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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1948
Page
3
New York August 24. Met opera officials announced a revised plan restoring the 19549 season after workers shelved wage increase demands. The decision follows an earlier order canceling the season and reverses that announcement a few weeks later.
Boston August 24 The life and times of Alan Dale famed Hearst drama critic are being set down in book form by his daughter Marjorie Alan Dale using the pen name Alan Dale Jr now abandoned for the project Adelaide Drew Landon assists The biography Meet Me in the Lobby focuses on amusing life essays about celebrities and intimate sketches with the Dales It notes Dale died in 1928 while traveling between Plymouth and Birmingham England He was dean of New York drama reviewers joined Hearst in 1895 and was also a novelist and playwright born in England
NBC begins regular program operations on September 20 across five stations in the Midwest. J. E. Shoswerman NBC vice president announced the start after conducting test nights in Chicago on August 24.
Aging kidneys cause night urination and back ache with swelling under eyes and fatigue. The ad praises Daon’s Pills as a stimulant diuretic used by prisoners for over 60 years to flush out toxins from the blood.
The National Association of Manufacturers launched a regional campaign at the St. Anthony hotel with D. J. Johnston of Oklahoma City as principal speaker. The event, the first in a series of regional conferences, aimed to gather business views on the present economy and support for private enterprise. Johnston described NAM as the industrial voice of America, noting 16,000 to 18,000 member industries producing 75 percent of national goods. He highlighted the central region from Canona to the Gulf and stressed private enterprise's role in America's future. Local NAM members from San Antonio, 35-area attendees, and regional host Harry D. Jersig attended, with W. R. Archer of Houston and William S. Henson of Dallas on hand. Johnston defended the Taft-Hartley Act as fair to labor and management, cited 13 million man-hours saved since its passage, and warned that Russia's drive against religion threatens democracy and prosperity.
Lyndon Johnson on a radio prepared speech warned that Communist Russia seeks global domination arguing for a strong military and deterrence. He contrasted his platform of preparedness with Coke Stevenson’s isolationist stance while noting George Peddy’s criticism and public opinion at about six percent backing isolationism.
Residents in the 300 block of Yale avenue petitioned the city council for a retaining wall to prevent their property from flooding. They allege a 10 foot right of way promised by state engineer I L Dickson when homes were moved off the highway to Weaver addition, but the city now sells the land as lots. Complainants led by Charlene B Brock.
McKenzie Construction Co accepts the Texas Highway Commission award for a single project grading structures and pavement. The low bid totals 1,010,240 dollars for eight miles of interstate highway work between Comal and Marshallts.
Ad copy promotes Barceitrats as a diet aid promising no hunger while using Darecatente and other suspicious ingredients. It urges buying four seunes of Hould Brrcentrate, mixing with a pint bottle, and returning the bottle for a refund, while asserting rapid fat reduction and elimination of hunger.
A suit filed Monday in the 45th District Court by Pan American Hotel Co seeks appointment of a receiver for the St. Anthony hotel properties and other relief. Defendants include the St. Anthony hotel entities and R. E. and H. G. Morrison. The fifty-year-old dispute lists old and reorganized ownership, with claims to cancel a 1944 agreement and damages. The petition cites the late R. W. Morrison’s hotel philosophy of first class standards, air conditioning, affordable meals, and limiting conventions.
Former ambassador E. J. Kyle, who retired as American ambassador to Guatemala, has resumed the post of director of the Farm Credit administration. Kyle previously served as director from 1934 to 1945 before taking the ambassadorial role and was once agriculture dean at a Texas A&M college.
Seoul Aug 24 Gen John R Dodge signs over Korean security forces to the new republic and departs for reassignment. He leaves Maj Gen John B Coulter to assume command of the Seventh Division and act as deputy since May 25 in the transfer amid recall.
Police say 25 gunmen attacked last night, beating two men, and wrecked the Impresora de Revistas S. A. plant. The facility printed magazines Nosotros Hit Present and others, and suffered extensive damage. The incident occurred at the political headquarters in Cry Aug. 24.
Czech theologian Joseph Ly Hromadka tells World Council of Churches western supremacy in world readership is ending. He warns against Soviet led social transformations and says wealth and American power must not mislead. He states western nations no longer sole masters of the world and that the underdogs of society are on the march.
In Tupelo Mississippi on August 24 1971 Democratic voters begin the primary to choose Rep John B Rankin for Mississippi’s first district. Rankin cites twenty years of service as his record while his main rival Circuit Judge Claude F Clayton challenges his tenure in a spirited campaign that recalls a noted earlier contest.
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