Baseball Standings Tighten in Wiregrass League Title Chase
The Wiregrass Baseball League tightens as Columbia and Vicksburg trim deadlocks while Blakely slips. Donalsonville, Ashford, and Headland push toward contenders with key results. Tuesday slate features Columbia at Rehoboth and Ashford at Vicksburg amid a tense playoff race.
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Corlumina
Rehoboth
Newville
Meadtang
Abbeville
Mid-ane
AU Rames
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Trucks Wins Verdict In Assault Suit
Virgil Trucks, Detroit Tigers pitcher, won a jury verdict in a 24,000 assault suit against him. A Cleveland common pleas jury of five women and three men found he owed no damages after a hotel manager testified Trucks slugged him for objecting to a woman in freon slacks entering Trucks room at 4:30 a.m. The suit was brought by Charles E. Heidler, managing editor of the Hotel Statler.
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Cleveland
Virgil Trucks
Detroit Tiger
Common Pleas
Agameal Trucks
Charlea E. Heidler
Statlor
Locke Against Field In Goodall Tourney
NEW ROCHELLE AP Fitton of this county's hottest professional golfers and Bobby Locke the South African putting wizard were to enter the opening round of the Goodall Round Robin at Wykagyl for a $3,000 prize and £15,000 total cash. Barron Snead Nelson Mangrum Middlecoff Ghezu Haas Demaret Heafner Harbert Palmer Alexander Turnesa Hamilton Harrison joined the field. It shaped as Locke versus the rest with Locke aiming to beat rivals who have barred from the National PGA. Locke is in peak form and eager to win.
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Fitton
Bobby Locke
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Hoks
Elmer Ward
Cincinnati
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Sam Snead
Byron Nelson
Lloyd Mangrum
Cary Middlecoff
Vic Ghezu
Fred Haas Jr
Jimmy Demaret
Clayton Heafner
Chick Harbert
Johnny Palmer
Skip Alexander
Jim
Turnesa
Bob Hamilton
Dutch
Harrison
Locke
England
Barron
National P.G.A
Richmond
Meridian Takes Lead With Win Over Chiefs
Meridian Millers grab the Southeastern League lead with a 6 2 victory over the Gadsden Chiefs, Andy Rogers four hits spark the win, while the Chiefs slide to 11 straight losses and four games behind second place. Frank Mulers and other scores follow as the day’s baseball items unfold across leagues.
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Chiefs
United Press
Jack Maupin
Meridian Millers
Gadsden Chiefs
Andy Rogers
Millers
Pensacola
Anniston Rams
Mulers
Cardey
Ben Chap
Theteliar
Savenity
Ray Woodard
Flgirs
Woodard
Hefferman
Hennebeck
Jackson Seratore
Nip
Ping Selma
Jack Schumach
Ned
Davey Cole
Senators
McGlothin
Bowers
Vickeborg
Harry Pilars
Alcatraz Abandonment Under Consideration By House Committee
Washington AP report notes fewer prisoners at Alcatraz and high operating costs. House Judiciary Committee weighs whether to close the federal prison in San Francisco Bay, with James Bennett citing budget and deterrence factors. Abandonment would require a new maximum security block elsewhere.
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Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay
House Judiciary Committee
James V. Bennett
U. S Bureau of Prisons
Klondikes
Siberia
Japanese Smugglers In Export Trade Highlighted
Tokyo AP report notes Japanese smugglers profit from illegal exports in February totaling 12,008.00 yen about 490000 dollars while imports ran at half that value. Smuggled out items include kitchenware chinaware beverages textiles and metals. Imports listed sugar raw rubber and medical items.
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Japan
Finnance Ministry
Ems
French Bride Prays For Husband's Call
A French bride in New Orleans pleads for a call from her husband George Higgins who left home after sending a farewell letter saying he is ill with tuberculosis. Higgins, a merchant marine radio operator, disappeared last Thursday. The wife traveled to Galveston, then Birmingham, and found only an empty apartment and $200 in an envelope before a new letter arrived urging her to pray for his return.
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George Higgins
Higgins
Margeil
Galveston
Tex
Lyons
France
George
Georgia
Birmingham
Ala
Tulane Favored In Southeast Tennis Tourney
Tulane's tennis team, led by 11th ranked amateur Jack Tuero, is favored to win the SEC tournament in New Orleans after a 5-1 scalp of Florida. Tuero defeated Bernie Segal 8-1 6-1 in a featured singles match as Tulane builds on momentum with Dick Mouledous and Ed Adams among top contenders. Doubles and later singles conclude Friday with the finals set for Saturday.
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Tulane
University of Florida, Gators
Kentucky
Mississippi State
Bill Bolton
Lee Weeks
Green Wave
Jack Tuero
Florida
Berney Segal
Tuero
Dick Mouledous
Ed Adams
Georgia Tech
M. B. Wheeler
Georgia
Billy Conery
John Belle Keeble
Vanderbilt
Satrurdas
Jacksonville Rabbi To Speak In Dothan
Rabbi Kaplan of Jacksonville Florida will speak on Chaim Weizman and review President Weizman's book Trial and Error at tomorrow night's service at Temple Emanu El. The service begins at 7 30 p m and the regular service will be conducted by Rabbi Kaplan. The public is invited. The article notes Troy in Asia Minor existed before 1300 BC and was renamed Mim.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Chaim Waizman
Israel
Weizman
Temple Emanu- el
Troy
Asia Minor
Troas
Contracts Awarded For Highway Work In Alabama
Montgomery AP reports the state department awarded contracts on thirteen road projects totaling about 2 million dollars. Projects include Coffee County base and surface treatments on 16.244 miles from Elba to Kinston toward Opp. Dale County 3.237 miles from Claybank to Bellwood. and Barbour County removal of structures on a county road between Texville and Blue Springs. Vandergraft Construction Company and B. Ridge, Gantt listed among contractors.
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Department
Birmingham
Inely Coffea County
Elba-Kinston Road
Opp
Vandierift Construction Compat Dale
Claybachie
Bellwood
Six Elm Trees Cost Chicago Store Money
Chicago AP reports a department store planted six Mor liné elms on State Street in fall 1987. Each tree sits in a five by five by five foot pit with a drain and crushed rock floor. The project cost over $1,000 per tree and includes daily care by a regional arborist. Citizens questioned the venture as subway rumble, soot, and traffic threaten survival.
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State S
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University offers course Religions in Minnesota
University of Minnesota introduces an experimental course titled Religions in Minnesota. Dr Henry E Allen explains it surveys sects and denominations across the state's history with the aim of fostering understanding of others beliefs.
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Minnesota
Henry E. Allen
Atlen
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