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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1940
Page
5
Miss Roeslyn Sells was chosen to represent San Antonio as a duchess at the annual Youkum Tomate TomTom festival. John Thomas Steen, UT student, will be a host, and the festival occurs June 6 7 and 2 in Youkum dune. Miss Sells will be a Brackenridge High School junior next fall.
Twenty nine Florencé Bente piano students will be presented in a Tuesday recital at 3 00 P M in the Alamo Heights Winter School auditorium. Awards will be given to participants in a recent national piano playing tourna ment. The program includes Joseph White Mary Grear Carolyn Stromberger Dorothea Chittim Katherine Ann Matin Betty Baird La Verne Pschneied Margaret Poland Jack Williamson Phyllis Nobiling Patricia Wardy Martha McMurry Janelle Bowen Brythe Buckner Dorothy White Busine Harrell Gene Gcheezler Violet Poland Walter Williamson Ruth Jean Scharlack Josephine White Yvonne Garwood Mary Frances Plnckett Clinton Smith Nancy Elien Williamson Elaine Smith Mary Joyce Burk Mildred Smith Julian O'Neill.
Shadow Rages 36, a Ringling Brothers performer known for a thin mat act, died of heart disease in Easton after a bus incident. He was stricken while traveling and medical treatment failed to save him.
Private owners association at the Gunter hotel pressed for trucking law changes in Texas. Carl C. Hardin cited 7000 pound limits as too low compared with other states and urged a 58000 pound standard. The group plans a 125000 dollar educational drive to clarify and expand freight rules affecting cattle haulers and milk routes.
Mexico City May 30 Reliable sources report the executive committee of the Petroleum Workers union approved deducting three days' wages from each month for 16 000 members to raise 20 million pesos. President Cardenas asked the union to contribute to indemnify foreign oil firms for properties expropriated two years ago. Rank and file opposition is expected but approval is anticipated.
E. Duncan, 33, of 614 South Peros Street, died in the Robert B. Green hospital emergency room Thursday. Justice of the Peace Ottis West returned an inquest verdict of death from natural causes.
Don Carlos Dickson faces a clash with city financiers over delinquent school tax settlements. Records show numerous agreed judgments totaling over 18 000 dollars were issued without school board knowledge, with later efforts by the Maverick to strip Dickson of control. City attorneys deny, then admit, missteps before settling into tighter oversight.
City officials press for a plan to file and prosecute school tax suits with agreed judgments to settle delinquent accounts. The board advocates a legal point that courts cannot reduce tax amounts, asserting only boards of equalization wield such power. The Don questions whether the issue belongs in court.
Kenneth Belton charged with theft of a German camera valued at 53 from a car near Torah Hebrew school. Session opened before Justice of the Peace at 8 20 a m at 112 East Quincy Raymond Gerhardt Street. Classes for beginners to run evenings 8 30 p m to 12 30 p m daily except weekends.
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