Heavy Week of Pony League Baseball in Childress
A busy slate of games unfolds with the Pony Leaguers opening a twin bill and multiple Little League showdowns in Childress. Notable matchups include the Sims Super Service Red Sox versus Fort Worth and Denver Chi Sox and the Elks Club Yankees versus the T H F Tigers, plus farm club contests and Flag Day observance supporting the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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Sims Super Service Red Sox
Fort Worth
Denver
Fair Park Field
Cardinals
Lions Club Giants
National Foundation For
Paul Henderson
Chisox
Mickie Carter
Tigers
Dan Mitchell
Charles Partridge
Red Sox
Hugh Frith
Terry Hughes
Fred Cawthon
Yankees
George Stone
Darrell Burrows
Charles Graham
Cawthon
Tommy Ricks
Junior Johnson
League's Three Leading Hitters On Dallas Nine
The Dallas Eagles boast three top hitters Eddie Knoblauch Ray Murray and Ozzie Virgil in the Texas League Knoblauch leads with a .353 average 86 hits and 21 doubles Murray hits .338 and Virgil .331 tying with Les Fleming for second and ahead of Russ Rae for third The Eagles team batting .263 nine points behind the Houston Buffs Pitcher Red Murff of Dallas leads with a 14 3 mark Pete Burnside tops Dallas with 101 strikeouts.
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Red Davis
Eddie Knoblauch
Ray Murray
Ozzie Virgil
Knoblauch
Beaumont
Joop
Murray
Virgil
Les Fleming
Shreveport
Russ Rae
Houston
Eagles
Houston Buffs
Sherwin Dixon
Bob Boyd
Joe Dunham
Dallas
Ben Taylor
Pisoni
San Antonio
RBI
Dallas Amateur Is Texas Champion Golf Title
Dallas contractor David Goldman captured the Texas Amateur Championship by defeating Pete Heesemer in the 36 hole final at River Oaks Country Club. The 46 year old veteran used his experience and precise putting to overcome the younger Houston opponent 4 and 2 despite tiring late in the round.
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Spec) Goldman
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Houston
Goldman
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River Oaks
Pampa Manager Suspended After Field Altercation
ABILENE JP Hal Sayles president of the West Texas New Mexico baseball league announced the indefinite suspension Saturday of Grover Seitz manager of the Pampa team. The action followed Seitz's refusal to leave the field during Friday's doubleheader in Clovis NM after being ejected for arguing with umpire John Petrock. Seitz also was ejected in the ninth inning of the second game for shouting at the umpire and was said to have entered the umpires dressing room and used profanity audible to the stands.
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Hal Sayles
West Texas -New Mexico Baseball League
Grover Seitz
Pampa
Seitz
Clovis
John Petrock
Petrock
Negro Accepted By Texas College in San Antonio
Hubert F. Lindsey a 27 year old biologist at Brooke Army Medical Center was accepted as the first Negro student at San Antonio College a public junior college in a milestone for desegregation. Lindsey plans courses in hygiene and advanced bacteriology while college president J O Loftin says the school will act as an autonomous unit and treat registration as normal acknowledging the Supreme Court desegregation ruling and the obligation to educate all qualified youths.
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Hubert F. Lindsey
Brooke Army Medical Center
San Antonio College
Lindsey
J. O. Loftin
Texas Education Agency
Supreme Court
Loftin
Suez Passage Time Cuts From 48 to 15 Hours
Historical records note that the Suez Canal voyage between the Mediterranean and Red Seas took 48 hours at opening in 1869, later reduced to 15 hours by modern traffic, reflecting faster transit.
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Suez Canal
Mediterranean
Red Seas
Canal
World War II Vets Face Final GI Bill Deadline
The Veterans Administration set July 25 1956 as the end of World War II GI training payments for most veterans. A small exemption covers those who enlisted between October 6 1945 and October 5 1946. Korean GI Bill trainees are not affected. Since 1944 over 7.8 million veterans received training, with 138,000 still in programs 65,800 in colleges and 62,800 in noncollege schooling.
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Veterans Administration
Armed Forces
Negro Teams To Play Twin Bill Sunday Baseball Doubleheader
Sunday doubleheader set as local Negro teams clash. Chil dress faces Amarillo at 2 30 p m and the Childress Sluggers meet a Grandfield squad at 4 p m per manager George Anderson.
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George Anderson
Childress
Amarillo
Grandfield
Woman's Hat Fashion Cited as Annual Necessity
Reggi argues that a woman who can afford six hats per year should own that many, calling a frequent new hat a tonic to lift spirits and brighten appearance. The quote emphasizes personal style as a regular refreshment.
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Reggi
Accident Report Corrected For Minor Incident No Collision
The report has been corrected to show no collision occurred at Ninth Street and Avenue F between Mrs Mildred Smith Murray and Dewey Lee Frazier Friday. Frazier swerved to avoid Mrs Murray’s northbound car, struck a curb, minor damage to his vehicle, no ticket issued.
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Dewey Lee Frazier
Ninth Street
Avenue F
Frazier
Murray
Phillie Teams To Meet On Tuesday
Members of the Little League Phillies including major and farm clubs will meet at 9 oclock Tuesday morning to discuss league rules followed by a workout as reported by Manager Bud Adams on Saturday. Separate note reports eight million bushels of wheat stem sawfly losses annually in North Dakota and Montana.
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Colts
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Fairark Field
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Fair Park Field
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Cardinals
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Little League Phillies
Bud Adams
North Dakota
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