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...Antonio Cabinetmaker Alvaro Alcorta was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. At the trial, Alcorta vainly claimed that he had come upon his wife and one Natividad Castilleja kissing in a car; Alcorta admitted that he then stabbed his wife to death in a fit of passion, a crime punishable in Texas by no more than five years in prison. For the prosecution, Castilleja blandly testified that he had only a platonic relationship with Mrs. Alcorta. In 1957, after Alcorta had faced execution eleven times, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the ground that Castilleja...
...Prairie, Texas. But none were quite tidy enough to win the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau's annual Cleanest Town award, subsidized by paint and varnish manufacturers, and presented by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman in Washington last week. The cleanest town in the U.S.: San Antonio, Texas...
...judges picked San Antonio from among 233 towns and cities that entered the contest, half again as many as entered last year-an increase due, in part, to Lady Bird's beautification program. Basis for the judging were scrapbooks submitted by the individual cities, and San Antonio's was certainly Texas-size: it came in two volumes weighing 80 lbs., and cost $18 just to ship by air to Washington...
...Antonio takes its cleanup effort seriously, carries a volunteer program sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and run on an annual budget of just $6,000. The chamber, of course, has no police power, but it prodded property owners to tidy up unsightly lots, encouraged Boys' Clubs members to move in on cluttered areas with flour sacks for trash, and ran a regular school program on beautification with films and 15-minute lectures. San Antonio Mayor Walter W. McAllister called his city's recognition "very gratifying but no real surprise." Indeed not. In the 19 years that...
...districts are accepting aid under the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which requires recipients to share the benefits with parochial schools. Moreover, an ever-growing roll call of communities have chosen church-related institutions to administer or share in local antipoverty programs; in some cities, such as San Antonio, church groups dominate community efforts. In all, religious organizations receive $50 million a year for programs sponsored by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity...