Barbs Bouquets in Awards for 1956
Don Polizico lists 1956 nominations with satire on local figures. Highlights include Ace Quernet spending about 30000 for 1477 votes, Henry Gonzalez's squeaker win, Police Chief George Bithsel’s courtroom absence, Elmer Dittmar’s water board strategy, Cecil Lipscom’s cape-and-dagger act, and Mayor Maxwell Parker’s fire engine caution. Also mentions Kath leen Voigt, Lyndon Johnson, Carlos Cadena probe, and other colorful city personalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Polizico
Ace Quernet
Ley
Henry Gonzalez
Ozzie Latimer
Kilday’s long career reshapes San Antonio politics
Paul Kilday, San Antonio congressman and “Politico of the Year,” helped steer major armed services and energy legislation, securing the $800,000 San Antonio river project and guiding career incentives, survivor benefits, and officer augmentation acts. His brothers Owen and Maury Maverick figures shape local politics, with Kilday rising on the House Armed Services panel and local transit debates spark ongoing reform in city governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drouth
Kilday
San Antonio
San Anna
Congress
K Il
Credi
Eisenhower
Hilday
Armed Services
Ner
House
Army
Air Force
Navy
Marine
Paul Kilday
U.S
Texas
Taul
Fal
Mary Kilday
Sehinal
Owen Kilday
Jopal
Owen
Ieaders
Bexar
Harry Wurzbach
Wurzbach
U.S. Shipping Board
Paul
Paul Woul
Bexar Pouities
Maury Maverick
Fle
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
Tthe UN
San Antofang
Transit Era Ends As City Tightens Control Of Company
The piece notes heavy truck backlogs as sanitation yards stay open late after a Christmas load, while the city renews a yearlong contract with a renowned professional at the international airport. Maury Maverick Jr is named to the urban renewal advisory committee and emerges as local attorney for Art Aragon. A city grand jury stenographer works on boxing commission hearing notes, with a national magazine correspondent present. The transit company era ends in 1956 as city interference increases after years of fare hike approvals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby Cuz
Amell
B. P. Bogasch
Bogie
Jack
Ed Conroy
Mutt
Rank
T. Drougit
International
Maury Maverick JR
Golden Boy
Aragon
Boxing Commission
Manldelletta
Dtredr
Ayn AL
Tenous Piston
Big Fortland Cementio
Hunt
First Asst
Richard Woods
Davis
Demeanor
Carlos Rossales
Buck Jones
Joe Grown
Eugene ‘Williams
Campist Wien Way
Abe San Miguel
Housing Authority Board
Andries
Ri Yarborough
Senate
W. C. Murray
Yarborough
Austin
Clyde
Toto Salas
Shivers weighs Texas senate pick amid Daniel vacancy
Gov. Shivers debates appointing a temporary senator or delaying until a special election after Len Daniel resigns on Jan. 15. Names like Mrs. Oyeta Hobby of Houston surface as potential appointee, with Daniel’s liberal support and oil lobby pressures shaping the decision. Political maneuvering, anticipated school segregation debates, and legislative battles loom as Austin prepares for the January session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nell Moore
Johnson
Kathleen Voigt
Lyndon
Ike
Austin
Shivers
Washington
Texas
Oyeta Culp Hobby
Houston
U. S. Senate
Len- Daniel
Senate
Daniel
West Virginia
Hobby
the Post
Ralph Yarborough
Eisenhower
Ti Shivers
Goverorship
Adlat
Agaiinst
Yarborough
Texas House of Representatives
U. S Supreme Court
Texas Supreme Court
Atty
Wildlife Awards by Sportsmen's Club of Texas Honors FFA
Scholarships totaling $1700 will be awarded annually by the Sportsmen's Club of Texas to Future Farmers of America members showing outstanding work in wildlife conservation. The program commenced Saturday, with Harry Jar sie Batt Antonio, president, presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sportsmen's Clube of Texas
Farmers of America
Harry Jersie Batt Antonio
Senior FFA wildlife conservation scholarship program expands
The Frank M. Wood awards become a state wide Senior FPA scholarship for standout wildlife conservation work by FFA members. SCOY and the Texas Education Agency along with the Texas game and fish commission will coordinate awards. Future Farmers of Texas leaders emphasize landowner stewardship and expanded sponsorship through Sportsmen's Clubs of Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FPA
FFA
Frank M. Wood
Wichita
Woods
the Sportsmen's Clubs of Texas
SCOY
Votational Agricultural Education Division
Texas Education Agency
Texas Game and Fish Commission
Jersig
Tor Day
To Morrow
Yotoast
SRI Chemistry Chairman To Speak On Water Conservation
Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Buell Beadle will address the seventh annual Conference on Sanitary Engineering at the University of Kansas Lawrence January 8. He will discuss Water Conservation Through Control of Evaporation and SRTs research on thin film coatings to reduce water loss. Sister Frances Jerome Woods of Our Lady of the Lake College was elected to the executive committee of the American Catholic Sociological Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Research Institute
Buell Beadle
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Beadle
Frances Jerome Woods
Our Lady of the Lake College
Amer
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George Bithse
Sha
Wilton Shaw
Bagg Elmer Dittmar
Belknap
The
Water Board
Cecil “D'Artagnan" Lipscom
Avith Sreat Derring-Do
Cenia
Carlos Cadena
E. P. Bogasch
Aids
Vice Probe
Hilton
Westerner
Hira
Maxwell Parker
Olmos Park
Gold Coast
S. A
Jiminy Parks
Art Aragon
Dick Goldstein
Tha Vnan
Politico
8. A
Goutimind
Georgetown University
Harry L. Howard
Dist
John R. Shook
Carter
Witt Leroy Jeffers
Paull
Underworld
Leroy
Maury
Bexac
la Guardia
Lie
Jaury
Will Wood
Sheriff's Office
Francis Edmonson
Jack Davis
Woodville J. Rogers
Harry Rotehkin
Emma yUca
William [Turner
Jerome [Ledvina
Ioase
House Armed Services Committee
Als Military Sub Committee
U.S. Naval Academy
Alamo
Kiday
AEC
Post of Man
N.Y
Politica
Iger of
New
Ft Worth
Kathleen
Sam Rayburn
White
Robert G. Maverick
Bexar Tke
Red Betty
Jesse A. Oppenheimer
Harry
Ellis Shapiro
Public Service Board
FM. Davis
R. L. Reader
Mass
Stewart Fischer
Stewart
Charley Ar'ferson
Im Cily
Osali Alexander
Tate
James R. Norvell
Dulting
Bexar County
San
Hospital Board
Agdit
Market
Presa
Commerce
Santa Rose
Elmendorf Lake
Buena Vista
Jaandial
Itate
Bennett Bolen
Osa
Alexander
Transportatton
Bagatelles
Agit Olmos Park
Wildlife Awards
SRI Chemistry
Huston
Wolff & Marx
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