Police List Truck Death — H&H route salesman Theodore W. Blake Jr. — Express-News, 9 Jan 1965
The 9 January 1965 San Antonio Express-News (page 35) briefly reports the traffic death of Theodore W. Blake Jr., identified as a route salesman for H&H Coffee Co. at 601 Delaware St. The figure is the embedded newspaper bitmap from the PDF (pdfimages), not the full Newspapers.com export frame.
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Police List Truck Death
Police speculated Friday that Theodore W. Blake Jr., 30-year-old coffee salesman who died when his truck hit a utility pole in the 700 block of N. Flores St., may have fallen asleep at the wheel.
His body was found Friday morning in the street next to the truck from which he apparently had been thrown shortly after 2 a.m.
After an investigation, Sgt. James Cline classified the incident as a traffic accident, boosting the city’s 1965 traffic fatality toll to three. The same number of traffic deaths had been recorded through the corresponding date last year.
Blake, of 408 96th St., is survived by his wife, Shirley.
Officials of the H&H Coffee Co., 601 Delaware St., said Blake was a route salesman serving residences and hotels. They said he was on duty when the accident was discovered.
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- Newspapers.com — San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Tex.), 9 Jan 1965, p. 35. Accessed 1 May 2026.
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