Kids and Rubs: Senior softball team defies age odds
In St Petersburg Florida 75 to 100 year olds play weekly at 1 45 PM with 38 games into the season led by 73 year old Harry Tarlian who after triple bypass surgery and a pacemaker has hit 16 home runs. Teammates joke his age is 77. The group begins with a ceremonial anthem and flag salute led by 92 year old George Bakeswell.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Harry Tarlian
Providence
Tarlian
Harry
George Bakeswell
Livonia
Mich
High Ho and Rah Rah 75 Plus Players Shine on Field
Freddy Broadwell aged 100, a 75 year per rule club member from Apex NC, makes a rare at bat for the Kubs as he travels by two buses from a retirement home. Eighty year old Bob Gosford of Newport RI grounds a long career noted by family counts, while Andy McKnight, 78, presides. The league enforces a year of probation and a strict dress code of white pants and shirts with bow ties. Trades occur if teams fall four games behind. Bakeswell, 75, once batboy, dreams of playing to 2000.
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Fred Broadwell
Kubs
Freddy
Apex
N.C
Andy McKnight
Newton
Mass
Kids & Kubs
McKnight
Bob Gosford
Newport
R.I
Gosford
Laughlin Nevada Becomes Nevada Third Largest City in Growth Surge
Laughlin Nevada expands as casino resorts and housing boom draw 50,000 weekend visitors. By 1987 up to four new casino resorts, 1,700 new rooms, and 3,000 more residents expected annually. Bullhead City residents benefit from lower Nevada costs. Sam's Town Gold River joint venture boosts appeal as growth accelerates.
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Laughlin, Nev
Colorado
Las Vegas
Laughlin
Nevada
Casino Drive
Bullhead City
Ariz
Jim Ley
Clark County
Vegas
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Arizona
Sam’s Town
Gold River Hotel
Sam Boyd
Sticker Punishment in Midwest City Drunken Driving Case
Del City resident Delmar Warren received a bumper sticker as part of a DUI penalty in Midwest City. The program, administered by Municipal Judge Ken Spears, applies to some offenders and is meant to deter erratic driving, with six months display and restrictions on parking near liquor outlets.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
del City
Delmar Warren
Midwest City
Warren
Ken Spears
Spears
Midwest City Police
Jim Cox
Cox
Alcoholics Anonymous
East Coast to vote on guild strike amid contract dispute
East Coast Writers Guild members vote on an eighty four million dollar contract offer after the West rejected it. California guild members backed a strike by one thousand two hundred fifty five to eight hundred three. The walkout would halt writing for film and TV starting Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. affecting soap operas and pay television scripts while newswriters stay unaffected.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Writers Guild of America
West
Writers Guild
Naomi Gurian
Guild
California Guild
Deaf residents push to serve on juries in Connecticut
Connecticut deaf residents urge lawmakers to allow jury service, arguing profound deafness should not bar participation. A Judiciary Committee bill would forbid excluding the 25,000 profoundly deaf and 17,000 with hearing impairment, noting four states already permit deaf jurors. An interpreter requirement would cost about 1500 dollars annually.
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Hartford, Conn
Connecticut
State Judiciary Committee
Shirley Turner
New Haven
Thomas Dudchik
Richard B. Schreiber
State Commission On the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
California
Louisiana
Colorado
Iowa
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Bakeswell
Charles Ruthe
Boyd Organization
Bill Paulos
Edgewater Hotel and Casino
East Coast
Custom
John
Zebrowski
Parkway
Old Town
Mister Kwik
Odessa
Andrews Hwy
Tex
Value City
Value City Office
N. Texas
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