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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1949
Page
7
The reader is invited to enjoy a fest of action as Flash Gordon Prince Valiant and the Phantom headline the color comic lineup in Puck, the weekly magazine famed for Sunday color gaming and adventurous thrills.
Dr. William D. Sweet, chair of Southern Methodist University church history, will serve as a University of Texas visiting professor next spring. He wrote more than 20 history books and previously taught at the University of Chicago from 1927 to 1946, with lecturing roles in London and as a Huntington library fellow.
Two young bandits robbed Henry Mason’s apartment taking 14000 in cash jewelry and furs while a partner fetched medicine for a heart ailment. In a separate crime, two nearly twin thieves stole 12 fur coats valued at 6000 from a fur store.
The city of Hastings filed briefs with the state Supreme Court seeking removal of an injunction allowing package liquor and beer sales in the same location. The injunction was obtained by licensees and granted by Adams County District Court.
KANSAS CITY Mo Nov 28 INS Dr Gustav Riehl an internationally known dermatologist from Vienna says science one day will find a cure for baldness He stopped in Kansas City on a U S tour and praised men who have lost their hair He noted considerable research is underway to discover the cause and that the answer will be found We are adding to our knowledge of hair every day.
In Austin on November 28, the Texas women's clubs show strong educational use of UT extension services. The University of Texas library package loan bureau reports 12,435 orders from women's clubs in the past year, with schools and libraries also heavy users across more than 30,000 requests from 1045 Texas towns. Only 10 of 254 counties did not use the service since its 1914 founding.
Four major oil companies request a University of Texas Extension Division course to train employees. After teaching in Colorado on treating oil field emulsions, instructor Jack Wiggins has presented it in Quitman and Kilgore. James Conway, extension traveling petroleum specialist, is now a permanent instructor. Standard Oil & Gas Co. of California uses the emulsions manual for a similar course taught by Extension Petroleum Coordinator John Woodruff.
Marine M Sgt Charles Kirsch saw his damaged car and asked why his wife did not brake. Eleanor Kirsch retorted that she thought the little pedal was the ladies brake. The incident concluded her first driving lesson yesterday at the naval training center.
Joliet officer Matthew Hartford recovers a wallet after a startled woman hands it to him. Inside lay $27,800 in stage money, but the purse owner’s identity remains unknown as the finder departs.
Walter C. Webster, retired head of International Harvester, reported burglars removed a safe weighing 300 pounds containing 44,625 in government bonds, 4,000 in jewelry and valuable stock from his San Gabriel residence on November 28.
The Nebraska Supreme Court annulled an order by Fire Marshal E. Iversen, ruling the 2 story Sidney hotel need not be destroyed as a fire hazard. The court said destruction was only justified in true emergencies.
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