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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1942
Page
8
Jerry Gadier reports that Texas railroad commissioner Sadler, with a $7000 salary, resigns to join the United States armed forces as a private. The piece notes the sacrifice, debates wartime political positioning, and questions the impact on public service and elections.
William D. McNeel, a local attorney who left his DeKalb law office to enlist as a private, has completed a training course at Camp Taberts and this week enters a training school at Fort Benning Georgia. He is the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Kim McNeel of Babeack Road.
A man who was shot three times at a North Zarem tavern died Sunday after being admitted to Robert B. Green hospital. Witnesses named a suspect who allegedly brought a .44 caliber pistol to the 1200 block tavern in a woman’s purse and fired on Joel Dixon, 47, of 351 Roberts Street.
Mrs. Violet Haynes of the Daughters of Texas Trott Drives association reports theft of bronze tablets from a historic road marker on Cincinnati Avenue and Bandera Road. She fears increased bronze thefts and will seek help from law enforcement to prevent further losses.
A quirky Austin slice tells how Pancho the 500 pound burro traveled to a new home as an advertising aid. Joe Curry bought Pancho amid wartime donkey shortages and recalls finding other donkeys in San Antonio and Austin. He even retried a burro named Jenny before selling her, while Pancho rode in a car on Broadway.
A fragmented prewar style column by Arthur Rug Bare references New York CIA ex Deck token bombing and a bizarre definition of token. The writer offers an odd moral analogy comparing bombers in Cologne to a Kansas proverb about a tornado and hiding in a hole. The piece reads as a garbled opinion piece with obscure references and humor.
Harmony orcnestalion conduct ing and applied music are among the music courses offered to teachers by the University of San Antonio. De Ollo Wieck, head of the department, said Monday. Voice classes will be held for six more students in addition to work done under private instruction.
Normanly quarter master motor school calls for instructors to teach engine and chassis mechanics blacksmithing welding and related automotive trades. No prior teaching experience required but high school graduates or equivalent education, expert foreman caliber in the trades, must pass practical and theoretical tests. Salary 2600 for the duration. transfers not allowed. Applications via Lieut. Col. Wiliant G. T. Behrens assistant commandant.
Manuel Morales 73 of Ada street badly hurt with a fractured shoulder head lacerations and body bruises after a collision in the 1100 block of Both Hackberry. Four others injured when a car struck a pole on South Bruses street. Three more hurt when their car hit a pole on old Sulphur Springs road. Manuel Cordova received minor cuts when his car overturned on Pleasantan road.
Maury Maverick Jr of San Antonio is among nine Texans starting a 10 week officer candidate course at the U S Marine barracks in Washington D C They will be commissioned into the Marine Corps at course end Also listed are William B Baugher Forsyth Worth Welton Bunger Jr College Station Charles G Crossfield Lonmen Claudens Nowe Denton Orrin W Wie Harlingen Ben W Lala Kilgore and James L Pierce Dallas
The San Antonio Minor Photo Contest invites amateurs to enter. Prizes total $12,500 with local money and a chance to advance to a patronal contest. Submissions must be originals, under 10 inches largest dimension, include sender and subject names on back, no negatives, and are not returnable.
A woman reported a thief took eighty dollars in cash and a handkerchief while she slept, hiding in her bosom. Three suspects were released after police recovered twenty five dollars worth of linens from A Lockhart on Roosewell Street. Also reported: thefts of eighty two dollars and forty seven dollars from various individuals and two stolen cars nearby.
Terrell authorities report seven Dallasites killed last night in a truck crash on the eastern outskirts of Forney. Victims include Larue Solomon, 60, and Mrs Athol Lb Frew, 5, both of Dallas, among others. Police are investigating the incident and coordinating with local responders.
Mr Hennett Harsourt is named new president of the San Antonio recreation council after a Monday meeting at the Denver Heights playground. Assisting officers include Mira A B Cross, Mrs M M Dowda, Mrs Alex McCowan as vice president, Mrs W A Rees as secretary, Mrs A P Lewis as treasurer, Mrs Clarke L Johnson as corresponding secretary, Mrs James Mill Klarian, and Mrs McCowan as telephone chairman.
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