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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1972
Page
1
A note requests travel to Piedras Negras Mexico and asks permission to carry clothes for a friend and to bring food items including canned soup. The fragment indicates a continuation on page 19 column 1.
Amusements around the Pla Comples with editorials features horoscopes and society notes. Provides brief notices of sports logs TV listings and reader columns. Includes page references and day parts.
Thousands line Houston Street for the nation's largest Western parade as 16 sections of bands floats and riders roll through downtown San Antonio. Stars Ray Clark Cliff Robertson and Miss Texas Universe Brenda Hox ride in open convertibles, while Lt. Gen. Cassidy leads a military caravan past cheering crowds estimated at 45,000. Continued on Page 19.
Readable schedule items show events across Coliseum Arena Cattle Barn Arena and Horse Arena. Key entries include Junior Show Steer calves Herefords Brahman Angus Shorthorn Santa Gertrudis lambs poultry and sheep judging with rodeo performances and sales at Sales Barn and Coliseum Arena. An ABBA Brahman sale and a Quarter Horse sale are listed with times into the afternoon.
San Antonio residents face a summer charter revision vote on changes to council and mayor selection. The council approved a single member district plan for the council and a popular mayor election by 4 votes, while an alternate plan proposed mixed at large and district seats.
A trio of new winners claimed cash in The Light's Double TV Sweepstakes. Mrs. Wren Caruthers of 418 E. Quincy won $50. Mrs. Sophia Eisenhower of Route 1 Box 385 and David W. Glass of 12718 Via Perfecto each won $10. The weekly contest now offers 120 chances to win and doubles the basic prize list.
Police report a break in at Mary's Mobile Depot on 4506 Presa. A thief stole an ice cream maker, generator, a small motor, and an electric music box worth a total of 2030 dollars. Billie may be planning a party.
The Federal Wage Board approved a seven percent pay increase for San Antonio bus drivers and mechanics. A letter to Transit System general manager F Norman Hill outlined the decision, signed by executive director Robert Tiernan. The ruling covers retroactive back pay from August 1 when the contract expired plus a lump sum payment.
An explosion ripped through a barge at Avomdale Shipyards near New Orleans today killing two men, with authorities reporting two fatalities and investigating the blast as a work accident.
New York based UPI reports the Los Angeles Times quotes sources close to the Clifford Irving case saying Irving told federal authorities he never met Howard Hughes. McGraw-Hill had planned to publish Hughes biog in December claiming Irving interviewed Hughes over 100 times in motels and parked cars across the hemisphere. Irving’s attorney denied the report as untrue and Irving himself deflected questions, noting much of the press is nonsense. European probe into Hughes’ affair expands to Spain as U.S. and Spanish authorities assess possible mail fraud tied to the $650,000 paid to Irving for cooperation.
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