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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1938
Page
4
A baby cries in a darkened room as a mother frantically searches for a doctor. The Medical Exchange and Information bureau, started six years ago by the Bexar County Medical Society, expands its reach and assists in critical medical access across San Antonio.
Mrs Ferne McKenzie reports the bureau began in 1952 with seven employees. It locates doctors and nurses, handles laboratory reports, collects delinquent accounts, and runs a credit bureau for about 230000 persons with over 23000 collection accounts. The non profit operation lists on call physicians and specialists, answering about 470 calls daily.
In Philadelphia a thin ice break led to the drowning of two siblings, 18 year old Robert and Genevieve, as their sleds were traced by Dr. William Keller after they failed to answer dinner calls. Firemen recovered the bodies from a creek bank. Four other Pennsylvanians died in sledding accidents yesterday.
Two Alcatraz convicts James Lucas and Rufus Franklin, sentenced to life for killing Guard Royal C. Cline in an escape plot last May, were back in solitary after conviction and the San Francisco trial, resuming prison routine amid a month long process. Treasury data show receipts over 1.23 million and expenditures around 39.6 million for November with a gross debt near 899.6 billion.
Governor Philip La Follette of Wisconsin will address an Open Forum at 8 15 p m Monday in the Thomas Deison High School auditorium on the liberal movement in government He arrives in Bun Sntonie at 4 20 p m with Gunter hotel reservations The La Follette family is noted for political prominence with relatives in Congress and a presidential candidate lineage depending on the article text.
Myron A. Jutman 20 of Boone Iowa won top honors at the ninth annual meat animal project contest during the 4-H club congress with 36 states represented. Gordon Grote 17 Mason Texas claimed southern sectional honors for the second time while Joe W. Eisenman 19 Park City Montana and Roland H. Mullinix 19 Woodshine Madison won western and eastern awards respectively. Grote, on a 960 acre farm, fed 52 head of baby beeves for six years, earning 4471 in prizes and sales. he also captured a 200 scholarship and southern sectional honors as national runner up.
An earthquake lasting about twenty seconds struck Unalaska and nearby areas at 11:29 p.m. last night local time. No damage was reported.
Chicago show features Gracie Allen displaying surrealist paintings valued by her at perhaps 250000 dollars. Pieces include Dogs Gathered on Street Corner to Watch Man Fight. Proceeds aid the Chinese Red Cross commission while Allen explains surrealism reveals the subconscious mind in quirky remarks.
PORT ALBERNI B C Nov 28 Four millworkers members of a belated Thanksgiving party were drowned yesterday when their rowboat capsized in Great Central lake one hundred miles north of Victoria Two others in the boat the only ones of the six who could swim reached shore
Flood danger grows as brush and forest fires sweep through Southern California. About 37,000 acres burned across five counties since last Wednesday, with Santa Monica and San Bernardino ranges hardest hit. More than 19,000 acres burned on the slopes behind San Bernardino city, threatening food control and endangering Colton Riverside Santa Ana and Kern counties from flood runoff this winter.
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