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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1938
Page
7
Sussex County rules require boys under 15 to work in cinemas or theaters or in rag shops and lather shops, restricting other employment options amid labor demand shifts.
The San Antonio Parent-Teacher associations will continue its visual education program with a visit to two film plants. They meet at Paramount Picture Distributing Company at 501 Soledad Street at 10 a.m. and will proceed to Fox Company at 215 Alamo Plaza.
The census bureau reports May cotton consumption totaling 425,684 lint bales and 60,464 linters, with April values and May last year. On May 31, stocks: in consuming establishments 1,585,651 lint bales and 253,337 linters. in public storage 10,053,430 lint bales and 80,221 linters. May exports 193,002 lint bales and 13,791 linters. May spindles active 21,341,750.
An Episcopal minister Rev William Grimes refused to officiate at the 18 year old heiress Andrea Lugkenbach and butter and egg salesman William Dobbs wedding. Grimes said he would not marry two people of varying social and financial standing. Commodore Edgar Luckenbach, Andrea’s father, frowns on the match and denies disapproval by his superiors. The plans were to hold the ceremony at 5 o'clock today in New York area.
A motion for selecting John N. Garner as Democratic nominee for president in 1940 gained momentum in Texas. The unofficial women’s division of the state Democratic executive Committee adopted a resolution praising Garner and urging he be named the party’s standard bearer two years hence. Kennedy called Garner “the one hope of Southern Democrats” in a speech before the group with Frances Haskell Edmondson presiding.
Bexar residents report comic chaos as hog calling and husband calling contests run simultaneously during a local celebration. Noted collectors and personalities like Barney Sampson and Gerry Fraser appear in casual references amid alphabetic misprints and telephone listing quirks. Park Commissioner Jacob Rubiolo is listed differently in directories. A historical note recalls San Antonio missing a Rip Van Winkle performance due to travel limits.
Gannaway of the Corpus Christi Taxpayers League says state government costs have surged 870 percent in 20 years. He notes talks with Joe Sheldon of the San Antonio Property Owners Defense League and argues Texas spends as much as Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas combined. Population and property values rose far less.
County commissioners seek to avoid tax rate increases when the budget is drawn August 1 and hope for further reductions. Commissioner Donnell asks for cautious language amid druggists’ meeting plans. Current rate is 66 cents per $100, among the lowest among Texas counties. Tax Investigator Roy Griffin plans a month long Laguna Madre fishing vacation with family, using an old Public Service bus as a Gulf vacation lodge.
A federal suit filed by Sutherland Paper Co. seeks $586.66 from McFarling Dairy Supply Co. in Alamo Heights. A Senate audit committee ordered by the Seventy third District to see if federal or state funds influenced elections. The panel also rejected a WPA political use inquiry and recommended cutting Sheppard committee funds.
About 225 people from across the state arrived Tuesday to begin a week of examinations for accredited beautician and cosmetologist licenses. Classes are held at the Plaza hotel by three state board of cosmetology members led by Mrs. A. Houston, Henderson, Mrs. B. L. Neal of Wichita Falls, and Mrs. Fay Stuart of Gan Antonio.
State Game Warden A E Hitefelder announced two men pleaded guilty to using fish traps. Each was fined 15 dollars plus costs by Justice Otto Marckwardt of Precinct 3. Defendants R J Long and W A Weltson had five traps found on Salado creek near W W White road last Friday.
In northeastern New Mexico farmers battle a grasshopper invasion spanning almost 3 million acres across five counties. Funds are nearly exhausted as about 800000 pounds of poison mix are spread daily by 365 plus spreaders and 185 trucks. Governor Tingley appeals to the federal government after state attorneys cite funding restrictions.
The board of education will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday to discuss a resolution making it mandatory for all school employees to pay their school taxes promptly. Superintendent Cochran announced the plan and the board may also approve athletic supplies purchases to capitalize on a federal tax exemption ending June 30. The meeting includes retirement plan adoption per state guidelines and forming a committee to evaluate teachers, with one elementary principal added to the committee.
Hafael Moreno aged 36 of 1130 South Leona Street posted a bond under 500 dollars after arraignment on a charge of possession of alcohol tax evasion. Agents from the alcohol tax unit found a gallon and a half of liquor in back yard bottles. Moreno appeared before U S Commissioner Paul A Lockhart on Monday.
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