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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1969
Page
4
Miss Daisy Lee Kelly, Southwestern Bell school consultant, leads two programs Telezonia for elementary and Tele-training for junior and senior high schools in 17 area schools in San Antonio. The Teletrainer device gives students hands on dialing and calling experiences while integrating with language arts social studies and science.
The ad proclaims Oso Negro Gin as number one in Mexico. It emphasizes 100 percent grain spirits and urges readers south of the border to buy and try the gin.
Police Chief George Bichsel will address eight San Antonio veterans groups at 3 p.m. Sunday during a general Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 76 meeting at 10 Tenth Street. The theme is Law and Order. About 400 veterans are expected.
Rev Ralph Abernathy posted a $500 bond and left jail amid speculation he sought release ahead of Nixon visit. A court hearing was continued to Saturday morning as civil rights leaders pledged a mass march in support of hospital workers striking over union representation pay and discrimination. Governor McNair widened Charleston curfew hours and law enforcement increased courtroom presence. More than 400 Negro workers at two city hospitals had been off work for over a month in the dispute aided by SCLC and Mrs. King
The Republican governors conference in Lexington, Kentucky dodged a vote on anti ballistic missile policy. They limited resolutions to parochial issues and pressed for advance notification and consultation with Washington before major policy meetings. Governor Reagan of California led calls for firmness on campus science amid broader state concerns like welfare, pollution, and urban unrest.
The Economic Development Administration of the Department of Commerce awards 41 957 dollars to the Coastal Bend district spanning 20 Texas counties. U S Representative Abraham Kazen Jr. notes the program pools county resources to address cross county economic issues. The district totals 56 387 dollars with 14 430 added to reach that sum. Counties include Atascosa Bee DeWitt Duval Goliad Gonzales Jim Wells Karnes Live Oak McMullen Wilson Aransas Brooks Calhoun Kenedy Kleberg Nueces Refugio San Patricio and Victoria. The district is headquartered in Corpus Christi.
Washington report notes Postmaster General Winton M Blount plans to raise charges on special delivery registered mail CODs and return receipts by about 20 million dollars annually. Letters and air parcel post special delivery would rise 15 cents to 45 cents with other charges up 10 5 and 5 cents respectively. The changes take effect around July 1 marking the first increase since 1957.
Grant B. Cooper defense counsel said Sirhan B. Sirhan would present half a day of arguments for a new trial. The May 21 hearing will also include the sentence pronouncement for the 25-year-old Arab immigrant, with the jury’s death verdict and Judge Walker's option to reduce to life.
The Army JAG reduced to two years the sentences of Lawrence W. Reidel of Bedford Oregon and Louis Osczepinski of Florida New York. Both had been granted clemency from longer terms after their court martial convictions related to disorders at the Army prison stockade in San Francisco last Oct 14.
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