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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1965
Page
9
Local death notices list Marie Moran Tewis and Helen Louise Smith among those remembered. Details include Catholic rites, rosaries, and interment at San Ferrì Chapel, Roselawn Memorial, and Kiny Rieve Chapel. Services occur across multiple days with arrangements at Requiemigh, Roy Akers, and St. Michael's churches.
In Selma Alabama a broad civil rights push intensifies ahead of a planned March to demand integration. The movement seeks white merchant cooperation and school desegregation, with community leaders including Beatrice, Nebraska and others rallying for broader federal voting rights action amid a nationwide push. Local and regional observances mark the unfolding campaign as funerals and obituaries share the day with news of the national protest effort.
A news snippet covers the death of the Sul Ross president, mentioning a campus reaction and the broader civil rights context, including protests, arrests by Sheriff James Slais and anti boycott law enforcement around Selma. The piece links to Tuskegee Institute honoring UAW president Weller Reuther after Martin Luther King Jr.'s address.
In Togaluba Louisiana Negro civil rights leaders scheduled pickets downtown amid bitter clashes. Police guarded streets as whites attacked Negro pickets. fifteen whites and thirty two Negroes were arrested. A. Z. Young urged restraint, while Col Ben Ragusa mobilized troopers deputies and auxiliary officers to control the city.
Dr Terhune reframes alcohol views saying he is neither prohibitionist nor advocate of excess. He warns that even light drinking can lead to trouble. The Rising Side of Alcoholism is discussed in June Reader's Digest with emphasis on public attitudes and caution.
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