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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1952
Page
3
A humorous political cartoon from the book Political Zoo by Clare Barnes features familiar figures in stylized animal caricatures. The image accompanies a description noting its timely satire and syndication by King Features Syndicate.
A female subcommittee said it has investigated several months into air force training programs amid reports that less than ten percent of B 29 accidents involve mainte nance errors. Eight B 29s based at Randolph AFB have crashed since August 1950. Some Randolph reservists on strike cited poor maintenance. The group reviews Keesler AFB Sheppard AFB and Scott AFB methods and costs and references a Stanford report advocating civilian training for technicians.
Texas buyers and sellers report higher kid hair prices after a sale of 2X to 30,000 pounds at 140 per pound. Comfort Wool and Mohair Co of Comfort sold 90,000 pounds for Denman Clouds of San Angelo and Earnest G Woodward of San Angelo, with prices quoted around 60 to 61 cents for certain 6 to 12 month clips. West Texas auctions and other firms moved large lots, while an unnamed eastern buyer purchased a carload of 12 month clips from Ozona.
Lt J C Fumagalli of the Post has been stationed at the army and air force recruiting and induction main station here. He served in Germany from July until December of last year and has also been on duty at Camp Polk Louisiana. He is married and has one child.
About 20 Mexican army officers who had leave to enter politics or seek government nominations asked the army to place them back on active duty today. They had been unable to win in last Sunday's election and now request renewed service.
Leon Valley residents who voted to incorporate will hold their only election Friday at North Side High School from 7 AM to 7 PM. A mayor, city marshal and two aldermen will be elected. Leon Valley lies in the proposed annexation area of San Antonio. For carpenter services, call the numbers listed in the Business & Service Directory.
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