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Licenseplate99ineTEMPORARY 24-hour reprieve Monday for late purchasers of 1068 license plates this week was no April Fool’s joke. Here’s how the line looked at mid-day. 1 he county tax assessor-collector’s office is still tabulating license totals, and estimates that some 16,000 were purchased by deadline time. (Gazette photo.)A1 midnight.\ fcitrhf hlrw'L arui In i1/m'nlnn/nspecial promotions commlttoe, has'innO'inpjkd t hon . rtf 1« »t m hichairman of the booths and conces-t* iAr\ it \ v« k n\ i f # t .*1 Tn *Caller tells FBI of bomb plantin schoolA telephoned bomb scare to the area office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may be the worst April Fool joke on record.And local and county officers with the FBI are conducting an extensive Investigation with a dim view toward the person who telephoned that a bomb had been planted at Samuel Clemens High School in Schertz.A secretary of the FBI In San Antonio received a call at 8;05 a.m. Monday In which the caller said:“There has been a bomb pLmt-d In the Samuel Clemens High School. This is no Joke.”The FBI then commenced a brisk search of Bexar County schools only to later discover that there was a new Clemens school In Guadalupe County.They immediately called Sheriff P hll M ediin, and subsequently met him and other officers at the school to commence a search for a bomb that might have been planted.The school’s 600 students were taken out on the football field while some 30 officers, school teachers and Randolph A IB personnel thoroughlysearched the building.M eanwhlie, three such calls earlier this year concerned bombs aliedgedlyplanted at TLC.The FBI Is continuing the search for the prankster. Heavy prison sentences may be assessed for such violations.
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Seguin Gazette
Seguin, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 04, 1968
Page 12
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