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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1926
Page
3
The Bexar County clothing contest, supervised by Miss Ida aid, home demonstration agent, featured two garment groups. Winners will advance to the Medina Short Course, with top entrants from each class entering the state clothing contest in College Station the first week of August.
SUSTIN July 3. Governor Jim Ferguson issued a statement declaring Dan Moody's campaign had gone to pieces. He claimed Moody approved leases set by the Prison Board on prison farms and that Moody lost money in the American Road company settlement.
Newark based Daren Radio unveils Glastor resistors, a radical departure from paper and fibre types. The chemical carbon deposit forms the resistance within a glass tube, with high temperature treatments to lock in value and permit operation under high overloads. Tests with 3 megohm units on 500 volts for 12 hours retained rated resistance.
Three federal judges sided with the Brazoria county navigation district in the Oil Sulphur fight over a planned Freeport deepwater port. Judge Hutcheson authored the opinion filed with the court clerk on Saturday afternoon, ruling against oil companies and northern landowners.
Don Felice leads the Palace theater orchestra in the art of cueing films. He selects up to 200 numbers, times scenes with a stop watch, and guides the musicians to match mood and action as films shift from romance to revolution to a horse race.
The San Antonio Rotary Club began its new year with Ed W H Kifer installed as president. Friday’s ceremony also honored retiring president Timey Edwards and presented Hugh McLellan with a watch as a donation from the club.
Six planes flown by flying cadets from the Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field departed Saturday for Dallas on cross country training missions. They will stay in Dallas over Sunday and return to Kelly Field Monday.
Meeting at Baylor College years ago. J Henry Wolf a San Antonio lawyer and Miss Clara Stearman of Pittsburg Texas will marry in Mexia Sunday. Wolf is a candidate for the legislature from Place No 1.
Students file for injunction in Fifty-third District Court to stop Texas University from converting Brackenridge Hall from a boys dormitory to offices and classrooms. Regents had planned repairs and aim to convert to classrooms citing proximity to Garrison Hall and cost. Despite the suit the regents awarded remodeling contracts at a special meeting.
Fifty Mexican laymen and prelates arriving from Chicago attend Eucharistic Congress sessions in San Antonio and spend Sunday there before departing to Eagle Pass by the Southern Pacific Lines.
Corvallis Oregon July 3 Eight per cent of the Oregon Agricultural College students borrow money from the students loan committee according to a current report by that organization.
Major General William D. Connor commander of the Second Division and Fort Sam Houston plans a six week leave starting July 11 to Glenwood Springs Colorado. He will be followed by Mrs Connor and will move into quarters No 207 Cavalry Post Fort Sam Houston. Brigadier General Paul B Malone will command the division and post during his absence. Lieutenant Leon Desser will also take leave and spend his vacation in Washington.
Political advertisement declaring Harry M. Wurzbach's candidacy for re election to Congress in the fourteenth district, subject to Republican primaries on July 24 1926 and the general election on November 2 1926.
City council will review a plan by the Public Service Company to light a river section from Travis Street to Commerce Street about half a mile. Ivory bank lights will run west from St Marys Street bridge, envisioned by R B Sivley. approval could extend light to the business district.
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