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UE AND BROTHER HAD JUST FINISHEDPUSHING CARAn intensive hunt for a hit-and-run driver was underway last night in this section while funeral arrangements were being made for his victim, Wilford P- (Wimpy) Hays, 23, Skeljy employe and popular softball pitcher, fatally injured at 2:30 a. m. Christmas morning,44Wimpy, as he preferred to be ailed, died yesterday afternoon in local hospital of a crushed skull. in operation failed to save his life, !e and Miss DeAun Heiskell, Miss ’ampa of 1935 and 1936, were to tavc been married during the week ollowlng New Year's,According to friends who were /1th him at the time, Hays was truck on the legs as he started to ;cl into the car he and his brother 3d Hays had pushed to get started lear Six Owens eating place on outh Cnyler. As the car struck him, Wimpy was hurled to the pave-nent, his head hitting the hard oncrete.In the car were Miss Hesikell, his iancee, and Miss Helen Murphy, liss Heiskell said she saw the car oming at considerable speed and mounded .the horn. She , said the ights were on. The Hays car wab leaded north, the three witnesses aid, and the other car attempted to a between 14WimpyV car and the urb. The Hays machine was on the zest side of the street, it was re-ortod.Wimpy” had just started to getnto his own car when he was hit.[he four young people had just eft the cafe. They had come there rom the house of a friend where hey hud enjoyed piano music, it fas said.Local police worked steadily on he case Friday and yesterday. Few lues were available.Hays was the star pitcher on the akelly-Schafer softball team, Pan-landle champions in 1935, and one if the lending teams last season. He /as one of the pitchers for Voss lieauers at the state tournament at nort Worth. He had worked for Jkelly for three years, coming here rom Burkburnett.Hays is survived by five brothers, !d of Skellytown, H. R, of Burbank, Delbert of Chicago, and Law-ence and Raymond of Austin, Minn., nd a sister, Miss Grace M. Hays of Jannon Falls, Minn.The body will lie at rest at the i. C. Malone Funeral Home between 2 noon and 3 o’clock, this after-ioon when it will be taken overland o Burkburnett* for burial, probably londay afternoon,A Painpn man was being question-d at the city police station last light in connection with the acci-ent.iflnnRiiv AWwnnwnrQ tcm
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Pampa Daily News
Pampa, Texas, US
Sun, Dec 27, 1936
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