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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1940
Page
11
The Kelly Field quarters for officers and non-commissioned officers remain unused. Funds paid for eight officer sets and sixteen NCO sets were spent, but utility money was not allocated. Grounds are ready, yet troops on duty must seek housing in San Antonio until water and electricity are provided.
Around the Plaza notes Kathryn and Marian Yeager returning from a West tour with plant anecdotes. Jeff Davis recounts Paul Renton and Eddie Ferguson collecting seeds in Arkansas while dodging chiggers. A comic run of roadside signs, an altercation near a grocery, and jokes about gas and beer punctuate the journey.
At a Willkie for president meeting in the Gunter hotel, speakers denounced the New Deal as untrustworthy and argued it creates class warfare and danger to national defense. Major Gen Hagood and John Wheeler led the critique while others supported the opposition with sharp overtones about government control and credit.
Optimists club meets Wednesday noon at the Gute ter hotel to hear Billy Kyle describe the Boys State camp at Austin sponsored by the American Legion. The camp aids counteracting variona cfats. Miss Ada Lail McFadder and Miss Kubice Schilling accompany. Bill and Bob of WOAT will broadcast. Horace Hobo to chair the event.
A fragmentary column notes tension over fireside chats and secrecy with hints of a Chicago meeting next Monday. It mentions Jim in discussion and a satirical image of Col. Frank Knox, reflecting a chaotic newsroom mood and boondoggling rumors.
Federal civil service opens two cook positions at Fort Sam Houston with salaries of 1020 to 4840 annually, plus a hospital attendant job at 720, and openings for engineering draughtsmen, engineers, boat construction inspector, artistic lithographers, plate map engraver, and psychophysiologist with varied pay scales. Applications due by July 22 in room 140 of the Federal building.
A theft at 420 North St Marys from a cleaning establishment involved clothing valued at 23 dollars. Reports list additional losses including clothing and a watch from 1226 Morales Street and Beatrice Mendez's home. A detective lieutenant notes a lost billfold with papers. Police documented stolen items across several addresses.
Texas University home economics students visited La Villita to study project functioning under NYA supervision. Accompanied by Miss Jennie Wilmoth, associate professor, the group observes governmental agency administration and reports on the sample community program.
Mrs. T. Oliver of 387 Buckingham Avenue reports a third prowler attempted entry within two weeks. She woke to a man at a back porch screen late Monday night and says he threatened violence before fleeing when she called the police.
Veteran aid official Miles Watson will visit Yorktown as part of a Southeast Texas veterans service effort to help obtain government benefits. The representative is also scheduled to travel to Seguin and other nearby cities Tuesday through Friday to assist veterans and patients with benefits applications.
Francis Brawley 15 remained in critical condition at Robert B. Green hospital after being struck by a Southern Pacific engine in a railroad switch yard on Austin street. Virgil Donaldson 13 died a few hours later at the hospital.
In a Tuesday incident Gilbert Hoan and Kelly Imelé dived into Lambert Park Pool and sustained four three inch gashes requiring seven stitches. Antonia Gomez only minor cuts occurred at El Paso and South Leone, while Sedda McKee of Boerne was treated for sunstroke at Robert B Green hospital.
More than twenty thousand dollars in horticultural and woodworking facilities will be presented at the Bexar County Juvenile Home for Boys on Tuesday evening. County Judge Charles W. Anderson and county commissioners will attend as Optimists Club members speak about the new greenhouse, woodworking shop, and garage funded by county and WPA money. The event honors the club which previously built a chemical garden, shop, lath house and storage barn lost to fire last year.
Paul A. Renton Jr. chairs the Optimiats' club committees cooperating with the county to build and equip the structures. Rev. Albert Shirkey HN Jones and Willem Russell serve on the committee. National seed firms pledge support for new horticultural developments while the Department of Agriculture arranges for foreign plants. Volunteers are aiding with unpaid instruction at the home. Renton, associate editor of Southern Stedsman, plans gardening lessons. Julius Face will handle some woodworking. Mechanical clubs will visit to assist and inspire. Many boys trained at the Op clinists' club buildings previously gained work as they left the home. Mrs. Fred Clay is school superintendent.
Larry Doyle, 13, of 421 Beriver Boulevard, keeps a home made box holding his entire matchbox collection. He built a large cover to prevent loss and preserve the set with space for many entries and a sandpaper striking panel.
A truck carrying a family including two children with typhoid fever headed toward Bax Antonio prompted police attention Tuesday. Dr. Harold Woods of the city health department notified authorities after the state health department reported the case. The children were hospitalized at McKinney and their migratory onion picker father, named John Boykin, planned to move on with his wife and eight children toward Sandnton.
Legislation by con Byes cuts first and second mortgage rates from 4 percent to 2.2 percent, saving local farmers about 28,600 dollars yearly. F A Carrico, secretary treasurer of the National Farm Loan Association, says the lower rate will reduce charges and free income for debt principal or essential operating expenses.
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