirky local note amid a slate of other state stories.
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Colo
Everett Davidson
Denver
Davidson
Baltimore boy found in jail eight hours after arrest
Baltimore police recaptured Howard Mosby a 16 year old disorderly conduct suspect who had asked to be kept in jail to avoid being late for a hearing. A docket error delayed the hearing leading to a daylong search until a turnkey recalled Mosby in the lockup. The case was dismissed by Magistrate Kozlov. In Pueblo Colorado the city celebrates the completion of a railroad grade crossing elimination with a spike pulling ceremony for a $2 5 million project.
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Baltimore
Howard Mosby
Mosby
A. A. Kozlovsky
Pueblo
Colo
Conference Goes Over Mining Case
In preparation for a hearing before the commission on October 10, officials discussed the corporation’s activities with stockholders. The exact questioning approach was not revealed and may be set for use in the county attorney’s office. The conference is expected to last all day.
Flint Memorial Donation Rejected by City Commission
Lorenzo Drake of Flint sent the city commission $5 for a memorial. The commission never heard of the memorial and returned the money.
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Flint
Mich
Lorenzo Drake
Head of Douglas Mine Local Resigns From Office
I A Castro resigns as president of the Douglas local after holding the post since July 1 1948. International vice president Orville Larson asked for his resignation over a dispute on local autonomy. Gene Davis will lead the local until the December 1 election. The Douglas local and nearby locals previously voted 61 in favor of a strike against Phelps Dodge Corp this summer.
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I. A. Castro
Douglas
Castro
Orville Larson
International
Larson
Gene Davis
Phelps Dodge Corp
Marriage and liquor courses offered at Tempe college
Tempe State college announced two noncredit courses open to the public. A marriage course will run 16 weekly sessions at St. Mary's high school in Phoenix with Paul V. Trevillo as instructor. An alcohol course titled Alcohol, Science and Society will be taught by Hilliard T. Brooks with ten two hour weekly meetings.
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Tempe
Tempe State College
J. E. Zimmerman
Zimmerman
St. Mary's Boys High School
Phoenix
St. Mary’s
Paul V. Trevillo
The
American Institute of Family Relations
Hilliard T. Brooks
Yale
Texas Christian
El Con Saddle Club Elects Earl R. King
Earl R. King elected by the El Con Saddle Club. He departed Sept. 23 and was alleged to have turned around and re entered the country the same day near Nogales. He was arraigned before a U. S. Commis
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el Con
Nogales
U. S
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