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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1945
Page
5
Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Marks of Dallas replies to letters he writes to himself in his dual roles as commander of the Southwest Division engineers and Eighth Service command engineers. An Army aid uses vinegar diluted to extend hose life.
Dallas reports a Los Angeles woman, Mrs Toney Hamilton, 40, claiming a formula to soften beryllium, an alloying metal, with potential impact on atom energy. She planned to leave for Chicago after consulting on butane related to another invention. Dr Edward Hughes of SMU cautioned the formula could be important for alloys and atomic times.
An explosion on a Calcutta loading dock fractured history as 91 people died from smokeless powder mishap. Five American GIs are hospitalized. Eduardo Cardenas of San Antonio, famed as a children's book illustrator, comments on art movements and the balance between commercial and fine art while praising San Antonio's painting resources along the riverfront.
In San Angelo on November 47, the Norton School in northwestern Runnels County shut for a week as 70 of 170 pupils miss classes with influenza. Four teachers also ill, prompting the trustees to close the institution due to illness.
Four killed and 22 injured when a refrigerating plant ammonia tank exploded at the Great Atlantic and Pacific Teacom Pony warehouse in Newark. The rear wall of the three story building was blown out as the tank ruptured and released gas. Local crews recovered the bodies and tended to the wounded amid the blast site.
Dallas police sought an eight point buck stolen from the driveway of M Miller. The 50 pound animal had been killed by Miller on a hunting trip and then disappeared from its home in Dallas.
At Camp San Luis Obispo a rifle match pits two infantry regiments against each other. Thomas L Cavite from Pima Arizona is ordered from the line as a reserve but then fires 30 caliber rounds from behind an M 1 rifle at 500 yards, scoring 31 to win the match for the short-handed regiment before being returned to the separation line.
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