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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1968
Page
6
Remy Ické Gary departs on vacation and will resume his column upon return to duties. The note hints at a brief hiatus with plans to continue the column afterward.
Dr Casanova, Venezuela’s first woman cabinet member, will address Friday ceremonies at Hemisfair. She highlights youth development and says technical education in Venezuela has grown since the 1940s with 14 major schools and a polytechnic institute. Tejera Paris notes her agency controls a near one billion dollar development fund, a large dam project, and heavy industry.
Col. Robert H. Moser, longtime Brooke General Hospital physician, named chief of Brooke General Hospital Medicine and examiner physician for the first manned Apollo flight. Moser, active in the space program since 1959, served as medical officer for suborbital and orbital Mercury missions and contributed to Gemini medical evaluations. He advised Dr. Charles A. Berry at Houston during later Gemini flights.
San Antonio reported a record homicide rate with 83 deaths this year amid a Friday shooting at a tavern near 3001 Commercial. Police said 47 people have been killed to date. several arrests were filed, including Audrey Smith, 38, of 1003 Clovis. The story centers on the spate of violence and ongoing investigation.
The Texas Department of Public Safety in San Antonio invites applications for patrolmen to start training in July at the Austin academy. Trainees earn $500 monthly during training, rising to $1,054 after assignment. Applicants must be 24 to 35 years old, have a high school education, and be at least 9 feet 8 inches tall.
A visitor will travel to Minneapolis and visit Shriner's Children's Hospital Bellaire Yacht Club Diamond Jim's and attend the Aqua Spectacular water show. Return is scheduled for July 28.
Congressman Poage urges a 20 mile Central Texas Scenic Parkway from south of Fort Worth to north of San Antonio linking Glen Rose Meridian State Park Mother Neff Fort Hood Belton Reservoir Salado and Longhorn Cavern to the Highland Lakes Fredericksburg Johnson City. He says action is needed now to share federal aid funds and compares it to Virginia’s Skyling Drive Parkway drawing millions annually.
Edgewood Independent School District moved to renew the contract of Albert Sabater, previously suspended May 16 after a student walkout at Edgewood High School. Sabater and teacher Jane Hilgen faced investigations. Hilgen has not applied for reappointment. Trustees voted by secret ballot during a Monday night meeting, reflecting ongoing board tensions with Supt. Bennie Steinhauser.
In Montreal Canada UPI reports Gaetan Waris the nation’s only flying heart transplant patient is improving doctors plan to reduce monitoring as Friday update notes he is stable and progressing though still under care at the facility.
flan' BD Holmes a Corpius native was named assistant administrator of Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital. Holmes, a graduate of Abliene Hanl College, resides at 201 Montclair with his wife and three children. Previously he was a caseworker for the Department of Public Welfare in Lubbock.
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