Valley Seeks Wider Road for U S Highway 281
MEMNCEDES April 30. Chambers of commerce in the Rio Grande valley join with Mercedes and San Antonio groups to urge the highway commission to widen U S Highway 281 from San Antonio to Edinburg. The move cites growing truck traffic carrying fruit and produce north from the valley as economic necessity.
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Memncedes
Chambers of Commerce
Tio Grande Valley
State Highway Commission
San Antonio
Edinburg
Mercedes Chamber
U.S. 281
Peti Fons
Hero on tracks saves woman from fast moving train
Chicago April 30 A highway worker named George Gibson saved Mrs Lisa Harper 50 seconds before a speeding Rock Island train struck her stalled car in Tinley Park He rushed onto the tracks and pushed her to safety as the locomotive hit the car and sent it into a row of parked cars
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Chicago
Lisa Harper
Rock Island
Tinley Park
George Gibson
Tillers by Air Delivered for Texas Coal Dealers
Three new Graham-Paige machines are flown from Willow Run to San Antonio by Sick Airlines for delivery to coal dealers Friday morning. Texas Motors displays one unit at 220 South Flores. Glenn Logan notes the machine plows, hoes, drills, and prepares a 26 inch strip of soil in one pass, with 6 cylinder output and cultivator and power attachments.
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Willow Run
San Antonio
Graham- Paige
Texas Motors
South Flores Sire
Glenn Logan
Dlaes
Meet to Aid OPA Slated in San Antonio
A mass meeting in favor of extending the OPA and protest of its passage in the House will be held in San Antonio early next week. Likely speakers include Orson Welles Bill Mauldin and Franklin D Roosevelt Jr. Organized by the American Veterans committee with AFL Women Voters and local groups represented. The meeting aims to mobilize support write or wire Texas senators and Bexar County reps.
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OPA
San Antonio
St. Anthony Hotel
Socil
Orson Welles
Bill Mauldin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American Veterans Committee
American Federation of Labor
League al Women Voters
Bexar County Young Democratic Club
City Federation of Women's Clubs
Bishop’s Committee For
Herbert Bauers
The
American Veterans
J. Woodville Rogers
Franklin Spears
Bowles
Spears
Chester Rowlea
Senate
Texas
Boxar County
United
Beryl Weiner
Tledges A.F.L
Bill Arnnold
Paul Kilday
Robert Lee Botbite
Bauers
Bond Set for Forgery Suspects at Fort Sam Houston
Two Fort Sam Houston privates faced federal charges after arraignment before the VA. Pvt. Julian Almarez of San Benito, 18, is charged with forging a $174.34 government check, while Pvt. John A. Andrews of Dallas, 17, allegedly forged the owner’s name on a $25 war bond. Final hearings set for 10 a.m. Thursday and Friday as they were turned over to deputy marshal Houston Milner by military authorities.
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Fort Sam Houston
Paul A. Lockhart
Julian Almarez
San Benito
John A. Andrews
Dallas
Houston Milner
Eisenhower Tours Tripler Hospital in Hawaii
General Eisenhower visited Tripler Army Hospital in Honolulu, greeting wounded soldiers and discussing battles in Europe. He signed a soldier’s cast, debated farming leaders with another patient, and praised Jap American troops. A veteran quipped about his terrifically calm demeanor and poker game. He pledged to review a controversial order limiting arms sales to officers only.
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Honolulu
Eisenhower
Army
Pemini
Europe
Kansas
South Dakta
Traffic Toll Rises Sharply in Nineteen Forty-Six
CHICAGO April 1 The National Safety Council reports over 8000 traffic deaths in the first quarter of the year a 44 percent rise from the same period in 1945. From January 1 to April 1 the total reaches 9120 with 2670 in March. Professionals say about 38,000 fatalities are likely for 1946 based on current trends, versus the all time high of 38,969 in 1941.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Khaki Facts Basic teranees at the AAS Military Training center
Names and addresses listed for privates and officers connected to the AAS Military Training center. It notes assignments on the destroyer Muntington, USS Curriquete, and other units, with various locations including Guam, Fort Douglas Utah, Fort Geld Florida, and Boca Raton. Mentions furloughs and separation processes.
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AAS
Everado Villegas
North Flores Street
Albert Morin
Gould Street
Carlos R. Rotate
Tamplea Streets
Benny A. Martinez
Houston Street
Lea C. Payne
Avenue B
Robert G. Carns
San Jacinto
Alex EB. Juevens
Son Street
Gilbert G. Guajardo
San Fernando Street
Robert N. Marconi
Roslyn Avenue
Richard M. Espinoza
Mathers Street
Alfonso N. Martner
West Nueva Street
Muntington
Charles W. Johnson
Lamar Street
Chris Bates
West Summit Avenue
D. Y. Degen
East
Commerce Street
Thomas Surtees Jr
McLane Avenue
Industrial Department of
Guam
Allen Jackson Shefield
Quincy Street
Pacific
George G. Chambers
Weat Magnolia Avenue
Fort Douglas
Utah
John NM. Stewart
Hays Street
William T. Gwens
Chikaskia
Japan
John E. Bowen
West Rose Wool Avenue
Boca
Thieves Take Satie From Samuel Bean Company
Burglars dragged a 300 pound safe through a window and drove it away from the Samuel Bean company at 428 Cincinnati avenue. The container held about 50 dollars, a 900 dollar watch, and papers, police reported Tuesday.
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Samuel Bean Company
Waris
Cincinnati Avenue
Dean
Soldier Rescues Girl From Car at Woodlawn Lake
A Fort Sam Houston soldier Dean C. Crane grappled with an apparent assailant who attempted to pull Miss Dorothy Phillips from Crane’s parked car near Woodlawn Lake on Tuesday. The man beat Crane but Crane freed himself, the girl escaped, and Crane later recovered his car.
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Dorothy Phillips
Highland Boulevard
Fort Sam Houston
Dean C. Crane
Woodlawn Lake
City
F. O. Newman
C. J. Hooker
Crane
Miss Phillips
Legion of Merit Awarded Col Mudd For Medical Leadership
Col R. D. Mudd, at Kelly Field since March 1942, receives the Legion of Merit for his work as surgeon of the San Antonio Air Technical Service command. He revised hospital plans, established veterinary, sanitary and dental services to meet expanding needs and will return as medical director of the Chevrolet Grey foundry around July 1.
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R. D. Mudd
Kelly Field
Legion of Merit
San Antonio
Shotgun Death Held Death by Own Action
Justice of the Peace EH Lefty Talbert ruled the death of John Turner a self inflicted gunshot. Turner a retired railroad man of 195 West Mayfield Boulevard was found dead late Monday by Mrs. Harry Tinken and T A Lancaster. A 20 gauge shotgun lay near the body and police noted his wife and daughter were visiting a sick relative.
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Justice of the Peace
Lefty” Talbert
John ‘B. Turner
West Mayfield Boulevard
Turner
Harry Tinken
Mayfield Boulevard
T. A. Lancaster
Belmont Street
Galveston
Escapee Naps, Caught in Fort Worth Depot
Arthur Flowers of Fort Worth, an escapee from Derrington prison farm near Huntsville, was nabbed in a Southern Pacific depot after being found asleep by Radio Patrolman Leo Hassman. Flowers was jailed and held for prison authorities.
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Southern Pacific
Arthur
Flowers of
Fort Worth
Derrington
Huntsville
Leo Hassman
Flowers
Optimists to Hear L. K. Bishop at Gunter Hotel
The San Antonio Optimist club will meet at noon Wednesday in the Gunter hotel with L. K. Bishop of St. Louis, head of the Missouri district of the National Conference of Christians and Jets, principal speaker.
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San Antonio
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