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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1949
Page
5
Austin dispatch reports San Antonio junior colleges will receive a 73 cent raise in state pay over five years. Legislature approves a 175 dollar per student appropriation to public junior colleges, bill now awaits Gov. Jester’s signature. Current allotment is 100 dollars per student.
In Hull England on May 23 a Mrs. Harry Hannah Walker recovering in hospital sang a song and smoked while not returning to bed after the party. In Dallas on May 25 a notice reports the third annual open house and western barbecue of the Texas federation will be held June 9 at Renner.
Gonzales residents gear up for the Fryer Frolic on June 24. Men and women wear colorful silk ties featuring a fryer festival insignia with lariat irons and spurs, reflecting Gonzales county's first celebration of its prosperous product.
The Blanco County Hereford Breeders annual tour will run June 4 and 5 with hosts Otto Schumann and Al Buchanan. It lists itineraries and times at multiple ranches including Louis Ebeling and Son, Crescent Ranch, Blane Hereford Farm, Loma Ranch, and others, as the group selects cattle for a future sale. May 23 report from Johnson City notes O. L. Patterson coordinates.
In Dallas on May 25 4 the church recreation director Wyatt Sawyer testified in a case where CE Nevo seeks to block Oak CEC Church of Christ leaders from changing the church organization. Sawyer described teams praying before games and calling on umpires to conduct play in a Christian manner, praising worship of God.
Congress pressed for the removal of AEC chairman David Lilienthal amid criticism from Sen. McCarran and Sen. Hickenlooper over uranium handling and security risks. The article notes delays in implementing admin goals, filibusters, and debates impacting defense unification and policy initiatives as the session nears adjournment.
The American Medical Association and the American Dental Association condemned President Truman's national health insurance plan as extreme paternalism and impractical. In another item from Hamburg, May 25, the Niederdeutsche Zeitung recounts a tale of German U boat men in 1445 fleeing a Norwegian port to the South Pacific and living a tranquil island idyll with native wives, via a Wellington postmark letter.
Stern signals rise for all pending measures with large sums including housing and foreign aid. The European recovery aid faces a major test in the house tomorrow. Representative Watcott questions the housing program cost at about 20 billions over 49 years and asks where funding will come from. Congress trims its work, aiming to pass three major Truman program items this year with others delayed.
The senate continued debate on legislation to revise the armed services unification law as Senator Morse of Oregon pressed for a bill to grant the secretary of defense broader authority.
Two new members joined the Alamo Heights police department on Wednesday. Glyn B. Sims, ex Transit Company investigator, and Terry McCluskey, ex-San Antonio policeman and Kentucky state highway patrolman, replace Jack Howard and JE Miller who recently left.
Vatican City sources report Cardinal Mindszenty’s health worsening and say he has been moved to a Budapest prison hospital. The interim update notes his condition as precarious amid ongoing confinement and limited access to medical care.
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