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TOPH MEDFORP MAIL TBIBOWE Thursday. Jan. 4. 1948 Trojans Rose Bowl Victors La? ffl ' Tennessee Fullback Mark Major plowi . through husky Uni versity of Southam Calilornia Una for a seven-yard gain early In Paiadana's annual Rota Bowl classic. Mora than 93,000 foot ball (ana law the Volunleera trampled to deieat by the Trojani, SS to 0. West Upsets East 13-7 West Halfback Bob Watarlield of V. C. t. A.' breaka away from East Tackle Tom Hughesof Purdue to anare a lateral pan (arrow) carry the pigskin for a 15-yard gain in flrtt momenta of 20th annual Easi-Wsai game atSan Franclico. Waterfield kick ed, passed and ran the Weat to 13-7 uptet victory over the tar-studded East. Nomv You Can Have More of this Famous Whiskey GREAT NEWS for the friends ond friends-to-be of the whiskey with the Crnnd Old Canadian Namet We're dripping more and more to this stale! You'll soon sec Corby's on the shelf more often it's pre-war quality available to .those who prefer a fine light bodied sociable blend. Ask for it next time. 'U Grand Old Canadian Name" PRODUCED IN THE U. S. A. under the direct supervision of our expert Canadian bUndtr 84 Proof 68.4X Groin Neutral Spirits OKkJAIIAKIAY t CO, UMITED, HOMA, IIUNOIS I OSI I' L BARCLAY WW CO, UMITED, MORIA, ILLINOIS F, AT T Grapple fans who like their mat programs dished up in lib eral portions of dirty maneuvers will be treated to an outstanding card at Medford armory tonight when Pete Belcastro, exponent of rule violations, meets smooth wrestling Jack Kiser, coast light heavy king, In the top main event. They will clash for one hour straight time or two out of three falls. Belcastro usually relies on nunches to the head and other uncouth infractions to beat his foe Into submission for applica tion of his deadly surfboard bold while Klser's specialty Is to apply his alligator clutch while his adversary is administering the beating. Terrible Tony Ross, who Is no slouch at handing out beatings, will clash with Gust Johnson, coast Junior-heavy boss who knows just about all the holds In the book. In two previous meet ings each gained a victory and they will collide tonight In six ten-minute rounds, with two falls deciding it, to determine the better man. Bulldog Jackson, who for many years has been beating up opponents with his stomping hammerlock, gained after an on slaught of alley tactics, goes against fast and clever Milt Ol son, the Minneapolis Swede, in the three-round opener. They take to the mat at 8:30 promptly. L T At the first rifle shoot of the 1B49 season, marked by a large attendance, the high' scorer for the evening was Octavia Wad- dell, twice northwest champion and winner of two paid trips to Camp Perry, O., In the four position match: prone, sitting and two offhand with a score of 376. Several new members Joined the club and shooting instruc tions were given to the new shooters. The riflemen shoot every Wednesday. The club wishes to remind all pistol shooters that there will be a shoot Friday night at the club's range in Merrick a Motor Inn The five high scores for the evening were Octavia Waddell. 876; Phil Whltlock, 371; Lew Conger, 36'i; Max Terzenback, 3N and Jlmmie Bolton, 337. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Oakland, Cal. Billy Smith, Oakland, 170V4 declsloned Jack Chase, Denver, 165 (10); Bob Blevins, Oakland, 189, declslon ed Al Sheridan, San Francisco, 180 (8); Smiley Burnett, 183, San Francisco, decisioned Chas, Waters, 184, New York (4); P. Perry, 1SS, Oakland, declsloned Pat Hogan, 140, Chicago (4). CORBY'S mil .x.r vtf i A TEAMS PLAY HERE Medford high school basketeers are set for week end of games on the local maple boards, be ginning with Ashland Friday night in a southern Oregon con ference game and winding up against Eureka in an Intersec tions! clash Saturday night. . Eureka uses an exponent plan in making up their varsity basketball teams, players being divided accordnig to their weight and height which often results in a second team being as good as a first team, except smaller. Eureka will bring IS players to Medford, seven for the varsity and eight for the preliminary game with Ed Kirtley's reserves. The varsity will be sparked by Andy Knudsen, Bob Barnum, 'Red" Hunt and Carlo Simoni, all football players who opposed Medford last season. Friday night's game will be preceded by a preliminary be tween the B teams of the two schools. Other games this week end will pit Roseburg at Grants Pass and Klamath Falls at Bend. FOOTBALL PLANS New York. Jan. 4 OJ.R) President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers brought his post war professional football plans more or less out into the open today and with a minimum of his usual verbal fencing indi cated that he would have a team ready for one of the new leagues by 1046. The boss of the Dodgers thus became the first baseball execu tive to indicate definitely that he would resolve the "feud" with pro football magnates with a counter-measure by starting a team himself. Rickey said that he would pro vide Capt. Dan Topping, owner of the Brooklyn Tigers of the Na tional Professional leaeue. with a one-year contract to operate at fcDDets field through next season, but emphasized that he would "not commit the use of the field beyond that." GOLFERS PREPARE FOR L AJOURNEY Los Angeles, Jan. 4 U.F9 A field nf 138 of th natlnn'e tnn golfers prepared for a final tune up today before the first round of the $13,333 Los Angeles open tournament which opens tomor row. Pre-tournament favnrlbu Sum. my Snead, winner of the Port land and Richmond opens, and "Lord" Byron Nelson, titllst at the San Francisco open, were ex pected to be on hand for the opening gun of the three-day tourney. Other big names includ ed Ellsworth Vines. National Open King Craig Wood, Jug Mc Spaden and Olin Dutra. Bruce Coltart, a freckle-faced youngster from Atlantic r.itv a torrid pace In the qualifying rounas, posting a 87-70-137 to lead the field. Pete Cray Honored By Sports Editors For Baseball Role Srjokana. Wash.. .Tun J mm Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder for the MemnhU Chlrlr. came the first nlnvr oHiv. .,,,-v, a handicap to enter major league oaseDaii wnen he was signed last fall by the St. Louis Browns, to day was named winner of the Spokane athletic round table's sixth annual sportsmanship award a $1000 war bond. Gray was selected through a national poll of sports editors. ine sports editors in selecting Grav." said Vlroll A. W.rr.n rhnlrmnn rtt th vonnj4 4at,l awards committee, "saw in him the year's best Inspiration to those ohysicallv handicanneH In life." LES HORVATH AWARDED ALL-AMERICAN TROPHY Los Angeles, Jan. 4 OJ.R) Les tiorvain, unio state's great half back today was the possessor of me a u-America football board CBDtaln'a cun. after receivlns from 1940 winner Lt, Tommy Harmon last nlcht. Horvath was honored by the southern California Football "fraternity" at a dinner spon sored br Chrlstv Walsh, found. er of the All-American Football board. E RIVER TO MEET POINTERS .ToMrcnn nnnfv "R" Basket ball league play starts tomorrow night when Central Point and Rogue River meet an the-Polnter floor. Their game will follow a 7:13 preliminary between re serve teams of the two schools. Pointers and Rogue River mt twlr last season with Cen tral Point winning by one point each lime. Tney are eveniy matched this year with both tpami hnvintf exnerienced Dlav- ers. Rogue River will be sparked by Dimlck ana Burton wniie ine Pointers starting lineup will be rnllev nnrl Wilson at forwards. Shrier at center, and Childress and Holland at guards. Boy Scout Troop 1 Wins Hoop Game In First League Tilt Boy Scout basketball ' season got underway last night at Lin coln school gym when Troop 2, a dauntless but smaller and less experienced team bowed to Father Hamilton's Troop 1 by a 60 to 19 score. Harold and Howard Rickman led the field for Troop 1 and Pete Soderlund .was high for Troop 2. It was a clean and hard fought game with both teams missing several free throws. It was the first game of the Boy Scout basketball league. comprised of Medford troops. Next game for Troop. 2 will be against Troop 3, under leader ship of Scoutmaster Dick Baize. BASKETBALL By United Press New York University 52, Cor nell 30. St. Thomas 58, North Dakota 43. Oklahoma 44, Nebraska 37. North Carolina 65, Wake Forest 29. Pittsburgh 49, Geneva 43. Camp Lee 36, Virginia 33. Ohio State 44, Wyoming' 36. Columbia 43. Yale 41. Princeton 47, Princeton Naval 42. Middlebury 44, Union 41. Brown V0, Harvard 41. flcSSf GROCERY CEILINGS ' OPA ceiling prices on certain fresh fruits and vegetable effec tive today for the following week were announced today aa follows: Apple Fuey and extra fanes'. . 4e AU othen. 3 lb. mo 1IM Banana rer id. pininii rcr id. : : - rmrmtm fm 1 .IK hunch. r ltTZ. . do bulk, per lb. Te Lettuce Lars head, lS-os. or more, per head , 180 do medium head, la-os. or more, per head .. 10e do small need, under 13-os, per head .. 10 Onion Dry 1944 crop, yellow. all iliel. S lb ISO Potato All varletlei, V. S. No. t white, 5 lb. 140 Sweet potato 3 lb. 22e Yarn 3 lbi. 330 Spinach Calif., per lb. .; IS lie Tomatoei Mexican field grown, per lb. SOe Orange Calif. NaveU, S lb. .... 53c Lemons Calif.. 5 lb. 63c Grapefruit Texas white, per lb. 100 do Texai pink, per lb. 11c do Arizona, per lb. lOe Note: Cabbase. peaa, tomatoei, sweet Eeppera, eggplant, beam. pear, cran erries, melons, coconuts, tomatoes fother than those listed above! and berries, retailers must calculate their own celling by using the applicable markup under the retail regulaUons. HOUSEHOLDERS WARNED ON FUEL OIL SHORTAGE Washington, Jan. 4 (U.FD - -Fuel oil and soft coal users were warned to take it easy if they don't want to run short before the winter is over. The office of price administra tion, stating that fuel oil is now as scarce as during the first shortage period in 1942-43, said many householders were "dip ping too neavily" into their ra tions and might have to suffer in cold homes hater. NIP WRITER PROVIDES EASY VICTORY SYSTEM - By United Press The Japanese newspaper Yo muni Hoc hi today - advanced a simple solution for the Nip ponese military problem, Tokyo radio announced as heard by United Press in San Francisco. "All we must do is to wait patiently until the enemy spends himself and then close for the easy kill." Use Mall Tribune Want Ads. WASHING MACHINES REPAIRED Parts k Service on All Makes B & B Washer Shop 406 E. Main Phone 5302 Ail,. o SELF-CONFESSED SLAYER DEPARTS F( St Helens, Ore., Jan. 4 U.B Benjamin Franklin Male, 73, bid nil friends and neighbors on nearby Sauvales island goodby today and prepared to leave for Fairmount, W. Va., to stand trial for slaying a school teacher 39 years ago, Male, whose desire to live the rest of his life in his beloved West Virginia hills prompted him to confess the slaying, will make the long journey alone. ' Sheriff M. R. Calhoun to whom Male made his confession. left the aged farmer on his honor to report at Fairmount January 9 for his arraignment on the murder charge. Male told Calhoun that in 1905 he struck and killed Wal ter O. Smith with a grubbing hoe after the latter had attacked him in the school yard when he pro tested a whipping Smith had given his son. GREEN 12 INCH OR 16 INCH LENGTHS 300 CU. FT. LOAD DIAL 2123 . Timber P Msoreae "SSH...MT HUSBAND THIN IIS I'M AN AUGEL" Know why? I'll tell you. The other night . Joe was fuming and fussing over our bills . . . trying to balance the family budget. We had that big hospital bill, and some other emergency bills that came up unexpectedly. They really threw our budget out of balance. So, I said, Why don't we spread those expenses over a year's time by borrowing the LOW-COST way at the FIRST NATIONAL BANK. We'll establish our Bank Credit that way, too. Then when the war's over and we want to buy a new car we'll tell our dealer that we want our car financed thru the First National. See why my husband thinks I'm an Angel? LOANS 50 to1000 n no The original Indictment tar the slaying had been lost but . grand Jury returned new one and Male was ordered to return to stand trial. Male requested that bis extradition be postponed until after the New Year so he could spend the holidays with his family and see a grandson who was returning home on furlough. Under West Virginia law, Mala will face death by hanging or Ufa Imprisonment if convicted. Closing tlir-e for Classified As a. m-? Too Late to CUaslfy 12 M p- m. DO YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR CAR? Sm Ut Top f rlcot No Delay Any Make ot Model ' Skinner's Garagi 143 S. Riverside Ph. 3740 T DIAL 2123 Company S75 FREE ESTIMATE Body and Fender Repairs Complete Car Painting We repair thote lenders and make your car LOOK LIKE NEW Good Work ood Service Let Us Do It Now Jackson SI. 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