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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1952
Page
5
The new American Weekly magazine promises an inside story on how America drove the designer of the MIG 15 jet into the Reds and warns of Soviet jet superiority. It also features Herbert... Jicover reviewing the past and forecasting America's future, with color gravure and broad family appeal.
Hong Kong May 22. Chinese Communist troops fired across the border into Portuguese Macao according to an AP telephon e call via Macao. Portuguese African troops reportedly returned the fire as tensions rose over the border incident.
ENNIS May 22 A boy and a girl the family's only children drowned in a stock tank near their home yesterday. Dead were Jo Any Heyy 9 and Ernest Hejov jr 4.
Local residents discuss Civil Defense handbooks mailed to San Antonio households. A sample of respondents praise the kit’s usefulness for emergencies and education, while some admit they have not yet read it. Citizens note the city’s coastal location and military targets heighten its need for preparedness.
Bud Donaldson a Trinity university senior and Methodist preacher from Lavernia placed second in the western zone Hearst Oratory contest at Los Angeles. He competed with rivals from Seattle Los Angeles and San Francisco for a chance at a $1000 national prize.
A federal jury in San Antonio begins deliberations in a landmark narcotics trial. Four Brooklyn residents Noral Williams and sisters Laura and Gertrude Young with Rebecca Young Smalls faced charges of smuggling 140 pounds of refined marijuana from Mexico on Oct 5 1951. U S customs agents testified they seized the marijuana at the Missouri Pacific station after a narcotics agent spotted the four in the Young sisters drawing room.
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