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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1964
Page
8
Mt Pleasant captured the indoor title with 73 points in the Southeast Six meet at the State University of Town field house. Washington High finished sixth with 27 points, earning a few individual efforts including Mike Steele’s second in high jump and Nor ton fourth in 60 yard high hurdles.
Iowa, seeking revenge after a Friday loss, fell 4-2 to Western Illinois in 10 innings. Angie Vallejo delivered the deciding RBI with a single to center in the 10th, as Rick Rakowski and Ray Duss scored on the play. Ken Banaszek and Bill Niedbala had led Iowa with a 2-0 advantage before the comeback.
Culutes 412 RE 39 33 8 4 8 360 leads the Friday Mixers with 8 wins and 4 losses. Untouchables 34 38 Nuggets 240 Fallouts 29 43 chase high marks as team and individual scores surge. Team series top 1922 by R and L while Untouchables post 1824. team game 666 by R and 1 and 664 by MnTs. Cobb Burlingame 204 in individual game. Burlingame 602 and Shirley Burlingame 524 in series. Shirley Burlingame 198 in game.
The first annual Waco Girls Relays will be held at Wayland on Saturday April 18 with 1:30 p.m. preliminaries and 7:30 p.m. finals. About 250 girls from more than twenty southeastern Iowa schools compete in 16 events including district state events plus five junior high events. Strong teams include English Valleys Cardinal Belle Plaine and Harmony.
In the Men's Bowling Five Towners League Mullens 2313 Dutch Tonsorial 2 Brown Finance 21 14 Crawville Legion 1917 and Harold uv Community Feed 14 21 Sitter Electric 2 Washington Mfg 1323. High team score Brown 2591 Crawfordsville Legion 2542. Team game Brown 928 Crawfordsville 901. Individual series Jack Weik 592 Maurice Henry 584. Individual game Harry Suter 216 Jack Weik 213.
Cepeda headlines spring, hitting over .400 with eight homers, including a grand slam off Jim Grant for the Giants in Stockton. Banks returns to form with a 321 average and 12-game streak as Chicago tops Boston. Mazeroski drives Pirates past Phillies in Chattanooga. Pinson and Johnson homer in Reds win over White Sox in Portsmouth. Cloninger shines for Braves in West Palm Beach, and Ford powers Yankees past Senators in Fort Lauderdale.
Keota topped BGM Sigourney and Montezuma 83 1 3 to 79 42 and 38 2 3 in a near final event thriller the mile relay. Dave Temple led wins in broad jump and the mile while George Norenberg and Mike Flanders starred in relays. Keotas next event is the Cornell relays at Mount Vernon.
Douglas MacArthur the five star general of three wars will be entombed in the MacArthur Memorial rotunda after six days of public repose. Funeral services planned at St Pauls Episcopal Church in Norfolk with burial to follow. Mrs MacArthur and her son Arthur to depart for New York after ceremonies.
Arnold Palmer stretched his Masters lead to seven under par after a 68 in round three, reaching 137 total and four strokes ahead of Gary Player who battled tonsillitis. Jack Nicklaus faltered to 73 while Davis Love, Bob Goalby and Tony Lema chased Palmer as the field was cut to 44 for the final two rounds.
United Press International panel forecasts the New York Yankees will win the American League and the World Series, defeating the San Francisco Giants in the 1964 Fall Classic. Dodgers finish second in the National League with several contenders from the NL crowd.
Floyd Patterson plans to sell his 11 room Yonkers home for 140000 amid racial taunts toward his four children aged 2 to 7. He seeks a new neighborhood supportive of his family and says some neighbors taunted them with slurs while others remain not prejudiced. Jackie Robinson faces a separate discrimination suit in Harlem bank deal.
UPI report from Cedar Rapids Iowa notes Ruth McGovern 19 Independence an employee of radio station WMT died when she swerved to avoid a block of wood and collided with an oncoming semi trailer truck. Truck driver Clarry L Fisher 48 Gladbrook had minor injuries. A second semi slowed and was rear collided by Gene Maule 20 Belle Plaine. Passengers John Dmeyers and Roger Long 20 Belle Plaine suffered facial lacerations and were hospitalized in Iowa City.
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