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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1949
Page
4
A confecuence-stricken citizen of Mlinois sent the government 2730 to pay for unsolicited taxes. The donor remained unidentified in an unsigned letter claiming the money would cover taxes for a group of gentlemen.
Winston Churchill, age 71, prepares to deliver a major address on The Twentieth Century Its Promise and Its Realization before about 13,600 in Boston Garden. The speech will be broadcast nationwide by NBC ABC Mutual and TV, with top Western world thinkers in attendance and radio coverage across the country.
New York March 41 Eastern European delegates ordered out of the United States yet a “World peace” rally tour plans to continue cross country. Sponsors say the tour will not be abandoned despite a state department ban on 18 visitors from Russia and nearby nations. The National Council of Arts Sciences and Professions defends the action as limiting free exchange with eastern European cultural leaders.
Services were held Wednesday for T Alva Charles Dauchy Jr 38 killed in action in Belgium September 3 1944 A native San Antonian he received the Silver Star posthumously Surviving are his mother Ophelia Dauchy of San Antonio a sister Mrs Ray E Pressley of Houston and a brother C Cl Dauchy of San Antonio
In a humorous column Bob Hope jokes about driving education in LA high schools taught by Dr. Alexander Stoddard, noting youths own cars and mockingly imagining dangers. He satirically imagines mishaps from young drivers and a station promising wind shield washing and fender dusting, while a car becomes a crib with a push of a button.
Chicago reports the National Safety Council finds total traffic deaths in January and February 1949 reached 4500, up 4 percent from the same period in 1948. February’s toll was 2060, up 3 percent per day from a year earlier, reflecting higher road fatalities nationwide.
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