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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1949
Page
2
Lake Success May 5 Israel asks the United Nations to consider its application for UN membership in a pivotal debate. DeWitt County Red Cross fund drive reaches $4000 with Dr. W. W. Towers reporting progress as drive chairman.
The fragment mentions JG and Stella? af Orinze in context of Calvert Reserve Blended Whiskey. It references Walekey 66.2 proof 08% grade neutral spirits and Calvert Divers Corp based in New York City. Details are incomplete but indicate a whiskey product summary.
Southern cat operators met for a day to draft a reply to John L Lewis offer to begin separate contract talks at Bhuffield West Virginia on June 6. Guest speaker Lockhart Miss Fean White local high school educational director for girls was guest speaker at the Kiwanis club.
About 500 chiropractors attended the twenty fourth annual Texas Chiropractic College Alumni gathering at the Gunter hotel Thursday. Speakers discussed state licensing and basic sciences laws, noting licensing will protect the public and raise professional standards.
Secretary of State Acheson told a Senate appropriations subcommittee there is no pro Russian group in the State Department and no plan to recognize the Communist regime in China. He defended U S foreign policy as free of Soviet sympathy and rejected the charge as false. Senator McCarran pressed for proof, insisting many are convinced otherwise.
May 5 Beaumont UP A jury convicts Henry Robert Giles Jr. of murder in the fatal shooting of Elbert Langston near Nome on March 23. The defendant, son of a Corpus Christi physician and hotel owner, faced possible death but received life imprisonment. Giles was described as a cold blooded murderer by the court.
Services for Pfc. Floyd Forehand, returned war dead, planned at 4 p.m. Saturday at Porter Loring chapel with burial in Roselawn cemetery. Forehand, a San Antonio native, was killed in action in the South Pacific June 24, 1945 at age 39. Survivors include his father Jeff Forehand, brother AD W Forehand, and sisters Mesdames Paul Réchner J R Eakins cs Strub and We Tankstey, all of San Antonio.
A United States Air Force C-47 transport crashed near Ogden Utah today killing two aboard. The aircraft belonged to the 1730th Air Transport Group at McClellan Field. Public relations officer Capt. Hubert L. Stewart said the two killed were aboard but he did not have their names.
In the new pay system to take effect in July, representatives from 15 air bases attend sessions at Randolph AFB where MSgt. Jack Seeburg from Lowry AFB finance school teaches airmen and civilian workers. The system uses 1 Tan to process 500 pay cards per hour and payrolls for 1300 airmen in six minutes, enabling prompt payment regardless of station.
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