Ted Williams Ends Season With .406 Batting Mark
The famed slugger Ted Williams finishes 1941 with a .406 average, the last major league player to exceed .400. He collects six hits in eight at bats in a doubleheader, including a 37th homer and multiple timely hits, preserving his place among baseball immortals. The season’s final day, Sept 25, 1941, stands out as his greatest personal achievement.
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Cour
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Red Sox
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Liquor Control Board Seeks Funds For More Inspectors
AUSTIN AP The Liquor Control Board administrator Coke Stevenson Jr asked a Senate finance subcommittee for more money and staff. He said agents are shot at so often they must provide their own cars and bootleggers have damaged many vehicles. He urged standard longevity pay and requested 18 additional inspectors and seven more tax collectors to cover ports of entry operating 24 hours a day.
Crouching Officers Nab Gas Siphoners in Auto Burglary
In Wilmington California two plainclothes officers nabbed Donald Nausley and Robert Bennert both 18 after observing tampering with a police car's gas. They were booked on burglary from auto charges.
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Wilmington
Calif
Donald Nausley
Robert Bennrtt
Group Two Bank Applications Pending Before Group
AUSTIN AP The State Banking Board will meet Thursday Banking Commissioner Jan Falkner said Saturday action is pending on applications for state banks in Coahoma and Hitchcock The board heard the applications in December and at its last meeting January 3 decided to postpone action until the February session The proposed First State Bank of Hitchcock is in Galveston County The Coahoma State Bank would be in Howard County
Harris News Roundup in Houston City Affairs and Crimes
Houston Mayor Lewis Cuiter denies showing favoritism in Sunday closing crack down as charged in full-page Citizens Committee for the Several Days of Freedom ad. Three separate heater accidents injure two Houston children and a third person, raising burnings to five in two days. County officials oppose Rep Bot Eckhardt plan to create a county fire marshal office in four counties due to funding limits. Judge Sto vall Jr expects to use an opaque projector to display records to jurors. Thirty Houston Progressive Youth Association members, 22 Negroes, barred from Madings Drug Store. Clarence Landry, 36, charged with murder in the Gothicun shooting of Jack Hollins, 28, with dispute over a woman.
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Houston
Lewis Cuiter
Citizens Committee
Warris County
Funeral Services for Mrs Mary Ella Goodman
Funeral services were scheduled for 5 p.m. Monday at Paul A Lee Funeral Home for 66 year old Mrs Mary Ella Goodman of Baytown formerly from Hillsboro and Milford Cemetery will hold graveside services at 2 30 p.m. Tuesday Rev A L Jordan officiates Lodge 453 will conduct Rebekah rites. She is survived by her husband B C Goodman of Baytown a son Lt Col John M Goodman of Washington D C her mother Mrs J H Dean of Hillsboro a sister Mrs H V Everett of Dallas three brothers Gus Dean of Silver City NM John Dean of Hillsboro and The Dean of Milford and two grandchildren J Clark Goodman of Falfurrias and Robert J Goodman of Washington
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Aon
Lodge 453
B.C. Goodman
Baytown
John M. Goodman
Washington, D.C
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Hillsboro
H. V. Everett
Dallas
Gus Dean
Silver City
John Dean
Literacy Session Anew To Church And Civic Groups
Civic groups or church organizations are urged to sponsor a community literacy project and send representatives to a workshop at 1 Baptist Church in Cros'. Robert C. Likins of Baylor University Literacy Center will lead the session at 7 p.m. and show teaching methods and how to identify learners. Mrs. Charles Gates, WMU president, will preside. both encourage all groups to attend.
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Cros
Robert C. Likins
Baylor University Literacy Center
San Jacinto Baptist Woman's Missionary Union
Likins
Charles Gates
WMU
Gates
Gardner Resigns From Central Baptist Church Post
Rev Dan Gardner resigns effective February 14 ending four years at Central Baptist Church Baytown He will preach his final sermon February 12 and move with his family to Cleveland where he will assume pastorate at First Baptist Church The Gardners include children Cherri Donna Inn States and Jack
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Bob Hope and Lucille Ball in Facts of Life comedy
Bob Hope and Lucille Ball headline a mid century comedy drama about neighbors drawn together by shared travels and a staged Acapulco vacation. The plot threads include marital strains and a evolving romance amid supporting players such as Ruth Hussey Don De ore and Marianne Stewart.
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Yoley
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Larry Gilbert
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Tennessee Will Host Vice President Lyndon B Johnson Speech
Nashville AP Gov. Buford Hollingsworth said today that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson will address a Jefferson Jackson Day dinner here April 7. He opened his campaign for money with a speech here in Nashville, joining Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson on the roster.
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Lyndon
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Johnson Asked To Dedicate Airport
Austin AP Lyndon Johnson invited to deliver dedicatory address at ribbon cutting for the new municipal airport building in Austin on April 22 23.
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Austin
Lyndon Johnson
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