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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 11, 1968

Page

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KSRN Auction Promises Color Broadcast Benefit Drive

KSRN TV holds annual fund drive with noon auction on Saturday and a color broadcast from KLRN studio at Herbis Fair. About 100 volunteers, including 20 callers, raise funds with items from bassett hound pups to autographed baseballs. Actress Julia Meade will guest auctioneer, and Mayor McAllister joined in Friday night.

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Paper Gold Credit Approved by House to IMF SDR

The House passed legislation to enable the United States to ratify creating paper gold or Special Drawing Rights for world financial transactions. The vote was 246 to 15. SDR would let IMF members borrow each other’s currencies without backing them with equal domestic reserves as a supplement to the dollar and gold amid rising global trade pressure.

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Tunisian President Bourguiba to Visit HemisFair in May

Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba will visit the United States starting with Washington and Houston before a San Antonio stop for HemisFair on Sunday May 18. He arrives at Randolph Air Force Base around 10:20 a.m. and departs for New York at 4:30 p.m. He will be hosted by Gov and Mrs Connally for lunch at Club Abrazo on the HemisFair site. He rose to power in 1956 after Tunisian independence.

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Mrs Humphrey Expected to Leave Hospital This Weekend

Mrs Muriel Humphrey wife of the vice president is expected to be released this weekend from Che Hospital after undergoing a tusurectomy last week according to her office.

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Senate OKs Arms Agency two year 18.5 million pledge

The Senate approved and sent to the White House a compromise two year authorization worth 18.5 million for the Arms Untril and Disarmament Agency. The measure moves to the executive branch for final action.

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Paris mayor hails San Antonio figure as incredible find

Paris mayor Michel Cadalques calls San Antonio figure McAllister incredible during a San Antonio HemisFair visit after touring the French pavilion and dining with local dignitaries. Cadalques, from New Orleans for 250th anniversary celebrations, praised the two cities as he tours, while HemisFair prepares reorganizations and payroll cuts to meet debts.

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Paroled Swindler Prompts HemisFair Bolshoi Preview

Swindler Paul Ames Sandblom wins parole after fraud convictions in Corpus Christi. IRS claims $5 million back taxes and $35 million in loans. He touted highway investment returns to lure hundreds of investors while HemisFair prepares a Bolshoi Ballet engagement June 18 23 with top stars and a $200 000 guarantee. University jazz ensembles and other university acts slated for the event.

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Freer Paving Drives Town Growth and Oil Show

Freer Texas moves ahead with 42.7 miles of street paving by H R Zachry Co of San Antonio at a cost near $2 million. The project, tied to water supply and the Oil O Rama festival May 16 18, boosts growth for this unincorporated Duval County town of about 4500. Local leaders expect improved streets to spur further development and water system upgrades.

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Freer growth tied to oil fields and new community projects

Residents describe Freer as a developing town 18 miles from water on the Nueces River. Local leaders, including E. G. Saenz and club heads, push rodeo events, civic groups, and school improvements, aiming for broader growth despite distance from major waterways. The town originated in 1907 after the Piedras Pintan field discovery and is named for Dr. Freer.

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Hovercrafts move over land water and air like wonders

A garbled feature describes the hovercraft as an English invention that travels on a cushion of air above a flexible skirt. It crosses land water marshes and waves, with_channel service planned between Dover and Calais at about 70 mph. It notes safety and future affordability and cites use in Alaska and Vietnam. The piece ends with a math puzzle answer of 38 and credits Industrial Dynamics Incorporated.

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