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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1946
Page
3
San Antonians will vote Tuesday in a general election offering 17 choices including four Texas constitutional amendments, one U S Senate race, and 12 state offices or write ins. Two local Republicans Eugene Nolley and Andrew Longaker seek state posts while J E Hickman opposes Andrew Sells for Texas Supreme Court Place No 3.
Miss Marguerite Pape, clerk of Commissioners' court, reports absentee ballots totaling 114 cast in the Tuesday general election. Voting absentee closed Friday.
Chester Cohen of Buda, a former army colonel, has joined the city health department as sanitary engineer at 5000 dollars salary plus 600 dollars travel allowance. He will head the bureau of public health sanitation overseeing health milk meat environmental sanitation and vermin control. Born in Texas he served 20 years with the state health department before 1940 and spent six years as public health engineer in the Mediterranean European and China-Burma-India theaters.
Fort Worth November 21 Funeral arrangements were pending today for Maj W A Smith of Port Worth and Sgt Robert Henry Gerlich of Abbott Texas who were killed when their twin engine bomber crashed five miles west of Cres son Smith a World War II hero credited with sinking a Japanese seaplane tender transport and submarine He held three silver stars four Distinguished Flying Crosses two Air Medals and four Distinguished Unit Citations.
Two Fredericksburg bankers were named to top posts in the Texas Hill Country Bankers association during a Brady meeting. Arthur Sibling of Security State bank and First State bank of Harper became president, A H Klingelhuefer of Fredericksburg National bank was secretary treasurer, and Morris Goforth of Comfort was elected vice president. Mason was chosen as the April convention city.
Walter Donaldson, 53, composer of Yes Sir That’s My Baby, was critically ill today in Santa Monica California after an illness.
Davis, late chairman of Republic National Bank, Dallas, died August 3 1945 leaving an estate valued at 2 438 479 21 dollars in probate records. The inventory lists only his separate estate and half the community estate belonging to his widow with the bank of which he was an official acting as executor.
Moscow on November 7 marks the twenty ninth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution with all morning papers frontpaged and radio broadcasts featuring 49 slogans. One slogan proclaims lasting peace and security through cooperation of freedom loving peoples.
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