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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1949
Page
2
During Texas long Thanksgiving holiday violent death toll reached at least 42. A family of five perished in a fiery auto train collision near Lueders. Kilpatrick and four relatives died, including Jerry Patrick 13 Elsie 10 and Silvia 7. Ten more perished in various traffic, gun, and aviation incidents.
Paris dispatch reports North Atlantic Pact military chiefs begin shaping an integrated defense plan for western Europe while U S officials Johnson and Bradley deny any intention to rearm Germany. They travel from Frankfurt to Paris with trips to Berlin and London to meet leaders.
A San Antonio reader touts Baker's Hair Tonic as a cure for dandruff and itchy scalp after trying many remedies. The letter urges others to ask for Baker's Hair Tonic at drug stores or shops and notes a money back guarantee from the makers.
CHICAGO November 28 The Federation of American Scientists endorsed Edwin C Johnson saying public disclosure of basic atomic facts serves the public interest The group met at the University of Chicago and urged openness about U S bomb developments Johnson had claimed current bombs are six times Nagasaki power and the nation is pursuing a bomb 1000 times more powerful than early missiles The federation warned a possible super bomb could devastate 800 square miles Truman ordered prosecutions for leaks but did not name Johnson
City officials clash over budget deadlines as Tucker and Mayor White spar over filing of the budget and a Dec 13 hearing. White overrules Tucker to include a 10 cent hospital tax and insist on auditorium funding, while noting acting mayors earlier conduct.
Three sections of the city health department will close Saturday to allow clerical staff to take state merit system examinations. Vital statistics and health cards offices and the venereal disease control clinic will shut while other sections remain open. Nurses and sanitarians have already taken the exams, and employees now on provisional status must qualify in competitive examinations at Brackenridge High School.
Hayward medical school doctor Dr. Herbert Barry Jr reports in Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry that a notably large percentage of mental patients studied were separated from their mothers at an early age, suggesting loss of maternal care as a possible contributing factor to later mental illness.
Lincoln Nob District Judge Ralph P. Wilson sentenced 120 Mike Murphy after he walked from a work detail and enjoyed only 15 minutes of freedom. He had served 11 months of a 35 month sentence when he was captured. The court ordered a year in the penitentiary for the escape.
Yale Christmas seals drive announced by Jon Hennessy chair man of the sales committee. The first week raised 7574 toward a goal of 60000 for this year’s campaign.
Old man winter swept into south Florida on a brisk northwest wind. Temperatures fell to 25 degrees in parts, causing extensive crop damage led by the Lake Okeechobee bean crop with losses potentially reaching 5 million dollars. Minor damage to citrus and vegetables reported. forecast calls for warmer conditions.
The University of Texas Bureau of Business Research resumes its mohair industry series with a monograph titled Production and Marketing of Mohair in Texas by Dr. Stella Traweek. The booklet notes scant existing material spurred its compilation and aims to aid Texas producers.
A Los Angeles congestion report notes 16 people injured in crashes as fog and weather hamper transit. A B25 from Reese AFB, Lub bock, landed safely at 10 13 a m after contacting the Goal unit under poor visibility. Pilot Maj. Lee R. Lambert and Capt. L. E. Madsen described the approach as very good with an indefinite ceiling at 100 feet and visibility of a quarter mile.
Austin report states University of Texas scientists test a compound aiming to combine instant kill and lingering DDT-like effects in one molecule. Dr. Lewis F. Hateh leads graduate researchers David Willam Mc Donald of Houston and Virgil L. Tweddie of Austin in allylic dhio vides work toward a new, more potent insecticide than current pyrathrum DDT mixtures.
A. B. Nolan retired from civil service after 30 years in the Army and 10 years at the Brooke Army Medical Center library. Maj. Gen. Joseph I. Martin presented a scroll for meritorious achievement as head of the library. Nolan built the collection to 80,000 volumes with 5,000 donated by him, and later moved with the service school to San Antonio in 1946. He and his wife Helen Wald Nolan, now chief clerk in extension courses, were both long-time staff of the school.
In Bogota Laureano Gomez a friend of Generalissimo Franco was elected president after a poll marked by two reported deaths. Outgoing President Mariano Ospina Perez said governance during the campaigns was conventional, while unofficial reports placed two civilians killed in the interior town of Thaque.
City News notes 617 Neo Bt Mary's St celebrating Mn Rieglér's 28th year as director and owner of the Tourist Drop on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Niemeyer plays Tuesday with Buddy Hancock Wednesday. Admission 75 cents tax included.
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