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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1938
Page
16
A rambling feature lists names tied to a Sterling City Texas venue run by Fred Allen and mentions Wally Blanton and Petc Westmtre. It notes executives, actors, and advertisers from Fort Worth to Houston, with a parade of small town profiles and a push to market radio program transcripts from KTLA.
Mayor and officials weigh the $2,770,000 PWA grant for a municipal steam electric plant. PWA Administrator Ickes announced approval alongside other municipal power projects, while critics doubt the city can raise its 46 percent share. Officials cite potential rate cuts and savings but acknowledge uncertainty about proceeding with the privately owned facilities plan and city’s total cost. Other Texas projects include Corsicana, Cuero, Texarkana, Weslaco, Wharton, and Wichita Falls with loans and grants ranging up to $963,000 and $485,000 respectively.
Cochran resigns as superintendent of San Antonio schools after 31 years. The board plans to seek a well qualified educator for the state superintendent post with inquiries to Columbia University and the University of Chicago. Portwood eyed as successor by some factions, 30 days notice required, no firm replacement before school year opens.
A long time stove from Huth Seed Co. at 428 West Market Street in San Antonio remains a local relic. It served near the old county courthouse on Shleder Street since 1692, once moved with the courthouse. Purchased by the late George Hath, it is a 2000 pound heavy cast iron piece with a crank still near the firebox. Recently altered by an aid garburator into an oil harper, it can still burn coal and keeps heat when season calls.
Officials and Mayor C K X Quill discussed reestablishing taxicab street stands in San Antonio. Attendees included J M Travell of Yellow Cab, Randall Taylor attorney for four firms, and King Keron city taxicab inspector. Firms offered to pay parking meter rates to operate in the witness district pending city approval.
San Antonio planners present a finalized zoning ordinance to the property commissioners Monday after a long review. Nat Goldsmith, zoning chairman, says the board will hold its seventy first and final meeting Friday night to iron out remaining kinks and ready the ordinance for council submission. The ordinance is expected to be introduced at the July 21 council meeting and will require two readings for passage.
Packing of supplies and duty shifts were rushed today as Use Weyulls expedition prepared for the second half of its plunge down the Colorado River from Lee's Ferry. The group may drop to seven members, with two new men recruited to replace Don Farts and Eugene Atkinson, while two women join as botanist Nada Clover and assistant Lolis Jotter.
A report by William Pur Jone director of the Inter-American Highway desecration notes 2692 motor vehicles entered Mexico from the United States between May 29 and July 10. The Pan American Highway traffic rose between San Amrico and Mexico City with 445 cars crossing the border on peak days July 2 and 4. A weekly traffic report is compiled by B. A. Quiros of the Mexican Automobile Association in Laredo.
A curious three month old cat named Rudh shows a strong preference for raw corn on the cob over fish or meat. The tabby, raised by Mrs IF in Laring ttrees, insists on corn as part of daily rations, making the tale a lighthearted, corn loving pet anecdote from the neighborhood.
A theft on Tuesday afternoon on East Houston Street near the New Seguin highway saw a man watch driver Lal Waller Woengr drain five cases of Gren Cola beverages from a Gren Cola Bottling truck. Police pursued the suspect as details remained sketchy.
Experimental prose fragment reflects on aviation history and figures like Charles Lindbergh and early flight triumphs. The piece muses on adrenaline and danger, comparing headlines to a sweeping Atlantic challenge and personal recollections of 1927 departures.
San Antonio firemen battled 22 grass and building fires since Tuesday amid a dry spell. A woman, Maria Serra, age 45, was burned in a house fire on West Craig Street and treated at Green Hospital. Rain is expected to reduce hazards, but authorities warn of ongoing danger until relief arrives.
Brig. Gen. Barton Yount will succeed General Chancy at the Mie Air Corps Training Center Randolph Field after Chancy’s planned departure from San Antonio Monday. Yount, granted a leave of absence effective July 25, has served at Fort Shatter Hawaii and will assume command upon arrival in New York.
Police seek a marijuana addict linked to a stabbing that left Raul Baldonado, 18, injured in the 200 block of Producer Street Baldonado said the attacker appeared intoxicated and spoke little before striking with a knife. Authorities note the suspect may have been under the influence of drugs.
The San Antona Civic Opera board of directors will meet Thursday at 10 39 in the morning in the west wing of the Municipal auditorium. Secretary Alive Mayfield Bracks has announced the plan.
A San Antonio hail storm produced stones as large as base balls, stored in a hall to stay preserved. Dr. G A Mueller keeps the stones in a refrigerator on Burnet Street near St. Charles Street. The exhibit, arranged at 801 North New Bralinfels, aims to showcase the unusual meteorological event.
Want ads from April 6 note a A frame house near Ban Pedra at 44 West Huisacke for 4250, a furnished one room apartment at 12, a 4.50 weekly rental, a store building on Laredo and Arsenal streets for rent, a 1938 Packard 120 four door sedan with low miles at a reduced price, a 1964 Chevrolet 114400 truck with stake body for 64, corrugated iron 28 gauge 6 to 10 foot lengths 4.15, Gladstone tags 3.05, a General Electric refrigerator 85, pay 2 per month.
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