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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1955
Page
5
The White House announced that President Eisenhower will take his son Major John Eisenhower as a personal aide to Geneva. The move places the president’s son in a trusted staff role during the Geneva efforts and diplomacy surrounding the administration’s agenda.
President Eisenhower nominated H. Chapman Rose of Cleveland to succeed Marion Folsom as undersecretary of the treasury. Rose currently serves as an assistant secretary and is described as a Cleveland lawyer.
S J Rieger, a San Antonio automobile executive, buys Poe Motors at 900 Broadway from E A Poe. On July 1 the firm will become Rieger Motors Inc with no staff changes. Rieger plans top service and notes a 20 year auto industry background and local community roles.
City council argues outsiders receive a lower sewerage connection fee than residents who pay no connection fee but bear sewer taxes. New charge rises to 18 for the first four connections and 3 for additional ones, following complaints after a prior increase from 6 to 12. Councilman Winton cites a regional survey showing an average of 18 versus a high 24.
Scattered storms moved across Texas with evening heat forecast to fuel more thunderheads tonight and Friday. Thunderstorms were reported in Amarillo Dalhart and Childress before dawn. A rainfall total of about 21 inches was recorded at Clauene near Lubboek on Wednesday night.
The civic advertising commission faces an overspend of its budget after a misunderstanding. Claude Aniol told the council a $30 000 industrial survey had been set aside in 1953 but later unavailable, increasing the commission’s obligations and prompting a request for $32 447 from surplus funds. The council will consider the expenditure at next week’s meeting.
Dr Chauncey D Leake acting executive director of the University of Texas medical branch has been named assistant dean of the medical college of Ohio State University He will also be professor of pharmacology The appointment becomes effective Sept 1
Indian Prime Minister Nehru, returning from a five week tour of the Soviet Union and Europe with a visit to the United States, described both nations as hospitable and frank. Associates noted he found Russians similar to Americans in temperament during a cabinet reception in New Delhi.
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