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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1950
Page
2
A white paper states the government intends to spend 41,043,300 dollars on a broad program. It details budgetary aims and potential allocations across departments, signaling a large fiscal initiative and policy focus for the upcoming period.
Loyal servants are light want ads. They run errands tirelessly for San Antonians, with dial F231 as the contact. This terse line frames a humorously civic advertisement in a period newspaper voice.
Maj. Gen. John K. Rive, chief of the Army Counter Intelligence Corps, visits San Antonio for an inspection of CIC units in the Fourth Army area. A four day conference of the 117th CIC detachment is held under Maj. James Hay with Col. A. A. Jones coordinating.
In Chicago a house painter named Gent Ostrin, 43, told police he profited by threatening motorists with arrests for traffic violations. Ostrin tried to arrest a police lieutenant for speeding, showed obsolete tickets, and flashed a stolen badge, prompting officers to intervene.
The bill to cut excise taxes by 1 billion dollars faces a partisan clash as Republicans call the plan a hoax and a presidential veto threat looms. The measure would raise corporate taxes to offset revenue losses and potentially take effect in early fall with reductions on coats, handbags, cosmetics, movies, telephones, and other items.
Pasadena reports an air bus service plan to Los Angeles International airport with heli copters landing on downtown rooftops. Dr William D Currier says heliports likely within a year in Pasadena and nearby towns. The service would carry 12 passengers. Also reports a 10 year old boy, Bobby Dean Stafford, drowned in an irrigation canal in Houston.
Fargo ND June 28 Early tallies from North Dakota primary show Senator Milton R Young leading for renomination. With 325 of 2299 precincts reporting Young has 3 534 votes while T H H Thoresen trails with 10 4581 and Envernor as a former lieutenant governor is also mentioned.
Franklin Thomas Slay, 23, a former college student from Hopkinsville Ky, was found guilty of the murder of his year old sweetheart and expectant mother Mary Ellen Harmon. A jury deliberated 1 hour 50 minutes before fixing the punishment at life imprisonment.
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