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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1946
Page
5
Hot Wells High School can offer a meal of meat, three vegetables and a milk bottle for 25 cents with a federal lunch money subsidy. About 15 students are served free meals daily. Superintendent W C Connell says federal aid has not led to any government control and keeps meal costs down.
Bridget Waters Irish war bride testifies she killed her husband to protect their child after a Labor Day shooting in her Las Vegas apartment. She recounts the moment the gun fired as her husband seized the baby, while a re enacted death scene shows her advancing with the child in arms.
The Red Cross notified Perry Shankle to chair a Monday 2:30 PM meeting at the Menger hotel for royal roofing distributors. A triple A priority approved 125 carloads for San Antonio with shipments to be allocated. E R Neill H E Sydon and H C McCurley coordinated the approval.
Mayor Gus B Maaermann reviews a 53 page Beretta report proposing $2.8 million in aviation development over three years. Plans include a municipal airport admin building, a private field of 250 to 380 acres with 70 acre practice area, four hangars at Stinson field, a control tower, and a $210,000 Stinson revenue bond.
The Bowery Boys led by Leo Gorcey and Twatz Hall star in Spook Busters opening Thursday at the Empire Theater as they apply insect extermination skills to purge a haunted house of ghosts.
Funeral services for Brig. Gen. Myron R. Wood, chief of supply for the army air forces, who died of a heart attack Tuesday night, will be held in Washington Friday. Relatives in San Antonio have been notified. Wood served at Randolph and Kelly fields and his wife, the former Isabel Weling of this city, visited relatives here. He entered the army as a private in 1918 and was commissioned as an army pilot the same year. During World War II he commanded the Ninth Air Service Command in the European theater and served with the Eighth Air Force.
Isoward W. Gail, 20, of Toledo Ohio, was arraigned before U S Commissioner Paul A Lockhart on a charge of unlawfully impersonating a naval lieutenant junior grade and placed under bond of 1500 dollars Genara Veloz a Mexican citizen was bound at 1000 dollars for illegal re entry into the United States eight A
An official estimate by Mrs. L. J. Williams, operator, places the fire damage at $1500 to a cottage at the Teapee Tourist lodges on the Austin highway. The blaze started when a lighted cigarette left by departing guests on Thursday morning ignited a bed.
The Ideal Gandy Company owned by Dave and Albert Sanchez at 1119 West Martin Street had its sugar rationing privilege revoked by OPA Commissioner Roy R. Ray. OPA enforcement attorneys said the action followed failure to maintain required rationing records.
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