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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1948
Page
7
Attendants and eligible patients at the San Antonio State hospital prepared for weekend furloughs with an early Fourth of July celebration. The hospital band and 40 voice glee club provided entertainment on the administration building lawn as they enjoyed a cafeteria-style picnic lunch.
Bexar county politicos push final campaign surge with new county ticket headquarters in Vil litast near Plaza hotel. Campaign leaders, including Guillermo Hensley and Red Berry, stage rallies and map alliances while enmeshed in city padre loyalties and labor worker endorsements amid a running feud over support for Walter Tynan and other candidates.
The article notes nurse salaries in 1943 and 1948, staffing shortages in the city health department, and health program milestones. It reports Sam Bennett campaigning on Fredericksburg Road with Alcalde attention, Pete Briola predicting Maine Republicans, Red Berry moving to the Gunter hotel, Jack Hide hosting a Highland Park meeting with M C Gorizales, and Owen Kilday referenced. Austin Hill predicts year-end completion of a long-range 18 point health program with six months progress, including staffing and county cooperation. five remaining points focus on dental, school health and midwife control. Post office workers oppose new pay raises citing reduced overtime, and the Veterans Administration denies a regional public relations hire. The Alcalde drafts a tax collection resolution over tendered payments.
City garbage department workers will celebrate or not at all on Sunday according to Superintendent George Sarran. Garbage collection will be as usual Monday, he explained.
A Saturday morning collision on the Austin highway near Salado r bridge involved a Trailways bus and a private car. Tony Hernandez 47 and Ariin Diaz 86, passengers in the car, were taken to Baptist Memorial hospital. Hernandez released. Diaz remained for evaluation. Driver Frank Diaz 48 said he skidded into the bus path to avoid a slowing car. Bus driver Lonnie Prince of Dallas remained on scene. Deputies Tong Wiatt Andy Ankrom and N R McKae investigated.
Ed Schaefer testified that six suspects fled in a truck after robbing a Bonner Street orchard. He said four children and two adults ate about 100 peaches during a two mile chase they described to Judge E. H. Talbert. Theft complaints were to be filed. juveniles to be remanded to authorities.
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