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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1941
Page
6
After slowness from cold rain, work on the Fort Sam Houston Defense housing project resumes with rapid progress. The 135 building complex will house non commissioned officers and provide 200 units including 10 one family cottages and 65 duplexes.
Sottirone performs tricks at the Majestic theater as managers report the head from a 40 year old armor suit missing. An usher first noted the helmet was gone and police were informed Friday.
Dr. Frederick William Simonds, 88, longtime geology professor and the university’s oldest faculty member, died at his home after 51 years of service. In Kerrville, Auberne Ware of Paling was named Kerr County public health nurse, set to begin April 1. Also notes: Robert Montgomery Preston Foster Gregory La Caya and Doe Valentine of Universal shot golf over the weekend for the film Unfinished Business.
Austin March 28 The Texas house endorsed a bill to curb strikes by making it unlawful to use force violence or threats to stop lawful work and to block gatherings near strike sites Penalties range from none to two years in prison An attempt to extend penalties to strike breakers failed The bill was sent to the senate as a companion measure for a state arbitration board eyed for next votes after a long committee session leading to a late decision
Col. MW. L. Crimming chairs an 11 member Alamo Heights committee seeking to buy the Argyle hotel for a community recreation center. Members include Col. W. B. Tuttle Mrs. Ma o Mattfeldt Andrew Dilworth Col. Howard Landers Ralph Durkee Rev. O. B. Sanden Mrs. Ralph Gibbs and J. Byrns.
Arrangements for the Spring Festival at the University of San Antonio were announced this week by Mrs Maury Ashley chair of the festival committee The event is set for May 10 and will draw representatives from 20 to 30 high schools and local colleges with raised seating for spectators for the first time.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lula Rubel mother of Ray Leeman executive vice president of the South Texas chamber of commerce will be held Friday in Mineral Wells. Mrs Rubel died Thursday in Fort Worth. She was a resident of Mineral Wells. Survivors are her son and a daughter Mrs Dalay Schwartz of Fort Worth.
Austin reports Liquor Administrator Bert Ford said retail liquor stores and dealers will not be affected by the April 5 school elections. The prohibition only applies to general and primary elections, Ford stated, and polling hours will not be altered.
AUSTIN March 28 Senator Franklin Spear of San Antonio announced a price fixing bill to be heard Monday at 2 30 p m before the senate committee on commerce and manufactures The measure redrafts the fair trade provisions of earlier bills aimed at the Dictograph manufacturing company of New York Damages in a related suit seek 50000 actual and 25000 exemplary from a retailer for alleged price cutting The controversy centers on anti trust and copyright questions and opposition labels the plan anti competitive while backers argue it would regulate price fixing by manufacturers and distributors
A brown and white female dog was tossed from a passing car into Brackenridge Park’s city pound Friday. Poundmaster Ribly Quintero witnessed the incident and noted the dog avoids visitors, staying at the pen’s wire opening while not begging like others.
Mrs Lewis Krams Beck Friday was invited to attend a dinner in honor of Viscount Halifax, the new British ambassador to the United States, to be given April 15 in New York. She has long been interested in Anglo American relations and active in British relief efforts since the First World War.
Mrs Mary Cordelia Beall 69 widow of J J Bestl died at the Deall Hospital in Pearsall Thursday. She had lived in Georgia. Panera services are set for Rusk Saturday. Survived by four sons Prof F A Beall of Nacogdoches J K Beall of Rusk De J E Beall of Pearsall and E F Beall of San Autante.
W. Picts, in top form after a brief break at Fuller’s ranch near Corona, where the comedian recovered following his recent court session.
Sister M Inviniata, dean of Our Gandy of the Lake college, will teach Cathy in the education department at the Catholic University of America in Washington D C. The school opens June 27 and she was a member of the faculty for that year's summer session.
March 28 Roosevelt nears end of fishing excise and receives state department reports via naval radio. He signs a proclamation effective April 15 extending export licensing to animals fish and marine materials fats and oils seeds cork explosives and related raw materials.
The South Texas chamber of commerce bulletin reports Texas industrial workers earn higher average annual incomes than the national average. It opposes a proposed state wages and hours law, arguing the measure is unnecessary and citing payroll comparisons as evidence for affiliates of the regional chamber.
Brady data shows McCulloch county produced 11,733 bales of cotton in 1946, per cotton census penumerator Tichard RK Faulkner. The figure is 4,088 bales higher than 1945 when 7,645 bales were ginned in the county.
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