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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1943
Page
6
The federation reports total state tax revenue for fiscal year 1943 at about 4.99 billion dollars, near an all-time high despite a sharp fall in motor fuel tax yields. Individual income tax rose to 319 million, corporate income tax to 365 million, while motor fuel taxes declined from 19 to under 15 percent of total receipts.
Archbishops of Canterbury and York urged wartime disease controls, warning of a grave danger to national health. They called for more policewomen to curb promiscuity and for many more free clinics to be set up nationwide.
St Marys University downtown campus will host an industrial psychology course at 7 p m. The program will be taught by Rev Alfred H Rabe dean of the St Marys Law Sachem and psychology professor. Topics include hiring, employee testing, job analysis, job specification, promotions and employer relations.
A preliminary report to the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States describes a new anti malaria drug tote quine replacing quinine due to supply cuts from Japanese seizure of the Dutch East Indies. The course is offered with Texas university and involves larger doses and new mosquito repellents for malaria control.
The Supreme Council Southern Jurisdiction Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry names Ernest Taylor Green and Frank Armitage Spapg of San Antonio for the thirty-third honorary degree. Also designated for the rank of knight commander are Ernest Arthur Baeiz Samuel Xavier Callahan and George Pierce Knox of San Antonio.
John G. Ross district ODT manager announces new delivery restrictions effective October 11 to curb wholesale and retail ice cream deliveries. Carriers cannot deliver under size or under weight packages and must limit weekly single customer deliveries. The order caps retail delivery sizes and weights to prevent multiple weekly drops.
Commissioner Alfred Callaghan announces the city board of equalization will convene November 1 after other commissioners and the mayor agreed Tuesday. Assessment sheets are at Shingety and will be ready for the boat section by that date, 30 days ahead of previous years. Early bearing, Bald Callaghan believes, will ease last minute tax statement pressure.
Wesley Kyle, 36, arraigned for failing to register for the draft. He was in jail Wednesday under a four year federal sentence. In U S District Court Tuesday, Kyle refused an attorney and refused to be sworn or affirmed by the clerk.
Thirteen boys aged 12 to 17 were among 41 people arrested Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, including two runaways. One 9-year-old was found on East Commerce Street, a 16-year-old from Austin picked up with six other youths disturbing residents on Menchaca Street, a 12-year-old tampering with doors on Menchaca, a 9-year-old loaded with belt buckles, a 16-year-old tearing shingles from the Armeson river theater, and a 16-year-old knifing another boy. Authorities cited GEO McCulloch, juvenile officer, in the report.
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