San Antonio businessman alleges police brutality case
San Antonio businessman and former Leon Valley mayor pro tem John Singleton accuses two city police officers of beating him after a traffic stop. He says officers entered the Fryer home without a warrant, detained him, and he was jailed without phone access or medical care until a hospital visit. City Manager Jerry Henckel ordered an internal inquiry by Acting Police Chief John Fitch with sworn statements from all parties.
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San Antonio
Leon Valley
John Singleton
Singleton Building Materials Co
Hwy
West
Singleton
the Light
Port Aransas
Fryer
Robert B. Green Hospital
Green
Mgr
Jerry Henckel
American Civil Liberties Union
John Fitch
Henckel
Quintana Road
Annual Banquet Honors Realtor of the Year and Salesman
The San Antonio Board of Realtors named R. W. Patton Realtor of the Year and Sue Weems Salesman of the Year at a banquet and dance for Realtor Week held at Oak Hills Country Club. Patton, a long-time real estate leader, has held multiple offices and chaired committees across the industry while active in local civic service. Weems of the Pharr Company joined as junior partner and earned the Salesman of the Year honor after completing TAR courses for the GRI designation. About 250 Realtors and spouses attended.
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San Antonio
Obituaries for Irene Elizabeth Roberts infant George Regino and Frances Brown
Services for Irene Elizabeth Roberts 70 of 515 Royal Court are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Roy Akers Chapel with burial at Sunset Memorial Park. Survivors include daughters in San Antonio and Houston, a brother in Waco, two sisters, five grandchildren, and more. Infant George P. Regino Jr. of Route 13 will be buried at San Fernando Cemetery No. 2 after a 1:30 p.m. service at Max Martinez Funeral Home. Survivors include grandparents Francisco Garcia and others. Frances Hurd Brown 86 of San Antonio will be buried in Wichita Falls after a 2 p.m. service in Alamo Chapels. she leaves a daughter and a son, two grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
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Irene Elizabeth Roberts
Royal Court
Roy Akers
Roberts
Sunset Memorial Park
C. D. Wilson
San Antonio
C. R. Batto III
Houston
Martin Hudspeth
Waco
Petty Crain
Dewey Brown
Dallas
George P. Regino JR
George R. Regino Sr
Max Martinez
Frances Hurd Brown
Alamo
Brown
Wichita Falls
John P. Hall
Charles H. Brown
Bullet Hits Woman On Poteet Road Near Medina River
San Antonio woman Mrs. Travis B. Anthony 44 was wounded Friday night when a man by the roadside fired at her car on Poteet Road north of the Medina River bridge. She is in fair condition at Baptist Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound to the right arm. Her husband drove the car carrying their granddaughter. the shooter fired once as they passed.
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San Antonio
Travis B. Anthony
Astor
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Poteet Road
Medina River Bridge
Anthony
Mrs. Anthony
Navy offers civilians luxury aboard Princeton aircraft carrier
The 65 civilians aboard the USS Princeton enjoy candlelit dinners and air conditioned cabins during a three week cruise to pickup Apollo 10 astronauts. They can roam most of the ship with security zones limited, play basketball on the hangar deck, sunbathe on the flight deck, and take helicopter trips to vessels like USS Arlington. The ship, commissioned 1945, is an amphibious carrier with 1400 crew and may host the Apollo 11 recovery mission.
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Princeton
APS
Arlington
Pearl Harbor
Armed Forces
Leyte Gulf
Carl M. Cruse
Moon Probes Astros Watch For Remains Of Surveyors
Space Center Houston reports Apollo 10 crew asked to search for the remains of Surveyors 5 and 6. The probable Apollo 11 landing site lies under 20 miles from Surveyor 5, with Schmitt noting may be visible by contrast or reflections but Surveyor 5 could be obscured if inside a crater.
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Space Center
Houston
UPI
Space Agency
Harrison “Jack” Schmitt
Canada GNP Rises in 1968 to Sixty-Seven Billion
Canada shows a stronger economy with gross national product reaching 67.368 billion dollars in 1968, an 8.5 percent increase over 1967, driven by higher output in goods and services.
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Canada
Prince Philip Urges Edinburgh Students to Grow Up and Shut Up
Prince Philip, as Edinburgh University chancellor, told 600 students at a Friday Q A session to grow up and shut up amid demands for open discussion. He defended free speech but warned freedom is not license, noting people have died for it. A student yelled that he fears his wife as he left the platform.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
UPS
Prince Philip
Queen Elizabeth II
Edinburgh University
Lodge Named Ambassador to Argentina by Senate
The Senate approved John Davis Lodge as ambassador to Buenos Aires by voice vote. Lodge said Ongania’s regime in Argentina arose from a 1966 military coup, not a general election, during his Foreign Relations Committee testimony.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Argentina
J. William Fulbright
John Davis Lodge
Buenos Aires
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lodge
Juan Carlos Ongania
Ongania
Calm Sea Forecast for Apollo 10 Splashdown
Meteorologists predicted good weather for Apollo 10 splashdown in the South Pacific aboard the USS Princeton. Lt. Thomas S. Nelson said skies would be partly cloudy with seas four to six feet and winds 10 to 15 knots as the spacecraft with Stafford Cernan and Young nears Pago Pago, American Samoa.
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USS
Princeton
UPS
South Pacific
Thomas S. Nelson
Nelson
Thomas P. Stafford
Eugene A. Cernan
John W. Young
Gonzales Sees Growth as Industry Expands in Historic Texas Town
Hart Stilwell tours Gonzales amid a wave of industrial expansion. Ralston Purina's giant push-button plant and Southern Clay Products' new porcelain line anchor a town reshaping its economy with 100 acres eyed for future plants. Population holds at about 6500 as new housing and a 1.5 million school, a 300 thousand sewage plant, and modern bank facilities rise.
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Ralston Purina Stilwell
Ralston Purina
Southern Clay Products
Gonzales Industrial Corp
Henry Christian
David
Bill
Gonzales
Carlos Smith
Gonzales Bank
Smith
Cuero Transport
Chester Karger
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Brother “T
Dudley Fryer
Quintana Rd
Singeton
Realtors
R. W. Patton
Susan Weems
S.A. Obituaries
San Fernando Cemetery No. 2
Francisco Garcia
Sylvia and
Mary Louise Regina
Mrs
Rugged Life
Matey
Astros
Philip
Choice
Anne of Britain
Church of Scotland
Texas
By Hart Stilwell
Gonzales — Industry
Mexico
Gonzales County
State Bank
National Bank
Bank and Trust Company
Joe M. Pearson
DeWitt Village
John Mohrmann Jr
Chamber of Commerce
Alfred Lindeman
Alfred
John Mohrmann
John
John Mohrmann Sr
Mohrmann Drug Store
Georgetown J
Lockhart
Bastrop
Bill DuBose
Anna Ruth ‘Nelson
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