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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1950
Page
3
For over 30 years we have shown age alone does not cause impaired close vision. Those who doubt the method should try bifocal tissues to reduce red sore teary eyes and headaches. The McCormick method promises clearer eyes and saved vision, with results described as permanent.
Sheriff Kilday reports a raid at an East Side lottery den leading to $10,000 in tickets and $300 seized. Three lottery writers were arrested as they turned in receipts. He described a Horseshoe lottery with at least 23 members. Pay-off envelopes for 19 writers found. daily drawings were conducted.
Washington January 19 The air force informed Senator Wherry Nebraska that it cannot consider the Mead ordnance plant or the Hastings naval ammunition depot as sites for a proposed air force academy. The air force decided to limit consideration to its own property.
Accused arsonist Elnora Epperly, 22, of Rock Island Illinois, linked to the Mercy Hospital fire that killed 41, will be committed to a mental hospital after the county sanity commission ruled she is insane. The January 17 blaze prompted a mental health ruling and transfer to a secure facility.
Mrs. Richard Jordan, 90, of 423 Reckave, was seriously injured Thursday when her car was struck by a Southern Pacific work train at the Kirk Street crossing. Investigator Frank Moore said she was en route to school board headquarters when hit by the tender. She suffered a possible skull fracture and other injuries and was taken to Santa Rosa hospital. Engineer Casey Martin, 35, was listed as involved.
Prague dispatch reports Richard Kasischke, a Western journalist, ordered out of Czechoslovakia and departing from Prague to Frankfurt. In London Sir Stafford Cripps urged British voters last night not to change horses in the midst of turbulent world events.
In New York on January 16 a 30 pound sandbag fell fifty feet and narrowly missed actress Ethel Waters as she bowed to the audience at a theater curtain call.
Sen. Tom Connally praised William Ritus Boyd Jr retired president of the American Petroleum Institute at a Teague banquet honoring the town’s Bill Boyd Day Citizens Council members hosted the event. Connally presented Boyd a plaque commemorating the celebration.
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