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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1952
Page
2
Bombing by hundreds of Allied warplanes targets Sunchon, a key North Korean rail junction. A Superforts formation drops 90 tons on a rail bridge at Hulchon as fighting continues near Yonchon with UN troops briefly withdrawing and then reoccupying a western front outpost.
In Munsan Korea on May 6 negotiators held a brief session with no progress shown. They agreed to reconvene tomorrow to continue talks on the truce.
May 6 Salt Lake City report states Utah floodwaters forced additional evacuations. A 17 year old, Robert Spaun of Ogden, died after a rubber raft capsized in the Ogden river. Provo canyon residents fled as Provo river rose over highways, with 40 plus homeless in Weber canyon and about 1500 displaced in Salt Lake City. Jordan river gates were closed as rivers rose.
Texas Land Commissioner Bascom Giles announced four thousand loans completed under the land purchase program. He said profits from 3 percent 40 year loans arise from 1.7 percent interest on land bonds. Eligible veterans may borrow up to 7500 with 350 down and must use funds to farm or ranch.
Temperatures spiked to 102 in Presidio and reached 84 as a low max at Palacios amid a dry, clouded sky. El Paso recorded 73 before dawn with 70 at Laredo, 59 at Marfa and Amarillo. no rain expected as high scattered clouds pass over Big Spring and Amarillo.
Col. David Wade of the 92nd Bombardment Wing Fairchild AFB will speak to the B 29 combat crew training graduation class at Randolph AFB. Wade began service in 1935 and has led units including the 9th Bombardment Group and the 98th Bombardment Wing. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross the Soldier Medal the Legion of Merit the Air Medal and the Commendation Ribbon. He graduated from Armed Forces Staff College in 1948.
Four San Antonians were elected officers of four medical societies meeting with the Texas Medical Assn convention in Dallas. Dr Merton Minter was named president of the Texas Alumni Assn. S E Moreless was elected chairman of the board of the Texas Heart Assn. Dr James R Blair Jr became vice president of the Texas Neuropsychiatric Assn. Henry Noskins was named vice president of the Texas chapter American College of Chest Physicians.
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