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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1941
Page
11
A writer laments consumer ignorance about ideal meals and nutrition. He urges better food education, notes industry underinvests in research, and observes rising public interest in diets, vitamins, and healthier menus promoted by media and manufacturers.
A dense listing of October 8 evening radio programs features acts and stations across multiple shows. Ranging from Cesar Ramos and Andy to Glenn Miller and Wayne King, the schedule lists news segments, music sets, dance orchestras, and variety programs with titles including Star Theater, Spotlight on Swingsters, and News Parade. The lineup mentions The Lone Ranger, The Thin Man, and Goodwill programs, with various editors and announcers noted among station lineups.
A list of marriage license issuances and divorce suits filed including couples such as Thomas Morehead and Marble Veo Hak, Morris and Ops Smith, Mildred Wright and Adelaide Gorvales, Herminty Pampas and Sam Myers, Antoinette Kotodgic and Hirsch Heltoo, Arthur Bella and Viola Ivins, Zelma Hazell with Willim Halland, Peter Murphy with Lillian Hart, Harvey Wilson with Lesha Wert, Gilbert Careng with Estella Herrera, Alvin McDonald with Jimmie Daniel, Robert Glueck with Betty Martinez, and many others. The page also notes several divorces granted including cases like Browning v Hrawn, Lemxett v Leseety Hay, Campbell v Sétah bee, and Poole v Poole among others, reflecting a busy docket of marital status events.
Radio schedule lists programs from 6:15 p m World Today to 12 midnight with foreign staff reports The World Today Elmer Davis And The News Public Affairs Rear Admiral Richard E Syed speaks Keep Americas Record Straight Linton Wells Reports The News Early Morning News Big Town Drama Dr Christian Tale Of A Kinkajau Educational American School Of The Air Variety The Bowed Bugler Frank Parker Meek Wisconsin University guest star Glenn Miller And 108 Orchestra Moonlight Serenade Juan Arvizu Late Dancers Benny Goodman Vaughn Monroe And Others dance music interrupted by a five minute news period at 12 mid night
A flood of birth notices lists mothers and addresses with range of dates from September to October. Names include Guilerma Martinez, Willie Webb, Lucas Garcia, Nenuel Ranett, Clare Mills, L. A. Pullen, Pere Mune ton, and Hives Diehl among many others. Many entries specify street or hospital locations and indicate baby gender, with boys slightly more common.
Roy James Metcalf a former San Antonian died Tuesday in Houston. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Porter Loring chapel with Rev R K Goodrich officiating. Burial at Gunset Memorial Park. Native of Horatio Kansas he lived in Gan Autoula before joining Ohio oil company in Houston. He served as a commissioned officer in World War I and belonged to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Survivors include his widow Mrs Ning Metcalf of Siduston a son Hugh Metcalf a sister and several brothers.
Exl Ward G Robinson and Ona Munson headline a Wednesday network premiere as top editors racing to fill the Illustrated Press. The slate also features Meet Mr. Meek with Frank Readick, Fred Allen's Star Theater with Carmen Miranda, and Jean Hersholt in Dr Christian. Juan Arviga debuts a new paso doble before KTSA evening acts.
New York dispatch reports Nazi propagandist William Joyce known as Lord Haw Haw said he was offered by Berlin radio to rebroadcast anti British talks in the United States. Columbia's Paul White confirmed the speeches had been offered.
The Texas and Oklahoma Kiwanis district concluded its twenty fourth annual convention in Beaumont electing Charles C. Toomey of Tulsa Oklahoma as governor and naming Unitas as the 142nd convention elite. Lieutenant governors were chosen for divisions including Glenni Scheupbach Harlingen and Dr Dwight B Knapp Revewne.
Edward Robinson, famed editor on Columbia's Big Town series, once aimed for the clergy and then teaching before politics. A cultured, pleasant man with an MA from Columbia University, he collects art by Renoir to Picasso, has works loaned to exhibits nationwide, and speaks eight languages while smoking during rehearsals.
A long OCR list records dozens of officers and enlisted personnel nicknamed or abbreviated by initials. It notes transfers from camps such as Claiborne Fort Benning Fort Dix and Fort Devens to destinations including Washington Fort McPherson Fort Sam Houston and Mitchel Field among others. The compilation names many individuals with ranks and home states, reflecting a broad movement of US Army personnel between camps and posts.
Arrangements were made today for disposition of the bodies of four United States army officers and two enlisted men who perished Thursday night when their plane struck a storm-shrouded peak near here. First Lieut. Henry B. Thomas of Albuquerque N M flight commander said the body of Pvt. L Morfeld of Springerville Ariz will be sent to Albuquerque for a military funeral. The others await word of relatives. Names include Lieuts A T King of Laramie Wyoming Lieut R H Conway of Wilbur West Virginia Lieut D Gladney Boyd of Pendleton Oregon and Cpl E Gilem Jr of Bookane Washington.
Wyllis Cooper, CBS Spirit of 41 script writer assigned to the Second army, was wounded by smoke during a Third army raid at Winnfield Louisiana. He escaped with smoke in his lungs and still wheezes when he talks. Borger Woman Dies in Wichita Falls Hospital at age 57, Anna Louise Davis wife of Borger city manager L M Davis.
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