Best-of-7 semifinals and key scores across minor leagues
Texas League Dallas at Houston ppd by rain with Houston leading 2-1. Shreveport 11 San Antonio 7. Shreveport leads 3-2. International ee Montreal at Rochester ppd. Toronto 2 Havana 1 after 10 innings. Toronto leads 3-1. Eastern League Schenectady 4 Allentown 0. Schenectady leads 1-0. Southern Association Chattanooga 6 Birmingham 4. Birmingham leads 3-2. Memphis 4 Mobile 3. Mobile leads 3-2. American Association Louisville 3 Omaha 2. series tied 2-2. Western League semifinals Des Moines 6 Colorado Springs 5. Des Moines leads 2-1. Wichita 2 Pueblo 0. series tied 2-2. Big State League Texas City at Waco ppd by rain. Texas City leads 3-2. Corpus Christi Harlingen 2 Corpus Christi leads 2-2. West Texas-New Mexico Pampa 12 Albuquerque 2. Pampa leads. Amarillo at Plainview pool wet grounds. Amarillo leads 2-1. Longborn League Artesia 4 Roswell 0. Artesia leads 3-1.
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Dallas
Houston
Shreveport
San Antonio
Des Moines
Colorado Springs
Wichita
Pueblo
Texas City
Waco
Corpus Christi
Harlingen
Sports In Brief Roundup of Baseball Golf Tennis and Horse Racing
New York-Cleveland split a doubleheader with Cleveland winning 3-2 after the Yankees won 6-1. Cary Middlecoff captured the Calvacade Tournament with a 72-hole 276 and a $10,000 prize. Louise Suggs led the Women’s Open at 217 after 54 holes. Tony Trabert completed a tennis Triple Slam by beating Ken Rosewall for the U.S. title as Doris Hart defended the women’s crown. In horse racing, Westward Ho won the Discovery Handicap at Saratoga, Fairhill’s Repose beat Mighty Moby in the Foxcatcher Cup, and Busher Fantasy upset Atlantic City’s World’s Playground Stakes. Sir Yribal won Hawthorne’s Chicago Handicap and Blen Host took Del Mar’s Futurity.
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New York
Cleveland
Yankees
Scotch Plains
N.J
Cary Middlecoff
ST. Louis
Louise Suggs
Forest Hills
N.Y
Tony Trabert
Australia
Ken Rosewall
U.S
Doris Hart
Pat Ward
England
Saratoga
Aqueduct
Fairhill
Repose
Mighty Moby Head
Rockin
Atlantic City
Needles
Chicago
Sir Yribal
Hawthorne
del Mar
Calif
Blen Host
Baseball Roundup Features Slugging Marks Across Leagues
Yesterday's action highlights Nieman and Hogan among home run leaders with the White Sox and Red Sox. Avila, Collins, and Yan also connected for others as Giants Mays Banks Virdon Boyer Crandall, Kluszewski, Furillo and Crandall appear in varied counts across Dodgers Indians Braves Cardinals and Yankees.
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Nieman
White Sox
Zauchin
White
Red Sox
Hogan
Avila
Indians
Collins
Yankees
Furillo
Dodgers
Kluszewski
Redlegs
Mays
Giants
Banks
Virdon
Boyer
Cardinals
Crandall
Braves
Major college grid next weekend schedule and matchups
Friday September 16 games include California at Pittsburgh and Kentucky at State College. Other notable pairs feature Mississippi State at Florida, Miami at Georgia Tech, and Georgia vs Mississippi in Atlanta. Also Missouri hosts Maryland, Texas at Texas Tech, and Washington State travels to Southern California.
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California
Pittsburgh
Kentucky
State
EAS
Montana
Houston
Texas Tech
Texas
Far West
Washington State
Southern California
Brigham Young
Arene State
Oregon
Utah
Idaho
Washington
College of Pacific
Stanford
Walters Burglary Spree Probed By State Agents
A state crime bureau agent joined Cotton county deputies and local police in the weekend probe of seven burglaries that netted about 577 dollars. Hardest hit was Claiborne Dry Goods with 500 dollars taken. Mc Donald-Meyer Pontiac agency yielded 70 dollars. Others entered were Pratt's Grocery Joachim Instrument Co Davis Motor Co Copeland Equipment Co and Walters Lumber Co. Entry came via side or rear windows in most cases. a tear gas bomb exploded at Davis Motor Co. Police believe the same group carried out all the jobs.
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Walters
State Crime Bureau
Cotton County Sheriff’s Deputies
Claiborne Dry Goods
McDonald - Meyer Pontiac
Seriff Bill
Walters Lumber Co
Pratt’s Grocery
Joachim Implement Co
Davis Motor Co
Copeland Equipment Co
Sheriff's Department
Dyer
World's Just A Big Stage DETROIT bank gamble robbery tale
Detroit report follows Donald Hardwick a 26 year old who hid $800 won at a race track in his billfold Saturday planning to cash in. Two bandits entered a bar demanded his wallet took $90 but left the billfold behind noting his plan to be first in line at the bank Monday morning.
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Detroit
Donald Hardwick
Hardwick
Kissing Birds Cause Water Service Shutdown in San Juan
In San Juan Capistrano two linnets allegedly caused a short circuit by locking beaks in a kiss, disrupting pumping at the San Juan Water Co for about an hour. Burned fuses and a station attendant’s report of a flash preceded the two birds’ deaths.
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San Juan Capistrano
Calif
Nofie Famularo
San Juan Water Co
Compton couple welcomes fourth child with porch flag
In Compton California Hal Fischer hoisted a front porch flag as news of his wife Elain Fischer's fourth child born Sunday spread. The flag features a baby lying on a blue blanket with the caption Its a Boy.
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Compton
Calif
Elain Fischer
Hal
Chicago Up Machinist Rescues Trapped Motorist From Hole
Machinist Jer ry Vosecek woke in front of his home after a night shift and narrowly avoided a fall into an uncovered water department trench. He later heard a voice from the same hole, pulled out a second victim, and reported the hazard before filling the trench.
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Chicago
Jerry Vosecek
City Water Department
Water Department
Bidders Sought On Unclaimed Items At Chicago Post Office
Unclaimed items at the Chicago post office include 30 pounds of feathers 50 pounds of lovebird seed and 60 Liberace charm bracelets awaiting bids.
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Chicago P
Chicago
Chicago Butter Prices and Oklahoma Farm Market Report
Butter steady with receipts 789,420 and price list in Chicago. Oklahoma City prices for wheat, eggs, butterfat, broilers, hens, and livestock follow with state USDA cattle, hogs, and sheep figures for Sept 12, showing steady to weak trends and varied regional bids.
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Chicago
Oklahoma City
State Department of Agriculture Today
Lawton
Bison
Hennessey
Clinton
el Reno
Enid
Frederick
Kingfisher
Yukon
Blackwell
Hobart
Medford
Vici
Guyman
Hooker
Broilers
F.o.b
Muskogee
Vinita
Tulsa
Elk City
Woodward
Pauls Valley
Watonga
Alva
USDA
U. S
National Meteorologists Gather for 140th AMS Meeting
Seventy five of the nation s leading meteorologists will assemble at Oklahoma A&M College in Stillwater for the American Meteorological Society s 140th national meeting from October 3 to 5. Thirty seven papers across six topics will be presented over the three day event.
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Stillwater
Okla
Oklahoma A&m College
American Metrological Society
Prescriptions cost Lawton residents $10.50 yearly
Lawton residents now spend $10.50 each year in neighborhood drug stores for doctors prescriptions medicines and health aids. Statisticians in the retail drug trade estimate Lawton's total at $602700 and the national total at $1700000000. Prescriptions average $2.19 each, up from 91 cents in 1940, with wonder drugs driving growth and better disease control.
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Lawton
U.S
Girl Scout Fund Drive Postponed
The independent Girl Scout fund drive planned to start today has been postponed a week. Finance chair T. D. Nicklas said leaders could not compile the needed information and the timing was too short. A tentative start is next Monday with a separate drive previously announced Friday due to United Fund budget cuts.
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T. D. Nicklas
Girl Scouts
United Fund
Nicklas
Delegates Return From VFW Parley
Seven delegates from Lawton area attended the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Ladies Auxiliary council meetings in Oklahoma City over the weekend. Names include Ray mond Rust and wife, Deward Stringer and wife, G D Hunsucker, and Sfc J R Pledger with Sfc Melvin Gross of Fort Sill. The sixth district meeting is set for October 12 at Fort Sill. A tri state VFW meeting with units from Oklahoma Texas and Missouri will be held October 29 and 30 in Ardmore.
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Lawton
Veterans of Foreign Wars and Ladies Auxiliary Department of Oklahoma Council
Oklahoma City
Raymond Rust
Cornell
Deward Stringer
Columbia
G. D. Hunsucker
Bessie
J. R. Pledger
Sfc
Melvin Gross
Fort Sill
VFW and
Ladies Auxiliary
VFW
Oklahoma
Texas
Missouri
Ardmore
Twelve spaces left for fair merchant exhibits
Darold English announced that twelve exhibit spaces remain for the Comanche County Junior Free Fair commercial displays. Merchants may contact English at telephone 206. last year’s exhibitors have priority. Two tents will be used this year and the Junior Chamber of Commerce manages the displays for the September 19 to 21 event.
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Comanche County
Darold English
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Bus wreck kills two and injures twelve near Commerce
A Continental Trailways bus carrying 41 passengers collided with a pickup truck two miles west of Commerce Texas Sunday night. Two truck occupants, both Negroes, were killed. Nine bus passengers were treated and released. two hospitalized with non critical injuries. Bus driver T W Helms and sailors aiding in evacuations helped save all aboard. Victims identified as Rudolph and Joe Jeffrey of Gilmer. Cornelius Jeffrey hospitalized with both arms broken.
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Commerce
Tex
Lieberman Hospital
Rudolph and
Joe Jeffrey
Brothers
Gilmer
Cornelius Jeffrey
E. G. Freeman
Mozell
Pearl Howard
Goldthwaite
Freeman
Howard
Dallas
Norfolk
John Willie
Willis
Helms
Joe Cook
Denton
Ike Horn
Paris
Maurice McKinnon
Magnolia
Ark
Doyle Sands
Hooks
Wuania Bogard
Lefty Sampson
John Cowan
Winnsboro
Services for Horace Stevenson Jr. Held at Union Baptist
Funeral services for Horace Stevenson Jr. age 20 of 1624 Washington are set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at Union Baptist Church 16th and Garfield with Rev. Graves officiating. Burial in a family plot at Hennepin Oklahoma. He died after being shot early Saturday at a local hospital. Survivors include his parents two sisters Maria Armstrong and Pauline Stevenson and two brothers Robert Louis Stevenson and Bertram Stevenson.
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Horace Stevenson Jr
Washington
Union Baptist Church
16Th and
Garfield
Graves
Church of God
Ardmore
Hennepin
Okla
Shaw Funeral Home
Stevenson
Horace Stevenson
Maria Armstrong
Pauline Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bertram Stevenson
McAlester
William Sherrod 68 Dies in Fort Worth Texas
William Arthur Sherrod of Seminole Texas died at Fort Worth on September 11 after several weeks illness. Former Elgin area resident, married Ada in 1912 at Corsicana. Survived by two sons Allen and Johnnie, three grandchildren and two sisters. Services at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Elgin Baptist Church. burial in Elgin Cemetery. Becker Funeral Home in charge.
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William Arthur Sherrod
Seminole
Tex
Ft. Worth
Elgin
Corsicana
Ada
Magnolia Petroleum Co
Texas
Allen Sherrod
Elgin Baptist Church
Don Bergeron
Elgin Cemetery
Becker Funeral Home
Third-Generation Newsman Wins McMahon Scholarship
Corb M. Satcher III, a third generation Oklahoma newspaperman, won a $1,000 McMahon fellowship for graduate study at the University of Oklahoma School of Journalism for 1955-56. Fellowships total $7,000 for male students. Bryson also named earlier. Satcher, editor of The Southwestern paper and former Army public information worker, is now in the Norman bureau of the Oklahoma Times.
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Oklahoma
Corb M. Satcher III
McMahon
University of Oklahoma School of Journalism
Robert F. Bryson
Norman
Bryson
Larchet
McMahon Foundation of
Lawton
OU School of Journalism
Eugene McMahon
Eugene D. McMahon
Sarcher
King College
Bristol
Funeral Rites Planned for Donald A Gross in San Antonio
Donald Andrea Gross 60, a former Lawton resident and World War I veteran, died Sunday in San Antonio after a 10 day illness from a rare blood disease. Born February 5, 1895 in Norwalk Ohio, he moved to Lawton in 1901. He was an auto parts salesman in Texas, a Mason, and Episcopal Church member. He is survived by his wife, his mother in Lawton, and a brother, with services pending in San Antonio.
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Donald Andrea Gross
Lawton
Episcopal Church of
San Antonio
France
William H. Gross
Euclid
William Gross
Foster Is Named Collegian Editor
Bill Foster son of Mr and Mrs Gordon Foster 812 Lee has been chosen editor of the Cameron Collegian for the 1955 56 term He is a sophomore who served as business manager last year First edition will appear September 27 Other staffers include Gay Way Don Warren and Ford Verma A feature editor and writers will be chosen soon Doris Joyner represents the Collegian in the student senate W J Becker is Collegian sponsor
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Bill Foster
Gordon Foster
Lee
Cameron Collegian
The
Collegian
Gay Way
Society
Don Warren
Ford Verma
Foster
Doris Joyner
W. J. Becker
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