Popeye Statue Story From Crystal City Newsletter Era
Hart Stil recounts how Crystal City built a Popeye statue funded by local and national supporters including Jeff Davis and Schnabel. The tale covers a 1958 honorary mayor resolution, publicizing spinach promotion, and a remembrance of Fritz Hof, a Brownsville manager with ties to wartime Germany and local industry.
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Hart Stil
Eye Spanich Statute City
Spinach Capital World
QO. P. Schwab
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co
Jeff Davis
Schnabel
Crystal City
Popeye
Segar
Crystal City Town
Wales
Retired Chaplain Nominated for Military Church Post
Col. John W. Sparks, former 4th Army chaplain at Fort Sam Houston, is nominated by the Cumberland Presbytery to be moderator of the church's general assembly. If elected in June at the assembly in Memphis, he would become the church's titular head after a long career including service at Kelly Air Force Base.
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John W. Sparks
Army
Tony
Ft. Sam Houston
Robinson Minick
Sparks
George L.j
Waters
John W. Henmander
San Antonio
Nomi- Derson
Harry M. Slack
South Texas
Thomas H. O'Neil
Air Force Sebytery
Cumberland
Hyterian Church
Richard C. Marshh
Military Air Assembly
Kelly Air Force
Mem
Phil
Tenn
Polish Millennium Celebration and Local Honors
Some 400 San Antonians of Polish descent gathered at the Polish American Center on Mission Road to mark Poland’s millennium as a Christian nation. President Johnson’s proclamation was read along with a history of Poland. a new center addition was dedicated. Eight airmen at the 19th Military Airlift Squadron received decorations for Viet Nam service, including Air Medals and Commendation Medals. A Ft. Sam Houston committee was formed to document the installation’s history with several named officials and colleagues. The piece also notes promotions at Brook Army Medical Center and a Brownsville oil trading scheme controversy involving misrouted Mexican oil to the United States.
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Poland
Mission Road
Johnson
Irwin Juraschek
Catholic Lay Action
San Antonio
Mieszko
Monsy
Albert Maneth
John Yanta
Eugene Przychodzen
Charles Grace
Frank Harris
Gonzalo Canales
LaVerne E. Kappaut
Frank J.blackmon
Robert R. Henderson
Viet Nam
Blackmon
Kappauf
Arthur E. Hinton Jr
Billie H. Kinsey
Jessie G. Patrick
Travelogue to Be Held in San Antonio by Lodges
San Antonio Lodge No 211 B nai Brith in conjunction with Agudas Achim Brotherhood will host a travelogue at 3 p m on May 18. The program titled A Tour of South America with the Sterlings highlights an 11 week journey by Mr and Mrs Leonard Sterling through 14 countries in South and Central America.
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San Antonio
B'nai Brith
Agudas Achim Brotherhood
South America
Sterlings
Leonard Sterling
South
Central America
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Texas
Brownsville
Hof
Makel
Fritz Hofage
James Ally Meyer
Roegelain
Franks Ais Company
Idant Ned
Fritz
Bill Watts
Military News
S.A
William A. Harris
Mau ‘Reen Turner
W. Q. Fritzi
A. J. Tanner
Harald E. Duffy
D. W. Prince
George K. Palmer
George C. Lambkin
John E. Runnion Haseen
4Th Army
Detroit Artillery
Si L
Arthur E. DeWalt
Randolph Air Force Base
Tampico
Matamoros
Mexico
U.S
Hilda Garza
Gayle Bailey
Somerset High School
James T. Farr
Chu Lai
South Viet
Randolph Aiting
Bailey
Watts
Hawaii
Farr
Loretta L
Garza
Barrettl
Brookel ‘Medical Center
Laurence A. Beltman
David C. Green
W. A. Jennings
Gordon W. Petersen
Milo R. Safar
Walter L. Shepard
Luis F. Garcia
Robert C. Power
Louis B. Levy
John W. McGinnis
Joseph W. McNaney
Austin C. Schlenker
Walter M. Mattox
Michael S. Peck
David E. Wiggins
Ewan
Sodus
Luby
Luby’s
Luby's
Austin
Corpus Christi
Paso & Harlingen
McAllen
Tyler
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Romana
Houston
McOreless Plaza
Broadway
N. Main
Bandera
North Star Mall
Mon
Sun
Los Visitantes Mexicanos
moneda Mexicana_al tipo oficial ‘de cambio
Horario de
Servicia de
Freeman
Houston St
North McCullough
Pincus Company
Hill & Hill
the Hill and Hill Distillery CO
Louisville, KY
Kentucky
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