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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1960
Page
8
Roy R. Balfin 18 of 406 E Arsenal faced 35 years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to robbery by assault. Criminal District Judge I Onion presided. Indiana Bee report notes sentencing follows plea and position on U S railway.
Havana radio figure claims unnamed attackers caused the 1898 Maine explosion citing unspecific documents and linking the incident to the Spanish American War. He referred to U S invasion of Cuba 62 years earlier as securing independence from Spain and mentioned a historian’s account by W. W. John.
Autopsy expected Tuesday in the death of 31 year old Dwaine E. Tullas of Corpus Christi. Police said Tullos was found hanging by nylon near a closed area and had been dead several days.
Roger Gaskin propelled a 883,000 square foot office project after Sulanes Heights council approved his rezoning from residential to commercial last Monday. The plan, located at Shady View and Hillcrest, was recommended by the zoning board and approved by council after delays. The council also set April city section deadlines with March 31 filing cutoff.
The second of two partners in the Crown Drug store filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in federal court. Lew T. Sheen, enlisted in the military, listed assets of 320,612 with exempt property claimed at 1700. The drug store partners were named among area creditors amid involuntary petitions filed against Shester and Skeen and Evans.
Bexar county Republicans organize for a large series of precinct conventions. County officials set locations and list temporary chairmen for 70 precincts with more names to be added before the May 7 date. State conventions are slated in San Antonio on June 14 and McAllen on May 30 as part of a busy GOP calendar.
A 22 year old gang shooting victim Jose Angel Pichon was killed Friday. His parents Victor and Mrs Pizana released consent for corneas to be transplanted to a 9 year old girl and a 14 year old girl facing blindness. Results as to sight restoration expected in about ten weeks and medical director Dr John Simpson said both recipients have an excellent chance to see again.
Irving Bauman, 70, operator of Bauman Jewelers, was found dead at Brady Hotel after county medical examiner Dr. Robert Fausman ruled the death a suicide from a bottle of poison found beside his bed. Traces of the poison were located in a drinking glass, and a poison bottle was on the table. Bauman had lived at the hotel for some time.
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