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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1948
Page
5
W A Davison announces a ground breaking for a one story mechanical repair shop at North Alamo and Tenth Streets. It will house wheels and brakes lubrication mileage checkup and heavy repairs with a final inspection department. Construction contract is held by Frank McGre.
A brief deluge and twister disrupted a Labor Day weekend fishing party 20 miles northwest of Sabinas. Olin Thompson and family took shelter in a log barn as the roof blew away. Trees were uprooted and a road was blocked by a fallen sycamore.
Karnes City actions CPL installs a bank of new transformers during the early morning hours. F F Kolodzie CPL manager states the move supports development and future progress for the area.
The hospital reported its fourth polio death of the year, one more victim, Fred A. Tiemann Jr., 28, of Go-Mag. Tiemann, a World War I veteran, died an hour after arriving at 2 30 p.m. Survivors include his widow, a small child, and his mother Mrs Irma Tiemann of Lake Charles Louisiana.
James F. Lackey 74 of Sulphur Springs will have services at 3 p.m. Monday at Riebe Funeral Home. He retired as a Southern Pacific engineer in 1924 after 50 years in Bexar County. Survivors include his widow Rose Lackey daughter Mrs Bruce Manager of San Antonio son Arthur Lee Lackey of North Carolina sister Mrs Morlie Kerley of North Carolina and three grandchildren. Interment in Sunset Memorial Park.
Russell Maloney author and critic for The New Yorker magazine for 11 years died Saturday in New York at age 38 from a brain hemorrhage.
For 14 years Leonido Rosales at 1212 N Comal St operates a one man firm selling kerosene to 200 gallons daily in wholesale and retail. He parks a little red truck in the neighborhood signaling customers to gather with lamps and containers. He notes most customers pay their bills and rarely defaults.
The New York truck strike drags on as Local 807 demands wage increases while carriers push a no surrender stance. A $500000 Taft Hartley suit by McLean Trucking Co targets intimidation and a looming food shortage worsens as stores face dwindling stock.
The United States will showcase the six engined B36 bomber on Air Force Day September 18. Five aircraft from the Seventh Bomb Group at Fort Worth will fly long range missions, creating a flight pattern over many cities. The planes will fly at low but safe altitudes to give the public a clear sighting.
Charred bodies of 10 passengers and three crew members were found in the wreckage of an Australian National Airways DC-3. The plane disappeared Thursday night on a Brisbane to Sydney flight and was located yesterday on a mountainside 280 miles northwest of Sydney.
SUCKLEY England Sept 5 Mrs Arthur Blake a 28 year old housewife gave birth to triplets four days apart. Last Saturday she bore Rosemary four pounds. Wednesday she bore Veronica four and a half pounds and Anthony three pounds. She already has a two year old son. Her husband, a painter, earns 23.60 dollars a week. The family lives in two rooms in a cottage owned by Mrs Blake's mother.
In Rutland Vermont a 12 year old boy was decapitated by a flaming tar barrel explosion while leaning on it smoking. Police Chief J Fred Carbine said the blast also scorched three playmates and sent the barrel over trees before it landed ten feet away.
Corpus Christi women were injured, not seriously, when their auto collided with another at the Highway 281 entrance to Stinson Field. The injured were Elenun can, 28, WAC, and Ernestine Lloyd, 21. Driver Zara A. Brown, 108 List St, Stinson Field, was listed. Both cars were nearly demolished.
In San Antonio Bexar County Young Republicans showcase youthful support for the Dewey campaign at 24 Bedell Building. Dr. C E Gutierrez president of the group tries a bold moustache stunt as Mrs Walter Grace notes renewed youth energy with Brunson McLeroy and Eton Elizondo named co chairmen.
Manila report says Camiguia port abandoned as Hibok Hibok erupts for the fifth day. About 30 000 Filipinos fled to escape lava and ash and 15 000 more planned to leave. Villages buried under rock, lava and ash with farms and coconut plantations covered up to 30 feet deep.
Judges in Atlantic City and Asbury Park begin selecting Miss America and Mrs America for 1948. Fifty five Miss contenders arrive Labor Day for a week of trials and a $25,000 scholarship pool. Thirty married contestants from across the country compete in Asbury Park for Mrs America.
Six army mountaineers and civilian guides leave Fresno area to reach Darwin Glacier on Mt Darwin to recover four airmen missing since a 1942 crash. The expedition follows a recent theft report at Milton Fink’s store, with $812 stolen and equipment missing.
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