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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1949
Page
2
The San Antonio Light promotes Thursday June 2 1949 events and features coin trick and other games puzzles. It notes a color comic weekly insert distributed with Sundays Light and references insurance themed content in The Ameri Comic Weekly.
Fourth Army's first summer camp for junior ROTC students opens Tuesday at Camp Bullis under Lt. Cok Ralph S. Eldridge. About half of the 107 cadets are from Jefferson High, with 45 students. Other schools represented include Brackenridge 15 Tech 14 Bury Bank 13 Lanier 11 Central Catholic 6 Houston 2 and Peacock Military Academy 1. Cadet staff led by Col. Joe C. Wallace Jefferson commanding Lt. Col. Armando Guerra Lanier chief of staff Lt. Col. Dudley R. Jones Jefferson 3 Maj. Frank Logan Jefferson adjutant and M Sgt Tony H. Ochoa Tech sergeant major. Training planned each morning with afternoon recreation. Second Armored Division to visit June 24 from Camp Hood for bazooka demonstration.
Three men were wounded in two shootings around midnight near 600 block of North Colorado Street and outside a tavern. Beverly Bistoe, 37, was shot in the neck. his wife Selena Biscoe, 29, faces an assault to murder charge. Jesse Morrison, 25, and Vernon Morrison, 23, were injured at the tavern locale. all were taken to Baptist Memorial hospital as officers pursued a suspect.
The San Antonio produce market opened with 41 bushels of Wheeler peaches from De Leon brought by I W B Fisher. Wheeler peaches sold for 6.50 dollars per bushel. Later, Redbird peaches from near San Saba appeared, priced at 7 dollars per bushel.
New York June 2 The possibility of armed conflict in the United States over socialism is admitted by John Gates editor of the Communist Worker in a conspiracy trial. He said the fault would lie with Wall Street interests, not the Communist party, and that violence would occur only if big corporations try to block the people's move to socialism.
Floresville shipments show about 45 carloads of onions sent to date as the season nears closing. Watermelon shipments are anticipated to begin around June 10 if weather conditions stay favorable.
Chelly Knickerbocker reports on Manhattan social and royal mixups with Lady Iris Mountbatten, Lawrence Tierney, Mary Rogers, Bard Squires, and the Visconti family in Milan. Counts, widows, and celebrities converge in Paris and London as marriages and rumors swirl amid social season scenes.
An odd claimed fat loss recipe with a mysterious bottle and quick results. The note lists steps to mix and ingest a liquid potion, promising dramatic weight loss and inches dropped in ten days, citing a San Antonio reader’s anecdote and urging easy use despite unclear measurements.
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