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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1948
Page
7
Austin May 6 Eight University of Texas co eds were chosen as 1948 Bluebonnet belles from 133 nominees submitted by campus groups. The winners include Beily Bohning Lometa Mary Patricia Calhoun Goliad Viola Garcia Realen Lee Locke Gainesville Eina Manire Austin Catherine Carol Moore San Antonio Pat Peersen Tyler Ann Tynan San Antonio.
New Braunfels A and M club elects six officers for the coming year. R. R. Coreth heads the club with Robert Uhr as vice president and E. Eikel as secretary, outlining leadership for the next term.
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, national MacArthur for President chairman, sent a cable urging Douglas MacArthur to return to America. He praised MacArthur as a world leader and warned of crises at home and abroad, urging prompt comeback to inspire unity and defend civilization. Wainwright spoke that MacArthur’s military planning could guide government, and outlined how he would test administration with disciplined, coordinated thinking before traveling to Connecticut, Oklahoma, and the southwest.
J B R Clopton of Renner Texas speaking before the American Oil Chemists Society outlined a new method to extract oil from okra seeds and a new okra variety enabling an emergent Louisiana industry. He noted the oil is edible and comparable to cottonseed and soybean oils, yielding 16 percent oil with 25 to 26 percent protein in the meal.
Roger D. Lapham former San Francisco mayor was named director of the $5.338 billion aid program headed by the Economic Cooperation Administration. He will lead a special mission to China, cut short a European vacation and return to Washington May 24 aiming to arrive in Shanghai around June 1.
Reliable sources say exiled former Costa Rican President Rafael Calderon Guardia will settle in Mexico City. He was defeated in the February presidential election by Otilio Mate and fled the country after the Picado administration was overthrown.
H Frank Hoyt of Amarillo was elected president of the Texas Tax Assessor-Collectors Association and Houston selected as the 1949 convention city at the closing session. Jose Figueres Calderon Guardia served as president from 1940 to 1944 during revolutions.
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