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fiesta. , Or,Jj 1 WINS BY A NOSE Savannah C, number two, owned by J. R. Catej and trained by Guy Purington, noted out Fliclca F. (next to the rail) in the 330-yard AA allowance race Saturday night, to pay $12.90. Winning jockey wai Jerry Davit. Number live ii Magnolia, the favorite, who showed. (Picture by Photo Lab.) Traffic Bureau File Lists 61 Violations On Part Of Maragon WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (P) The Evening Star says a card file In the District of Columbia traffic bureau shows 61 violations charged to John Maragon, often mentioned in the current "five percenter" investigation. Testimony In the Senate In quiry into complaints of "influ ence selling" has pictured Mara gon as a close friend of Ma. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, President Truman's military aide, and as a man on first-names terms with many other Washington figures. The traffic violations file goes back to 1934. All the Maragon PAINTS All Kinds PAGE LUMBER & FUEL IV c 2nd Ave i. Phnn- 212 charges, the Star, says, were for illegal parking except one for Jay walking and four in connection with minor accidents. Also In the file, the story says, Is a letter from the District of Columbia commissioners saying there was insufficient reason lo revoke Maragon's auto driving permit. Inspector Arthur E. Miller, head of the police traffic divi sion, said the record showed Mar agon had forfciter" collateral in 29 instances and received warn ings in five cases. Two cases were dropped, he said, and he did not know what happened to the others. The Washington Post, reporting on the traffic file, makes the count of charges against Mara gon 59 and lists them by dates. House, Commercial and Industrial Wiring Electrical Trouble Shooting Motor and Appliance Re pair Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service 17 Years Experience ACE ELECTRIC Licensed Electrician 316 E. 2nd Ave. N. Ph. 1095-L Odds On Robinson To Beat Belloise Waver NEW YORK, Aug. 22. P Welterweight champion Ray Rob inson was figured to step into the Yankee Stadium ring a 2-1 favorite to beat Steve Belloise when they clash Wednesday night in a non-title 10-rounder. But that was when the two started training. Now the bet ting gentry isn't so sure, and it wouldn't surprise many experts if Robinson was no more than 3-2 or 7-5 at ringtime. Robinson is far from confi- , dent, after being knocked down in a sparring session. LOOK! We got a mechanic ! Now ... we have the best mechanie in the county on duty for motor repairs and rebuild ing. He's top in his trade, you betcha! IF HE CAN'T FIX IT, NOBODY CAN . . . and guaranteed work guaranteed eitimatet. No hidden or "tacked-on" charges We can do everything from tune-ups to complete auto rebuilding. Now we're equipped to repair your car, truck or tractor from bumper to tail light. Open Sundays! Lloyd's Auto Body and Fender Shop Open 8 'til i daily including Saturday and Sunday (closed holidays) 501 FullertorT St. Phone 1025-J Polio Outbreak No Reason For' General Upset CniLAUU, Aug. LTi nn outbreak of polio should not be allowed to upset community me too much, health leaders advised. Suggestions by the journal oi the American Medical associa tion and the National conference on recommended practices lor the control of poliomyelitis said a drastic shift from the usual routine of children "is likely to bring more trouble than good" as far as controlling the disease is concerned. "Public and private schools should not be closed during an outbreak of poliomyelitis nir their opening delayed except for specific reasons," the recommen dations said. "Schools to which children are ,.nn,w,rtni in hncps from wide ly separated area or boarding schools, excluding colleges aim ..i.,A,-oitlaa chmiM HpIaV ODCn- ing sessions if an outbreak of poliomyelitis exists in the area where the school is located. Places of recreation and amusc- mAt noaH nnl he rinsed. How ever, attendance of children ai such places should be discour aged." Tu. ir.i,t-niii aHHeH that nuaran tine has not proved valuable tn preventing spread oi me aiea: and that "reliable evidence is lacking" on Infection by insects, water, food or sewage. Steel Executive Says Dispute Has To Be Fought Out NEW YORK, Aug. 22. (.? The president of Republic bteei cornoration said Fndav "we ve got to fight the thing out" If labor and industry cam reacn me right results." "That's the way I look at bar gaining, and if they think we are wrong, they strike us, see?" de clared C. M. White, head of the nation's third largest steel pro ducer. "That's the way this thing should work. It is a hell of a good way to work it." While was testifying before the three-man fact-finding board set up by President Truman in hopes of averting a national steel strike, now postponed until Sept. 14. He told board members the CIO Jnited Steelworkers union de mand for a 30 cents an hour package would cost Republic $38,000,000 a year. "We don't like strikes, and thev are expensive and bad," said White, who started In the steel business 36 years ago at the bot tom. "But there are some things worse than strikes. "I've been on the picket line a hell of a lot. I have been knock ed down from behind, inciden tally. So I know what it is, and they are tough things. "But if that is the way it has to be worked out; why every strike comes to an end. Every body gets a lot of things off their chests and they say a lot of dir ty things. And they seem to feel awfully good after it is all over and they are back at work." Former Sailor Mentioned In Slaying Of Woman OGDEN, Utah, Aug. 20. V Police Chief Maurice Schoof said today Richard Dix Pack, 23, of Pocatello, Idaho, signed a con fession this morning in the tat tooed blonde murder case. Schoof said Pack said In the statement he killed the Ogden woman whose nude body was found yesterday in a hotel room closet. She had been strangled. Detective Lieut. W. K. Mllligan identified the woman as Shirley V. Scott, 26, whose driver's li cense showed a non-existing Se attle. Wash., address. Milligan said, however, that Pack admitted registering at an Ogden hotel with the woman Thursday night under the names, Mr. and Mrs. Rell Gooeski, Butte, Mont. The detective lieutenant also said Pack admitted having a fight with the woman in the room. 'THOSE FAR AWAV PLACES 8-ZO J, OUT OUR WAY By J. R. William k I Mon., Aug. 22, 1949 The News-Review, Roscburg, Ore. 7 Roseburg Sweeps Tennis Matches With Yoncalla Yoncalla and members of the Roseburg Tennis club met In a tennis match on the local court Sunday. Roseburg got by the vis itors without losing a match, to win 9-0. Earl Garrison played F. Good, win in the number one match and won 6-5, 6-3. Marlen Yodei'play. ed F. Dorfler and was extended in the first set after leading 41, out ne won m, o-i. D. Martin fell by scores of 6-1, 6-3, and Larry Henninger won over G. Kremkau, 6-3, but ran Into trouble before winning the second set, 7.5. Norm Queen, playing some of his first tennis this summer, won both matches, beating D. Ander son 6-2, 6-1 and whipping R. Brown, 6-0, 6 0. In the doubles, Garrison and L. 'a Henninger plaved the first spot I and defeated S. Brown and W. j' Sherely, 6-4, 6-4. Bert Randall a and Marlen Yoder teamed up and I defeated F. Goodwin and D. Mar- j ' tin, 6.2. 6-4. In the final match, I Bill Green and Norm Queen de- I feated G. Kremkau and F. Dorf- i ler, 63, 6-4. I Sandwiches and pop were fur- I nlshed by the Roseburg team. M. I Yoder said that a group from Rroseburg will accept Yoncalla's Invitation and play there at a future date. Oregon Grass Seeds Command Big Prices PORTLAND, Aug. 22 OV Oregon grass seeds are attract, lng competitive bids that are booming their prices. Common ryegrass is up to about 10 12 cents a pound, blue tag alta fescue is up to 38 cents and chewing fescue was quoted last week at 32 and 33 cents. One deal was listed at 34 cents. Hairy vetch was not active and legume seeds were moving about average. Carburetor Troubles? The Newj-Revlew classified ads bring best results. Phone 100. Then" "Look," screams the soda Jerk, "this is Thursday you got time to come in Saturday for a fit ting?" ' See what I mean about Brooklyn? HEY, FELLERS" Need Expert Chain Saw Service for Any Type Chain Saw? If you are looking for a really competent chain service shop, see AL OLDS at 531 S. Stephens St. Shed A Tear For Brooklyn, That Bailiwick Of Eternal Sorrow By ED CREAGH NEW YORK, Aug. 20. UP) Poor old Brooklyn. Nobody loves her. Except, of course, her 2,910,000 sons and daughters. And sometimes you can't help wondering about them. Does that chest-thumping local pride mean that they really love Brooklyn? Or are they merely going through the motions of cherishing a lost cause? Everybody who doesn't live In Brooklyn laughs at the old girl. And nobody knows why. It's one of those curious facts of life say "Brooklyn" out loud and people guffaw. This, by darn, is iiot fair. Brooklyn is not a funny place. It is a sad place. Consider its melancholy rows of somber brick houses, its Rilently weeping little ailanthus ("A Tree Grows In Brooklyn") shrubs. It can't be just my Imagination that the whistle on the Brighton local drifts wearily into a minor key when the point of no return is leached on the subway voyage from Manhattan. And there's no sadder sound In all the world than the keening al Ebbets Field when the Dodgers boot one. You can say many nice things about Brooklyn. It's New York's boomingest borough, population wise. It s bigger (honest, it is) than Philadelphia, Los Angeles or Detroit, lis the borough of churches, of homes. Still Sad Location Brooklyn is still a sad place. You can get almost anything in Brooklyn. You can get a bath tub, a vitamin pill, a wig or an antique pool table straight from the factory. You also can get assassinated some nervous lin gered alumni of Murder, Inc., are still around. Brooklyn is s-t-U-1 a sad place. You can praise Brooklyn's peo ple to the skies, and I'll praise them with you. They're warm hearted, witty, -inconquerable, sentimental in the good sense of the word and kind to stray animals, including visiting New Yorkers. But Brooklyn is still a What I think I'm trying to say is that Brooklyn gives 1U citizens too hard a lime. It gives them so much grief that they have to unload it on each other. Ordeal of the Soda Jerk Take, for example, the story about the soda jerk. All soda jerks have a hard time, but in Brooklyn: A little guy breezes into the soda fountain and says, "Gimme a Flat bush Special." "A what!" says the soda Jerk. (He's sad already, sec?) "You hoid me," says the little guy. "So I gotta tell ya how to make it? Ukay, put In three scoops ice cream one each chocolate, raspberry, pistachio. Sprinkle wit' powdered walnuts. Then lotsa maple syrup. It's got ta he gooey. "Then make wit' the whipped cream. Heavy, Then one layer chopped ali.ionds. They gotta" be chopped fine. Then crushed strawberries. Then more whipped cream. Then three cherries. Negro Slain By Police After Gun Fight Of 3 Hours CHICAGO, Aug. 22. A barricaded Negro stood off 125 Eollcemen in a three-hour gun attle Friday night before they set fire to his home, then riddled him with bullets as he attempted to escape. He was wanted for shooting a child. All during the battle, the be selged Negro, Ernest Craig, 28, continued firing from windows with two revolvers and a rifle. Police poured hundreds of bullets and tossed about 200 tear gas bombs into the two-story frame house before they applied the torch. As the flames spread through the first floor and started into the upper story, Craig went out a second-story window and slid to the ground In an 18-inch pas sageway between his corner home and the neighboring house. Officers spotted him as he trawlei'. along the narrow open ing toward the front of the build ing. A policeman shouted a warn ing and Craig fired at him but missed. Turtles have no teeth, but their jaws have sharp biting surfaces. SAL WILL: Repair, Recondition, Refile your chain regardless of condition and do the job right. REASONABLE RATES FAST SERVICE BRING YOUR BAR! Saw Chain Service Co 531 S. Stephens St. I Phone 1665-J GOODSji POLICY sSg Blown rock wool Insulation adds $$$$$ to the value of your home and affords you com fortable, luxurious living ypar 'round. Average Installation pays for itself within two years. We Install fireproof rock wool to ceilings and walls of any building economically. A local Insulation firm operated by local men. Satisfied custo mers through S. W. Oregon. Ask for free estimates. Builder's Insulating Co. "Chuck" Edmonds 230 N. Stephens St. Phone 1018-R . . . also metal Interlocking wea therstrlpping for added protection. vm . Omaha Legion Juniors Defeat Bremerton YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 22.-4M It will be "win or out" tonight for Bremerton s northwest re gional champions in the Ameri can Legion junior ba-sehall sec tion U double elimination tourna ment. The Bremerton Kerr Motors team was soundly trounced in its opening game last night, los ing to the Omaha, Neb., Metz, 12-2. In tonight s single contest the Northwesterners go up against the Oakland, Calif, Traderscotts, who rolled to a lopsided 12-4 vic tory over Omaha in the tourney curtain-raiser yesterday after- noon. A Bremerton win would send all three teams into the Tues day night finals with a 11 rec ord, and necessitate a double- header to decide the sectional championship. If the Puget Sound club loses it Is eliminated, and Oakland would fight it out with Omaha for the crown. A single win for the California squad would de cide it, whereas the midwestern ers would be forced to take a twin bill. I If your carburetor isn't func- tioning properly, perform-1 once gets worse and your' gas bill is higher. I I HANSEN I , MOTOR CO. , I Oak & Stephens Phone 446 1 J. N. BOOR OUTBOARD MOTORS .24 Gdn. Vally. Rd. Ph. 53. J-l JOHNSON Sea Horse Dealer Boats Boat Trailers 0 Marine Equipment uiiaMiy ! I DISSTON One-Man CHAIN SAW Save your muscles. Head for the woods with this new Diuton One Man Chain Saw. Light weight, gasoline-driven power saw. Fells . . . Bucks . . . Limbs. Operates at any ansle . . even upside down. CARL J. PEETZ 920 S. Stephens Phone 279 M my wkt m ; COAST ? 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