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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1949
Page
2
A Canadian senator dies after a sudden medical event. The report notes the official rapid response and a sea of condolences from colleagues and the public. No further details on location or identity are provided in the readable text.
University of Texas researchers will study municipal charter elections in 29 Texas cities to explain why past charter votes succeeded or failed. Research Associate W Terrell Blodgett will lead the tour, also examining city employe salary scales. Cities on the list include Athens Bonham Denton Carthage Corsicana Denison Gladewater Gainesville Grand Prairie Henderson Highland Park HIll esboro Killeen Longview Marshall Mexia McKinney Mt Pleasant Palestine Paris River Oaks Sherman Sulphur Springs Temple Texarkana Tyler University Park Waco and Waxahachie.
Dr W Frank Blair of the University of Texas zoology department reports a Mexican possum captured in the Rio Grande valley has been added to the university collection. The animal is described as the first of its kind to join the museum.
Alfred H. Kerth of Clayton has begun duties as permanent chairman of the St. Louis county board of freeholders. The former Clayton mayor was elected to head the group charged with drafting county home rule government by May 1950.
In Chicago on May 15 a woman known as Mrs Wannile Phillips 27 asked Superior Court for an annulment from Herbert Phillips claiming the marriage began as a spite union in 1944. She testified the husband had no intention to live with her and that the marriage was never consummated. Judge Rudolph F. Desart took the matter under advisement.
Chicago officials announce a railway dynamometer car to measure force exerted by two men on a coupling. The hydraulic system will be showcased at the Chicago Railroad Fair exposition opening on June 2.0.
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