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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1948
Page
5
An odd tale titled Hell of the Ocean Depths appears in The American Weekly, a cinematic true story about a fantastic undersea diver. The feature notes a roagazone distributed with Sunday's Light.
Out of town merchants crowd San Antonio wholesale houses Tuesday as trade week nears midpoint. A men and women style show and dance at the Majestic theater and a ballroom event at the Gunter hotel were scheduled with Chamber of Commerce sponsorship. Houston banker Keagan and Elmer Dallas spoke at a dinner for buyers.
In Costa Rica thousands of ballots in the presidential election were burned early Sunday by unknown assailants. The ballots stored under police guard were discovered ablaze around 2 p.m. and largely destroyed, while government-backed candidate Rafael Angel Calderon Guardia conceded defeat and alleged ballot fraud.
The studio of Emile and Marcel Robin completes sets for three operas to be staged at the San Antonio Grand Opera Festival starting Saturday. The Robins designed and built all festival sets since its start four years ago. Rigoletto presents the hardest scenery with a ballroom scene from Mantua. Madame Butterfly requires only two sets, while the Robins also created the 1936 Casa Mañana snow and Calvacade of Texas, and Fiesta de San Jacinto coronation sets.
The Texas Employment Commission forecasts an end to the midwinter recession by mid April with higher employment expected. December saw agricultural hiring hit a new U S record though overall Texas jobs totaled about 32 000 as per the Employment Service Division.
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