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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1971
Page
2
The state Health Department awarded San Antonio Metropolitan Health District top ratings for its milk quality control program. State inspectors rated dairy plants and farms highly, with the city achieving a 97 score and earning an honor certificate.
The Bexar County Legal Aid Society files a federal motion challenging Texas welfare regulations that deny aid to an abandoned child living with a relative who will not press abandonment charges. Petra Galinda, a widow from Bexar County, seeks relief for herself and her granddaughter as a class action. She receives $104 a month railroad pension to support both, and attorneys seek a three judge district court review.
A San Antonio committee shifted from city owned mini parks to a private coordinated entity. The plan involves a central corporation handling leasing liability and legal aspects while coordinating existing civic groups to provide access and manage park properties.
Northside Seto District trustees and administrators kicked off bond planning at Holmes High School for a 314 million to 16 million funding package. The proposal targets new schools, renovations, and expanded parking at elementary campuses, with district enrollment rising to 21,572, over 2,000 higher than last year.
The first rock festival in Latin America drew about 250000 attendees and left five dead, two of whom police say drowned while under marijuana influence. Attorney General Pedro Ojeda announced a government probe, criticizing state police for failures and noting widespread drug use among youths.
New York actress Eileen Fulton, star of As the World Turns, married record company executive Danny Fortmain. The ceremony occurred over the weekend 2,800 feet up Black Mountain, North Carolina, with the bride’s father, the Rev James McLarty, performing.
Two guerrillas identified as Marxist Front members were reported hanged at Amman Central Prison. The government announced multiple names and addresses of participants and associates, detailing alleged ties to the Front and surrounding figures.
The city named a 25 member Bi Centennial Committee to plan San Antonio participation in the 1976 U S bicentennial. headed by B J Red Me Combs the panel was hailed by the HemisFair Advisory Committee as a civic effort to unite minds hearts and energies for the nation’s birthday celebration.
Bexar County State Rep Nelson Wolff urged Gov. Smith to reconvene the legislature to revisit Senate Bill 183, the Rules of the Road. He cited four contentious provisions including a $200 fine for leaving keys in a car, 61 percent city share for rail crossing signals, driving bans for habitual drug users, and heavy-duty air brakes on trailers. He warned some brake provisions were enacted without trailer rental industry input.
Two 13 year old boys were in juvenile custody Tuesday over an attempted rape of an 11 year old girl near St. Patrick's Church in the 1100 block Willow. The girl identified the youths, who were pursued to a Pine Street drive in, after witnesses yelled for help.
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