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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1948
Page
5
Rabbi Sidney S. Cuflimnan will arrive in Los Angeles from Chicago on August 30 to assume his duties as spiritual leader of Congregation Agudas Achim in San Antonio.
A new Masonic lodge named after the late Lonnie Irvin is set to launch at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Scottish Rite temple auditorium Los Angeles. It will be the first meeting house in Southwest Texas to hold regular day meetings for night workers. The lodge will meet on the second and fourth Saturdays at 1 30 p.m. in the lodge room at 505072 Broadway. Officers include Oda F E Diestert worshipful master Pat M Armstrong senior warden and Joe Lipscomber junior warden. Forty one of the 61 charter members have transferred from outside San Antonio and join from across the United States.
The city council approved a broad spending spree including 38609 traffic signal units and six pedestrian push buttons for a crosswalk on W Commerce to the city limits, plus a 100-foot aerial ladder truck costing 233,272 from American LaFrance. Additional items covered health dental equipment, a used street sweeper, and river channel repairs. The body directed bids for McCullough Ave improvements and a reinforced concrete bridge on S. Laltredo St across Apache Creek, while earmarking 25,000 general funds to pension, 145,086 for payroll, and 75,072 to retire notes 26 through 28.
Spokane Army Air Forces headquarters released the names of 15 of 16 airmen killed when a B 29 Superfortress crashed near Honolulu. The list includes First Lt Leo F Towers Ban dera Texas and First Lt William C Collins Bloomingrove Texas, plus Sgts Billy T Nerson Texarkana Texas and Marion E Lungstrom Lindsborg Kansas among others. One Texan was initially withheld as a name. Rescue crews reached the wreckage within 30 seconds of the crash.
800 Texas teachers attend a Plaza hotel meeting led by Dr Bernice M. Moore to promote homemaking education aimed at happier futures. Tulsa expert Maude Firth notes success depends on teachers handling mixed classes and addressing problem marriages. Berlin Express opens at Texas theater with Merle Oberon and others as Nazi fringe plots heighten thrills.
The crash saved four crew members identified as SSgt. Francisca Dillenbeck of El Paso, SSgt. Wary C. Larson of Los Angeles, S-Sgt. Donald D. Kienholz of Pasco, Washington, and Sgt. Hubert L. Pittman of Calipatria, California.
Misleading claims state kidney fatigue causes backaches and fatigue. The text urges diagnosing kidney function as nature's method to remove acids and waste, suggesting most people urinate regularly and that kidney disorder allows poisonous matter to remain in the blood causing pains and decreased energy.
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