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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1946

Page

5

Sevenman panel to pick San Antonio outstanding young man 1946

Angus Cockrell announces a seven member committee will select San Antonio’s outstanding young man for 1946 on December 27. The panel includes N Dwight Allison Frank Huntress Jr Jack B Wright Frank Hall Ed Dewees Louis Laklore and C J Crampion. Nominees come from about 50 civic clubs and selection uses a point system based on civic work leadership business progress and community welfare.

San Antonio Angus Cockrell Junior Chamber of Commerce Cockrell Junor Chamber N. Dwight Allison The Linght Frank Huntress Jr Express Publishing Company Jack B. Wright Lions Club Frank Hall Rotary Club Ed Dewees Optimist Club Louis Laklore

Light Want Ads Offer Busing Hiring and Selling

Classified line touts a ready made success stamped service for busing selling and hiring via a dial in ad writer service. The brief promissory note emphasizes experience and quick turn around for advertisers.

War hero fights off car thief in Texas rescue

Audie Murphy, Medal of Honor recipient, arrived in Dallas and aided his sister during a holiday visit when a would be car thief hijacked his vehicle. In a ten minute brawl Murphy subdued the assailant, handed him to state police, and avoided charges as the unnamed assailant fled.

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City Votes New Fire Prevention Ordinance

City commissioners on Thursday passed a new 102 stage fire prevention ordinance aimed at easier enforcement after a National Board of Fire Underwriters review found the old law outmoded. The rule imposes a $100 fine every ten days for violations and may require doubling the fire prevention bureau. it could also allow control of hotel fire hazards and bans on fireworks if enacted. The previous anti firework law neared a court test, stirring friction with Judge Augustus McCloskey.

P. L. Anderson National Board of Fire Underwriters Anderson Sider Anderson Corporation Court d Augustus McCloskey

Prayer Author, Dies

Cincinnati priest Rev. Francis N. LaSance, 86, renowned for Catholic prayer books, died after a long illness. Father LaSance had been ill for nearly 40 years. His best known work, My Prayer Book, sold into millions of copies.

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