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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1942
Page
8
Visitors to the Wille museum collect canceled stamps by depositing them in a glass jar. The stamps support a children's hospital in England. stamps are mailed to New York and shipped to England to be dyed for dyes. Proceeds fund the hospital for poor children. Local sponsor Mrs Evy DePew urged monthly collections. stamp collectors are asked to keep stamps dry and unsoaked.
Field soldiers and musicians at Duncan Field appeal for a spare piano to outfit a recreation room. Interested donors in San Antonio should contact Lieut G E Calloway, post recreation officer, or the public relations office at Duncan Field by January first.
Robert Kissinger son of Guy B Kissinger of San Antonio recently graduated as a bombardier from the army flying school in Albuquerque New Mexico and is commissioned a second lieutenant He is a former student at Texas A and M College and has been stationed at Lavefield Dallas and Ellington Meld Hatchton
One Fort Sam Houston soldier died and two were injured when a car collided with a truck seven miles south of Brady on Sunday. The deceased was Fr. William Vernon Traylor. other injured included James E. Parker and another casualty listed with bruises and lacerations. The crash details come from the Associated Press.
Arthur Bugs Baer lampoons postwar policy using satirical jabs at junk, trash, and civic waste. He mocks the old neighborly tactic of tossing fin cans and extols a satirical war aim built on junk and excess in a municipal dump setting. The piece plays on absurd patriotism and consumer excess.
Frank Escamilla of the Alamo bakery faced short weight charges after failing to appear in corporation court. Judge T D Cobb issued a warrant and reset the case for Tuesday as City Weights and Measures Inspector Tommy Boyle warned other bakery owners of possible prosecutions. Conviction would carry a fine between 25 and 109 dollars.
GC W Nichols of Dallas, regional OPA price director, will lead a clinic Monday at the Gunter hotel about how price fixing will work. Retailers from 13 towns will attend as Nichols urges keeping March sales records and submitting maximum price postings for wholesalers, manufacturers, and services.
City council votes to accept a federal grant of 44 000 to expand the sewage disposal plant facilities. To match the 34 000, the city plans to issue 91 000 in revenue bonds to mature in 10 years. Bonds will be retired from sewer rentals, diverting 3 000 to 10 200 from the general fund annually. Mayor and commissioners will meet with bond attorneys to finalize details.
Boles of San Antonio named foreman of the federal grand jury for the regular session of United States District Court. Judge W A Keeling presiding. Other jurors include Arthur Barbeck W B P Fileh Finest B Rubsamen Jack Kitz C W Norris Walter J ard FP EB Lahgur eade and Chreslon A King among others from San Antonio and nearby towns.
The Rev. Raymond Taylor of the University of San Antonio will open a four session discussion on What About Marriage in Wartime at 4 pm Thursday. His talk From Friendship to Marriage will begin the program sponsored by the Sark Sana Sorority and a group of business girls aged 18 to 23. His wife, evacuated from the Philippines, stays with her parents in Fayetteville while her husband serves overseas.
Judge W. W. McCrory paneling a grand jury condemns San Antonio police methods used to extract confessions. He likens them to tactics by foreign regimes and warns officers against extorting statements by violence. Jury members include Lytle Gosling and others named with addresses in the city.
A fragmented account describes sparrows occupying Martin apartments at La Villita as Magruder plans to deter them. The piece hints at preparations to block the birds, with references to local figures and ongoing neighborhood tensions.
Special First Aid Course planned to qualify local physical education directors as first aid instructors begins Monday at ? p.m. in Ballvar hall La Villila. About 40 physical education directors from Besk county schools are enrolled. Rodney Yarne leads first aid water safety and accident prevention for Hexar county.
A Red Cross chapter will conduct a 15 hour course and after completion the physical education directors will teach one course in fitness education. The item notes SEADDS but lacks additional context or specifics about location dates or participants.
May 4 Austin report says the University of Texas is considering offering an elementary accounting drafting course for women. The move aims to expand training opportunities and broaden career options for female students in technical fields.
The Texas home guard pressed for 12 Tommy guns while county commissioners refused a loan, citing no money in road and bridge funds and spiking a general fund transfer. The group also failed to secure a government permit for a right of way over Kelly Field for a new military highway.
WPA operated school kitchens can feed about 500000 Texans during emergencies once cooking units consolidate. Current WPA cooking walls provide meals for about 20000 Texas children in 2320 schools, with over 5000 workers employed and 2760 acres of gardens in cultivation.
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