Golf Course Purchase Dropped by City Council
City Council abandons a $1.3 million federal purchase of Pecan Valley Golf Course after HUD denials and citizen protests led by COPS. Staff to return with drainage and other project recommendations, including possible use of general funds for a child day care program and several rehabilitation and facility repair requests totaling about $2.0 million.
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Bruce Beal
Pecan Valley
Claude Black
Bob Billa
Public Service
COPS
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Golf Cours
Andres Sarabia
Black
Citizens
HUD
St. Paul's Square
Lanier High School
Navarro
Community events highlight YMCA swim classes to June
Northwest Family YMCA offers swimmastics and water exercise at Glenais Swim Club through June. Dr Dial tips on suntans via 24 hour call at 223 4341. Lions Field Center hosts 10 a.m. slide show trip to Mexico City Wednesday. Safety Council opens defensive driving at Lackland AFB 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday. Retired Persons and Kiddie Lympics events planned, plus homecoming for San Antonio Academy Alumni. Missionary convention at St John M E Church with tennis and girls boxing at 9 p.m. Thursday.
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Northwest Family Ymca
Glenais Swim Club
Warebach
San Antonio
National Safety Council
Greater
Independent Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary’s and Stewardesses Group
St. John 1
M.E. Church
Menchaca
Through The Years From The Light Files May 25 Highlights
Absentee runoff began at the county courthouse for the June 4 primary election. Historic notes include a 1856 surgeon operation on a boy who swallowed a razor blade, 1908 film showings, and 1906 summer school vandalism. Also mentions gas lamps and dog tags arriving in 1805.
Rhodesian aid group tensions in San Antonio
Reports on a Rhodesian aid mission named American Aid for Rhodesia trigger mixed reactions in San Antonio. A focal recruiter using the alias Mike Gonzales says AAR is humanitarian, not mercenary, aiming to raise about 1 million dollars to send people and medical supplies to Rhodesia. Gonzalez declines to reveal his identity or AAA leadership, noting readiness issues.
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Stryker McGuire
Nedgting
Rhodesia
San Antonio
the Light
AAA
Focal
Weyearald
Army
Mike Gonzales
South Vietnam
Gonzalez
AAR
Ian Smith
Gonzales
Fortune Io
U.S
Gonziler
el Paso
TV Sweepstakes Prize Draws Reward Light Reader
A reader wins $100 cash in The Light TV Sweepstakes. The top weekly prize is $200 with Bicentennial Bonus numbers, plus regular prizes of $10 $50 $25 and $10. The winner, Mrs. LaRecca Boag of 13 Qalieas, plans to shop or save the winnings. Personal sweepstakes numbers remain valid through the week in both contests.
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Bexar
Billy Graham Boyd
Bridge
Dorothy Manners
Concordia Lutheran School
No Little Mice
Lell
Misty Kreutziger
Sandra Perez
Right
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Heather Johnson
Erik Kreusch
Bill Kaiser
Pied Piper
Hamlin
Jim Blaylock
Freedom Folksingers
Philadelphia
Washington, D.C
San Antonio International Airport
Hirsch Elementary
Houston High School
L-A
Nancy Jane
Wayne Hartmann
Pat Mead
Cindy Lott
George Finch
Dr. Brothers
Mirror of Mind
Ostrum
Shulsky
Heloise
Hornscape
Jack O'Brian
Bexar County Medical Society
American Association of Retired Persons Chapter 92
First Presbyterian
Jewish Community Center
W. Rampart
San Antonio Academy Alumni Association
U. E. French
Light Files
IMA
William Powell
Jean Arthur
Majestic Theater
Main Avenue High School
Rhodesian
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Mrs. Lakocca Boag Asimohiner
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