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Talladega Daily Home and Our Mountain Home from Talladega, Alabama • 6

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IS. VI) PAGE SIX TH TALLADtGA DAILY HOME. MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 5, 1951. winning in 1935 and 1946 and losing Former Business in 1938. Thomas succeeded Wallace Wade as coach at Alabama in 1931.

He re mained as mentor until poor health Manager Of Barons Claimed By Death Frank Thomas Is Gravely III In Birmingham forced him to step down at the end of one of his best seasons. He continued to help build Tide teams as BIRMINGHAM (AP) Funeral athletic director. services for W. A. (Billy) West.

72, I former general manager of the Bir-if The 51-year-old sports leader suf mingham Barons, will be held at 3 fered severe attack two years ago, investigating Alabama parole prac BIRMINGHAM (AP) The 'Live Wire' Romeo but recovered. tices, however, with emphasis on the last 15 months of the Folsom admin straining heart of Frank Thomas of Bemisfon Cats Win Over Visitors But -3 p. m. today. West died of a heart attack at his1, home yesterday.

4 Commodores Win SEC Meet In Thriller Alabama, one of the football's great figures, beat weak defiance to a seri SEAFOOD DINNER istration when two of his appointees, Bill Drinkard and Glen Vinson, con 3 He was first secretary of the club ous illness today. REGINA (AP) A Regina mother. trolled the parole board. Girls Are Beaten was placed in an oxygen changing the water in the goldfish bowl, left two fish in the bathroom tent at South Highland Infirmary, A record number of convicts were paroled, pardoned or restored to wash basin when called to the tele where he is being treated for com under Rick Woodward, later becom- ing general manager, fij West left the Barons after the Cin- cinnati Reds bought the local fran- 1 chise a dozen years ago. His last active position in organized baseball was as general manager of citizenship rights during the last part plications in a long battle with high phone.

of the Folsom administration. blood pressure and a heart When the phone conversation Both Vinson and Drinkard 'have By MALCOLM PATTERSON LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) You can forgive Kentucky sports fans today if they look with a baleful eye outhward toward Tennessee. That 7-0 defeat inflicted on the previously unbeaten Kentucky football team by Tennessee last fall now has a companion rankling piece Vanderbilt's 61-57 spanking handed testified before the committee. His physician said last night that ended, there was only one fish in the basin.

The family's daughter, 2 4 years old, had the answer. She said his pulse was "rather weak." The Bemiston basketball team overthrew a strong Bemis, squad 58-44 Saturday at Bemiston. The local Cats overcame an early Bemis 3-0 margin to lead 11-5 at the end of the first quarter. Then the Cats stayed ahead. The visitors trailed 30-13 as the half ended and 47-29 at the beginning of the fourth quarter.

Dawson paced the home team, ringing 13 tallies. Tinney and Rogers The S. Fish and Wildlife Ser the Montgomery Rebels of the South-eastern League in 1940-41. His widow, Mrs. Mary Donnelly West, survives.

she ate it and liked it, too. vice says skunks eat enough eggs of snapping utrtles, which prey on ducks During 15 years as coach at Alabama, Thomas led the Tide to four undefeated seasons and six post-season football games. His Tide elevens played in three Rose Bowl games, The Chivor-Sonodoco emerald Kentucky's No. 1 basketball club-- mines of Colombia produce about to outweigh the number of ducklings they kill. No.

that is, in the latest Associated 100,000 carats of fine stones a year. Breaking bulk is a nautical phrase for removing part of a ship's cargov a Press poll. They're voting again this each made 11; Durham, 10: Grice, week in the season's final poll. Coach Paul Bryant's Kentucky grid nine; and Haynes, four. Bemis Askew took individual scor ders bounced back with a 13-7 victory over rated No.

1 in the ing honors, with 20 points. King AP football poll in the Sugar Bowl. was second with eight. The Bemiston girls lost 56-44 to the Tennesseans. Wright's 26 points was top for the locals.

Estes made 12; fll Jackson, five; and Culberson, one. After a 29-29 tie at the half, the visitors nulled ahead 47-39 during QUESTIONED by Chicago police in connection with an interstate trail of undivorced wives that goes from Illinois back through Wisconsin, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio, Charles F. Hayes (above), 57, allegedly told the women he met he was a doctor. He told police who questioned him, "I am a doctor of electricity," (International) the third. Bemiston will journey to Tennessee next week for a return match.

The Today's question: Can Coach Adolph Rupp's Kentucky cagers also come back after losing to Vandy in Saturday night's Southeastern Conference tournament finals? They'll get their chance in the National Collegiate Athletic Association play. "Unexpected" is almost an understatement in describing Vandy's win. For instance, last 'season Coach Bob Polks boys were feared most in the SEC. Kentucky edged Vandy 58-54 at Nashville and 70-66 at Lexington. But on Kentucky's home floor Vandy had the Kentuckians hanging on the ropes for three quarters, once leading by 15 or so points.

Then Tennessee eliminated Vandy from the SEC tourney 50-44. Kentucky went on to win its 12th title. Cats have been promised a battle because the Bemis team will be strengthened by three college and a high school star who averages 27 points. Motorboat Skipper Dies In Best Tradition Of Sea SEGUIN, Tex. (AP) Walter Folsom Calls Rally Of His Friends SELL BUY, SWAP Steves captained only a motorboal on an inland Texas Lake but he died CULLMAN, Ala (AP) A of the "members and friends" of This year Kentucky, which has won 27 games, leaped over Vandy 74-49 and the best tradition of the sea.

The 52-year-old boat-ride conces sx-Gov. James E. Folsom's administration has been 'called for Thursday at not long before the tourney 89-57. This indicated Vandy didn't have much steam. The Commodores must sion operator passed out life-preser Birmingham.

vers to six teen-age passengers from have saved it for Saturday night. Gonzales and went down with his "It's to "properly prepare" for "counter attacks" against those who The NCAA regional meet, for Rupp's team to try the comeback, tiny craft. Firemen recovered his body yes Folsom says have been gunning for Day After Day him since he went out of office, terday afternoon, some 17 hours after opens March 20 at Raleigh, N. C. The SEC season's play, in which Kentucky won 14 without a loss, determined cording to a statement released here the boat struck an underwater stump yesterday by the former governor.

the champ. It'll be the third chance. But some sources took the announ Kentucky also erred on its earlier cement to mean that Folsom is pre fallals paring his campaign for election to a i and sank Saturday night at Lake Mc-Queency near here. Steves handed out the life preservers to the teen-agers with the comment "I can swim and won't need one." Rescuers found the youngsters clinging to the life-preservers. second term in 1954.

tournament bid, in the Sugar Bowl. That loss was to St. Louis, 4342. And in both tourneys Kentucky blew big leads. Now their supporters are hoping these experiences have hardened them for better things.

Folsoms statement said he and mem bers of his administration attempted to 'retire to the bosom of our friends and family firesides" but, since leav ing office," we have been under un ment for a traveling campaign with another motorcycle. The tour is sup usual attack. Unusual attacks call for posed to cover 33,000 miles in 14 unusual counter attacks. months. The two men expect to visit the meeting at the Redmont Hotel, in Europe, India, Australia, Africa was called.

REMEDY FOR TIRED SCHOOLMASTERS LONDON (AP) A preparatory school teacher near here who believes that "school mastering is bad for the brain," has set out on a round the-world motorcycle tour. John L. Cook, the teacher, took along T. H. Hamilton Fletcher, a farmer, who answered his advertise- the United States, Mexico and Bue me former governor didn't say nos Aires.

when the "counter attacks" will be and he didn't go into details about Serve the people of Talladega There is a- reason for their any specific attack against him. For a long time, people in Scotland kneaded dough for bread with their feet. A legislative committee, set up at recent special session, has been Title nreat by Pap' I a 1 I Mill I 7 evident popularity Mmr 1 AS COMB N4 Jk Wl A IT IWH Per minimum ciiarge 75c nsertion Mr NHMfaaftuaa i.

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