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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1964
Page
7
A column cites Tom McNally in The Light on prudent dog ownership. It urges would be owners to plan carefully who will care for the dog, where it will live, breed choice, exercise, housing, feeding, and grooming. It warns against careless buying and abandonment as harmful to dogs and communities.
The text fancifully credits Mother Earth with a 4.7 billion year age, noting a 150 million year adjustment. It anthropomorphizes the planet with imagery of verdant forests, brooks, wrinkles, and signs of wear caused by human activity, urging restraint and respect as Earth seeks eternal renewal.
Norman Thomas, aging 86, reflects on how socialism shifted from a feared label to a regular part of American institutions. A former clergyman and six time presidential candidate, Thomas also pursued roles as New York governor and mayor, while remaining a steadfast, often controversial, yet respectable American figure.
Ruth Montgomery explains the fading rush for national fitness as public figures from the Kennedy era pivot away from active campaigns. The piece notes Musial, Thurmond, and Johnson, plus White House efforts, and traces a shift from public exercise drives to lighter routines and office workouts.
The San Antonio Light calls for an extension of sanitary sewer and water systems to reach all areas, completion of the street lighting program, a long range plan to ensure ample future water supply, full flood control participation, and construction of an adequate storm sewer system.
Lyndon Johnson, Harold Wilson, and David Dubinsky walk from the East Room after the duckling dinner, symbolizing labor's rise from shop floors to diplomacy. The trio emphasizes labor’s sway in national policy and international affairs, with Dubinsky noted as a key labor spokesman.
The Mailbox letter notes that Indonesian rioters sacked the U S Information Agency Library in Surabaya and burned the U S flag. It cites a second attack in five days after Jakarta’s library was stormed by students, and recalls a previous September sacking. It mentions U S aid to Egypt and Indonesia and the 120 million dollar wheat program supporting Nasser.
A quoted line contrasts paternalism and maternalism with socialism and asserts self-reliance as Americanism. The speaker cites MARY SIMMS, framing the message as a civic creed about independence and national identity.
A columnist examines Andrei Gromyko's sliding stance at the United Nations, arguing his speech crossed lines between soft diplomacy and hard threat. The piece links Soviet equivocation to Western policy, East European civil pressure, and potential leverage via Eastern Bloc trade under pressure from dissidents.
An 11 year old boy injured eye by exploding cartridge fragment. Traditional extraction failed, new radar guided ultrasonic technique located fragment, jaws gripped and removed, preserving eye and some sight. Also notes swallowed camera technology from Japan aiding stomach diagnosis and imaging advances.
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