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The Taylor Daily Press from Taylor, Texas • Page 1

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Advertising, And Over Williamson Only Dolly Nawipapi Serving 60,000. NUMBER 165 TEXAS, TAYLOR DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6,1949 Four Killed In Wall Collapse clear the rubble and bricks off a Pittsburgh, street after a brick parapet atop jr building: collapsed. Four persons were killed and eight were injured. (NEA Tele ish Gold Reserves Below Danger Line PITTSBURGH, July 6. The CIO Steel Un and the United States St Corporation are resuming wi talks in Pittsburgh today wh may set the patterns for ms of the major ind tries.

Big wage setl ment in recent years has 1 an immediate effect on nea all industries. There are two possible suits of the contract sessions fourth round post-war pay raises, or Jthe first nationwide steel sti since 1846 The steel negol tions were recessed on June to give the corporation time study union demands for idsclosed wage boosts, as well company financed insura and pension programs. The s1 workers now receive $1.65 hour, which includes a 13-c hourly raise won last year, cents in 1947 and 19 cents 1946. Constable Ned Fails said morning that there had no arrests and no confessions the Bill Neubauer case, a that the reward raised by Ti lor citizens for anyone leading the arrest and conviction of person making the attack is 1 ing held. The statement came, Mr.

Ft said, from rumors that somec had confessed to the beati and tieing of Mr. Neubauer day, June 10, at his home noi of Taylor. The reward was raised day after Mr. Neubauer found and, according to A Fails, awaits anyone earning by assisting in the arrest ai conviction of the criminal. Corn Prospects Remain Excellent' Lawyers Appeal For Release Of Former French Marshall PARIS, July 6.

for former French Marshal Petain have appealed for release of the 94-year-old national figure from prison. The attorneys said mind has slipped to the point he no longer remembers why he is in prison. Ladder Rescue Taylor set, and even with the booster a weak signal sometimes dims the picture or the sound, just as was found more often in the early days of radio. A few of the terms learned in the performance Tuesday night are: Snow, meaning an effect of falling snow to dim the picture. Brilliance control, the key to regulation of the clarity qf the picture.

Linear and horizontal control, the adjustment of the picture in the frame as it is termed to prevent the apparent poor focus that might leave out one or more of the performers. It was also learned that television comes in after six in the evening from the Houston station, that a car pasing in front of the house will cause white lings to run through the ture, and that weather seems to affect television just opposite to the way it affects ordinary radio. The tower on the Steinman set is set on top of the house, thirty feet tall, giving complete elevation of fifty feet to cut out all interference such as the tree next door and other possible items that might hinder the reception. Mr. Steinman said that the installation of the set was fairly easy, and that he set the aluminum tower with the aid of his brother-in-law, Roy Davis, who lives next door.

An instructor from Austin is due to come to Taylor one day this week to check the installation to further perfect the reception. This however, is a minor detail, since actual television reception is established in Taylor. first television set has been in operation since Sunday. And just as sound was first drawn from the air earlier in the century, pictures are pulled from the air today out at the Lawrence Steinman home at 1515 West Seventh Street. Mr.

Steinman apologized as the reception faded or when sound and picture failed to hit his idea of perfection together. But the Press reporter still remembers the long hours with ear phones to hear the first radio programs, and needless to say, was thrilled. With other radio enthusiasts in Taylor, Mr. Steinman has been attending a school of instruction in Austin for some time, one night a week, and also with others who are interested, was bitten by the television The set at the Steinman hoir is in the corner of the lari southeast room atop a chest drawers, convenient, Mr. Stei.l man says, for seeing and heii ing programs at the same tirj while relaxing from a hard taj of just relaxing.

There are many angles 6 television still to be perfeced but for the past three nlgits stories in pictures, good misii and even some newscasts been received here. First, chi station, KLEE-TV in all of 130 air miles from Taior and the recognized greatest 11s- tance for good reception i 5( miles. Mr. Steinman said tial when the proposed San Antnic station starts operation, should be an improvemen as San Antonio is about lOOjfcli miles from Taylor. I Because of the dtetanceian antenna booster is WEATHER Patterson ky Associated an ingenious bridge of ladders, volunteer firemen rescue Martha Treml, the Washington, D.

offices of the New York Herald Tribune, from a rock 1 bad climbed after falling lato the swirling vim.cz* of nearby Tills. I.NE4.

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1917-1978