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Return Bouts Star On Week's TV Fights NKW VOltK H'l'I' Two tele vised return middleweight 1U rounders feature tins ucck's box in:;. Nigc iu:i Dick Tiger, I'.rilish eni ire champion, meets liory Calhoun of White Plains. N.Y., Friday night. They fought to a draw at Ma lison Square Carde.l, Juno 5. I Benton of I'hila lel'ihia ' (ieorg engages Holly Minis of Washing ton. DC, at Miami Beach. Wednesday night. They toinjht seven years ago. Jan. 10, liftf, and lienton won the decision. For Friday's light, televise:! and broadcast nationally ly NBC, the betting is at even money. When they met at the garden Yaw!-Schooner Baffle For Top In Ocean Race IIONOI.l IX' 'IT! - The yawl ( hnbasco and the schooner Con stellation battled for the lead to day in the home stretch of the biannual Transpacific Yacht Race. The tifi-foot jubhealed yawl led the Constellation by 12 miles Sun daybut it had trailed the schoon er by alwiit the same distance the day before. , Both vessels, aided by 12 to 15 knot tailwiuds, were expected to cross the finish line at Diamond Head late Tuesday. Arnold Haskell's Chubasco. lead ing both in actual fleet and handi cap fleet, was reported only 015 miles from Honolulu early Sun day. She made 253 miles Satur day. The Constellation, owned by Miss Sally Blair Ames, reported at the same time that she was 627 miles from Diamond Head, after a 229-mile run Saturday. John Graham's yawl, Maruffa, was in third actual position. After a sensational run Saturday of 254 mdes, she wrs reported WO miles from the finish line. The Maruffa was third in actual fleet position, but was second in handicap fleet. The largest yacht in the race, the 161-foot Goodwill, was in the fourth actual position and gaining speed,-despite the loss of her top master. The vessel made 218 miles Saturday, compared with only 170 Friday. She was 650 miles out of Honolulu at Sunday's report. Baldwin M. Baldwin';; Escapade was close on the heels of the pack, just 670 miles from Dia mond Head. It automatic oven cooking as simple as setting an alarm clock ! p (l.,i yc it's that simple! rr-Tt :r" "V"" I 3-- 1 v ': ir last month. Tiger displayed an excellent lelt hook, and Calhoun made his best shoeing in more than a year. The releree called it even. One judge favored Cal houn; the other, Tiger. For Wednesday's bout at Miami Heach, televised nationally by A11C. Mims is a slight favorite at C-5 over Benton. Mims is ranked seventh by the Hinc Maga zine; Benton is unrated becuuse he hasn't been fighting regularly. In May. Benton beat Bobby Boyd. He lost but four of 41 bouts dur ing his 10-year career and never was stopped. The week's boxing schedule in cludes: Monday San Jose. Calif Ed die Chavez vs. Kildo Nunez. New Orleans Henry Hank vs. Neal Rivers. Tuesday Seattle. Wash. Pat McMurtry vs. Karl Alley. Rich mond, Calif. Lylc Mackin vs. Frank Skidmoro. Wednesday Miami Beach Holly Mims vs. Cieorgc Benton i TV i. Thursday Los Angeles Mauro Vazquez vs. Johnny Husso. Friday Syracuse. N Y. Rory Calhoun vs. Dick Tiger t TV radio i. Saturday Hollywood. Calif. I.auro Salas vs. Jimmy Mosher. Plans For Jordan, Phil Moyer Fight Are Announced PORTLAND lUPD Negotia tions are under way for welter weight champion Don Jordan to make another ring appearance in Portland this summer, this time in a non - title fight with Phil Moyer. Before Jordan's co managers, Don Nesseth and Jackie McCoy, left Portland they sent time in arranging the fight with promoter Tommy Moyer. Moyer said Saturday there is good possibility the fight will be held. Jordan plans his next title de fense against Art Aragon in Sep tember in Los Angeles. The over weight match .with Phil Moyer would serve as a warmup. Jordan decisioned Denny Moyer in a title bout here last Friday. &EARS COURT JESTER DENVER L'PI Virgil Jester, a veteran minor league pitcher, came out of retirement today to join the Denver Bears of the American Association. Jester will replace right-hander Ken Mour- sand, who was optioned to San Antonio of the Texas League. EXCITING NEW FEATURE! aim ' Jg::':!!!iLi 1 SPECIAL! GE 30" BUDGET RANGE A neir-unhrlitv.Lle prire on this luptr rffirlrnt G-E rane Kith puihbutton contrail. U-L.lrod ovtn with removable door tnd ititny other nm '59 fealurea. , $1 yinoo 149' a Bevos Only Two Games From Lead By United Pron International The Portland Beavers return home tonight to 0'm.vi a series with Seattle, only two games out of first place in the Pacific Coast League. The Beavers blanked V'uncouver 3-0 in a game at the Canadian city Sunday behind the tight pitch ing of fastball lefthander George Brunei. Portland defeated Van couver 8-7 in 11 innings Saturday night. It was only the second win of the year for Brunei, who has lost eight. Brunei struck out nine and walked only one. Photnix Hot Red hot Phoenix 'walloped league-leading Sacramento 11-4 as Willie McCovcy hit his 23rd home run and Bobby Prescott hit two circuit blasts. Phoenix now has won 14 out of 21, all on the road. In other games Seattle took Spo kane 8-4 and Salt Lake won the first game from San Diego 6-1 but lost the nightcap 7-5 in 12 innings. Only 7 1-2 innings separate last place Seattle and first place Van couver. ' Portland pushed over all the runs they needed in the fourth inning on a double by Bob Di Pietro. a walk by Jim Greengrass and run-scoring singles by Jim Westlake and Len Neal. Charlie Sccrest gave the Beavers a bit of insurance with his first homer of the year in the eighth inning. Vancouver starter Wes Slock, who gave up all three tallies, was charged with the loss.. Pri Hurls ThrM-Hitter Salt Lake's George Perez, who has a no-hitter to his credit this year and who is either hot or cold and hardly ever in between fired a three-hitter at San Diego in me nrsi game. It was his fifth victory against as many defeats. The Padres picked up one un earned run and a legitimate tallv off Perez over the seven-inning rouie. cnucK Harmon co erteri three hits for the Bees to figure ncavuy in tneir scoring San Diego cashed in for three runs in the 12th inning to take the afterpiece. Dick Smith. Mitch June and Dee Fondy contributed key hits that gave the Padres their margin of victory. Dick Barone of Salt Lake had put the game into extra frames when he homered in the eighth Bud Podbielan went all the way to collect his eighth win against two defeats. Dick Hanlon was the loser. .Paul Pcttit led Seattle to its win over Spokane. He had a single, double and a home run 59 SPACEMAKER Here' 30 inrli ran ft e that parked with lirand-nrw, 1959 alures! 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AND 8 PENT REMAINING WEALTH IN Alp TO NEIGHBORS Democrats To Replace WASHINGTON il'PP Some influential Senate Democrats scoffed today at the suggestion that they arc trying to replace Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler with one of their colleagues. Butler said Sunday that his Democratic critics in Congress al ready have selected a "certain Western senator" to supplant him. He forecast that any ouster move would fail. He refused to identify the senator. Congressional Democrats have been criticizing Butler since he attacked the party's congressional leaders last week for being too "conservative and moderate." Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (Mont.), the first, to strike back at Butler's criticism, said the chairman's remark about a Western lawmaker was the "first 1 ever heard" of any move to replace him with a senator. "1 do not believe any such move is underway," Mans field said. He added that he ocr- while baiting in four runs and scoring twice. Chuck Essegiaji hit a piiir ol solo homers for Spokane. Jay Hook was credited with the win. it V..'- RANGE 95 JsWMttf Won., July 13, 19S9 Page 3 WAS VAKIOUSIV A MOUNTAIN MAN, FRONTIER LfSlft IATCR, INDIAN AGENT. WITH JOE MEEK. HE DROVE FIRST WAGON FROW r. HAIL TO COIUW A RIVER. ( 1840) leg - i IMPORTANT OKSSCH COM Deny Plans Chairman sonally felt Butler "ought to stay on the joh." Sen. Stuart Symington D-Mo. said he would not suggest that Butler resign. He indicated he went along at least in part with Butler's criticism of Democratic congressional leaders. Senate Democratic Leader Lyn don B. Johnson (Tex.) was known to be opposed to giving the party post to a member of Congress. Johnson was said to fed the se lection of a lawmaker as Demo cratic chairman would inject an undesirable partisan flavor into congressional activities Clement is executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Cam paign Committee and is close to Johnson and Speaker Sam Rjy Hayburn. A "hot" Atomic radiation helps this man do ftis job. He's Dr. Hugh Macpherson, ono of Standard's research engineers. Tho "hot" ring he's holding is an ordinary piston ring which has been exposed to atomic radiation. ' . By installing such radioactive piston rings in a car.our research engineers can use a Geiger counter to measure wear as it happens while the car is 1 riven on the highway, in traffic, on hills in every possible driving situation. This research technique has taken months off the time needed to test the effectiveness of new motor oils, and it's far more accurate than previous methods. . . Mpmxut.nijWfeRwih junk umiii nfliv4tolAy:M ss'rSSsts"'""?!? - f -WSrS MT nWs, . -A W&A vsai UVv 'Mr V sMU-f5; -t-jxeak. m 0 . yjViAVVftVa.Awuw.,V wiAttiaWii Yyy rAh t-- Wi , r;d3 K:kyW f s7. - KSdUf fW: f L ...... i.. . Absorbent Crash Pad Will Stop Egg Traveling 55 Miles An Hour By FRANK ELEAZER UPI Staff Writor WASHINGTON I HIM' They've got a crash pad now so absorbent it will stop an egg traveling 55 miles an hour without cracking it And the quest inn w as. w hy won't this pad do the same thing for our skulls? It will, said Dr. Horace K. Campbell, who works on matters, like this for the American Mcdi-j cal Association. He said the only , problem is to get the auto indus- j try to install the stuff on the in strument panels of ull new cars. : Dr. CampMl said the iuiiiiIht one health problem today count ing both deaths and disabilities is not cancer or heart disease or polio. It is automobile accidents He was among a number ol witnesses before a House subcom mittee which is seeking advice on a cure. Suggests Road Tests Hep. Abraham Muller il) N.Y saiil he's heard of cases where a wheel fell off a new car. or the steering gear pulled out by the roots. His prescription was a law under vhieh. as I got it. new cars couldn't !e driven until road tested UK) miles. The sulx-ommit-tec seemed to think Multer's law might Ik- hard to apply. Hep. Charles K. Bennett iD-Fla.) said put governors on our cars, so they can't go faster, say, than SO miles an hour. The sulK-ommittee said some of its memliers nearly got wrecked once in a lest car equipped w ith a gov ernor, when they needed some power and couldn't find it. Hep. Kenneth A. Holierts D Ala.', the subcommittee chairman proposed to let the Bureau of Standards set up federal safety requirements for cars, covering such things us seat belts and pad ded instrument panels. And that's the direction in which the sub committee seemed to be driving. "I regret to say that there is a certain air of indifference, a so what attitude on the part of many who should be concerned," Kohcrls said. Dr. Campbell, who is vice chair man of the AMA's committee on deaths and injuries from auto accidents, said the AMA for years has been badgering the auto mak ring helps STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF ers lu build more safety into their cars. He said the recessed steer ing wheels and safety door latch es of l!i5t helM'd a lot. but that not much has been happening since. Research Shows Effectiveness Dr. Campbell, who comes from Dcmer. said AMA research shows that seat lielts and safety padding in cars would prevent many of the as (KI deaths and 5.WW.OIX) in juries suffered each year. He held up a small pad of something railed ensolite. He silid he laid some of this on the floor of the Colorado State Capitol and hail a state patrolman (hop an egg from the dome. The egg did not s latter, or even break. It bount til. "We think there might Ik- an analogy between the egg and the human head.'' he testified. "We think a human head traveling las the cci; at 55 miles an hour JMike-Asp Rocket Set For Firing By Navy Tonight riUNT A It U V KLLO, Calif. ( 1 11 1 A two-stage Nike-Asp solid propellant rocket packing a 50 pound payload is scheduled to be fired tonight by Navy scientists studying the nature of explosions on the sun. The rocket. Sun Klarc II, is de signed to streak uImhiI 150 miles into the heavens in an eight-minute trip to gather readings of cos mic radiation during a normal period when there is relatively little solar flare activity. Another shot will be made during one of the large solar explosions so sci entists can learn the amount of radiation increase. Cosmic and X-rays spewed from the sun during solar (hires, some times calkd sun spots, disrupt radio communications on earth. Firing of the 12-foot l.THO-pound rocket will be the first launching of a high-performance ballistic missile from this naval base about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. The first probe fired in the sun flare series was made July 1, 1'.I57, at San Nicholas Island. Calif tame an old It'soneof the techniques pioneered by Standard's scientists to help defeat an old enemy . . . wear to learn what it is, what causes it, how to prevent it. Our progress has been steady. Working with car manufacturers, we've virtually ended the problem of wear in automobile engines. In the 1930's, for example, cars could go only 20 to 40 thousand miles before a major overhaul. But with today's motor oils and regular oil changes, your engine can lie good for more than 100,000 miles can, in fact, outlast the car. By such never-ending research that leads to better products ... the people of Standard are planning ahead to serve you better. might with Impunity strike an auto surface covered with this." He said padded instrument pan els ii ml sun visors ought to be standard equipment on cars, since head damage is involved in 70 per cent of the more serious crashes. And he brought in here another telling parallel with the egg. Once you break it. he said, a head is mighty hard to repair. Divorced Man Faces Charge In Slayings Tl'LSA. Ok I a 'I'l'D - A divorced m.in f a c e d ' murder charges today for killing his for mer mother-in-law and wounding his ex-wife and two other persons in the angry climax to a dispute over his divorce settlement. The ex-husband. James. R. Swarb, Jr., ;it. told police he opened fire with an automatic pistol just outside the Baptist church as services were about to start Sunday because he was "tired of being pushed around" by his former wife. Tulsa County Attorney Robert Simms said he would file murder charges against Swarb today. Swarb began shooting from the hip during the argument with his ex-wile and her present husband in front of the Temple Baptist Church. A traffic patrolman and a mem ber of the congregation subdued him when he stopped to reload his Italian-made pistol. Mrs. Viola Bridges,, 49, Tulsa, his former mother-in-law, died in a hospital shortly afterward from bullet wounds in the stomach and leg. A bystander. Mrs. E. Lawton Bragg, wife of the U.S. commis sioner in Tulsa, was shot in the knee. Physicians said she was not seriously injured. Swarb, a laundry operator, said he was dissatisfied with the set tlement Mrs. Starncs won when she divorced him in 11157. He said she received a car and a sum of money in the settlement. enemy 1. 1 -V Is . -Vv - - " A s i CALIFORNIA 'Ait m