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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1949
Page
5
Four needs are highlighted in an advertisement stressing speed and ease for fill requests. The ad promotes fast placement and quick fulfillment of need items, emphasizing convenience for advertisers and customers seeking quick results.
Instant cooling relief for sunburns with Noxzema medicated formula. Claims 25 million treated cases and use at major seaside resorts. Promotes fast pain relief and healing.
An advertisement urges quick use of Noxzema for burning soreness and Breaseless relief. It claims no staining on clothes and promotes immediate application with a price of 1.00 plus tax at drug and cosmetic counters, listing numbers 400 and 604 as contact or reference.
Hollywood gossip notes James Mason will star with Van Heflin in MGM's East Side West Side, based on Marcia Davenport. Ava Gardner rumored to join as leading lady. Marcia Davenport’s project, Lola Leroy directing background shots in New York. Also mentions Ava Gardner, Janet Thomas, Marie Wilson, and other Hollywood figures in casual snapshot form.
A charity sale at St Anne maternity hospital for unmarried mothers raised 41012 dollars through an auction of jewels gowns antiques furs and even cocker spaniels donated by actors actresses and executives. Auctioneers Rey Goldenberg and Jack Gregson oversaw the sale.
Garry Davis, self proclaimed world citizen, crossed from France into Belgium and back into France without a passport. It was the first time he left France since renouncing U S citizenship to dramatize his plea for one world. The border crossing without documents showed no victory for his barrierless world as his journeys drew more red tape than any official with passport and visa would.
Air and surface units pursued a runaway speedboat after its owner fell overboard near Jamaica Bay. A helicopter crew led by Det. Harold W. Behrens boarded the Turaway craft to cut the outboard and steer toward safety as smaller boats faced danger in the surrounding waters.
New York June 20 17 William Johnson VI of McAlester Oklahoma won first prize in a national essay contest sponsored by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The subject was Why Democracy Works and the award totals 1000 dollars for the winning work.
Harvard, the nation’s oldest university, says it will not hunt for communists among its faculty. A spokesman for President Conant states there will be no harassment or inquiry apparatus for suspected members. Harvard agrees with Eisenhower that proven Communists should be barred from teaching, but opposes policing professors merely on suspicion.
Washington report by Duke economists Hoover and Ratchford for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers urges broad agricultural and industrial reforms across 13 states from Potomac to Rio Grande. They call for more industry, larger farms, crop diversification, and 100 percent federal bank insurance to lure funds to southern banks, stressing federal aid must aid the nation as a whole.
Evening skating offered at St Marys rink with nightly sessions 5 to 11. Special dance and skating events listed with private party bookings and school night sessions. Clear ads invite families to join Saturday skate and weekly programs at 40 door area on North St. Marys.
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