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SUNDAY AMERICANIST ATES. IAN, AUSTIN. TEXAS, JANUARY H. 1940. For Delivery Service Telephone 4391 War Scuffles Reunion Austin Insurance Agency Reports According to announcement by Georpe T.

Reavis, district manager for the Seaboard Life Insurance company, his company enjoyed a Houston, a former resident of Aus-very successful year in 1939. It was tin, revealed Seaboard ended 1939 learned, too. that the Austin agency with over $26 000.000 of insurance in closed one of its best years in his- force, over $3,000,000 in assets, with real estate. the agencies of the company. It was further noted, according to tnrte men are inr.iO"rs of the C.n Mr.

Baker, that the Austin agency, I modere club and the Prw5-) manned by Reavis, as manager, cabinet, honorary rg-rvfetroTs vr. w. Ralph S. Dorsett. and Ben P.

Atkin- the comnany, pnd Dorset en-ov son. Jr, showed the second h-est i ein tte gam in msurance in force for all I for year Figures released by the president of the company. Burke Baker of I uv.wu.-, in uwaauii. cruiicri da uj principal or interest, no mortgage loans in arrears, and no unprofitable AT IIAnOTKIirS1 Latin -America' PlanatU.T. Granted $3,000 Rockefeller Fund Awards Cash To Secure Lecturers Growing national impetus behind University oi Texas activity in Latin-American educational relations was reflected here Saturday as the university board of regents, meeting on the campus, ac- Ocepted a $4,003 Rockefeller foundation grant for its summer-time institute of Latin-American studies.

The six-weeks' national institute to be launched in July under the joint sponsorship of the university and the American Council of Learned Societies' committee on Latin-American studies is regard m- I I I (' If i I V. --rv 1 i I I 1 I 'i'' i ed here as a springboard for permanent educational machinery next fall to foster cultural relations between the Americas. 16 Courses Planned Regents announced that of the $4,000 Rockefeller grant, it had been stipulated that $3,000 be used to pay expenses for distinguished leaders from South American countries, and $1,000 to secure outstanding lecturers in the United States. Plans are under way, according to officials here, to bring four or five distinguished scholars from Latin America and as many as three from outside Texas. Sixteen courses, ranging from Latin-American music to international relations, will be offered during the institute.

As the state department announced that seamen from the scuttled nazi liner Columbus, who are now interned in New York, would be returned to Germany via the Pacific ocean and Russia, Mrs. Liselotte Hinsch (left), of Weehawksn, N. frantically sought the freedom of one of them. He is her husband, Kurt Hinsch (right), second officer of the Columbus. She sought federal court order directing his release, but judge ruled state department must determine his status.

E3 iljBISj i 'Ij It 4 -j -j-ysa-. llMe ht-J-'-v I 5 art it tafei iiTtfiiifrsn- -iir--irMrtilsi ilBirr fir.mr.ftTi.f.wi-n-rtrwffi riiimmamtir-- tin, r-nn mini Greatest Need of School System Here Is Higher Salary Scale for Teachers bring $26.88 fer 8-PIECE VELOUR IN MODERN STYLING, fOU GET ALL THESE Smart Velour Sofa Velour Pull Up Chair Drum End Table Reflector Floor Lamp Comfortable Lounge Chair Walnut Finished Coffee Table Walnut Finished Lamp Table Modern Designed Table Lamp 2 Leaden Secured University Latin-American plans have been described by Pres. Homer P. Rainey as "a major effort I by education to supplement gov-1 ernmental relations on the hemis-! phere with an interchange of cul- ture between the Americas." Dr. Rainey told regents that two i outstanding foreign scholars, Dr.

Amado Alonso of the Universities of Buenos Aires and La Plata and Dr. Ramon Martinez Lopez, for- merly of the Institute Espanol of 1 Lisbon, Portugal, have been secured for this summer. A Scnsa(5onal VALUE 23-Piece "Faultless" Ycu Get AH New 1940 Faultless Washer Two Tubs Twenty Boxes Rinso Soap $1.00 Weekly 1 3" LIVING ROOM OUTFIT EXACTLY AS ILLUSTRATED RUG PAtfc if Pay Weekly Axmiruter Rug Outfi't You Get All These Pieces 9x12 Seamiest Axminster Ru VxU Quality Kug fad New Modern Carpet Sweeper $1.00 Weekly Meanwhile, Dr. C. W.

Hackett, acting institute head, reported from Washington Saturday that a favorable report on the university setup is expected from the national committee'i annual meeting Sun- Heffington Returns $11,071.24 in Fees Excess fees totaling $11,071.24 were turned into the officers salary fund of Travis county for the year ending 1939 by Steve Heffington, county tax assessor and collector, according to his annual report filed Saturday in the office of Dist. Clerk George H. Templin. Mr. Heffington reported his office collected $52,314.11 in fees and the office expenditures totaled $41,242.87.

In addition to his own $4,750 salary, Mr. Heffington reported $32,912.78 wag paid out in salaries to deputies and assistants during the year. Comt HearuL 9 53RD DISTRICT COURT I Yartwouffh, Judge) Filed: Cleo Brown vs. Louis D. Brown, for divorce.

I8TH DISTRICT COURT Judge) Helm ing vs. Forest Kin gr, for divorce plaintiff granted divorc and restoration of maiden name, Helen Bradley. Cheater Wallace vs. Helen Yant Wal lace, for divorce; dismissed on plaintiff's motion. Margaret M.

Bybee vs. Frank Bybee, for divorce; plaintiff granted ctivore and restoration of maiden name, Margaret Berry. Filed: Delores Rhodes Grantham vg. T. h.

Gra tham for th vorca. Alma Harper vs. Robert Harper, for divorc. 126TH DISTRICT COURT (Archer, Judge Court adjourned, its term Saturday and January term scheduled to open Monday. 0 Stella Mae Baker vs.

Floyd Baker, for divorce granted. Filed: Velma L. Puryear vs. Henry Puryears for divorce. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE COURT (Johnson, Justice) Filed: State of Texas vs.

Lomis Proutt, charged with theft. COUNTY COURT (Matthews, Judge) Filed: Tha Gulf Publishing company vs. J. Martin and Sons, on account. PROBATE COURT I Matthew.

Judge) Estate of The! ma I.averne Grumbles, minor; application of Ellen Grumbles for appointment as guardian. MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED (Miss Emilie Limberg, County Clerk) Conrad R. Allen and Edna Lee Chap-pel i. Kdwin Schiller and Ee telle Klaus. NEW CARS REGISTERED (Heffington, Collector) Cook Funeral Home Dodge Mrs.

Elenora Zimmerman, Buick Mrs. S. M. Felis, Chevrolet; Binswanger Glass company. Chevrolet; Dr.

Hugo Auler, Olds-mobile Allen J. Bell, Ford George b. Pope, Ford Falstaff Brewing company, Chevrolet; and C. H. Presnell.

Chevrolet. 'iJit. Washer Outfit These Pieces $4995 1 5 95 i 1 fJ.f $n88 mm 11 1 Till! Jenny Lind Bed Outfit Get All These Pieces 50c Weekly AIM Greatest need for Austin's school svstem. a need which this week launched a pfea for an increase in the city scnool tax from B0 CJiits to 70 cents, is higher salaries for teachers, A N. McCallum, superintendent of schools, declared Saturday.

Not only is Austin's school tax rate and total school income lower per pupil than other major cities of Texas, but the income for teachers is low, the veteran school administrator asserted. Just how much lower salaries are here than in other cities, Mr. McCallum could not say, since survey he is making on that point is not complete, but indications ao far in the survey show that salaries here are far below those in other cities, he declared. Buildinfs Sufficient Equipment for Austin schools Is about adequate, the superintendent stated, and buildings are sufficient, he said. "The greatest need," he claimed, "is lifting of teachers' salaries to compare with other salaries In cities of our size.

I'm not attempting to compare Austin with Dallas or Houston. They have higher tax rates and higher valuations, and therefore have more money to spend for schools." Chief evil in the low-salary situation here, Mr. McCallum asserted, is that a difference has been made in minimum salaries between elementary school teachers, junior high school faculty members and staff of the high school. This situation got under way, Mr. McCallum said, when Austin first started its high school system.

It is "unprofessional," the superintendent said, to pay an elementary school teacher less than a high school teacher when it is so important to start children off correctly in school. Bows to Move The minimum in elementary schools is $100 per month, Mr. McCallum said, and the maximum is $150. In the junior high schools, the minimum is $125 per month while maximum of $1,850 per year (is paid heads of departments. In the senior high school, the mini-mum is $125 with heads of departments paid a maximum of $2,000.

Despite comparatively low salaries, particularly in the, elementary schools, Mr. McCallum would not bow to any other school system in Texas as having a better school system. All teachers employed in the last few years have been required to have a university degree, while many teachers in elementary grades have their masters degree. "We don't believe there is in Texas a finer system of schools than in Austin," he said. "We find this out from students of Austin schools who go to colleges.

Their records prove that" we have a good school system." McCallum asserted that If the city's charter limit on school taxes is raised to 70 cenfST a climb of only five cents would be asked the first year with an additional five cents tax asked the following year. Any rise in teachers' salary will be at a reasonable rate, he said. Demands Increased He pointed out that the 60-cent limit was reached about 1919 and that the demands on schools have increased greatly since then. Teachers' salaries were comparatively low then, climbed during the prosperity years, dropped with the depression and have not climbed much since, McCallum said. The average salary paid teachers now' ia $1,100 per year, the superintendent said, and his preliminary survey of other schools shows thi is lower than salaries in most cities of Austin's size.

McCallum produced figures compiled by the state department of education to show that Austin has the lowest per capita cost for schools of 13 major cities in Texas. For each scholastic in Austin schools, $21.79 of local tax money is spent, the figures show. Next lowest is El Paso, where $25.51 per student is spent Highest is Fort Worth with $40.05. Other figures are Amarillo Beaumont Corpus Christi Dallas Galveston Houston $37.37: Port Arthur San Antonio Waco Wichita Falls $25.94. Average for the 12 cities is $32.37.

Only Two Lower It would require a tax rate here of 88 cents per $100 valuation to bring the Austin per capita income to this big-city average of $32 37. The proposed 75-cent rate would the per capita income to an increase of $68,490 over the $375,000 which would be ceived now if all taxes were collected at the 60-cent rate. Only two cities, Beaumont and Port Arthur, have a lower school tax rate than Austin, the state department figures show, and each has a 50-cent rate; nevertheless, Beaumont spends $4.64 more per pupil than Austin and Port Arthur $9.25. Corpus Christi has the high est tax rate, 90 cents, and spends $4.99 more per pupil per year than Austin. Whether or not the proposed 70-cent rate will be sufficient to support the schools at a high standard for some time, Mr.

McCallum would not attempt to predict. However, he declared: "It is certain that more money will be spent on education and when that time comes, the people of Austin will ask more money for their schools." Tirs! Voters' Rally Monday Leaders To Hear Rainey at Union University of Texas students, prominent Austin officials, and members of local civic and campus organizations will stage a large-scale "first voters" rally on the university campus Monday night, Sydney Reagan, campus director for the First Voters League of Texas, announced Saturday. Opening a state-wide campaign urging young Texans between ages of 21 and 25 to secure their voting papers, whether by poll tax or exemption certificate, before the Jan. 31 payment deadline, the meeting will have as its main speaker Pres. Homer P.

Rainey. To be held in the Texas Union main lounge, the rally will be opened at 7:30 with a short concert by the Longhorn band, Col. George E. Hurt directing. Invitations Accepted Preceding the principal address by Dr.

Rainey, various state, federal and local officials will be called on for brief statements, Reagan said. State Executive Dir. Floyd Mc-Gown, said Saturday the following members of Austin's officialdom had already accepted invitations to participate: Col. E. O.

Thompson, member of the Texas railroad commission Judge John H. Sharp of the Texas supreme court; Mayor Tom Miller, Secy, of State Flowers, State NYA Admr. Jesse Kellam, and Homer Thornberry and James Boyd, representatives of the 82nd legislative district. Tentative acceptances were received from Atty. Gen.

Gerald Mann and Co. Judge Roy Hofheinz of Houston. Xav. telle Is President Robert Sawtelle of San Antonio is the state president of the league, which grew out of the Roosevelt First Voters league of 1938. From state headquarters in the Driskill hotel, league officers have launched a Texas-wide movement to insure first voters against being unprepared at the 1940 polls.

Letters describing the work of the league have been sent Texas mayors and civic groups. Pointing to the fact that less than one-fifth of the state's half million first voters those who will vote for the first time in a presidential election went to the polls in the last election, the league has outlined a four point program: 1. To urge first voters to either pay their poll tax or get an exemption certificate before the Jan. 31 deadline. 2.

To encourage every one of the 500,000 or more "first voters" to exercise their constitutional right for a voice in their government by actually going to the polls on election days. 3. To foster "citizenship recognition" ceremonies in every city and community in Texas for honoring youths who reach age of 21 and should, therefore, assume responsibility and privilege of citizenship. 4. To seriously study and consider the problems of Texas, and to participate in solving these problems in an intelligent manner.

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29.S7 inch; 12:30 p. m. 29.60; 4:00 p. m. 29.54.

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traca. Hourly temperature readings en 5 p. m- Saturday 7 p. m. .....58 7 a.

m. p. 62 a. m. 9 p.

to 8 a. m. 10 p. 47 14 p. m.

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11. west temperatura this year to data on Tjtal deficiency in temperature sinca Jen 1. 1940. 45 degrees. Total amount of precipitation sinea Jan 1.

1910. inch. Total deficiency in rainfall since Jan. 1, 1940. 0.21 inch.

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