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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1976
Page
4
Totday humidity is low at 07 percent with wind from SSE at 15 miles per hour. Precipitation over 24 hours totals 17 inches for the month 4.04 inches rain recorded for the month 2.64 inches. Year to date rainfall 5.93 inches with a deficiency. Moon phase is Full. High at 9:41 a.m. Low at 9:17 a.m. Moon rises 12:39 a.m. Moon sets 7:13 p.m. Tuesday tides.
Funeral services are planned at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Galveston for Mrs. Engelke a lifelong Galveston Island resident and mother of Lews Engelke and Roy C Engelke. Survivors include a daughter Mrs Margaret Beall a sister and five grandchildren. The funeral follows her death Sunday after a lengthy illness.
A polygraph test is planned in Austin for three people as part of the investigation into the slaying of Joyce Packey Stein, a 29 year old socialite found shot on her balcony at 928 Eventide. Detectives say the tests are voluntary. The victim, a divorcee who had sold her home and planned to move, was last seen alive Saturday. Her ex husband Stanley Stein and business associate Georges Banat found her body.
A handwritten plea from L E Sontag of Rockport offers to donate unusable cans of paint in exchange for someone to move them away, then describes boxes of magazines for transfer to a charity. The note ends with a garbled recipe request related to Betty Ford and a long printer’s curse of errant text.
An elderly widow, a 6 year old girl, and a 17 year old girl were injured or robbed in separate overnight home invasion incidents. A 27 year old diabetic woman was awakened by a intruder in her North Side apartment and bound after a purse was emptied. A 23 year old man was arrested in the child’s case after a 6 year old was robbed at gunpoint of a watch rings and a pistol. The teen was attacked in Sutton Aomes as a bedspread was tossed over her head and she was assaulted before escaping to a nearby apartment.
A wandering alligator found along Hume Road near U S 261 South in South Hexar County Sunday was captured by sheriff deputies with Hamme warding Joe Espana and Henry Smmith and moved toward the Medina River south of San Antonio. The animal, far from water, may have traveled inland due to heavy rain.
Fiesta events listed include exhibits at the San Antonio Museum of Transportation, Market Square, Art Show on the River Walk, Fiesta Noches Mexicanas at Farmers Market, a Flowers Show at McAllister Auditorium, and an Armed Forces Bicentennial Band Youth Concert. Times range from early morning to evening with multiple venues across San Antonio.
In Los Angeles a teen-aged babysitter was shot in the head while watching an infant. Police say a firearm fired through a bedroom window struck 18 year old Josephina Pius, who was hospitalized in serious condition. The month-old baby in the crib escaped injury as Eleazar Recendez and another occupant were unharmed.
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