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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1977
Page
6
A fragmented reminiscence portrays Bing Crosby and his sons amid family tensions, divorces, and public pressures. It suggests shifting loyalties, strained parental relations, and a changed home life with new stepfamily dynamics while highlighting Crosby’s personal struggles and media scrutiny.
A garbled report notes a figure associated with Bing Crosby returning to the United States and adjacently referencing Los Angeles services. The fragment hints at media or entertainment context but remains unclear on specifics.
City Public Service spokesman Jerry Spengler said a New York style massive blackout was extremely unlikely in San Antonio. CPS operates a large, simple grid and links with nine nearby utilities to reduce risk, though recent shortages in northern Mexico and Oklahoma affected the local system and Sunday night outages occurred.
San Antonio suffered a citywide electrical outage with power restored by 8:42 p.m. after transmission line tangling near Cis Calaveras Lake. CPS blamed three lines wrapping relay circuits, isolating the problem by 10:02 p.m. Police reported limited looting and traffic disruptions, with minimal injuries and no major arrests. Local water pressure fell as pumps went offline, then stabilized after emergency grid ties were activated. The CPS service area covers Floresville, Lytle, Somerset, and Hondo, which reported brief outages.
Residents reported brief outages in San Antonio as CPS crews fixed transformers after rodent damage at dusk. The shorts outages lasted minutes and were resolved by fuse replacements. The incidents, blamed on rodents, echoed a larger fear of a major blackout, though the impact was limited.
San Antonio transit spokesman said all buses operated on the power mutage with only minor delays due to traffic snarls.
The Chicago Tribune announced Sunday that effective October 1 the price of the Sunday Tribune will be 45 cents, an increase of 10 cents. Tom Clancy, director of circulation, said circulation had held price steady for three years despite rising costs.
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