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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1946
Page
3
A Light newspaper note promotes a Want to Exchange ad as a remedy for bayou residents facing home goods shortages, framing exchanges as quick solutions and community help. The item highlights a practical barter approach common in the period.
The George Bernard Shaw comedy Caesar and Cleopatra featuring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains continues at the Texas theater with a holdover engagement. Cleopatra moves over as the show advances to new showtimes.
Berlin reports UNRRA Director General F H LaGeanila announced Meyer Cohen, head of UNRRA repatriation in Washington, would become acting director in Germany, replacing British Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan who faced protests after last winter's charges.
A Morgan spokesman in Frankfurt said he is off active service and will not comment. When asked if Morgan supplied evidence for a Geneva statement, officials said no. The UNRRA director defended Morgan’s work while the British War Office cited UNRRA’s DP reorganization and a changing German situation as reasons for withdrawal.
Berlin Aug 21 Gen Joseph T McNarney denied UNRRA Director General LaGuardia claims that American forces opposed UNRRA's humanitarian and repatriation goals. He labeled the charges baseless and said only one Russian agent was linked to UNRRA. LaGuardia heads to Warsaw then Russia prior to visits to London and Copenhagen before returning to the United States.
UNRRA officials in Poland prepared a report for Director General LaGuardia stating that Poland's provable harvest would be at least 400,000 tons short in bread grains needed to supply the country until the next crop. Metropolitan Houston reports its twenty ninth polio case a 27 year old woman was diagnosed yesterday.
In New York on August Q1 194?, a news strike ended as Press Wireless and the American Communications Association resumed channels. Arbitrator Arthur Meyer ordered reinstatement of 46 discharged workers pending arbitration of their cases. Meyer will arbitrate the broader dispute next. The union had protested layoffs as wartime economy measures and downgrades.
Federal district court will move to Del Rio on August 27 to ease crowding at the Del Rio jail. Judge Ben H. Rice said the court normally travels to Del Rio in October but an unprecedented rise in immigration cases requires an earlier session in Del Rio.
The San Antonio Independent School District opens its 1946 session with a 4.344 million budget reflecting about a 12 percent salary increase for reaching the 80s, funded by a higher per capita state allotment. It uses 430,066 from last year’s cash balance and reserves 254,000 unspent to sustain new salary levels into 1947-48, with estimated tax collections $61,023 below last year and funds allocated for maintenance, capital outlay and debt service.
An old style want ad touts Grays Ointment claimed to soothe itching rash and minor skin irritations with a price of 30 cents at drug stores. The message emphasizes keeping the product name before buyers to boost profits.
Total absentee votes in the second Democratic primary closed at 5 p.m. Tuesday, tallying 1006. This followed 11190 absentee votes cast in the first primary of the year.
Reuters reports from Baghdad that a quake in the Penguin and Sulaian Yiah districts of northeastern Iraq killed six people, injured 14, and destroyed more than 100 government buildings, as reported by INS from London on August 21.
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