Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1949)
52 Lads Turn Out For Basketball Practice At RHS Fifty two basketball candidat es crowded onto the gymnasium floor at Senior high cchool last night lor the first time this sea son. Prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, the lavvee and varsity team aspirants practiced out doors. Coaches Jack Newby and Norm West put the lads through a brisk set ol paces during the evening, with fundamental drills taking up the entire practice ses sion. In addition to bounce, chest and overhead passing, condition' ing drills and chalktalks, explain lnir defensive and offensive ma neuvers on the court were offer ed those present. Screening Planned Newbv said the Dresent num- ber of nersons turning out will be whittled considerably as game time draws near. The varsity team will be made up of 12 mem bers of the sophomore, junior and senior classes, while the Jay vees will consist mainly of soph omores, with a sprinkling of jun iors. Managing the varsity teams this year is Louis Hurd, senior and Vic Sanders, Junior. Sopho mores Louie Hallett and Joe Plnard will manage the jayvee team, Newby said. The lads will continue practice through Saturday, taking a break only on Sunday. Practice will continue next week, In preparation for the sea son opener at uoiiage orove. Both the varsity and jayvee squads will travel the Lane county community. On the following night, the Cot- 6 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore Tuet., Nor. 29, 1949 o iraoXBVS o m (MmowiDi y mm Distributed by Western Distributing Co. Short & Burke Streets Phone 1294-L Roseburg, Oregon tage Grove Lions come to Rose burg, to help the locals launch their home series. Season tickets will be good at this and eight other home games. Reserved season tickets go on sale at J-V sporting goods store Monday Morning Dec. 5, and are not on sale this week, as was Incorrectly reported in Monday's sports news. College Of Pacific's LeBaron . - . i. mm mmmm i mm m (jets 3rd Little Ail-America Berth, Setting Historic Mark , By HAROLD CLAASSEN t NEW YORK, Nov. 29. Eddie Lebarnn of College of Pa cific, gains his third Little All-America berth on the 1949 team announced today, the only player .in the history of the minor college all-star eleven to be so honored. LeBaron made It as a fresh man and against last year as a Junior. His Stockton, Calif., teammates are unbeaten in ten games. Poised with the Pacific coast T-formatlon wizard in the Little AU-Aemrica backfleld are Brad Rowland, the backfleld genius of the McMurry college team; William Young of Sillsdale col lege, the nation's leading scorer, and Conrad Callahan of Morn lngstde college in Sioux City, la. Until the final week of the season Rowland was the leading scorer, only to be overtaken by Young, who counted 24 points in his school's 48 to 0 rout of In diana State. Rowland, only junior in the first string backfleld, fin ished the campaign 1 with 108 points compared to Young's 12JL This point producing foursome, possibly as great a quartet ever to be honored in the Little All America selections, would oper ate behind an all-star line that Is spearheaded by Elbert Ham mett. ace tackle of the equally unbeaten Wofford team. Wofford won all 11 of Its games this sea son, counting 347 points as com pared to 67 for its combined op ponents. The pride and youth of the 1949 Little All-America Is Le Baron. It was he. as a 16-year- old freshman in 1946, who braz enly intercepted a Northwestern pass behind his own goal line, lateralled to an end and threw the key block that sent the wing- man away on a 102-yard touch down run. The youngster, one of the most sought after pro prospects, has become such a coast football fig ure that a recent account of his exploits by a newspaper was headlined r'is LeBaron human?" It was LeBaron who faked so perfectly on a play that a ref eree followed the wrong "ball carrier" and blew his whistle when the player was downed. , Jot Louii Flattens Another Push-Over KANSAS CITY, Nov. 29-UD Joe Louis, heavy around the middle and rather slow on his feet, still retains a potent pair of fists. The retired heavyweight cham pion showed 4,100 light fans last night that he still carries a knockout punch. He went through a 10-round exhibition bout with Johnny Flynn of Ro chester, N. Y. For the most part, he merely kept Flynn at a safe distance. But In the ninth round, the' 35-year-old Brown Bomber uncork ed a short left hook that putJ iiynn aown lor an eigni cuum Benefit Carnival Slated At Riddle High School Riddle high school will spon sor a carnival Friday, Dec. 2, to raise funds for the athletic de partment, according to Coach Art Brown. A feature of the carnival will be the coronation of a queen. Nominated to the office were freshman Gloria Baxter, sopho more Joyce Loper, junior Doris Holllngsworth and senior Anna Mae Hervey. Circulator and Floor Furnaces AT COST ROSEBURG SHEET METAL HEATING Phono 941 Your 850 E. 1st St Center . Heavy Practice Slated For Riddle Hiqh Bask eteers Riddle high school coach Art Brown reports the basketball candidates are slated for heavy practice sessions three nights a week, until B league basketball jamboree time Dec. 9. -The squad was cut to 22 men Monday afternoon and another cut is scheduled for later in the week, according to Brown, who is running two teams through the paces, since B league heads decided to field jayvee squads that will play in preliminary games. Last year, girls' volley ball competition provided pre liminary fare, but intra-scnool volleyball competition was elimi nated this year. Brown said. Of the 10 Riddle men that went to the district tournament last year, only four remain. Tey are guards Kenneth Haverl;- and Wy- att Hendricks and forwards Kiel. ard Mann and Gene Buckley, The remaining players are all new men, Brown stated. Possible first string men, In addition to the four back from last year, may include centers Don Zitka and Harry Bushnell, while guard John Rigsby may replace naveriy aunng tne game, Coach Seleoted Coach Jack Barnhard. former. ly a player at Camas Valley high school, will coach the Riddle lav vee squad. He Is a graduate of soutnern uregon college at Ashland. Brown, who came here from Minnesota three years ago, is an Iowa university graduate of He'started at St. John univer sity, transferred to Minnesota university, where he was injured while playing quarterback in a game against Michigan. ' Brown also lists basketball as a game in wnicn ne parucipatea wmie at college. The Riddle Irish mentor coached, at Watervllle high scnooi m tau-bault, Minn., for iour years, prior to his arrival nere in liw. . mi ii lump , ft Education Assn. Topics Discussed Measures that 'will come be- fore the Oregon Education asso ciation representative council 3, were' discussed at a meeting oi tne uougias county unit ex ecutive committee and delegates Saturday. The meeting was held in the office of County School superintendent Kenneth Barne burg. The nomination of a vice-ores!- dnet from the southwest district of the O. E. A. was also discuss ed. Those present were Jack Flug, Reedsport, president of the Doug las county unit; Margaret Adair, member of the legislative com mittee; Robert Sabin and Edwin Wyatt, delegates; J. H. Bush, zone representative; vera Matn ewman, chairman of the mem bership committee; Pauline Brown; program and publicity committee chairman, and Harry Xrug, zone representative. It's here! Come in -trcf i ! PACKARD MOST VALUABLE Ted Will iams, slugging outfielder of the Boston Red Sox, was chosen most valuable American League player of 1949. The 3 1 -year- old Williams, who hails from San Diego, Calif., drew a total of 272 points. Thirteen of the 24 members ot the Baseball Writers' association, who acted as selection committee, picked Ted for their No. I choice. Williams was alio named in 1946. IAP wirephoto). Klan Whips Whites As Well As Blacks, Witness States ROME, Ga., Nov. 29-ff The witness quoted the robed Ku Kluxer: ''We whip white folks like we do the blacks." Mamie Clay was telling Fed eral District court here of that tumultuous spring night which led to the mass civil rights trial of 12 men. The lean, work-worn mother of three told how she came home April 2 to find a cross standing on the hillside across the road. That night, she told the Jury, the cross was set afire and she went to the front door to watch. Then, she related, two hooded men came to her door, knocked and said, "Mamie, come out, we want to talk to you." And, Mamie added, she went out. A tall Klansman said to her, Mrs. Clay testified yesterday, "We hear you been having wild parties. You can't helD it 'cause you're black and we're white. We whip white folks like we do tne Diacus. Mrs. Clay said she was fright ened, and answered only "Yes, sir." It was at the Clav home flint the government charges seven iNegroes were placed under ar rest by four Dade county officers and subsequently turned over to a band of 50 to 75 men In Ku Klux Klan robes for whipping. On trial are Dade countv Sher- iff John W. Lynch, three deputies and eight private citizens. Each is accused of conspiring to deprive the Negroes of their rights to eaual protection under the law and immunity from il legal punishment OSCU.OfO.Get Ready For Season Basketbell Tilts CORVALLIS, Ore., Nov. 29-4.T) The defending champion of Coast Conference basketballdom, Oregon State college, makes Its first start of the 1949-50 hoop champaign against the Univer sity of Puiudud Tiiursuay but Coach Slats Gill savs he still doesn't know who his starting five will be. The Beaver squad raced mrougn aeiense anus ana scrim mage yesterday with Gill draw ing heavily on 11 men. The start ing quintet, however, was maue up of Bob Payne and Glen Kin ney at forwards, Len Rinearsun at center. Bill Harper and Dick tsanantyne at the guards. EUGENE. Ore.. Nov. 29-) A rough scrimmage, topped off Dy action against tne irosn, prepped the University of Ore gon basketeers last night for Fri day's pre-season opener against Utah at Salt Lake City. Coach John Warren said he would take 12 men on the Utah trip, but didn't name them. Forward Mel Streeter and Guard John Neeley sparked yes terday's drill, .r Joe Gordon Asks For His Release EUGENE. Ore.. Nov. 29 W) Joe Gordon, Cleveland Indians' second baseman, said Monday he had asked Cleveland for his out right release. Gordon, who winters a t h I s home here, said he preferred to play in the Coast league next season, preferably at foniana. Gordon, once Known as tne 'flash", went up to the majors In 1938 and starred for the New York Yankees until 1947. H e was named to several American lea gue all-star teams. He went to Cleveland In 1947. Now 34, his hitting slumped in the 1949 season. He told an interviewer here that there was no ill will between him and the Cleveland manage ment. He insisted he wanted to make the move to be closer to his home. "I naturally expect to lose money in the event I am able to stay on the coast, but that does n't enter Into the situation," Gor don said. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT TtiC fast Won m automatic, MO-sIiifi" conthl J 'Way ahead in driving ease . . . because it's ahead in basic principles! Bora of a 16-year Packard development and test pro gram. Backed by seven million dollars' worth of new manufacturing facilities. That's Packard Vltramatic Drivel 1 Come in see for yourself why Packard Ultramatic Drive is the successor to all the other drives you've ever known. See for yourself why independent technical observ ers call it "the last word in automatic, no-shift control!" fWmibi1)llli1rWlltiilWiWtillimI New simplicity! Naturally, there's no clutch pedal . . . and no gear-shifting. And that's only the first hint of the con venience of Packard Ultramatic Drivel New smoothness, new quietness. No jerking, because there's no gear, shifting. No "racing engine" sensa tion, because there's no slippage at cruising speeds. New economy) Ultramatic Drive saves gas because there's no slippage at cruising speeds. And thanks to its advanced design, it requires no com plicated maintenance. A The 1950 Packard New safety; No chance of involun tary "down-shifts," which might cause a prolonged skid on slippery pave ment. Smooth, gradual engine braking power when wanted. Ntejro Girl Acquitted In Murder Of Infant MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Nov. 29 UP) A circuit jury here acquit ted a 20-year-old unwed Negro girl of murder in the death of her new-born baby she admitted ourying auve in a ananow grave. Ida Roberts of Montgomery was found innocent yesterday after jurors deliberated only 15 minutes. The woman told officers when she was arrested that she al ready had one illegitimate child and couldn't support another. Woolv Eskimo breeds of dogs possess the heaviest fur of any known animal. Employes Assn. To Seat Officers, Enjoy Dinner The regular meeting of Oregon State Employes association will follow a pot luck dinner at the K. P. halt Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. All state employes and their families are welcome and are reminded to bring one main dish such as casserole, salad or dessert and table service. The short business meeting will Include induction of officers for 1950 and reports from general council delegate, Pat Gregory, and district director, Jim Vau ghn. Approximately 94 percent of Austria's population is Roman Catholics. The others are Luth erans, Calvinists and Jews. Suit Yourself at Jot Richards MKTHt SUN WHO OWNS OrO) BARCUS SALES AND SERVICE Phone 1354 MEET OUR FRIENDLY EXPERTS! Leant the practical answers le your Building, Remodeling, Repairing problems by talking them over with our trained Advisors. Our fine stock of Lumbers, Paneling, Building Supplies and evtr 27 years of know-how are at your serv ice! Put them to work for YOU this week! t You'll Like Our Fair Prices and Convenient Monthly Payments (By th AuocUted PrtMi) NEWARK. N. J. Tony Janlro. JJOJi, YouMitown, Ohio, outpointtd Vic Coiu7i0. New York I8i. LEWISTON, Me. Maurice bechance, 138, Lisbon, outpointed Eddie Bolduc, 137. Sherbrooke, Canada l8. An. t . vtq v.ieh. Uamltrnn 1U. New Orlnani, drew with Richie Collure, Men's Exercise Hour Wiii E Held Thursday The YMCA men's exercise hour will be held this week on Thursday evening at 5:30 p. m. at the senior high school reports Nat Johnson. All men are asked to come to the back center door at the high school, and they will be directed from there. Johnson added it is hoped to soon have the program going on two nights a week for the men and also have an evening for the women. Each man is reminded to fur nish his own gym shoes and slacks or trunks. The charge for the Droeram remains the same, V cents, and towels will be fur nished. Volleyball la tne sport of the exercise hour, at the pre sent time. ' Tumbling Aspirants At ' R. H. S. Start Practice Potential men on the flying trapeze turned out for tumbling practice at Roseburg high for the first time Monday, Coach Jack Newby reported. . Tumblers will pertorm during basketball intermissions at va rious games throughout the sea son.' ine tumoiing team will demonstrate their artistry for the first time at the Marshfleld Roseburg game here on Jan. 6. Among those listed to perform are lettermen Neil Sheets, John Gaffney, Bill Stevenson and Bill Palmer. New men will be added to the team, to make up approxi mately a 10-man team, Newby reported. , Need a Shine? Com to us for that final toueh c. good groom ing. Conveniently located downtown Hours 8 to S Daily, In cluding Sunday. Edward's Shine Parlor Grand Hotel Lobby Leu loudreau Stays On As Manager Of Indians - CLEVELAND, Nov. 29 OP) lne Cleveland Indians' new pres ident, Ellis W. Ryan, announced Monday that Lou Boudreau would continue as manager of the Tribe through next season. Boudreau already was under a two-year 1 contract - sljnert 1r. spring. Under : terms" of that agreement, Boudreau, as player manager, received a salary re ported to be about $65,000 a year. 1947 Oldf mobile "98" 2-door. .'1695 tarms Radio, heater and all extras. Will take older model on trade in. PHONE 441-J-4 " Remember When you buy automo bile insurance remember just as in everything else you . get only the quality of protection and service that you pay for. Insufficient insurance isn't any better than an umbrella with a missing section! R. O. YOUNG Phone 417 205 W. Cass St. Roseburg m ARE BOTE. INTERESTED IN THE SAIY1E THING Oar real business isnt Just eHrmf traetort and implements. What we actually have for sale is more profitable farming . . ."Less Work, More Income Per Acre." i i The only way we can make money is by helping yon and other farmers make more. So, when we get together, we're both interested In the same thing. The better we know you and the better we know Jmxa farm, the more likely it is that we can be of some real service to you. So, if we haven't been around to see yea lately, well try to make it soon. It ought te pay ns both to get better acquainted. And, when yon come to town, stop in. Well be f bd te see yo v W m hMStpintm for Far TraeUri, Dearborn Farm Eqnipnant and icnnlni rord Tractor and Deal i linn. nnlna I on uT" Implement parti. Call any tin for prcnpt, efficient tractor and lmpinent tervic. r. -Jill tflUF"' DEARBORN HEAVY DUTY MANURE and MATERIAL LOADER Excavate and nor dirt, stack balea hay, fork and load atanura, shovel and elevate grain ... f attl Loader quickly attache to Ford Tractor. Inter changeable bncket, mannre fork and crane sold separately. Separate hydraulic control trees tractor hydraulic mecha nism for operation of rcar aoacaed Implements at same tone, towugntal Umpqua Tractor Co. 125 S. Pine Phone S14-J Highway 99 of Garden Valley I'