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_-BhKCKEMtlDGE AMERICAN-I Ht'KSDAV. APRIL 27. H>5
BRECKENRIDGE AMERICAN
Published Daily
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/SPOMS^
MoDermott Is Off To Slow Start
After Early Season Predictions
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WEW TIGER TEETH—Second Baseman Jerry Priddy, left, and
Dick Kryhaeki give Detroit a new right side to the infield, make
Ked Koife s Tigers a serious contender in American League race.
I'at. off. i
: K RA l-KY
Sports Writer
April 27. ib.P-
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I'nil'-d Press
NKtt YORK.
i k M t k<-v McDermott heaved
rii uts into the locker, folded
s mx feet, thr *e inches onto a
o.,l iriu *lv>t fi frown at tht- ra-
o v Hcb was blaring about his
" l>\ *h>- roaring New York
;.ik- i bats.
"Worried'.'" grunted thf Boston
■ I Si x pitcher who had just
the showers.
"Nope. 1 didn't have a
year the first year so why
about the second."
McDermott is thi 21-year-old
fast ball tosser tht- Red Sox
thought would make th«- fans for-
get such left handers as Lefty
Grove and Goofy Gomez. I'p until
now he hasn't succeeded, but Mic-
key isn't the worrying kind.
This young man with the scraw-
. ney build, curly reddish hair and
■ !' '1 live runs and two homers | smiling brown eyes is the soul of
io:ru five hits in one and one- ; nonchalance. He proved that last
his walk to | nt-ason when the Red Sox were
hammering down th>- stretch with
fh«- fast-closing Yankees breath-
ing down their neck. The park was
thick with tension when they
called on the rookie to stem the
Yankee tide and, as Mickey walk-
ed out to the mound, he hesitated,
turned and called to a friend in
the box seats:
"Hey, did you get me those tick-
ets to South Pacific?"
It's a perennial qu -st with him,
although there is a sneaking sus-
picion around the clubhouse that
h - has seen ihe show three times
already.
An elongated clothes horse ad-
dicted to gray flannel suits with
oufized shoulders which make
tnii«l innings to earn
Take Off Ugly Fat With
This Home Recipe
H«rt is an inexpensive home r«r.p« for
taking off ungainly weight matI helping to
bring back aillunng curves end graceful
■l«mi*rn -Mi. Just g«C from your drugg .
four ounces ot liquid Barc«ntrat«. Add
unough grapvfru.t ju.ee to mak« a pint.
Then just take two tabiespoonafut twice a
day. Wonderful reftuita majr be obfa.ned
juiekly. Now you m.tjr i!im down your fiic-
ure and !«>*« pounds of Utfiy fat without
buck breaking exvrciM or starvation «i>et.
t'. S easy to mak* and aesy to take. Con*
tains nothing harmful. If the %#ry first
bottle doesn't show you the simple, easy
way to lose bulky weight and iH-lp regain
•lender, more graceful curvet, return th# j
amply bottle and get your money bacg j
Rom where 1 sit...ly Joe Marsh
His Punch
is His Signature
Tigers Take 6th
Straight For An
Early Loop Lead
By CARL Ll'NDQUIST
United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK, April 27 <r.K>
—Look out for Red Rolfe's Flying
Tigers baseball's peace-time
counterpart of Maj. lien. Claire
Chennault's Flying Tigers in war-
time China.
Rolfe's Tigers aren't quite so
devastating, even though they are
in a fair way to tear up the Amer-
ican league if somebody doesn't
ground them shortly. /
Yesterday they buzzed the St.
Louif Browns for their sixth vic-
tory in seven starts, beating them
down after some travail in 10 in-
nings, 8 to !.
They tied off on Kddie Albrecht,
fifth St. Louis pitcher ill tin- 10th,
Johnny Li pin walking, Gerry
Priddy sacrificing him to second,
and George Kelt singling him
home. Kelt, who moved to second
on the throw to the plate, scored
the second ran in the 10th on a
single by Pat Mull in.
Paul Calvert, who pitched two
hitless relief innings, was the
.KJiurutiuv iuiu in in iu uui uu iw I • • i_ i *• i . • t
pounds and he'd make then, forget I ^nmng hurler for the tigers
Grove. Gomez put it on-and they j 'Rt,"'k ** whp^
they left off in Boston last week,
! rattling the fences and Manager
.Joe McCarthy's nerves again in a
i lit to 2 triumph in which
j him look like L'il Abner, Mickey
' depends mostly on a fast ball
which Dizzy Dean calls tile fastest
' in thr league.
great | ..j Wl)Uidn't know about that,"
won y i McDern >tt grins. "I don't have
much time to think about things
like that when I'm pitching. 1
just lean over and send it in. If
I'm lucky, it doesn't come back
faster than I threw it."
A herky-jerky lad with more
nervous energy than the tigerish
Ted Williams, Mickey has attemp-
ted this season to slow down his
delivery.
"Maybe that's the reason I did-
n't do so well up until now," he
explained. "I used to be in too
much of a hurry to get rid of the
ball."
That called for a quick windup
and initiation of his old delivery.
"Now I take it slower and easier
and I find that you don't lose
sight of the plate," he added in a
vocal delivery which is just as
quick as his high hard one. "It
should help my control and give
me more durability during hot
weather."
McDermott allowed that he had
put on 10 pounds since last season
which, although it is hardly noti-
ceable, boosted his aviordupois to
175.
"Hope it helps," he laughed,
"But I keep thinking of a story
Gomez tells. According to Gomez,
somebody told him to put on 10
put
almost forgot Gomez.
Was ..n the train up to Central
Z City ihe oilier da> and when the
conductor «nie ar<iund. I a«ked
- him hy their ticket punches make
- such odd-*hai>ed holes in the ticket.
"Kvery conductor in the country
h;e a different design for his
purxh," he tells nie. "Some even
show up a fellow's preferences.
Nov.- take mine. The hole it makes
~ looks like a beer goblet."
Sure enough! Then he went on
to >ay that the punch is just like
the conductor's signature. Make* it
easy to trace tickets ... to check up
if something happens.
C.ojnntht. I1S0.1'mud Stout Brtwrt Foundation
MCKCKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
D'o ALL TwiS UUU-ABALLOC'
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SOMEMOW WtTH OOP
GETTING MAURIEO
From where I sit, even though
your ticket is punched differently
from mine, it still gets you where
you're going. Just like people with
their opinions. You might like cof-
fee, another person, tea—and I'll
settle for a temperate glass of
beer. But what does it matter, so
long as we respect the right of the
other to have tastes and opinions?
We're all trying to go in the same
direction — towards a friendlier,
more pleasant world for all of us.
Fastest Auto
Owners Ready
To Prove Claim
By NORMAN NICHOLSON
| I'nited Press Staff Correspondent
DKTROIT. April 27 (U.R'—Two
, St. Clair Shores, Mich., garage
ownt rs said today that they have
i th>' fastest automobile on the road,
j And they offered to take on all
'comers to prove it.
Harold Sheldon and Walter Wil
1 liams claimed their Ford con-
vertible will make any sirck car
1 eat dust inside of two io:!es.
But before you take on the
Messrs. Sheldon and Williams, you
i should know this:
j Tneir Ford is powered by a lt>50
high compression Cadillac engine,
j which generates H!0 horsepower,
! i.o more than the Ford V-8.
From a standing start, the car
| hits iio iu only eight and a half
, seconds. In 15 seconds it zooms to
! 80 and in 19 seconds it can roll
! at 90. Top speed is well over 120
| miles an hour.
Partners in the Shpldon and Wil-
i liams conversion company, the men
i "got to thinking one day that
souping up engines was not t'ne an-
sv.'er to a top speed car."
i So thye decided to substitute a
j compact, power-loaded Cadillac
! motor for the peppy Ford product,
j Six customers so far have shell-
id out from $1,000 to $1,100 to
I haw thtir Fords converted to Cad-
j iliac power. The garage owners
also have "conversion kits" con
taining engines, parts and instruc-
tions for shipment. "Believe it or
not." said Sheldon, "most of our
customers have been middle-aged."
A grocery store owner and a
newspaperman in Detroit, two Tex-
as salesmen and two Florida "play-
hoys" were the first customers.
But Sheldon said "we have MOO
prospects interested now."
In converting the Fords, the
rear axle ratio is unc'nanged, but
a heavy duty Ford truck clutch is
substituted, new engine mountings
and radiator are added "plus 101
other adjustments."
"People have come from miles a-
round to race us on back roads,"
Sheldon said. "We've run them all
into the ground within two city
blocks. The only car that really ex-
tended us was a British Jaguar
with a top speed of l.'t2 miles an
houi
Ford Motor Company recently
introduced a hot-rod, souped-up
Ford for police purchasers only,
but Sheldon is positive the St.
Clair S'riores convertible can leave
it standing still.
"We challenge the Ford people
or any other stock car company
or owner to prove us wrong," he
said.
Tides reach up the Hudson Riv-
er to the very head of navigation
at Troy, a distance of more than
150 miles.
TERMINAL GRAIN CO
MORE YIELD PER ACRE
FROM BLUE TAG BRAND
SEEDS-.- PROCESSED
UNDER SUPERVISION
OP EXPERIENCED
AGRONOMIST AT THE
41 "YEAR-OLD
TERMINAL GRAIN CO./
•—Bur
that
NIGHT—-
Y'PES. IT may be
PRACTICE for us.
But THEY'RE ,
our for. blooo /
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CO*a 1*60 Br Wit A SEE.'Ct >\C. T M PECL u S PAT QfP
By V. T. Hamlin
Bauer and Yogi Berra started
things off with two run homers in
th - first inning. Lefty Kd Lopat
turned in the best pitching per-
formance by a Yankee hurler this
season, holding the Sox to eight
hits, four of which they bounced
in the seventh inning for their
only inns.
In a night game, at Philadelp-
hia, the Washington Senators got
seven-hit pitching from Sid Hud-
son and defeated the Athletics, 5
to :i. One of the A's blows was a
homer by Ferris Fain but Ed Yost
cracked a homer for Washington
in the first inning and AI Evans
connected with two on in the se-
cond to clinch the game.
The St. Louis Cardinals pro-
longed the misery in Cincinnati
when they took their turn at
beating the hapless Reds, :i to 2,
as Stan Musial tripled home the
tying run in the fifth, then scor-
ed what proved to be the clincher
on Enos Slaughter's single. The
game have a mark of six defeats
and remain the only club in the
majors without a triumph this
season. They took a short-lived 2
to 1 lead in the third when the ul-
timate losing pitcher, Kent Peter-
son singled, moved up when Mus-
ial muffed Bobby Adam's short fly
for an error and Johnny Wyrostek
tripled both runners home. How-
ie Pollet pitched five-hit ball to
win his first game after two de-
feats.
The Brooklyn Dodgers got in-
volved in another rhubarb, which
is hardly news, as they beat the
Phillies, 5 to 4, in a 10-inning
night game in Brooklyn. In fact
the Phils finished the game under
protest after umpire Babe Pinelli
ruled Roy Campanella's 10th in-
ning fly apparently caught by
Dick Sisler, a ground rule dotigle
for fan interference. That put
men on second and third and Pee
Wee Reese's single won the game.
The Cleveland at Chicago game
in the American and the New
York at Boston in the national
were postponed. Chicago and
Pittsburgh had an open date in
the national.
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Continued Fiom Page 1
on a red light without coming to
a stop. A leg or a skull may be
broken because of that some day,
but we just wish to say it is the
belief here we are driving better,
and to give the people credit. At
the same time we knock on wood
in the hope that a serious acei-
dent will uot follow tliis to make
us look wrong.
I Classified
THOUGHT FOR THE MOMENT:
Whenever education and refine-
jnent grow away from the common
people, they are growing toward
selfishness, which is the monster
evil of the world—H. W. Becher.
SEEN OR HEARD: EMMETT
Roberts named custodian of Dan-
iel Lake-at present to see there is
no fishing there until the opening
expected about June .... Two lo-
cal men fined $14 each in Justice
Court for fighting .... Mrs. E. L.
Knust is a medical patient in
Breckenridge Clinic .... Roy
Smith has returned from a three-
day Penney convention held in
Tulsa .... Glenn Luttrell back
from his vacation to points east
and north .... Offer of use of
Synogogue for services opening
Sunday at 9 a.m. highly apprecia-
ted by Episcopalians .... Getting
brick on lot for new Episcopal
church at Elm and Easton streets
.... Father Albert with package
of cigarets iu each pocket, both
same brand, and he asks which do
you prefer .... Monte Carey says
stuff growing in pastures but
more rain needed soon .... Mrs.
Bill Pitzer went to Dallas to pur-
chase dress and returned to find
Mrs. Archylou Dickie with one
like it but purchased elsewhere . .
Buster Creagh and Ray Fer-
guson, of Breck High in tourney
at D alias, both qualified with a
Tfi, .... Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Har-
rison of Big Lake are the parents
of a S)r3 pound son, born April
25-Mother formerly Dorothy Fay
Matlock of Breckenridge .... Red
and white roses on fence at Kiker
Funeral Home plenty pretty ....
And who could complain about a
day like today.
Derby Prelim Is
Test For Eleven
LEXINGTON, Ky., April 27
—Tom Gray's Oil Capitol gets a
chance to test his new felt-lined
racing shoes today when he meets
11 other three-year-olds in the
$20,000 blue grass stakes—one of
the final tune-ups for next week's
Kentucky Derby.
Whether Oil Capitol's new
"slippers" will help him regain
his sensational winter form will be
decided in today's mile-and-a-fur-
long test over the Keeneland Oval.
The son of Mahmoud certainly has
drown a classy field for the ex-
periment.
Eleven of the scheduled starters
are eligible for the derby. The on-
ly non-eligibie is C. E. Buckley's
Big Ike, winner of the Arkansas
Derby.
. W. M. Peavey's Wisconsin Boy
will share top weight of 126
pounds with Oil Capitol.
The remaining entries and their
weights are C. V. Whitney's Mr.
Trouble and Doole, each at 121
pounds; Clifford Mooers' Hawley,
Abercrombie and Smith's Strand-
ed, E. P. Tavlor's Navy Chief and
Big Ike, each 123; W. II. Veene-
nian's Black G e o r g e, Reverie
Knoll Farm's French Admiral, and
Luginbuel and Creech's Jiminy
Cricket, each 121; King Ranch's
On The Mark, 118.
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WANTED
EXPERIENCED secretary & book-
keeper desires permanent position.
College trained. Box t)5. Eastland,
Texas.
WANTED—Housework, fifty cents
an hour. Would like steady po-
sition. Phone 1194-W. Louise Phil-
lips.
KEAJL ESTATE
5 ROOM house on pavement. Good
condition. Priced rignt. Barton
Reed. Phone 1595.
run 8AU
THREE ROOM box house with
two porches. See C. J. Offield. Jr.
200 W. First. Phone 858.
RED FOX fur piece almost new,
Reasonable. Box 275, Breckenridge
American.
SPINET PIANO: We have left on
our hands, practically new spinet
piano to be sold for balance of
$298.00. For details and location,
write Credit Mgr., Wolfe Music
Co., 1808 Rose, Wichita Falls,
Texas.
SPRING BUILDING
VALUES
2x4 & 2x6's per 100 $7.95
Celo-Tex Plank & Celiling
Tile per 100 $9.00
1x8 & 1x6 S4S per 100 $7.95
Corregated Iron per square $9.20
1x4 & 1x6 S4S per 100 $6.95
75 Miles Free Delivery
All prices quoted include 75 miles
free delivery. Let our experienced
personnel figure your material bill
for big savings.
Call-wire-write or come -in
Lone Starv Lumber & Builders
Supply
1818 Pine Street, Abilene, Texas
Phone 4381
EIGHT PIECE dinette suite. Best
offer accepted. 906 S. Rose.
THREE ROOM house for sale.
South Bend, Tex. See Gulf Ser.
Sta. at South Bend.
4 ROOM modern house. Good loca-
tion ,near new nospital. Priced
FOR RENT
NICE 4 room furnished Apt. Pit
vate bath. See C. F. Offield, Jt
200 W. First. Phone 858.
FOB RENT: Large downtown
partment. Call or see A. H. Kit
ler—Phone 261 or 241.
NICE front bedroom. Adjoimnt
bath. 807 West Lindsey St. Phon
1148-J.
GARAGE Bedroom. Rate very roa
sonable. Phone 49-J.
!y
TWO ROOM Apt. Close in. Elec
trie refrigerator. Cultra Apt.
LARGE one room efficiency Apv
Private batn. Bills paid. Also bed
room, 901 E. Elm.
I§
! 'M
j
1.;
THREE ROOM furnished Apt. Ca
950-W.
MODERN 5 room house. Also
room duplex. Private bath. Phon
725-W.
NICE furnished apartment. Cleat
close in. Electric refrigeration. 30
S. Rose.
NOTICE
ANNUAL Woodson • Cemeter
working all day. Thursday,tMay <■
1950. Bring a basket lunch. If ur
able to attend, please send dons
tion for caretaker. Sis Dicki^
NOTICE. Yard Service. Lawn
mowed—Hedge trimming, any kin
of work on yards. Also stuidji loan
gravel and St. August*# "grai
for sale. Phone 697. Serf Gaylar
Crowley.
HOME DINING ROOM—Meals-
room & board. 209 N. Court. Noa
Ray. Phone 9517.
REMOD EL—REPAIR
BUILDING MATERIALS, asbe?
tos siding, roofing, paint, etc. 3
months to pay—no down paymen
ROCKWELL BROS. & GO. 221 r
Court. Phone 177. Breckenridgt
Texas.
HELP WANTED
AVON PRODUCTS, INC., has sev-
eral openings for representatives.
For personal interview write giv-
ing street address to Mrs. Mar-
garette White, district manager,
p. o. box 1615, Abilene, Texas.
SECRETARY & BOOKKEEPER.
Persons with past experience-
male or female that can take
shorthand dictation and are look-
ing for a permanent job may ad-
dress their application to Oilfield
Salvage" Co., P. O. Box 812.
Breckenridge, Texas.
WANTED TO RENT
GOD 5 or 6 room house. Couple,
no children or pets. Permanently
located. Will take years lease.
Must have garage. Phone 1439-J.
JOIN our n>ion club. First qualit
nylons 99c, every 13th. pair fret
Park-In Gro. 409 F.. Walker. Phon
1393.
I WILL NOT be responsible fo
debts, bills, or any dealings mad
other than by myself. M. H. Hai
per.
SQUARE DANCE class 'staitin
next week. If you are intereste
contact me immediately. Dal
Hitchcock. Phone 678.
LOST
BROWN sharkskin leather bib
fold. Name Charles R. Price. R. V
Carey Transfer & Storage.
Political
Announcements
The American is authorized to an-
nounce the following candidates
for office subject to the Demo-
cratic Party Primary in July.
COUNTY CLERK
1*7 (Chief) Eaaon
Ben Grant
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Precinct No. 1
.1. A. (James) Bryant (Re-election)
B. F. (Frank) Deaver
A. A. (Amos) Hardee
Precinct No. 2
I L (Doc Griffith (Re-election)
B. C. (Buel) Whiteside
George N. Wright
Precinct 3
L. J. (Joe) Angel (Re-election)
W. M. (Bill) Creecy
Precinct No. 4
E. L. Russell
Mrs. George L. Kelley (re-election)
G. A. (Jack) Tread way
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
Precinct No. 1
G. E. (Ed) lohnson
L. T. Woodall (Re-election)
2 ALL
2 ALL
Better Cleaning
Berries
Or Bring To
Little troubles can
cause big repair bills
later on.
<s>-
Check the Clutcl
The pressi
sjioola be enough to depress
the clutch pedal about an inch.
If not, it's time for an adjust-
ment to save wear on clutch
surfaces.
M HCOMMfW (MKT
iikismw tavia
P O N T I A C
M. A. NAYipR
DISTRICT CLERK
Walter B. Clift (Re-election)
SHERIFF STEPHENS CO.
Tom Offield (Bt-slection)
COUNTY SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDENT
T. M. James
TAX ASSESSOR
AND COLLECTOR
Robert E. Hood (Re-election)
COUNTY JUDGE
J. W. Morrow
Jesse R. Smith (Re-election)
COUNTY ATTORNEY
Joe Cracey
COUNTY TREASURER
Clyde Speer (Re-election)
CONSTABLE
Precinct 1
L. R. (Dick) McFall
C. F. Rodder (Re-election)
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Jack Cox (Re-election)
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Ben J. Dean (Re-election)
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