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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1940
Page
9
A lively roundup of San Antonio social snippets mentions The Hello on South Flores Street, Harold Reorder, Edgewood’s small but elegant house, and Grande Court owner Laon Piper. It also notes Jack Reybould of Fiesta de San Jacinto, Cosmopolitan’s trucking article, and local poets Tyner and Friesenhahn with humorous anecdotes. The column includes sightings of entertainers, musicians, and a vintage prohibition era cap from West Commerce Street.
Police officials announced a new tabulating machine to record all crimes and officer work on Saturdays. The system will log entries from the chief, Ray Ashworth, to the lowest-ranking member, ensuring precise tracking of police activity and crime trends.
A police department records machine uses punched cards to encode time of crime and amounts for major and minor offenses. Miss Loraine E. Cor, records clerk, operates the device to quickly identify hospitals robbed and crime details. Installed this week by Capt. A A. Lewis, head of the records division, the unit mirrors a similar Justice Department machine in Washington.
Virginia Dicken Flack will review the religious drama The Rock by Mary F P Hamblin at 6 p m Friday in the educational building of the First Baptist church. The program on the third floor features two violin solos by Katherine Edwards with Mrs G M Niggil and a vocal solo by Jesu Marr Turift with Mrs Troy Campbell. Proceeds fund stage equipment and after-will offerings will be taken. Public invitation extended.
Park Commissioner Henry Hein will address the San Antonio Junior Chamber of Commerce as part of the groups baseball night program at 6 15 p m Tuesday. The event will be held at the original Mexican restaurant. Representatives of the St Louis Browns Toledo Mudhens and Tulsa Owls are invited. George Tucker, secretary of the chamber, will preside.
Three Luther Burbank Vocational High students Barbara Walter Car tine Akers and Allen Dozier planned to attend the Texas Association of Student Councils meeting in Tyler Saturday with sponsor Miss Louise Wealt Jey. Burbank student council officers include Verne Hay Rogers president Allen Dozier vice president Corrine Akers secretary and Pauline Raper parliamentarian.
Congressman Lyndon Johnson of Austin and Mayor Tom Miller visited Alazan courts on Saturday as a preliminary to opening a housing project in the capital city. Johnson said he would return to Washington, D. C., Saturday night.
The column mocks lawmakers delaying a political contribution bill and tying it to political maneuvering. It notes riders and riders on bills, cites a wartime declaration rushed through as a rider, and criticizes Democrats for generosity while implying amusement tax provisions for Republicans.
J M Heminger publisher of the Findlay Republican Courier and former Findlay Rotary club president was a guest at a Friday Rotary luncheon. He began as a reporter, became publisher in 2000, and will celebrate his fiftieth anniversary with the paper on June 15. He will depart for Dallas after returning from Sanase, Cali.
Contests in voice piano and theory were held Saturday for San Antonio district music festival students at Our Lady of the Lake College. An average of 90 or better qualifies for the state festival in Lubbock next month. Sister M. Atabilis chairs the district festival.
A round-topped trunk, salvaged at the last port this week, carries belongings of Mr. and Mrs. WM Berryman. It was found floating and is the sole article saved from the Berryman family.
The life of a baker at Tucker 6110 South Flores Street includes making loaf shapes like alligators turtles and rattlesnakes to amuse customers and his daughter. The lifelike reptiles feature moveable eyes and erect heads, created to entertain and occasionally surprise diners.
An application by the Sam Antonio Transfer company to operate taxicabs in the city was filed with the city attorney on Saturday. The firm seeks to operate 36 to 50 cabs and has no prior public vehicle operation. Reported assets include $4000 cash and $40,000 in equipment. Petitions signed by W. W. Owen Jr, James P. McIntosh, and W. A. Bedell Jr.
City council granted Park Commissioner Henry F Hein a leave of absence from May 4 to attend a convention of the National Pharmaceutical association at Richmond. Hein was delegated by the Texas association to attend the convention which will revise the pharmacopoeia or code of druggists.
Missionary from the National Spiritualist church and a blindfold medium will lecture on The Phenomena of Spiritualism at the Crockett hotel 745 p.m. Sunday to benefit the church, according to Rev. Aganita Thompson pastor.
A dispute flared on Tipton Street as a resident claimed neighborhood pigeons were starving his chickens by feeding on scraps outside their coop. Officers mediated with all parties anxious for a peaceful resolution amid mounting neighborly tensions.
Bartolo Sanches, 49, died after four bullets struck him in a Tampico tavern at Tampico and Trinity streets during opening day festivities. He was taken to Robert B. Green hospital after an emergency operation, but died early Saturday. Police booked Herman Maldonado, 32, for assault to murder.
Certificate of attendance at Fine College in New York City was received by Fire and Police Commissioner Louis Lipstomd for San Antonio Fire Department Captain N. A. Odom. The record shows Odom attended December 9 to March 11 and was described as attentive, observant and eager for learning.
Police detained two suspects Saturday after A. J. Cryar reported being robbed at a filling station on 2119 South Flores Street. The incident involved cash taken from the station’s drawers and is under police investigation.
The report notes a man named Jonnie Gutierrez at 108 Milam Street arrested at Porter and Clark streets for drunkenness. Police found several pigeons in his possession and struggled with how to dispose of them, unable to explain where he obtained the birds.
The Rev. Prancis E. Barnes of Harriman Place Christian Church will lead the second annual pastor's class for prospective members. Classes run daily from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday with Miss Jo Nan Latteringer as student blaatist.
A confirmation service will be held at St Pauls Lutheran Church on Sunday morning with a class including Fred Entzenberger Willem Greinke Herbert Rast George Ehlers Sterling Lee Ray Rewer and Earl Schumann to join the shores membership. Rev Alfred O Rast will lead and Holy Week services are announced with communion Thursday evening and Good Friday services at 10510 A M and 8 P M.
Garbage Superintendent L A Le Laurin toppled a 12 000 ton smokestack at the old incinerator behind Fort Sam Houston. He planned the demolition to reuse 40 feet of steel to reinforce two brick stacks. The stack had not been used for 15 years and the fall caused minor damage.
The Nazarene revival at the First Church of the Nazarene located on Colorado and Princeton streets will continue through March 24. Services are led by Rev. O A Bingleton with special singing at 745 p.m. each evening.
The Holy Spirit with the Soul will be the subject of a lecture by the Rev. J Heylman at the Crockett hotel at 3 p m Sunday. The event invites attendees to explore spiritual themes in a church setting.
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