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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1949
Page
11
A San Antonio note column recounts local curiosities and oddities including pest concerns about scorpions with nonlethal home tips, public traffic tweaks at S Presa and Navarre, a theater exhibit featuring The Window starring Bob Driscoll, and residents like Lon Spencer showcasing his dog Gil that dances to radio tunes. Village life, small events, and colorful anecdotes fill the column.
The death in Tokyo was reported Monday for Mrs Clara Hy Cole 307 EB Evergreen Ave widow of Col Robert Bruce Cole killed in World War I She was a former San Antonio Junior High School teacher Survivors include son LeRoy H Cole of Los Angeles a daughter Mrs John Booker Baytown Texas and six grandchildren The body was en route to Los Angeles for funeral arrangements pending
The board of the South Side consolidated school district will decide on a site for a $70,000 high school at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Buena Vista school. Several sites are under consideration, including two offered to the board at no charge.
Justice of the Peace M. D. Buck Jones found James Walter Taylor 75 of 205 W Fair Cake drowned in a bathtub on Saturday. Funeral services were held Monday at Alayna Funeral chapel and Mission Burial Park. Survivors include widow Frances Taylor and daughters Martha Taylor San Antonio James Glidys Berrnett Lada Bartelli Raymondville son Carl Taylor.
Health department weekly report shows pneumonia as the leading killer with three deaths and nine cases in the city. Infant diarrhea caused four cases, while tuberculosis and syphilis each caused one death and had isolated case totals. More health data followed for the past week.
Egyptian Army Col Giryls Rizk head of Cairo School of Hygiene studied this week health hints focusing on dairy food and housing sanitation. He compared communicable diseases of San Ar fonso and Cairo with similar climates, noting concentrations on sanitation and public health measures.
Volunteers Ernst Schuchardt and Rufus Walker color restored a bell-tower wall segment at the San Jose Mission church. They recreated the former red blue and yellow fresco pattern with framed floral motifs near the rose window, using earth colors and milk to bind pigments to mortar as the padres did centuries ago.
Two U S air force F 51 fighters collided over central Luzon Philippines and crash landed safely at Clark field near Manila. Both pilots survived with minor injuries while their aircraft were heavily damaged.
A survey on San Antonio music and dance is being prepared for a Hollywood Bureau of Musical Research publication titled Music and Dance in Texas and the Southwest. William Perlman directs field outreach in Texas contacting local musicians and teachers for contributions.
Mayor White prepared to push a charter drive. He toured the west side with aides John Hamilton and Joe Padilla, criticizes the council manager plan from the Charter Revision committee, and endorses his Peoples committee draft. He says the Spears charter would keep politics in city business and warns against building a political machine.
A February health meeting convened by the American Public Health Association in New York was scheduled for 3 p.m. in the health department auditorium. Speakers include city health director Dr. Austin E Hill and Col. Robert C Gaskill, G L Orth, Dwight M Kuhns. Topics cover public health education, home accident prevention, fever outbreak epidemiology in California, polio outbreak expectations in schools and camps, and New York City's preterm baby care program.
Mexican Chamber of Commerce prepares relief funds for Ecuador with 167 dollars raised by a committee led by Ramulo Munguia. The earnings report will be approved at the chamber’s general meeting Monday night, secretary Jake Rowri said.
On Parade, first live TV broadcast aired at 3 p m on Monday from Alamo Stadium gymnasium. Sponsored by WOALTV and San Antonio Appliance Assn it spans three days of talent including professional and amateur acts. Admission free. Hugh Halff and Harry Roner opened the show. Youth groups from Laney St Michaels St Peter Claver St Josephs San Fernando Burbank St Marys Hell Harlandale Brackenridge appear. A second show at 7 a m features WOALTV talent and Miss and Mr Television finalists with title winners chosen on the final Wednesday. Derry Lee and Dick Perry host. Shows run 3 10 6 p m and 7 p m on Tuesday and Wednesday. Spectators may watch in the gym stage center or via TV screens.
Pleading guilty to unlawfully hunting deer using auto headlights and a flashlight on November 3, Bruno Alejandro of 1226 Tampicoat was fined by Judge C. J. Mathews in County Court at Law No 2. Mae Varner of 212 Aransas Ave faced a related charge for permitting intermittent marble table play in HS premises on November 3 and was assessed a fine.
Commissioner Henry Hein welcomed any investigation into the Parks Victory club, calling it a revelatory organization within his department. He disputed Mayor White’s suggestion of broader scrutiny and claimed many were political but not compulsory to join.
Trial of Mrs. Hubert Jarquin of 1145 W Travis St was postponed in Criminal District court to 9 30 a m Wednesday after a death in the family of defense attorney Leonard Brown. Jarquin was indicted on an abortion charge tied to a S Flores St shanty fashion. She remains free on $10 000 bond.
In Beaumont the Winter Garden Four took third in the Southwestern elimination, behind two Dallas quartets, while The Four Old Fassils were named most popular. Members include Raymond Anthony, Ray Belknap, Owls Harrison, Drew Floyd, George Hopper, Hi O, Manley, William Martyn, and Joe Caynoval. Next local club engagement is May 30 at Breakeos General Hospital Service Club.
A report profiles Mrs Louise Kumpf a switchboard operator at the city health department who manages a flood of unusual calls. She handles about 20 inquiries daily about services from garbage pickup to vaccinations and even quirky questions about sandwiches and cooking risks.
Funeral services for Mrs Mayme Mansker Wilson 50 of 111 W White Ave will be held at 8 30 a m Tuesday at Akers Funeral Home with a requiem high mass at St Marys Church at 9 a m Rosary will be said at 8 p m Monday at Akers Funeral Home She was a San Antonio native wife of J Elliott Wilson former Light employee She is survived by her husband son George Elliott Wilson mother Mrs Mary Mansker and sisters Mrs Max Sulling and Mrs Harrison Murat. Beauty experiment a success starts Sunday in The American Weekly.
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