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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1976
Page
2
Local groups schedule career and recruitment visits by Peace Corps and Americus Association of Retired Persons. School events include a junior senior high student display and spring festival with barbecue dinner at Ingram. Census interviewers to sample households. various community groups hold meetings at churches and restaurants around town.
A mixed April 16 digest notes health traffic at the post office, stock and meat shortages, student demonstrations against fascist trends, oil activity in Mission Grave, a Lillian Gish play at Heiland House, a handicap race at a fair grounds, and local work on the Alamotegun with quotes from a Marshall.
The seventh annual San Antonio Light International Automobile Show at Wonderland Shopping City and South Park marks the 18th birthday of the San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association SAADA. John Boughs of Spires-Douglas Bul notes dealers formed the group in 1951 and SAADA now includes 83 major auto and truck dealerships representing domestic and most foreign makers. The show is sponsored by The Light and SAADA with Hart Walker heading the 1976 committee along with Curtis Ginn Jr Sim Malone and Sam Marin.
San Antonio civic and military leaders toured Southwestern Bell’s new Electronic Switching System ESS at the No 1 Toll Building on Martin and Navarro. The tour showcased reduced wiring and compact facilities, with 30,000 telephones currently supported and capacity increasing to 350,000 calls per hour by 1979. Officials touted efficiency gains, planned expansions, and long term cost benefits as ESS rolls out across the metropolitan area.
Automobile and truck enthusiasts crowded Wonderland Shopping Center and South Park Mall as the San Antonio Light International Automobile Show entered its fourth day. About 150 vehicles on display from 29 dealers drew thousands, with shoppers seeking deals and brochures on 1976 models and features from pollution controls to engine sizes. Easter activities and a “Lucky Circle Winners” contest added family appeal as the show runs through Saturday.
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