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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1947
Page
3
Local notice promotes light want ads offering opportunities to buy sell rent trade or hire in Cali with a brief grab for readers to act now. The fragment hints at classified opportunities and a call to action for options available today.
Bids for highway improvement near San Antonio were called by the state highway department. Projects include 7.5 miles of grading and pavement on a route from Fredericksburg Road to Culebra Avenue with detours. Also 8.5 miles of asphalt surface treatment on U.S. 90 and State 97 from Monterrey Street westward and work on bridges over rivers and creeks in Bexar and surrounding counties.
Milwaukee witnesses testified that Dr. Joh Lewis obtained inflammable fluids shortly before a January fire at his church causing 150000 dollars in damage. Alphonse Volz and Norman Lembke described kerosene purchases while Theodore Schaurhann testified Lewis cited a drenching fluid day before the blaze. Detective Hanley noted Lewis spoke of blackouts from illness and penicillin treatments.
Scholarships for 1947 will be announced Saturday in College Station. Winners of 26 Texas A and M opportunity awards are sponsored by the college association of former students, Jesse H. Jones of Houston, Wim Rogers Memorial fund, and donors including James Robert Astin Memorial fund Julia Balt Lee Memorial fund Albert B. Banta estate Shreveport John S. Redditt Lufkin San Antonio A and M Mothers Club Wofford Cain Southern Union Gas Dallas Southwest Reserve Life Insurance Longview and R. B. Hodgson Lubbock.
Governor Beauford H. Jester continued studying a bill to bar secondary strikes, a measure on his desk since the legislature adjourned. He noted potential conflicts with penalties in a prior bill and expected action within days. He also planned to rule next week on a house bill affecting liquor restrictions in dry counties.
In Washington the treasury department urged Congress to ease wartime travel barriers. Officials estimated Americans will spend over 1 billion dollars abroad annually in coming years as the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee weighs Senator Brewster’s proposal to relax foreign travel restrictions.
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