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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1963
Page
1
In Tulsa and San Angelo Texas a vague contract talks emerge as attorneys draft a deal with a so called rainmaker. The agent plans to keep the rainmaker’s identity secret while a California ski resort seeks three feet of snow by Thanksgiving.
London AP report says Scotland Yard added 19 names to a list of suspects tied to Britain's Great Train Robbery. Yard chiefs suspect inside information aided the Glasgow to London mail train heist, 13 days prior, netting about 7.2 million dollars.
A car sped through warning barriers at a construction site for an overpass on Map 410 and Tushway 40 East Monday afternoon, plunging 40 feet into an embankment and killing Rudolph Klein Jr. of Carson. Patrolman John Robbins reported the car entered the 660 block of North W. W. White Road as workers from Aillian House Construction Co. watched. State Highway Patrolman Bobby Jolson said the southbound vehicle was traveling at high speed. Jolson was involved in a second collision while responding to the scene. Klein died at Robert B. Green Hospital.
Booker Donner an Austin integrationist says he asked the FBI and state police to disclose findings from an ongoing investigation. He claims no wrongdoing and notes Bonner staged a 26 hour sit in to meet Gov Connally. Donner criticizes questioning of civil rights workers’ families and expects 4000 attendees for an August 28 rally at the Texas Capitol with five speakers planned.
Leaders of the August march in Washington laid out demands including withholding federal funds from programs with discrimination and desegregating school districts by 1983. A Philip Randolph and Birmingham officials linked the protests to broader civil rights goals while Alabama moves toward high school integration amid ongoing segregation in the Deep South.
S A student Garza junior at Thomas Edison Meh, son of Mr and Mrs Gilberta Garza Sr of 603 Ehawaod, will attend the 12th Annual National Student Council Leadership Conference at Astes Park California next week with about 200 outstanding high school leaders. The event aims to study leadership and council problems.
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