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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1939
Page
2
July 1949 permit totals show 423 issued with 74 for one family dwellings, 3 for two family dwellings, 11 for stages, 5 for sales, 232 for repairs and alterations to residences, 92 for additions to commercial buildings and 20 for coating system installations. Also reports a London air crash where three mines were killed near Lossie Mouth as rescuers traced wreckage.
Deputy Sheriff H L Ferguson remained in critical condition after an auto accident near Big Spring on Sunday. Doctors at the West Texas hospital reported internal injuries and considered it unwise to move him by ambulance plane to San Antonio. Deputy Frank Matthews Tex Ulrich and two prisoners, Curtis Jones and Richard Niehausen, were also injured in the crash.
The San Antonio area shows July banking clearings over seven million above 1938 figures while real estate transfers surge past 1928 levels. Building activity and automobile sales soar versus 1933 and 1948 benchmarks, with permits totaling 355,739 and new homes garages and estates rising significantly in July.
Parily cloudy Tuesday night and Wednesday with light to moderate southerly winds. Airport high around 94 degrees, low about 72, Wednesday high near 94. East Texas may have scattered thunderstorms, southeast winds along the coast, panhandle cooler Wednesday. Local readings include humidity near 44 percent at 6:14 a.m. and rainfall none since January. Moon phase last quarter on August. sun set 7:28 p.m. Tuesday, rise 5:38 a.m. Wednesday. Temperature readings across many cities listed with varying conditions from cloudy to clear.
Two families at a Medina river swim near Macdonause report a sneak thief who robbed their parked car of clothing and valuables. Mr and Mrs W J Engie and Mr and Mrs G W McClaugherty reported items including $40, a diamond pin and watches, with the theft occurring Wednesday night.
The House voted 50,900 dollars to fund a five day investigation into the national labor relations board. Speaker Bankhead said he would select the committee members and appoint them before Congress adjourns.
The National Labor Relations Board ordered sweeping elections in Chrysler Motor Corporation plants, with broader plant wide ballots, and also ordered bargaining elections at Motor Products Company in Detroit Briggs Manufacturing in Detroit and in the Brigea Indiana corporation in a separate action.
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