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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1950
Page
9
A police sergeant was killed and 16 natives wounded yesterday as police and natives clashed during a paramilitary confrontation in Johannesburg. The violence followed a factional dispute between two native groups involving about 100 persons, marking another flare in a spreading series of disorders in the area.
A test demonstration for color video in Washington D C received 409 questionnaires from the public. The audit concluded in favor of color television. Experts say color is easier on the eye than black and white even as networks prepare for a color era. Bob Hope speaks on WOAL Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
BERLIN Feb 20 INS reports say Soviets actively engaged in hydrogen bomb construction. Allied courcases told INS that work began last September, four months before President Truman gave the go ahead order. They said the Soviets hope to test the H-bomb by this summer.
The 1950 Red Cross fund campaign will be directed by Zone and area chairs directing nearly 2000 volunteers in the residential division. Mrs. A. N. Champion chairs the drive with Miss Vera Timpson as co chairmen and 347 districts will have local chairmen. Zone leaders include Mrs. Thomas B. Portwood Mrs. Louis Haring Mrs. M. W. Bardwell and others. Frank Falkstein, general chairman, says outlook to exceed local quota is strongest since the war years.
Dr. Ed Mund Heinson, pastor of the University Methodist Church in Austin, will be guest speaker at the Lockhart Methodist Mom's fellowship club on Monday night, according to special to The Lipes.
FALC Alto police report Saturday night melee as teen agers attacked officers after one youth was arrested for vile language. Three officers required medical aid. two youths were detained. Police Chief Howard Zine vows harsher arrests for juveniles causing trouble.
Geraldine Thane of Knippa Southwest Texas Junior College sophomore receives a 200 scholarship. She will attend Texas Lutheran College in Seguin. Local coverage notes Patel involvement.
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