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APPROVAL 0 FBRONZE TABLETHADEVosper, Villa ModelFor MemorialSelectedIS WAR MEMORIALI5,280 Texans Killed inActionOn PlaqueBy WILLIAM KAY MILLERFinal approval of the model of the bronze tablet to be placed at the north end of the Texas Memorial Stadium in commemorationof the 5,280 Texans killed in the World War, submitted by S. C. P. Vosper and Hugo Villa, was granted Thursday morning, it was learned last night.I Vosper and Villa received the contract to erect the memorial for $40,000 from the Fortieth Legislature in August, but before beginning work on the tablet, they submitted the model made to scale for the approval of a committee composed of Governor Dan Moody, Judge J. W. McClendon, president of the Texas Fine Arts Association, and Rufus S. Scott, state commander of the American Ix*gion of Texas, with C. D. Simmons, associate professor of statistics, serving as secretary.Vosper, Austin and San Antonio architect and former member of the University faculty, and Villa, a San Antonio sculptor, will begin making the cast for the original tablet, which will be 40 feet long and 10 feet high, and will be set on Texas granite.The names of the 5,280 wardead will be placed in alphabetical order on the tablet. The figure of a woman with outstretched arms will be placed in the middle of the tablet, and Texas motifs will be used.The Fortieth Legislature when it granted the appropriation for the tablet provided that the names to be placed on the tablet be taken from the records of the office of the secretary of war at Washington.1
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Austin Daily Texan
Austin, Texas, US
Sat, Dec 01, 1928
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