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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Feb 14, 1973

Page

2

Slay at Lone Star Ice House Shocks After Murder

Jack Smailey, 43, part time employee at Lone Star Ice and Food Store in Afterglow, was found dead from two shotgun blasts to the chest at close range. Police say about $70 in the cash register remained, with the store safe untouched. Two men in a red foreign auto were seen leaving. witnesses questioned, no clear suspects. Smailey, an Army retiree, left behind an invalid wife in a San Antonio nursing home.

North Side Jack Smailey Lone Star Ice and Food Store Smalley Bexar County Hospital Ruben Santos Virgil Roberson Carrie Calzoncll Calzonclt ABC San Antonio

City Water Board Approves 4.5 Percent Pay Hike

The City Water Board trustees approved a 4.5 percent wage increase for all hourly workers at their regular meeting. The same 4.5 percent salary raise was also approved for monthly paid employees retroactive to Monday, with a potential rise to 5.5 percent if the Wage Stabilization Board grants approval.

City Water Board CWE The Water Board Federal Wage Stabilization Board CWB General

Breland loses rehearing bid in murder appeal

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Douglas Q. Breland’s application for a rehearing of his murder with malice conviction appeal. Breland, once sentenced to death, now serves a life sentence for the San Antonio restaurant parking lot shooting after a governor’s commutation following a Supreme Court death penalty ruling. In other actions, a university water company purchase was approved for 20700 and January metered water sales rose to 865500, up 239134 from a year earlier due to a 23 percent rate increase effective December 1.

Ligil'a Austin Bureau Austin Court of Criminal Appeals Douglas Q. Breland Breland San Antonio Hie Smith U. S. Supreme Court Robert Yah Dyke University Hills Water Co

Patrolman's Hearing Set Over Indefinite Suspension

A hearing is scheduled for February 27 by the Policemen's and Firemen's Civil Service Commission for Patrolman James Self, placed under indefinite suspension after a November 26 incident near Poplar. Self faces accusations of disrupting traffic on the freeway and assaulting a man and woman with a pistol, threatening the man at point blank range. The commission also sought Bexar County Medical Society help in revising minimum X ray screening standards for applicants to the police and fire departments.

Policemen’s and Firemen's Civil Service James Self Poplar Self Bexar County Medical Society Firtmen

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