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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1946
Page
19
Newspaper fragment notes a Monday edition dated February 11 1946 from the San Antonio Light with unspecified local items. No readable events, names, or details are preserved in the provided text.
Fire swept through the Bush chicken hatchery in Mo yesterday destroying 50,000 baby chicks and over 500000 incubator eggs. The immense facility owned by Irving L. Bush covered an acre and was reputedly the world’s largest hatchery under one roof, with damage estimated at 500000 dollars.
Hollywood reports Spencer Pollard professor of economics at Whittier Junior College married Las Vegas bride Helen Deutsch last Saturday. Deutsch is one of the screen's highest paid script writers. The couple were in Hollywood today for public appearances.
In Topeka Kansas on February 11 a UPI report notes that dust storms are forming anew across western Kansas and the Oklahoma redlands. Officials acknowledge dust activity but contend that a full dust bowl remains unlikely, contrasting with the severe 1930s event.
Mrs. Lora Haines Cook, honorary president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died at her home in Coonsburg on February 41 after an illness. She led the national DAR from 1923 to 1926.
Actress Marsha Hunt and screenwriter Robert Presnell were married at the home of friends in New York. The ceremony was conducted by Dr. Raymond L. Forman, pastor of St. Paul’s Methodist Church. They departed for an undisclosed honeymoon destination.
In Denver a divorce case heard today involves Robert J. Helmick 79 and Sylvia Helmick 67. Helmick alleges mental cruelty in dissolving a marriage that began with Townsend Pension club associations after meetings last November. It is Helmick’s third marriage and Mrs. Helmick’s sixth.
Funeral services are pending for Mrs. Grover Hartt a national P T A officer who died at her Dallas home following a cerebral hemorrhage last week She was state and national publications chairman for the Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers and parliamentarian of the Second district.
In Houston, Joe Ortera Reyes, who confessed to shooting Nick Saenz and killing Saenz' girlfriend on April 10, 1944, hanged himself in his Harris County jail cell on Sunday. The death sentence was reported as death by his own action.
London dispatch reports Princess Elizabeth eager to visit the United States to meet Americans and see what the country is like. Laura Hallie J Ameno, daughter of former Postmaster General Frank Walker and U N O delegate, says the heir presumptive is curious to observe America firsthand. Elizabeth, 21, and sister Margaret Rose, 15, enjoyed a reception with U S N C delegates at Buckingham Palace where Hallie praised Americans and the princess requested that they are liked back home. Hallie and her father plan to travel to Rome tomorrow for Archbishop Spellman’s cardinal installation at the Vatican.
The U S S Navasota, among the postwar fleet of modern tankers, under Commander David H. McCluskey of Houston, will be commissioned February 20 at the Philadelphia naval base.
Los Angeles February 14 police said Lou Fromm drummer in Harry James band was arrested on narcotics charges after authorities found 58 bundles of heroin and three hypodermic needles in his Hollywood apartment.
Washington reports Gen Joseph T McNarney plans to recruit several thousand Polish civilians to help solve the U S army manpower problem in Germany The War Department ordered dismissal of more than 700 Yugoslav refugees over political activity concerns About 23000 Poles wearing U S army uniforms are already in the zone as guards and in other roles Secretary of State Baynes said Poles were not organized and not propagandizing against Russia or the Warsaw government
Funeral services will be held today for Dr. Albert C. Fisher a former chaplain in World War I and a member of East Oklahoma and North Texas Methodist conferences He died yesterday in a Dallas hospital of a heart ailment
Hollywood February 11 Ingrid Bergman has returned to her home and is recovering from a tonsillectomy. The actress was reported to be in good spirits and resting as she recuperates from the procedure performed recently.
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