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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1952
Page
9
Five residents share views on curfews stricter enforcement more police and expanded recreation centers to curb city vandalism. They urge parental supervision school programs religious influence and educational campaigns plus better libraries and parks management to steer teens away from property damage.
Fulton Lewis analyzes the White House influence over Democratic politics in California. Oscar Ewing’s tactics target Kefauver and Russell while leveraging race to sway voters. The piece notes California delegates and key figures like Edmund G Brown, and the risk to Warren's medical plan amid a tense convention pursuit.
The Texas Department of Public Safety suspended for six months the licenses of five San Antonians after driving while intoxicated convictions in Bexar County. Names listed include Bernard Adams Armando Gonzalez Roy Hester Presiliano Martinez and Raymond Raubert with addresses in San Antonio and Medina County conviction for Adams.
Wartburg College opens a school of theology for laymen the first program of its kind. It will train lay leaders for congregational administration stewardship and evangelism with Saturday classes and four eight week terms annually.
San Antonio Independent School District reports a March census total of 68,798 school age children, up 2,200 from last year, with rough counts earlier near 70,000. Census chief Ernest Rogers notes about 750 names may be eliminated as duplicates and predicts births will rise in 1953 and 1954. The tally splits to 64,068 white and 4,730 Negro children. San Antonio’s figures will be merged with Bexar County before submission to Austin. An ancient bronze age canoe, dating 2200 to 1900 BC, was found by a Lincoln farm on deep plowing.
Washington may 20 congressional and defense leaders weigh granting General Ridgway a fifth star as supreme Allied commander in Europe. A fifth star would outrank Army Chief of Staff J Lawton Collins, altering precedence. Ridgway attends West Point anniversary events before a Senate committee session on Rose Island prison riots.
Police report the death of Edward A. McDonald, 79, of 214 Goliad Street, raised San Antonio’s year traffic fatalities to nineteen for the year. McDonald died February 15 from internal injuries after a January 5 collision at South Main and West Nuevast. The Highway Department alerted investigators after release of the death certificate.
New York dispatch reports archaeologists unearthed the earliest clay tile bathroom for King Urinmar in Babylon around 3000 B C. The square room measured one square unit and contained no tub, reflecting ancient sanitary practices.
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