06 Aug 1948
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1948
Page
1
San Marcos Lions club hosts a two day rodeo in Wimberly August 6 and 7 with entries from Lockhart Johnson City and Austin competing for the title of rodeo queen. A parade will wind through San Marcos Friday afternoon and the winner will be announced Saturday night.
Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, who led the wartime atomic bomb project, said he never shipped any uranium to Russia. In a radio interview he avoided full details when pressed by Rep. McDowell, who claimed 1300 pounds of uranium compound were shipped amid pressure from the U.S. government.
New York Journal American reports that army intelligence officers have been summoned to testify in a matter connected with current security and wartime procedures. The development signals heightened scrutiny of military intelligence activities in New York on August 6.
Governor Jester stated he signed southern governor anti Truman manifest with reservations to disavow speaking for Texas Democrats. He said the record shows he acted to oppose federal civil rights programs, remain for states rights within the party. Also reports Staff Sgt Frank Hughes Jr of Benton Ark was killed in Dallas in a streetcar incident involving a vehicle collision.
In a Washington hearing on a uranium shipment to Russia, recordings by American seller agents link a New Deal cabinet officer, Russian agents, and a French uranium mine owner. Col. A N Katikov, in Montana on May 13 1943, delivered five hundred pounds of black uranium oxide to Russia with administration approval amid secrecy surrounding Manhattan Project involvement.
Extended forecast for Texas Gulf plains and nearby areas notes temperatures will run above normal by several degrees with only light precipitation and scattered thundershowers. Normal highs reach the upper 90s on the coast and mid 90s inland, with heat continuing into the weekend and into next week.
Paducah Texas deploys cleanup teams and a DDT fogging machine to curb a polio outbreak. Nine of 3500 residents infected, including a six month old, with four new cases reported yesterday as a state health official plans to send an engineer to assist.
New York candidates Gov Dewey and Gov Earl Warren will meet in Albany on August 16 and 17 with campaign manager Herbert Brownell Jr to discuss strategy and plans for the upcoming election.
In Tokyo Aug a wave of strikes by government workers against Gen. MacArthur’s orders appeared likely today. Two leftist labor leaders said workers might strike after tomorrow with the first stoppage possibly at Osaka.
A reader worded notice promoting faster problem solving through Light Want Ads with a stated FE 129 percent for the advertisement. The fragment hints at an advertising copy or slogan rather than a full article.
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