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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1948
Page
5
The Eagle annual for Pleasanton High School has been received and is being distributed to pupils and faculty. The release marks the annual publication for the school town.
Members of the San Antonio Truckers union formed a committee led by Martin Villapaderna to press the city on Washington Square plans. Rudy Garza Gilbert Varpas Eugene Garvia and Tony Garcia joined a truckers committee to urge a decision on sheds or relocating the market and to gain more time if needed.
MARSHALL May 12 Fascination for airplanes led a 15 year old farm youth to crash two planes while attempting to fly them yesterday. Airport manager W S Sanders and Deputy Sheriff Hwan Huffman provided details as residents helped move planes to the hangar. The youth disappeared then later was found dead in a plane off the field after a brief flight.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, about 110 strong, arrived by special train for its first San Antonio concert at the municipal auditorium Wednesday evening. Under Eugene Ormandy the program opens with Weber’s Der Freischutz overture and Brahms Fourth Symphony. William Kincaid is soloist in the flute suite. The Rosenkavalier suite closes. Tickets available at the box office.
The San Antonio Independent School District hosts a 8 p m session in Gunter Hotel Parlor A about merging three outlying districts. Speakers include Thomas H. Portwood and district superintendents Thryan R Henninger W B Connell and J K Williams.
Mother of 15 year old Edward Corpier who died trying to fly from Marshall Marshall airport leaves Slate Tuberculosis sanatorium Carlsbad for Woodlawn. Another son Corporal John W Corpier a Goodfellow field airman had left for Woodlawn to take his father to a Shreveport hospital and his morning was granted a 10 day emergency for Jough. Corpier announced in March he applied to the state department to give up U S citizenship to become a British subject. He wished to return to his former wife in England and work for her father an English wool manufacturer and hotel owner. He is married again to a girl from Bossier City La and would take her with him.
Police report Bessie Drumheller 58 of Laaz Gray at Baptist Memorial Hospital with a 38 caliber revolver bullet wound to her left shoulder. Her condition was stated as fairly serious on Wednesday as officers investigate the incident.
May 12 report from Los Angeles notes a whimsical forecast of intermittent showers of straw hats over downtown. A downtown businessmen group plans 100 miniature heatpieces parachuted from a helicopter at noon to boost straw hat day publicity. Twenty five hats will bear gilt certificates good for ten dollar straw hats to lucky catchers.
In Hidalgo county near McAllen, about 140 farm labor camp fees are put up for sale to the highest bidder by the U.S. Agriculture Department. A Greek communique reports 69 guerrillas killed in an economic pursuit northwest of Grevena.
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