Stinson field trains veterans amid rapid flying boom
Stinson field in San Antonio hosts a surge of private flight schools as the GI bill fuels veteran pilot training. Eddie Stinson’s legacy guides operator Dick Hair who resumes operations at Stinson while several other schools enroll GI students and veterans, with aircraft sales and new GI eligible courses.
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San Antonio Aviation School
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San Antonio Air College
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C. K. Williams
Erwin Newman Company
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Five Die As Philadelphia Hotel Fire Rages
Five people perish and more than forty injured as a blaze sweeps the first floor of a south Philadelphia hotel. The fire drives over one hundred residents from a four story structure amid near freezing weather.
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South Philadelphia
Deportation Case Under Review for Von Kleczkowskis
President Truman is reviewing the deportation of Dr. and Mrs. Karl von Kleczkowski who served as wartime U S agents in the Balkans. The couple, Austrian born and anti-Communist, faced removal to Ellis Island and then to Soviet territory where they fear death, with the matter to be discussed with the attorney general after advocacy from Representative Auchincloss.
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Solons Back Building Bill In County Plan
Three Bea county legislators announced support for a county building permits bill at the January session. Paul Adams noted past passage in 1939, vetoed by Governor Stevenson, and said the bill would tax every new home over 1500. Senator Tynan and Reps Williamson Williams pledged support. Ridgeway would study it. City to replace taxicab ordinance. Benham cites revenue potential and cites practices in Houston Dallas Detroit.
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Texas House
Senate
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Fort Sam Sets Civilian Dance on Post
A civilian welfare event at Fort Sam Houston will host all civilian employees and guests at 8 30 p m Thursday in the Olinos Night club with Gene Sark's orchestra providing music A buffet dinner is offered A separate dance and buffet for Black civilian employees will be held at Don's Key Hole
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Fort Sam Houston
Drowns in Pond Actor No Better Ontario Calls
New York reports 10-year-old actor John Barton Lester, who played Jeeter in Tobacco Road, died after being found in a fish pond while his mother Karen Ruth cared for him. Police say the child had heart disease.
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John Barton
Jeeter
Karen Ruth
Lester
Tobacco Road
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