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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1936
Page
12
A compact classified notice from Centennial Classified Tabloid urges readers to obtain a free copy of The Light's advertisement section. It promotes loan consulting and investment in Light Clas-s Cail, inviting businesses and food stores to use adwriter services via a dial number for classified placements.
Crowded San Jose Mission plaza marked by settlers and civic leaders as County Judge Frost warns that upkeep requires concessions or lease to church or Conservation Society. Tribute to Harvey P. Smith and Albert Trawalter honors, with politicians mingling amid pioneer tableaux and dances.
Secretary Ickes celebrated the three year milestone of the Public Works Administration and outlined broad activities of the agency. He said PWA will not fail to give the country its best in the future and asserted the spent 2,209,000,000 funded useful projects providing the equivalent of 200,000 man years of work, with three quarters in plants supplying materials and equipment for PWA projects.
An automobile driver who gave his name as Frank X Shields was taken to Sunrise Court for arraignment on misdemeanor intoxication charges after his car collided with another. Police said Shields provided the same address as Francis X Shields, a tennis player and impetor, who recently reported a robbery at his home.
William P. Greason, 71, rose from apprentice at Joliet rolling mills to general superintendent at the Gary Indiana plant of the Twinoss Steel corporation. He died Sunday in Chicago after a stroke.
Chesterton Keith Gilbert Chesterton, known as the Prince of Paradoxes, died yesterday at 62 after a week’s illness at his home near London. An art critic, essayist, poet, detective writer, and newspaper contributor, his career spanned criticism and varied literary forms.
City officials will meet Texas Centennial commission and local advisory group at 10 a m Tuesday to decide on a location for the $220000 memorial stadium. The city will offer union park site, municipally owned Exposition park, and ten other offered sites only if no cost to the city. The Centennial group will then decide on a recommendation after the offer is made. Claude V Bizkteld chairs the local Centennial committee, noting a decision may not be reached at the Tuesday session.
Austin June 15 Modernized Texas state police plan a coordinated genetic blockade system with New Mexico Oklahoma Louisiana and Arkansas to trap criminals across state lines. The Texas Department of Public Safety would include the highway patrol and enlist hundreds of local officers in the effort.
The Treasury lists receipts 47,067,164.04 while expenditures total 70,301,227.81, leaving a net balance of 2,516,996,249.88. Customs receipts reach 14,135,880.08 in the year, with gross debt at 51,111,160,482.23 and assets at 10,485,970,213.10 as of the report date.
June 15 report says Martin Locke, fishing with a companion near Atlanta, reached for a pistol after hearing the word shake. He shot himself in the thigh while attempting to draw, the snake alerting excitement as the snake escaped.
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