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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1947
Page
4
A Texas bill to regulate watermelon grading during the marketing season is under consideration. Representative Donald Peters of Cotulla says accurate grading will prevent bad fruit from souring buyers and harming sellers later in the season.
Master Sgt. Nick Alexander, after 29 years of service at Hot Wells, retires from the army. His son Nick Alexander Jr. begins service as a Kelly Field recruit while Alexander Sr awaits medical discharge at ICTRC RAF regional hospital. A 1946 Hot Wells High School graduate and football player hopes to become an aviation cadet. He served with the Rainbow division in World War I and was wounded at the Argonne and St Mihiel, with San Antonio postings since 1922.
A burglar entered J. H. Hatchert at 309 Albert Street Saturday and took a $60 wrist watch from a dresser drawer, overlooking $20. Police report states.
Pravda says the March call-up will train 300,000 youths as metal workers and miners. Last year labor reserve schools supplied 382,000 workers. 230,000 are graduating for metal work, carpentry, rail service, shoemaking, and other trades. The five-year plan aims to train 4,500,000 youths in reserve schools.
A San Antonio dentist told a House Game and Fish Committee hearing that hunters should carry liability insurance or face examinations before licensing to prevent injuries like the one he suffered on Medina Lake property. Dr O M Ford, injured by a hunter’s accidental shot, has spent 2800 on medical care and cannot return to dentistry. The hearing also focused on a bill by Claud Gilmer to grant the game fish and oyster commission complete state wide authority to make and enforce game laws, drawing support for wildlife conservation and opposition as bureaucratic overreach.
Tyler reopens its annual rose festival after wartime suspension. Dates set for October 2 3 4 5 to align with peak bloom, announced by Rose Festival association president M J Warvey. Strong local event expected to draw growers and guests.
Mrs J L Aron visiting the Blue Bird Tourist courts seeks help locating Babs a German shepherd seeing eye dog. The animal belonging to her mother who died in Tennessee disappeared from a car around 5 pm in the 3000 block of West Commerce Street with serial number T501.
Atlantic City press reports a sobbing Evelyn Nesbit phoning a local paper to learn about the health of former husband Harry K. Thaw who suffered a heart attack. Thaw, 76, is in Miami Beach, while Nesbit, once a chorus girl and notable figure in the Thaw White scandal, remains married to and divorced from several times.
London reports that the four power deputy foreign ministers saw limited progress as six weeks of talks wind down. They urged restricting Austria’s army to about 50 000, an air force of 90 planes with no bombers, and a 30 tank armored corps. Former German and Austrian generals would be barred from service.
Los Angeles police chief Captain Jack Donahoe says two detectives were sent to San Francisco to question a man connected to the mutilation slaying of Elizabeth Short known as the Black Dahlia and the later slaying of nurse Jeanne French. Sergeant Mary Stradder, who once lived with Short at Camp Cooke in 1943, offered limited help.
New York, Feb. 22. NBC broadcast said Argentina endures intense summer heat with ice scarce. An INS dispatch notes the country’s officials and residents cope with high temperatures as markets report ice shortages amid the heat.
Fifty thousand spectators filled Laredo for the 50th annual Washington birthday celebration. Gov Beauford H Jester and Attorney General Price Daniel attended with other officials as an Indian ceremony opened the day. The hour long parade featured 20 bands 3 drum corps and 40 floats. A Mexican festival on the international bridge closed events with Noche Mexicana and carnival features to continue tomorrow.
The Rev. William Edward Shaw, 82, president of Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, died today in a Chicago taxi after being rushed to St. Luke's Hospital. Attendants cited a heart attack as the cause of death.
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