Spanish air crash kills 16 near Albacete
A Spanish transport plane crashed into a mountain peak 30 miles south of Albacete in heavy fog. Sixteen people aboard were killed.
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1950
Page
5
A Spanish transport plane crashed into a mountain peak 30 miles south of Albacete in heavy fog. Sixteen people aboard were killed.
Three military men were missing after crews battled a blaze that swept Camp Carson and 50 square miles of brush and timberland south of Colorado Springs. Two soldiers were killed and 10 others critically burned with 19 hospitalized.
Odessa report states 42 year old Arm o Spears was convicted of murder in the Midland shooting of Robert Wallace. Judge Paul Moss imposed an 18 year term. Wallace died from wounds suffered the night of October 2, 1947, in Midland.
The first 48 units of the Billy Mitchell military housing project between Lackland and Kelly AFB will be leased to air force officers starting Monday. Occupants come from Lackland Kelly and Brooks ABs. Civilian personnel will be eligible after servicemen applications are filled. Leases run yearly and enlisted housing for the three bases should be ready around March 1. Forty four units remain under construction.
The city council on Thursday denied proposals to place ads on bus benches and parking meters. An American Legion group had proposed advertising benches, while meter ads touted potential yearly revenue of about 20 000 dollars. Officials cited maintenance and trash receptacle issues as reasons to refuse the schemes.
Services for W W Collier, 88, retired San Antonio banker and former Texas ranger, will be held Friday in Mercedes. Collier died Wednesday at Masonic Hospital in Arlington. He helped form the State Bank and Trust Co and later its merger with City Central bank. A famous frontier figure known as Captain Bill, he captured outlaw King Fisher singlehandedly. Born in Uvalde, he founded the Uvalde National Bank and lived in Mercedes for 12 years, where son Shelly H Collier presides over the National Bank. Surviving are three other sons and a daughter, including G P Collier, W W Collier, Brig Gen J H Collier, and Mrs Carl Carter. a burial is planned in Ebony Grove cemetery.
A fragmented recipe-promoting text touts a fruit juice plan to shed fat fast. It promises quick inches off the body, linking weight loss to a purported product and a mysterious liquid “Harecalrate.” The piece reads like a dubious home remedy with vague directions and urgent tone.
Prince Hubertus Loewenstein on January 19 urged Allied troops to leave Germany and to negotiate with the West German government for military and air bases. He leads the group German action which argues Germany's constitutional surrender was military only and did not end political sovereignty.
Ed Conroy executive vice president of the city planning board will discuss council management government at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Guadalupe Community Center 423 S Pintos. The event is sponsored by the Family Relations club of the Center. Adventure fans can see the American Rangers storm the heights of Quebec in the French and Indian War. Dick's Adventures in Puck weekly is a feature in Sunday’s Light.
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