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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1969
Page
18
The Dallas Police Department may obtain a helicopter with funds from the Alamo Area Council of Governments. The police roof, once a helicopter pad, became a basketball court for cadet training. If a copter arrives, the instruments and court must go, much to the judges' relief.
Auditions for a Mexico independence celebration drama will be held 9 30 to 11 30 a m Saturday and 2 to 4 p m Sunday at the Mexican American Cultural Exchange Institute. About 30 participants are needed including dancers actors stagehands and costume workers. Maria Moreno Nicolas Gutierrez and Toni Tello lead auditions at 307 W Market in the institute's dance department. The program to be held Sept 15 in the Municipal Auditorium may be televised live to Mexico.
Frances Everidge English teacher at Churchill High School receives a full Old Dominion Foundation scholarship for graduate work in Shakespeare theater studies. The Shakespeare Institute at the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut runs July 7 to August 8 and is co sponsored by the university and the American Shakespeare Theater. The program titled Shakespeare the Renaissance and Today combines advanced scholarship with production techniques.
Marrene Gilford, a district manager for the Atlanta Life Insurance Co and past Alamo City Chamber of Commerce president, was sworn in Friday to fill the late J. M. Goodman vacancy on the San Antonio Union College District board. He will serve until next April and holds a BS from Wiley College. His wife Marge taught at Dunbar Junior High School before its closing. they have two children.
Rep Henry Gonzalez charges CBS with irresponsibility after airing Hunger in America detailing a San Antonio infant death later found to involve premature birth. He seeks FCC action, cites Section 315 fairness rules, and alleges paid participants manipulated the broadcast. The congressman urges CBS to cease exhibition of the film.
Most of the 131 inmates at Bexar County Jail resumed normal routines on Friday after a May riot. About 45 of 58 fifth floor prisoners remained on the seventh floor and privileges were restored for all but three inmates. Three meals a day are back, damage is being repaired, and losses are estimated around seven thousand dollars.
Gunfire near the Babelsburg checkpoint outside West Berlin halted traffic for about 30 minutes. Communist guards closed the crossing as police reported the incident but did not know the cause of the shooting.
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