San Antonio Mayors and Officials Urge Yes for Amendments
Mayor White and city commissioners spoke at the courthouse and city hall urging support for Jack White’s 13 amendments to end machine politics and push council-manager reform. DAs, tax and park officials urged voting yes on select propositions while predicting mixed outcomes and high turnout.
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William Hensley
Jack White
G. Ray Davis
Jack
counmit-Thansger
Henry’. Hein
Omorrosy
Raymond South
Police and Fire
San Anntonio
James Knight
San Antonin
CCO
Carroll
SPLIT
Hensley
Tourge
San Antonio
Doles
Stalin
Fourth nonresident polio death reported in L A
The city health department reported a fourth nonresident polio death in San Antonio this year. Armando Garza, 3, Hebbrowville, died at Robert B. Green hospital after being moved here from a Laredo hospital.
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San Antonio
City Health Department
Armando Garza
Hebbrow+ville
Robert B. Green Hospital
Laredo
Wife Slayer Gets Five Years in Pleasants County
Bedford Moore, 55, of Pleasantcard, was sentenced Monday to five years after pleading guilty to murder in the shooting death of his wife Meryl, 49. The judge called the sentence for unexplained murder and noted Moore's prior attempted suicide after the crime at the Pleasan toa rd home.
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Bedford Moore
Pleasantcard
Meryl
Moore
W Wi .McCrory
Pleasan Toa Rd
Food Building Bag Suit Filed In San Antonio
The Facs Co sues B C Belneroo in Seventy third District Court claiming breach of contract for 500000 special paper bags by July 1 1948. Only 117600 bags were delivered causing losses from spoilage while Julius Alsberg conducts a housing and foundation study in San Antonio and assists the Housing Authority with 2000 new public housing units planned.
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Seventy-third “District Court
Facs Co
B. C. Belneroo
Paris
Texas
Washington
Julius Alsberg
San Antonio
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Alsberg
Housing Authority
Just Two Little Beers Carried Man To 38 Years High Speed Crash
In Apex North Carolina May 8 Willis Woodrow Wilson Willis 38 convicted on nine speeding counts after driving at 90 mph, striking nine cars and a police vehicle. He pleaded not guilty claiming a blackout after two beers. Apex Recorder's Court Judge Harvey Jones found him guilty on all counts.
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N.C
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Woodrow Wilson
Willis
Raleigh
Tamonth
Apex Recorder's Court
Harvey Jones
Suit Filed for Cakeless Wedding in Minneapolis
A $900 damage suit was filed in Minneapolis after a wedding without a cake. The Rev and Mrs Wilbur Korlhage sue Morsel Baking Co for failing to deliver a 2 pound cake for their daughter Coramary's August 1988 wedding to Clair Kuss. The cake was five hours late.
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Minneapolis
Wilbur Korlhage
Morsel Baking Co
Coramary
Clair Kuss
Chicago man faces $75,000 mail fraud charge
Leon Birner, 45, a former New York fruit juice broker, pleaded innocent and was released on $3,500 bail after postal inspectors arrested him at Associated Food Products Co in Chicago. He is accused of buying dairy products without paying and selling them in eastern markets.
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Chicago
Chicago Food Products
Leon Birner
New York
Ity
Associated Food Products Co
Aerialist Fractures Legs In Circus Accident
A 24 year old trapeze performer Maria Teresa Derojas fractured both legs after a rope broke during her Butterfly Act. She plunged 15 feet while hanging by her teeth with a circus at Pittsburg Kansas last night. The incident prompted quick medical attention as officials investigate the equipment failure.
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Pittsburgh
Kan
Maria Teresa Derojas
Opinion on Deputies Sought Commisaders Court Monday
The court asked Assistant District Attorney Ally James Mundine for an opinion on the status of regular deputy sheriffs appointed for specific municipalities. The action followed Sheriff Owen Klay’s request to approve Emmet R. Fey and Tom Finley as Balcones Heights deputies. A recent attorney general ruling voided special deputy appointments except night watchmen, and the court seeks to determine if these new appointments fall under that ruling.
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Commisaders Court
James, Mundine
Owen Klay
Emmet R. Fey
Tom Finley
Balcones Heights
Spaniard Made Saint During Papal Canonization
In Vatican City on May 8 Pope Pious raised Anthony Maria Claret a former Spanish textile worker who became archbishop of Cuba to sainthood. About 55 009 faithful attended including 15 coronals and 94 bishops in the second canonization of the holy year.
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Vatican City
Pope Pious
Anthony Maria Claret
Cuba
Weather map shows broad system bringing rain and storms
A general area of cloudiness and precipitation extends from the Atlantic westward through the Tennessee Valley, north to Minnesota and into Montana. Showers and thunderstorms are expected, with snow in the western Dakotas and Rocky Mountain region, and cooler conditions in the northeast.
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Tennessee
Minnesota
Montana
Mississippi Valley
Dakotas
Rocky Mountain
Weather notes for May and weekly humidity trend
Humidity readings and May averages indicate a mean of 66 percent. Past 24 hours show no precipitation, month total trace, and a monthly intensity of 80 inch. Yearly totals and prior calendar references are unclear, with partial times and headings mentioning phases and moonrise.
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Highway group delegation to discuss Yoakum Corpus Christi roads
W B Coleman chairman of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Trade Area Highway Relations committee plans a delegation trip to Yoakum to meet District Engineer M J Cornelius. The group will also visit Corpus Christi district engineer Tom C Davis to discuss needed roads for the Yoakum Corpus Christi areas.
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Nusy Wees
W. B Coléman
San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Trade Area
Yoakum
Dist
M. J. Cornelius
Corpus Christi
Tom C. Davis
U S Writer Miss Agnes Smedley Dies in England
Agnes Smedley, 56, American writer known for China reports, died Saturday in an Oxford nursing home. A U S army report accused her of being a Soviet spy last year, but the charge was withdrawn. The British press carried the death notice.
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Oxford
England
Agnes Smedley
China
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