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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1947
Page
1
The Airline Taxi company seeks 40 more cab permits prompting protests from Yellow Cab. Inspector Frank C. Nope notes public convenience not requiring new permits. City had issued 200 permits to others and claims supply has not been exhausted. A hearing is set for 10 a.m. Saturday.
Kelly Field prepares a 28 000 square foot hangar for the March of Dimes carnival and dance. Rick Stuart and his 17 piece band will perform while amusements include a Gay Nineties cabaret wild west tavern junk trainer rides turtle races and bingo. Special Transit buses will shuttle visitors to the event.
Economist Raymond Moley, associate editor of Newsweek, warned that labor and management must have equal protection before the law during a private lunch in the St. Anthony hotel. He cautioned against overly restrictive legislation and said proposed bills may be illegal, singling out Senator W. Lee O’Daniel’s portal pay tax plan as impractical.
A suit to rescind the American citizenship of Vicente Medellin, 512 East Commerce Street, was filed Friday by U. S. Attorney J. M. Burnett. The petition says Medellin was granted his certificate in November 1943 and alleges he gave the name of his wife as ready and did not behave as a person of good moral character.
Justice of the Peace E H Talbert returned a death by own action verdict in the hanging death of Francisco Sosa 65 of 2719 South Laredo Street found hanging from a tree near his home. Sosa was believed to have been suffering from ill health.
Several thousand persons will be denied the right to vote this year as the county tax assessor-collector has run out of affidavit blanks. Chagrin grows among those who relied on mailed affidavits. the office has lacked blanks for a week and offered no explanation. Poll taxes issued total 58,995 to date, up from 58,549 last year. Friday midnight is the deadline for paying poll tax.
Blinded by oncoming lights, C. A. Rogers, 33, of 222 Arlington Court and passenger Bryan Hope, 330 East White Avenue, escaped serious injury when their sedan left the highway and rolled three times 16 miles out on Bandera road.
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