The Austin American from Austin, Texas • Page 23

Lee Scout Work Steps Up With Session at Lincoln GIDDINGS, Jan. Scout development work in Lee County looked up again Thursday night, when the advisory council of the Lee Boy Scout district, headed by O. W. Symmank, district director, held its first district ing at Lincoln, with 15 members of the council present, including two advanced scouters from Box. The adult advisee reviewed accomplishments of the past year and outlined the program for 1949.

Achievements cited for 1948 included running a Boy Scout concession at the Lee County Fair in October, erecting an exhibit of scout handiwork at the fair, staging a county scout roundup at the Lee County Park at Lincoln in May, and increasing membership of the district to 80 boys. H. T. Moore of Austin, assistant to H. Gaskin, director of the Capitol Boy Scout Area, assisted the panel in planning a countywide finance drive.

August Wolf of Giddings was appointed chairman of the finance committee, with Bill Pratho and Rudy Namken as committeemen. Plans were also made for observance of National Boy Scout Week, Feb. 6, wherein all troops will display exhibits of their ducts in store windows of the leading towns of the county, and climax the celebration with a pot luck supper at the SPJST Hall at Dime Box Feb. 8. A countywide court of honor will be staged at the supper.

A speaker from Austin, as yet undisclosed, will make the principal speech. Each parents will be invited to the affair. There are eight troops in the district four in Giddings, two in Dime Box and one at Lexington, and a Negro troop at Doak Springs. Jcitvcry 1949 Austin ONR To Get Inspection This Week Annual comprehensive check-up of training, personnel and scheduled this week for the Austin Organized Naval Reserve battalion and training center. Lieutenant Commander E.

W. Hogan, officer- in-charge, revealed Saturday. An inspection reviewing board, headed by Captain E. W. Waldron, USN, of San Antonio, and consisting of the inspector-instructors of the Naval Reserve units in Corpus Christi and San Angelo, will do the checking Tuesday through Thursday.

When You Buy Sure You Get the QUALITY and FRESHNESS CACT produce CUI COMPANY San Saba Sets Its Stock Show For Thursday SAN SABA, Jan. Sale of swine, followed by sheep and then cattle exhibited in the 16th Annual Fat Stock Show here Thursday, will get under way shortly afternoon following judging, John F. Campbell, chairman of the agriculture committee from the San Saba Junior Chamber of Commerce, has announced. Beef cattle classes will include Hereford steers, milk-fed heavy, and milk-fed light, Brahaman steers, all weights, and steers, all breeds and dry lots. W.

A. Bumam is superintendent of this division. Elbert McCoury will superintend the sheep division with fat lambs, fine wool and fat lambs, crossbreeds to win the 16 cash awards, in addition to the reserve champion and the grand champion awards, along with similar prizes for the fat lambs, medium wool, aged ewe lambs and groups of three for the mitton lambs. Jack Spurlock, superintendent of the swine division, said all breeding classes must be purebred, with the first place winners in each of the various divisions to compete for champion and reserve champion, and the second place winner in the class with the grand champion will compete with the winners of the other classes for reserve champion. Guy Powell, Kerr County agricultural agent, and R.

L. Stein, Goldthwaite merchant and livestock enthusiast, will be judges. i Giddings Pastor To Go to Houston GIDDINGS. Jan. Rev.

Larry Stokes, pastor of the Giddings Methodist Church, will be in charge of the section in a two day audio-visual workshop at St. Methodist ChuTch at Houston Monday and Tuesday. UP IN AIR Child Hunt Uses Plane SAN MARCOS, Jan. Two Texas state highway patrolmen were literally up in the air over two lost children last week. When Sheriff Jack office was notified that Anne and Roger Burt, age 4 and 5, were missing, Gary enlisted the services of Patrolman Lewis Dickson, stationed in San Marcos, and Patrolman J.

S. Knighten of Austin. The two men borrowed a plane from the Southwest Flight School, and with Dickson piloting, directed the search from the air. The children were spotted about a mile and a half from their home in the wooded district above Spring Lake, and the plane circled above them until other officers went to their rescue. Anne and Roger are the children of Mr.

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of CALCASIEU SECOND AT LAVACA fi S3 TELEPHONE 2-1101 BUIIBWG MATERIALS HOME APPI IA MCE AIR C0NDITI01IHG SUNDAY AMSHCAN4TATIIMAN, AUSTIN, T1XAS Travis Countians Put $41,875,000 In Savings Bonds Travis County residents own $41.875.000 worth of US Savings Bonds which earn an annual interest of about $1,153,000, according to a yeer- end report made Saturday by Harry Owens of Dallas, state director for savings bonds, to Fred C. Morse county savings bonds chairman. Holdings of savings bonds in Austin are $38,111,000, which earn annual interest of $1,049,000. Owens also reported that 1948 sales of savings bonds in Texas totaled $196,448,587.25, of which $4,713,380.50 was sold in this county. Te illustrate the practical aspects of thrift, as represented by the savings bonds program, Owens pointed oat that the annual Interest from bonds owned by people of this county, If converted into residential construction, would provide 115 homes costing flMM each, or enough, at four persons to the family, to accommodate 460 people.

this interest were translated into terms of higher education," he said, would provide four years of college, at the rate of $750 per year per student, for 384 young men and women. compared with salaries and wages, the interest would represent an average income of $225 per month for 427 workers for a full year. In other words, these bonds are the equivalent, in income produced for the community, of an office or factory providing good jobs for that many He said that bond holdings of $1,539,137,000 for the whole of Texas produce $42,372,000 in annual interest. This interest, he explained, would build 4,237 homes costing $10,000 each, or give a four-year college education to 14,124 students, or provide an income of $225 per month for a full year for 15,693 persons. Owens said that of the total bond sales last year, Series the accounted for 591,216.25 or 71 per cent.

are more savings bonds in the hands of the people today than ever he said. 70 per cent of all bonds ever issued are still in the possession of their original owners. The sale of Series bonds in Texas alone during 1948 was $3.940,447.50 more than for Food Stamp Plan May Be Revived WASHINGTON, Jan. The government may seek authority to exoeriment with a fond stamp plan under which it would help low-income families to eat better, it was disclosed Saturday. Agriculture officials said that if "Congress approved the idea, it be tried out in a few localities and perhaps extended later.

'Hie two-fold purpose of the subsidy plan would be to improve the diet of low-income groups, and provide a market for food surpluses. A request for authority to experiment with the plan was among a list of legislative proposals sent by the Agriculture Department to the Bureau of the Budget for approval recently, officials said. The general idea appears to have President backing. In his message to Congress Wednesday, the President said the government should seek to expand domestic markets for farm products among low-income The Agriculture Department for more than a year has been toying with the idea of reviving the food stamp plan on a standby basis. Some experiments were carried on in prewar days.

DEVELOPMENT BOARD EXPANDS UT PROGRAM Appointment of Edward W. Smith Jr. as assistant director signals an expansion of the program of the University of Texas Development Board, Director Hulon W. Black announced Saturday. Smith, law graduate of the University and a former FBI agent, left the Dallas County district staff to join the staff Jan.

1. He will assist Black in seeking to develop the plant and its educational and research programs through gifts and endowments. The board has functioned for more than eight years and been Instrumental In obtaining for the University more than fMtMIt in gifts and bequests for development of the Main University and its branches. Currently It is at work on several projects, and others are in the planning stags. It concentrates on projects for which state funds ordinarily would not be available.

several years of experience the program is on a sound footing and has now reached the stage where an assistant executive is essential to its best Black said. Smith is well quslified from the standpoint of age, experience and educational background and I have every confidence he will make a fine and effective contribution to the rapidly expanding Black and Smith are executive officers for the board which is composed of three members appointed by the University regents, four ehosen by the Executive Council of the Ex-Students Association, two elected by the general faculty of the University, and the president of the University, the Istter an officio member. Members are Angus W. Wynne of Longview, chairman; A. M.

McAfee of Port Arthur, Hines H. Baker of Houston. Dr Roger J. Williams and Dr. R.

W. Stayton. University faculty members: Leroy G. Denman of San Antonio, George A. Hill Jr.

of Houston. George P. Hill of Fort Worth. I. R.

Parten of Houston and President T. S. Painter of the University. US EUct DALLAS, Jan. W.

Mann, of Marianna, Saturday succeeded Harry G. Thompson of Bakersfield, as president of the Nstional Cotton Gin- ners Association. Mrs. Van Dyke Talks at Houston Mrs. X.

M. Van Dyke of Austin, founder and director of the Business College, addressed the Pi chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity Saturday morning on Opportunities in the Field of at Samuel Houston College. She was presented by William Thayer. She recently returned from the national convention of the National Business Association in Detroit She also visited in Canada where she was named to membership in the International Society of Business Teachers. Charter No.

43M Reserve District No. 11 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE AUSTIN NATIONAL BANK OF AUSTIN 1, IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON DECEMBER 31, 1948. PUBLISHED IN RESPONSE TO CALL MADE BT COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, UNDER SECTION 5211, U. S. REVISED STATUTES 1.

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11 ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balance, and cash items in process of collection United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed 21.713.161.64 Obligations of States and political subdivisions 427,046.71 Other bonds, notes, and debentures Corporate stocks (including $45,000.00 stock of Federal Reserve bank) Loans and discounts (including $17,867.23 overdrafts) Bank premises owned $442,041.79, furniture and fixtures $190,048.96 632.000.75 Real estate owned other than bank premises 1.00 Other assets 24.445.74 $19.852.979.57 45,002.00 9.552,894.45 12. TOTAL ASSETS 52,490.521.86 AP Food Component Takes Sharp Drop NEW YORK. Jan. food component of the Associated Press index of 35 important wholesale commodity prices this week declined to 132.13—lowest figure since September of 1946. A week ago the food index was 135.11, and a year ago it was 164.79 The commodity index as a whole declined to 176.64 from the previous 177.18.

The base year of the index, 1926, equals 100. Socialized Medicine Forum Slated Monday A forum on the sub ject of Medicine and President Pre-Paid Medical Insurance will be conducted by the American Legion. Capital City Post 316, Monday at 8 p. m. in the basement of the Austin ublic Library.

Leslie Phares, commander, asked that all veterans of World Wars I and II, and in addition any others interested to attend. Dr. William M. Gambrell, coun seller for the Seventh District Med ical Society of Texas and past president of die Travis County Medical Society, will be a featured speaker and will discuss the merits and demerits of the proposal. Kerns Taylor, vice commander and program director, announced that the Travis County Medical Association has been invited as special guests for this forum, which will be directed by George Halden I WAVE Yoemen, Needed WAVE storekeepers and yoemen are being accepted into the Organized Naval Reserve for weekly drills with pay, Lieutenant-Com mander E.

W. Hogan, officer-in- charge, announced Saturday. Hogan said several billets for rsted yoemen and storekeepers ex isted in Division 8-69 which meets every Tuesday night at the Naval Reserve Training Center, 1110 Barton Springs Road with other vacancies likely to appear in Divisions 8-68 and 8-70 which meet Wednesday and Thursday nights, respectively, at 7:30 at 9:30 p. m. Cmdr.

Hogan also noted the need for a CIC (Combat Information Center) officer of ensign or lieutenant (jg) rank in Division 8-69, and pointed out that organized reserve duty was counted in figuring retirement pay for reservists. Lampasas Building Totals $271,309 LAMPASAS, Jan. building permits here during 1948 totaled $271,309, according to Harold Frank, city secretary. The breakdown was: residential commercial repairs $46,112. Taylor Man Hurt As Home Burns TAYLOR, Jan.

M. Hill, 71, was burned about the face and hands as he escaped from the burning home of his son, C. C. Hill, Friday. The cause of the fire was unknown and firemen said the building was in flames when they were called.

The injured man said that he was awakened from a nap by the screams of one of the grandchildren and he made his escape. The house was owned by J. F. Bowers of Taylor. 13.

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28. 29. LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations Deposits of United States Government (including postal savings) Deposits of states and political 6,298.285.27 Deposits of banks 5,615,086.95 Other deposits (certified and checks, 771,308 67 TOTAL DEPOSITS Other liabilities 121.400 66 TOTAL LIABILITIES 50.099,155.58 28,411,891.69 4,482,515.27 4,438.667.07 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital Stock: (c) Common stock, to al par $750,000.00 750,000 00 Surplus 750,000.00 Undivided profits 578,423 62 Reserves 312,942.46 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 2,391.366.28 30. TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS. 52,490.521.86 MEMORANDA 31.

Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and for other purposes 12,246,161.30 STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF TRAVIS, ss: Wm. H. Folts, President of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belie! WM. H. FOLTS.

President. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of January, 1949. DOLLIE SMITH, Notary Public. (SEAL) JNO. C.

ROSS E. H. PERRY IRELAND GRAVES Health Unit Luncheon Held at Georgetown GEORGETOWN, Jan. Following a staff Friday morning. Dr.

H. F. Boettger had his luncheon guects at Cafe the staff of the Lampasas- Williamson Bi-County Health Unit Attending the luncheon were Mrs. Ha B. Allen.

Mrs. Florine Haby and C. A. Mather of Lampasas, Billie B. Hasenfluke, Mrs.

Lucille Aderhold and C. C. Comer. San Marcos Concert Date Is Changed SAN MARCOS, Jan. The date for the Wings Over Jordan concert, sponsored by the local Lions Club has been changed from Feb.

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