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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1968
Page
10
A reader discusses investment options from $500 to endowments, mutual funds, and annuities. Advice covers age impact on income, transferring stocks, choosing growth versus bond-heavy funds, mortgage strain, and prepayment rights in mortgages. A reader asks about changing brokers and cashing endowment policies for retirement income. A chess term note closes.
Pneumatic drills valued at 4699 dollars were stolen from Meader Construction Company. Report mentions B. Holston and oiline as details. Police investigating incident occurred on a Tuesday with limited readable text.
A Davenport protest outside the RKO Orpheum Theater drew attention as demonstrators carried signs and accused a company called Green Bersis of profiteering. Actors and staff, including John Wayne figures, faced tense moments as crowds gathered near the venue during a labor and business dispute.
The Defense Department announced a proposed cutback of 1500 federal jobs at Kelly Air Force Base with an expected impact on the local workforce. Spokespersons said many transfers to permanent maintenance jobs are planned and an 1100 percent increase in maintenance operators will fill vacancies, while remaining openings may be filled by transfers or attrition over the next year.
District parents and teachers protested the rehiring of Edgewood High School teacher Albert Sabater, who faced suspension for involvement in a student walkout last spring. About 109 people attended the board meeting Tuesday to oppose the trustees' reemployment decision.
Dow Jones New York stock desk reports mixed trading with Jones Lynn at 915.73 up and railroads at 268.98 down while utilities rise to 3134.91. Volume shows 1,379,000 shares traded amid overall uncertain industrials and utility moves.
In Fort Worth and Kansas City livestock markets, cattle and hog prices show varied ranges. Steers, heifers, and calves traded with steady demand, while hogs stayed generally steady and lighter calves remained active. price quotes cover multiple grades and weight classes across the two markets.
Fragmented text outlines poultry and egg market chatter with scattered references to prices and regions. Mentions Chicago produce lines and Austin Yexay eggs, with unclear figures and entities due to garbled OCR.
A fragmentary report describes a brood hatching at a wildlife center, with one chick suffocated and another surviving. Rosle the goose laid eggs and appeared to incubate them. experts will send the surviving chick Tex to a Maryland facility for examination after the incident at the Patuxent Wildlife Service.
The Alamo Area Council of Governments launches a poverty program in an eight county San Antonio area. AACOG director Bob Jarmilam notes cooperation with the Community Welfare Council and Model Cities Administration, funded by a $64,000 HUD grant to examine barriers to decent jobs and incomes.
Fox Stanley plans to acquire Forman Foto Services Inc a major photofinisher and wholesaler of photographic equipment in Yan Nuys California and other firms in Michigan and California Newton says agreement in principle reached with stockholders to acquire all Forman assets including shops in Forney Proaicts and Sa Antonio with details from Forney Proaicts and San Antonio press notes
Federal judge Julius J. Hoffman ordered desegregation of all six South Holland Elementary District schools in two steps, the first by September 1968 and the second by fall 1989. The district must fill vacancies and relocate teachers to dismantle the existing racial pattern, with the board appealing the ruling amid plans to implement desegregation.
Secretary Cohen will visit San Antonio and Austin Thursday and Friday. He will be honored at a 2 p.m. reception and dinner at the University of Texas Thursday. Friday he holds a press conference at the Libber Center 600 Silvy Lane and attends a luncheon. He will participate in events at HemisFair and UT Medical School dedication and a supper at Oak Hill Club.
Pat Boone and the Mills Brothers open a nine performance run at Men’s Fair Arena Thursday with free admission for under 12 at the opening 2:30 p.m. show. They will tape a special TV show from 10 a.m. and invite youngsters to watch at 3:41 p.m. The taping likely will be aired at 8:30 p.m. over NBC in Texas Oklahoma Louisiana and Arkansas.
In 75th District Court Judge A. A. Semaan dismissed murder charges against Hector Mena and Silbert Servantes, both San Antonio men. They had been accused of shooting Emilio Cantu, a 63 year old deputy constable, on June 1 1907, as prosecutors cited lack of sufficient evidence to sustain the indictment.
A fragmented OCR list names several individuals including Levon Peter Ann Wyre Antonia and Brute Nelle with various affiliations. The text also references Se Roba and Maria Hermon and pairs such as Lawrence with Donna Nara and Willer Henrys with Marilyn and Janes, among others.
Benjamin Meninza Orteza a 42 year old barber was found insane by a 15th District jury after being charged with killing his former wife Emma Ortega and her disabled son at 1422 Drury Lane on Oct 26 1987. Doctors testified he was psychotic with intermittent hallucinations and will be confined at Rusk State Hospital unless later deemed sane.
Washington AP reports the Defense Department identified 62 U S service members killed in action in Vietnam. The list includes three men who died of wounds and were previously named missing. Among those killed is Army Texas native Terry L. Scoggins of Wilner.
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