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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1948
Page
3
Washington reports 1947 per capita income average rise to 1323 dollars, up from 1213 in 1946. Overall personal incomes hit a record 190 billion dollars, with wartime peak comparisons. Southern states posted the lowest averages while Nevada led states in 1942 figures and Mississippi remained lowest at 659 dollars.
A total of 157 war dead are returned to Texas from Italy aboard U S Army transport Carcell. Next of kin will be notified of arrival at regional distribution centers of the American Graves Registration service. San Antonio area casualties listed among the returning dead include several named service members and their kin.
Search under way at Lake of the Woods for the body of State Rep. John Snellstrom who perished in a crash that killed four Oregon Republican leaders. Also killed were Rep. Bar Johnson Benton County HH Evans and Henry Fluhrer, all prominent figures in state politics. The Beechcraft dived into about ten feet of water near the lake edge after leaving a Medford area summer resort.
The note promotes Fiash Gordon and Flash adventures on the mystery planet Sunita. It invites readers to see Flash and other adventure heroes in Puck The Comic Weekly, a big color weekly magazine with Sunday insert.
Honolulu reports Richard A. Dole a 49 year old Hawaii pineapple planter scion and four companions on a 22 foot sailboat swamped by heavy seas off Diamond Head with one drowned. Kathleen Burkhalter 24 died after being pulled two miles through heavy surf near shore. Marie Akers 25 and Barbara Steffee 25 were rescued or swam to shore while Dole and another companion endured exhaustion before rescue.
Crescent Oklahoma August 23 two Oklahoma men died in a weekend coyote hunting flight accident. Pilot Lyle FR Linville 27 of Crescent and George O Rudd 31 of Lovell were killed when their light plane dived and crashed after circling a coyote. Witnesses said the aircraft wheeled over the coyote then plunged to the ground in the wreck.
Police held driver Jesus Tovar 22 of 217 S Laredo St after a red light run at S Flores Nogalita at 1055 p m Sunday. Blumberg said the car swerved, honked, and nearly struck him as it weaved through traffic before stopping at Dolorosa Flores. He arrested Tovar for operating while intoxicated.
Maj. Gen. William B. Kean arrived en route to Osaka to take command of the Twenty fifth Infantry division and relieve Brig. Gen Everett E. Brown. The dispatch from Yokohama dated August 23 notes Kean's redeployment to assume command duties ahead of further assignments in theater.
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