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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1949
Page
4
Governor Jester submitted a budget message urging the fifty-first legislature to bridge a 367 million demand with 318 million revenue. He proposed trimming or raising figures, urged no new taxes before tax structure study, and emphasized careful review of each item while seeking possible loophole closures for additional revenue.
Clarence Lee Thompson, a San Antonio garage operator, was en route to West Palm Beach to face a murder charge. He was held by Sheriff John F. Kirk and Deputy Sheriff John F. Smith after confessing to stabilizing Bill Hauck about the slaying of Bil Samford, a West Palm Beach river driver, on June 27, 1944, in a case once closed as death by own action.
A petition circulated Thursday requests a bond issue to fund a high school in the North Side Consolidated Common School district. The petition will go to County Judge Charles W. Anderson to set the election date. The bond size remains to be determined.
Funeral services for Paul E Tyson 51 of 1350 Highland bird will be held at 2 pm Friday at Zizix Kearns Funeral home. Interment in Mission Burial park. Tyson died Wednesday after 35 years in San Antonio. Native of Georgia, he was a post office employee since 1916 and rose to superintendent in 1912 with duties at Ft. Sam Houston and Grayson st. station. Surviving are widow Alice Stone Tyson, children Dr Norman H Jacob and wife from Leavenworth Kansas, sisters Mrs Frank H Williams and Mrs John Martin, and brothers Jesse F Tyson, M W Tyson, J H Tyson.
In The American Weenly readers are invited to read Will It Be a Boy-or a Girl. The feature argues about a new blood test that could determine the sex of unborn babies, highlighting the era’s fascination with medical biology and popular science.
Frank Talata, 54, of 2413 Guadalupe St, was treated at Baptist Memorial Hospital for a compound fracture of the left leg and possible pelvis fracture after being struck by a taxi near his home on Wednesday night, according to investigator J. L. Kinsel.
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