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Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 3

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Thursday Morning December 1945 THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Tune In KRBC PAGE THREE BILL MAULDIN'S CARTOON Children Share In Lankford Will Army Places Five on UP's All-American Grid Eleven 'IL-P 0 Radar Training Stressed by Navy A 10-monlhs training program in radar is being stressed by Chief Marshall Fulgham In charge of the Navy recruiting office here with two-year enlistments open to men 17 through 30 years old Acceptance with the rating of seaman first clast is given upon qualification and advancement to rated petty officer rark assured upon completion of technical training The program offers training needed for opportunities in civilian employment in television radio engineering industrial electronics aviation Fulgham said Men will nut be accepted for the two-year program with more than three dependents BETTER Seal iraivire Max pteMMt wiik 1 I Mam Sanaa pay SaaaXar I prapaatai Earpll awl I Three Teams Rate Praise for Most Improvement in '45 NEW YORK Dec Indi ana St Mary's and Columbia wnei bracketed near the top as the' teams showing the most improvement in the 1945 grid season today by writers and roaches re-1 plying to an Associated Press poll The same experts singled out failure as the biggest disappointment of the campaign Bo MrMillin's lloosirrs drubbed by Illinois Ohio Stale and Minnesota last year were unbeaten but once tied in sweeping to their Western conference crown St Mary's a team that lost srr-en games a year ago pul together nine freshman and two sophomores in a lineup including the great Herman Wedcmeycr to take six of seven starts losing only to UCLA in the final game Lou Little gave Eastern fans a thrill by the fine performance of his Columbia team the door mat of the Ivy league during war-time days Rice drew many votes in the Southwest because the Owls came back strong after a shaky start and it was the same story for a iiiueli-im proved Nebraska club in every important team in the na-from New York and New Jersey tion voted in the best cross-section two westerners from Oklahoma of opinion possible to obtain and California two from the The first team included one man southwest both Texans one from each front Alabama Kentucky and the mid-west Illinois and a South Carolina two easterners I Hawaiian UP All-America NEW YORK Dec 5 (I P) The I'nited Press All-American football team for 1945 (unilrr the point system the man receiving the first place vote of every editor participating in the nation-wide poll would get 1089 points): Applications has been made to probate the will of the late Ijnkfurd by Thomas A Lankford son and Mrs Emmie Lynn daiighler in county court Mr Lankford died Nov 20 Original will was dated Dee 20 1944 and a codicil on Oct IS 1945 Deceased appointed his son and daughter ax executors The application for probate estimates probable value of estate exceeds $50-IKK) In his will Mr Lankford bequeathed all estate to his twelve children each to share alike His interest the will said wax a partnership of Lankford and Sons Abilene and a partnership of Tom-lee Sportswear of Abilene The will gives his executors power and authority to continue those partnerships for a period of 12 years after his death or they may consolidate the two roncerns Abilene end 25 Other Citiaa Name i Richard II Dudcn DeWitt Coulter Warren Amling Vaughn Mancha John Green George Savitsky llenry Foldberg Robert Fenimore Glenn Davis II Wedemeyrr Felix Blanchard School Navy Army Dhio State Alabama Army Pennsylvania Army Okla AIM Army St Mary's Army Home Tow Pi New York Fort Worth 8 Pana 111 8: Birmingham 6i Shelbyville Ky 561 Camden 408 Dallas Tex 413 Woodward Okla 741 Claremont CaL 87 Honolulu 740 Bishopville SC 1040 The second team with the number of points each man received: DR HUBERT SEALE Aruiounces return to practice CLINIC BUILDING 1442 3rd Abilene Phone 8818 PRACTICE LIMITED TO EYE EAR NOSE THROAT -iSraii! A paint consists of a mixture or a solid pigment and a liquid medium usually composed of linseed oil (or other drying nil) a drier and turpentine or other volatile thinner "HU never be the same Pep borrowed it for the American Legion Ky IFU PETERSEN I'nited Press Sports Writer NEW YURK Dee Army's all-conquering Cadets winning five berths gave the cast un-urn-ednted domination of the OMi A'l-Amcrican football team selected lor the United Press today by sports editors and writers from coast to coast The cast took over for the second consecutive season with seven places one each going to Navy and Pennsylvania The remaining sections of the country each scored once Alabama for the south Oklahoma A for the southwest St Mary's for the west and Ohio Slate for the mid west The one Election gave the mid-west its poorest showing in the history of the poll Two of the All-Americans were repeaters Fullback Felix Doc) Blanchard and Halfback Glenn Davis both of the Army eleven which wound up its second consecutive undefeated campaign by besting Navy Another Cadet Tackle DcWitl Coulter movrd up from the second team Blanchard the nation's second highest scorer this season was the Vandoiit choice of the voters Of a possible 1089 points the bull from Bishopville received 1040 He was named on all but five first team ballots getting a second team nod on one of those Davis too was 1 standout drawing 977 points for second honors Oklahoma A Bob Fenimore and St Mary's Herman Wcdcmcyer nosing out Harry Gilmer passing ace of undefeated Alabama Fenimore gathered 741 flints one more than Wedcmeycr liilc Gilmer received 686 DeWitt Coulter Army's standout tackle led the linemen with 885 points as men who had seen PIN-WORMS At Last-A Real Treatment! tM had rin-Vform know how tormenting and rmharraMing this infection can be and hoar hard it wav he to deal with the ereaiuraa once they set a foothold inaidt the body Today thank to a apeeial medically fee renixed drug (gentian violet a highly rf reetivo treatment ha been made poxnilile This drug ia the vital ingredient In P-W the Pin-Worm tablet developed in the oratories of Dr 1) Jayne A Son P-W tablet are amaJI and eay to take and they acl ia a special way to remove Fin-Worm So watch out for the warning sign that may man Fin-Worms in your child or especially ftha aggravating tal ftch And don't delay Auk ynur Hnirrml ftr JAYNE'S P-W right away and fotinw i he directions Patiafaction guaranteed or your money hack It's easy to remember P-W for Pin-Wunaa -Adv Bell Slrawn Seeks Bi-Dislrid Title Against Baird Team King STRAWN Dee 6-Coach Ran-dell Simpson's Strawn high Greyhounds district grid champs for their third straight year will be gunning for their second bi-district title when they clash with the powerful Baird high Bears at Cisco Friday night The Greyhounds will be playing their tenth and final game under the arcs at Cisco They were ruled winners of the 1945 District 8-B title as a result of the ineligibility of two members of the Moran high Bulldogs squad The strong Moran eleven had humbled the Strawn-itea 28-6 in the district title battle Class Bi-District Play to Be Settled By The Associated Press The Class division of Texas schoolboy football winds up the season this week with determination of nine bi-district champions Bi-district winners already are Rochester McCanicv Frisco Hubbard Early Thorndalc and Deer Park This week Robert Lee plays Eden Baird meets Straw Era clashed with Grandview Forney plays Iadonia Moody tackles Rogers Burnet meets Eagle Lake Crystal City meets Pleasanton In-gleside plays Port Lavaca and Fremont engages Banqucte Hawkins champion of district 16 will not play a bi-district game since District 15 had no championship participation this year Lyford is champion of district 35 which is an odd district and thus will have no bi-district competition at Moran on November 22 Coach Bill White's rugged Baird machine District 7-B champs by virtue of their 7-0 win over Cross Plains last Friday night are the favorites in the Strawn-Raird bidistrict contest In a previous meeting of the two teams earlier in the season the Bears rolled over the Greyhounds 32-14 in a non-c nfercnce tilt Strawn represented by a high school grid team for more than a quarter of a century didn't win its first district championship until 1943 That same year under Coach Herman Gipson now -mentor at Del Rio the Groy-j hounds knocked off Lueders for the bi-district and finished the i season undefeated with eleven straight wins In 1944 Coach Merrcll using the formation piloted the Greyhounds to their second district championship Breck B'wood Dominate 9AA Brcckcnridge and Brownwood winner and runner-up respectively in the District 9AA race dominated the all-district football team selected by the coaches in that sector The champion Buckies placed four gridders on the team of 12 players while Brownwood won three spots Mineral Wells and Stephcnvillc placed two each while Cisco got one slot The first leant sclcclioni: Ends Joe Burks Mineral Wells and Connie Mac Hood Brcckcn-ridge Tackles Willingham Stephcnvillc: Paul Slone Brecken-ridge and Melvin Nobles Cisco Guards Floyd Pearson Breck-enridge and Danny Wolfe Stcph-rnvillc Jerry Hamrir Brown-wood Frank White Brccken-ridge Buddy Dickinson Mineral Wells: Al Langford Brownwood and Foy Dickinson Brownwood Second team: Ends Stanley Williams Cisco and Truman Donahoo Brownw'ood Worth Carlin Ranger and Edwards Mineral Wells Guards Jim Long Mineral Wells and Chester Tobey Brownwood Center Don Hellinghausen Brcckcnridge Johnny Dunn Stephen-ville: Ieroy Coppic Brownwood Mac llarrclson Cisco: Bill Fhols Brcckcnridge and Elbert Tipton Cisco Carrots are a good buy when! smooth firm and bright in color' with tops green and unwilled Beware of deep cracks They arc usually a sign of poor quality for a Bucks Lose Star Player BRECKENRIDGE Dec Halfback Bill Echols of Breck-enridge all-District 9AA second team selection will miss this bi-district game with the Waco Tigers at Waco because of a broken collar bone Echols is the fifth starter of the Buckiea to suffer a broken bone this season He is expected to be the only starter to miss the game with the Tigers the others having recovered from their injuries Glorious Victorious Christinas USI 666 Three More Eniries In McMurty Tourney Three new entries were received yesterday for the McMurry college invitation basketball tournament for high schools bringing the schoolboy field to ten for the Dec affair The entries were filed by Sweetwater Big Spring and Clyde Tournament Director Jerome Vannoy announced that the first 16 teams entering the meet would make up the bracket DR JOE BUSBY CHIROPRACTOR 4th Floor Mins Bldg Phono S709 AbHM Tii COLD PREPARATIONS LIQUID TABLETS SALVE NOSE DROPS CAlllOM IKK ONLY AS MBfcllFD Champion Hereford Bull Brings $7000 JACKSON Miss Dec 5 on Mischief Lamplighter II owned by A Halbert of Sonora Tex champion sales bull of the national show of the American Polled Hereford Breeders association was sold at auction here today for 57000 He was purchased by Henry and lfolfeldt of Bel Air bid All Ltariir Children's Siitl 89c to 198 WHY BE FAT? Gat olimmor without axarcsa You mar taa pmiada and have a more alendfr arareJul hiutA No oaemtiaf Nftlaaativta Nodntia With ihia AYliS plao rou doa't rut out any meal atarchea potatoes meats or butter yea aim-ply cut them dwa li eaaicr hefi you enjoy dHwioua (vitamin foriihedt A YDS before mania Ahaohitely harnileea In clinical (egtimndiHind he med'rai dortnra more than IMpevonna loaf 14 to 14 Ihoaver Mk grub AYDS Vtiamia Candy KHucmi Man Try a M-day supply of AYDS only Mnoev hack an the very ftrat bos if you dea Htvaulu Fbaaa MINTER DRY GOODS CO Tsar Nt tfcif ad aa reminder IDEAL GIFTS Ladies' lixl Cheice ef Feur Colors MAIL ORDERS INVITED 2-98 Plan Baptist Hospital BEAUMONT Dec llir-chase of a 10-acre site here for a new 100-bed Baptist hospital for southeast Texas has been announced by Dr Ralph Grant chairman of the hospital slrrring committee pINHEY'S PINE SLIPPED HEADQUATERS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY Topping's Team to Play in All-America NEW YORK Dec 5 The new All-America pro football conference scored an important victory today when Dan Topping part owner of the New York baseball Yankees announced he was transferring operations from the National football league to the new circuit in 1946 Topping who owns the Brooklyn franchise in the National loop which was merged with Boston for the 1945 campaign said hia team would be known as Ihe New York football Yankees and would play iis home games in Yankee stadium Announcing that he was ready to cast his lot with the new league i hecausc he had failed to reach an agreement on playing dates with Tim Mara of the New York Giants Ihe wealthy sportsman said there was question of the of the All-America Cologne 375 to 10 plus tax to l-O-i I li-fti' 1 -iM -I- ifeffc Probably the most famous Cologne In all the world -talked about whispered about called "forbidden'' for a good reasnn Wear Tabu if you can match its mood But wear fl only If you are rertam you ran morl its challenge On Sole Toiletries Dept First Floor CORDS multi-colored tl Wrisley's Spruce FOR MEN Wrisley's Gift Set including spruce aftershave lotion and shaving howl 200 Wrisley's ofter-shave lotion and talcum powder 200 Slid little icuffie ef satiny eerded fabric in paital multi-colors with blue predominate or bright multi-colors with rod Football Situation Changes Rapidly ATHENS Ga Dec 5 (T The football situation at the University of Georgia has undergone such last changes in the past few days that it has everyone doing some rapid thinking It was after Georgia's runaway victory over Georgia Tech last Sal iirdav that Coach Wally Hults sighed: guess no one wants He had been asked if Georgia were going to a howl game Today Georgia acreptcd an invitation to play in the Oil bowl at Houston Texas on Jan 1 And Butts moaned: guess we ll get a bad when he was fnld Tulsa would be the Bull-dogs'' nppnnrnt in the postseason game Discharge Returns To Liquor Board Post Charlie Fuller has retudned to the Stale Liqiinr Control hoard here temporarily following his dis charge from the air corps Orl 10 He served as inspector here from net HMD to HI43 when he en lered thr armed service I in January he will hrromr supervisor of the Lubbock liquor ronlrnl district George Con- nell Abilene aupervisor said Wrisley's Fine Soaps Gift Boxed Wrisley's Puli' Gnal 5'-op or Wrisley's Bath Su-perbe Ros of 4 100 PLY WOOD KNEE HOLE DESK JfTbia deik "ill tea veur child thru (rede schsnl Of sturdy construe ion lorac aid reemy ana enough (a bland with ihi athar furniture at yaur ham A vary useful item far yaur ua and coming ichtol Mm Othtr Dfik Safe Alva To Ms and Chair Set and Juvamla Chairs Srp I hr ii' hristmni (lifts Ion ft uilh in ninny humhi-rl of Toy anti (ittmr Sufifirslinns at WRIGHT SPORTING GOODS CO NIXT POOR TO MONTGOMERY WARDS STORE HOURS: Week Doys 9 to 6 Saturdays to 7 SINCE 1900 jointer's II LEADERS IN STYLE 8SINCE tOOO Minrerl I LEADERS IN STYLE 1.

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