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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1963
Page
2
The Strawberry Festival queen contest drops the Anglo-Saxon eligibility rule after LULAC challenged bias against Latin Americans. The festival, with ticket sales drive and crowd sizes around 25,000 last year, is slated for April 19-20. Officials move to eliminate discrimination while the sales lead crowns the queen.
In Austin the House debated George Hinson and Henry Grover proposed changes to the State Teacher Retirement system. Grover’s amendment sought actuarial safeguards and contingent benefits, sparking two hours of contentious argument before a 1290 vote to send the measure onward.
Comfort citizens plan a 53 mile hike from Comfort to San Antonio on Friday to raise several thousand dollars for Comfort Community Hospital. The event, sponsored by the Comfort Lions Club, includes a wreath at the Alamo and a check presentation from Lone Star Brewing Co. to hospital organizers.
The United States protested the Sunday stoning of its embassy in Mogadishu Somalia and said it would study Somalia’s request for military aid. Somalis were angered by U S arms shipments to Ethiopia but not to Somalia.
Firemen investigated a hotel blaze on the North Side that caused about 18000 dollars in damage and killed eight rooms in the front of the building The fire started in the first floor hallway near a staircase and spread upward No one was home at the time Eighty four firefighters and 21 pieces of apparatus fought the flames taking 40 minutes to control The blaze forced detours and disrupted downtown traffic Two men and a resident reported smoke and attempted to check residents in but were driven back by thick smoke.
Jackson Mississippi reports Gov Ross Barneil appealed to President Kennedy over a National Guard armory issue. Barneil criticized delays and pressed for a rapid solution as state officials sought to address the vacancy and security concerns at Oxford area facilities.
In Corporation Court on Tuesday Flavio Benavides 18 of Southcross was fined 20 dollars for making a false statement to police after a car he claimed was stolen allegedly crashed into a fence in the 1500 block of South. The fence owner identified Benavides as the driver. The judge, James Vafella, upheld the fine. A separate update from Laredo reports Aruta Medina 4 was killed by a hit and run motorist, the city’s first traffic fatality of the year, with the driver still at large.
Sparks flew Tuesday between Sen George Parkhouse of Dallas and Sen Franklin Spears of San Antonio over Spears proposed SBMS to modify the annual jury wheel filing. Spears defended the bill as a cost saver while Parkhouse accused misrepresentation, with other senators delaying but ultimately sending the measure to a subcommittee for a week of study.
Washington reports the Post Office Department announced an airlift of first class letters on trains, with Postmaster General J Edward Tay also citing experiments tagging airmail slaps using invisible ink visible under ultraviolet light to speed handling and repayment of tale airmail.
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