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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1963
Page
6
In Iran, a 5.5 million electorate backed the Shah’s reform drive by about 41 thousand votes, rewarding a program that includes farmland redistribution to 50,000 families, a Teachers Corps, and industry profit-sharing. The piece notes opposition from landowners, left and right factions, and student groups, while warning that continued reform battles invite Communist subversion.
A 1953 slice notes San Antonians read more on opera stories as the public library stocks rise for the Grand Opera Festival. Entries mention tearing down San Pedro Park Pavilion linked to a tunnel myth, a cigar safety device patent, school board candidacies, birds displaced by tree removal, mining expeditions to Mexico, and city officials slated for a photo at City Hall before an election.
St Mary's University plans a $2,000,000 Law Center on its downtown campus. The project combines a remodeled existing building with a new penthouse addition atop the River Garage, housing 32 resident students and 350 classrooms for 500 group facilities, plus faculty spaces and two visiting professor apartments.
Dean A. Raba of the School of Law envisions a rebuilt Texas colonial style campus with a first floor cafe, second floor Lawyers Inn, a 100000 volume library, and two new elevators. The plan also creates institutes in Comparative and Criminal Law to foster Latin American understanding and penal-law research.
The article describes expansion of the curriculum to create a Burke Chair in Homebuilding Municipal and Construction Jurisprudence funded by E. J. Burke Jr. and held by Prof. Carlos C. Cadena, former San Antonio city attorney. A graduate program is planned in time.
Health Talk by Dr Harry J Johnson offers practical steps for easier sleep. Maintain regular hours, create a dark quiet environment, relax the body with light exercise and a warm bath, avoid late day stimulation, limit alcohol and caffeine, slow down before bed, and resist worrying. Eight hours is the minimal daily sleep for most, with no substitute for a good night’s rest.
The Light urges creation of an adequate storm sewer system hospital facilities flood control project and full city participation. It calls for extending sanitary sewer and water systems citywide and a long range plan to assure future water supply plus completion of modern street lighting program.
A retired account recalls family orchards near Leon Springs and Bourne Bandera, noting abundant crops, careful sharing by weight, and meals built on corn and eggs. Droughts later killed many trees, leaving eroded ranges and questions about long term moisture and the fate predicted by a local teacher.
The author laments neighbors pets damaging flower beds yet recalls a boy pulling up basturtiums with chubby hands. The scene shifts to a reflective mood praising the child’s simple joy, ending with a hopeful note about the gardener’s role and a subscription sign-off from Del Rio.
The San Antonio Light expresses gratitude for generous support of the San Antonio Independent School District bond and maintenance tax election on January 29. Thomas B. Portwood, Superintendent, credits the Board of Education and the school organization for the favorable outcome, inviting readers to join the open forum.
Labor walkouts at Cape Canaveral and Nevada Test Site raise costs and delay key space and nuclear programs. Millwrights protest NASA work jurisdiction, while electrical and other unions strike over pay, subsistence, and travel allowances, threatening launch pads, Saturn boosters, and Mercury testing.
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