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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1949
Page
6
Actress Cammiéy Miranda and husband Dave Sebastian are back together after a two month separation. They celebrated reunification with a brief trip to San Francisco, the honeymoon city from their 1947 wedding.
In Mahanoy City Pennsylvania on November 15 trapped coal miners were freed after fellow workers labored six hours to reopen a blocked tunnel following a rock fall.
The Texas state board for hospitals and special schools adopted an emergency plan to care for overflow mental patients and voted to establish a Wichita Falls state hospital branch at a Vernon area air field. The board will use final expert reports in December to shape a January legislative plan, with facilities to be built on logic rather than emotion.
Diarrhea claims a three month old girl in the 300 block of W Pyran Ave as the city health department reports cumulative totals. The year’s tally stands at 572 cases with 148 deaths, compared with 888 cases and 198 deaths last year. Four new mumps cases bring the year’s total to 75 with one death. last year had 67 cases.
Army officials headed by Col. Eustis L. Poland explained a private housing program for 304 NCO and 200 officer duplexes on post land at Ft Sam Houston near the former prisoner of war camp. Bidders open 11 a.m. December 12. units scale from 950 to 1900 square feet per building with limits of 10 families per acre, with 11 local builders among bidders from Texas New Mexico Washington and New York.
In St Louis on November 15 the vice president's son David will be best man and the bride's brother William W. Rucker will escort her to the altar for the Barkley Hadley wedding at St. John's Methodist chapel. Thirty one guests, all from immediate families, attend. No attendants. A family luncheon follows at Mrs TM Layman's home before the couple departs on their honeymoon. The ceremony and reception will be broadcast across the four major networks.
Alamo Heights planning board seeks an aerial survey of the town to study traffic congestion. City Council authorized bids for an aerial photograph of Broadway and Austin Hwy. and approved a code study committee to adapt San Antonio’s building code. A proposal to survey new property at a flat rate was discussed. a ferris on city parkway by a church school was debated with fence concerns.
London reports the De Havilland Comet, the world’s first jet airliner, completed a test flight of 590 miles per hour between the Shetland Islands and Hatfield. The craft, designed for up to 40 passengers, stayed aloft for 5 hours and 35 minutes.
An odd home fat loss pitch claims a simple remedy to shed pounds quickly. It touts a bottle powered by “Mould Barcentrate” and “gropedzu falta” to fit into a standard container, promising 10 pounds lost in 10 days and a return money-back option. The ad cites testimonials from Mrs. M. O. Britton of San Antonio, Texas, claiming dramatic weight loss after trying the product.
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