28 Jun 1950
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1950
Page
1
The college will suspend classes July 3 and 4 for an extended Independence Day holiday per President John L. McMahon. Friday’s classes end, returning Wednesday morning. The schools of social service and library defense also suspend sessions.
Seven men were injured, three seriously, when a scaffolding collapsed and dumped them about 40 feet to the ground at the Carbide and Carton Chemicals Corp. plant in WIITING Indiana. The accident occurred today and responders rushed the injured workers to area hospitals for treatment. Further details on the cause were not immediately available.
The Associated Press reports a rare wind event racing through Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma with gusts up to 90 mph in Russell Kansas uprooting trees and damaging buildings and knocking out communications a line squall described by federal meteorologists as severe while other areas saw calmer conditions and a hot humid south and cool coastal California winds across the region with no injuries reported.
City officials reach tentative $7 300 000 budget figure after weeks of talks. City Auditor T N Tucker notes salaries still under discussion and exact totals to be finalized by the hearing date. Agreement aims to align department totals with expected income.
A weather map predicts rain in a narrow barid stretching from western and northern New York southwest through the Ohio Valley into Missouri Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Scattered storms are seen in Florida and eastern mountains. Temperatures remain reasonable across the Gulf and western states.
Fragmentary weather notes report humidity, precipitation, and tides for a Wednesday with references to Abilene and Galveston. The text also mentions a scaffold accident near Leon Valley School, where a man fell and suffered heat exhaustion, attended by sheriffs N. R. McRae and Ban Anuclo and Pat McClanahan.
A painter was injured when a scaffold failed, causing a fall at the work site. Rescue crews responded, and the incident left the worker with non life threatening injuries. Authorities are investigating the equipment failure and safety practices at the location.
Gen MacArthur warned Truman that Communists planned to invade Formosa with Russian planes and tanks, prompting U S forces to guard the area. Invasion dates targeted late July or August, with a two‑division spearhead and amphibious landings from Amoy Swatow. كذلك, Lin Figo amassed troops and ships for the assault as Mao met in Moscow. A polio victim from Plainview, Mary Louise Thames, 12, died in a Lubbock hospital.
Hail stones described as large as table tennis balls pelt Vermont in a storm yesterday. Reports note damage and record sizes, with locals recalling the biggest stones in recent memory as old timers warn of the severity.
Funeral services for James J. Hayes aged 85 of 3205 McCillough were held Tuesday at St Miss. Hayes survived by Nan Hayes, Christina th and six grandchildren.
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