Ducks Home Under Threat as Land Fight Rages
The fish and wildlife service clashes with gun clubs over 9000 acres near Pt Isabel and Padre Island within the Laguna Atascosa refuge. The area, a key winter feeding ground for the endangered redhead duck, may be leased or purchased as the service pushes to secure conservation land.
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Washington
Fish and Wild Life Service
Laguna
Madre Gimmery Range
Isabel
U.S
Connally
Tom Connally
D. F. Strick
C. H. Johnson
Laguna-Atascosa Wild Life Refuge
Prosecution Delays Indictment in Meyers Perjury Case
Federal attorney George Mortis Fay said technical difficulties slow the grand jury over whether retired Maj. Gen. Bennett Meyers should stand trial for perjury. The jury was expected to decide last week but is not ready as indictments are prepared for consideration.
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Washington
Dre
INS
Prasneuin
Bennett Meyers
U.S
George Mortis Fay
Fay
Pr Sihie
Navy Planes To Get Raincoats
Navy announces airframes will be equipped with weather protection pouches to shield aircraft from rain and sea spray. System uses plate glass fabric bags and requires about twenty man hours to seal and prepare each plane for night operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Lee
Navy
Legion Hospital Dedication Set for Kerrville Edifice
Special to The Light Kerrville Texas December 18 dedication ceremonies for the new 2 million administration building at the veterans hospital at Legion will begin at 2 p m Friday. Government officials Veterans administration leaders and veterans groups will attend Dr Judd H Kirkham hospital manager will be master of ceremonies The program precedes moving patients into the new edifice. The first two floors house offices and clinics seven hours are for operating rooms Executive Officer W S White recruiting staff for expanded facilities Representative C C Fisher to attend All patients in older buildings move to the new structure first while wards are reconditioned.The hospital primarily serves tuberculosis patients with 200 beds for general medical cases. The institution founded after WWI construction began in the 1920s and the Veterans Bureau took over on July 1 1923.
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Kerrville
Veterans’ Hospital
Legion
Veterans’ Administration
Veterans Organizations
Judd H. Kirkham
W. S. White
Fisher
C. C. Fisher
21St Texas
John
Dambach
Texas American Legion
State of
Texas
Veterans’ ‘Bureau
Feud Suspect Behind Bars In Murder Case
Feud suspect Willard E. Steele, 20, of 321 S San Saba, remanded to jail without bond on a murder charge. Complaint filed with Justice of the Peace Frank Vaughan also accuses him of assault to murder in the wounding of Maria Campos, as Steele allegedly fired on Ricardo R. Aviles in the 800 block of West Commerce. District attorney recommended $5,000 bond for murder, opposed on that charge. motive traced to knife cut on Frances Steele, wife of the defendant, by Aviles.
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Willard E. Steele
S. San Saba St
Justice of the Peace
Frank Vaughan
Steele
Rlcardy R. Aviles
S. San Saba
St. Steele
Maria ‘Campos
Air Superiority Urged by Publisher Knight
Publisher John S. Knight outlined an aviation emphasis at a News paper dinner, stressing unchallenged air supremacy and steps toward preventing war. He received the Frank M. Hawks memorial trophy for his newspapers' aviation contributions at the Air Service Post American Legion event.
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John S. Knight
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