Thursday, January IS, 1950
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL THIBUNH NINE
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Colleges May Defend
Alleged Violations
New York, Jan. 12. (U.R)
Seven colleges charged with vio
lations of the National Collegiate
Athletic association's "sanity
code were given a last chance
today to plead their cares before
facing expulsion proceedings on
the NCAA convention floor Sat
urday.
At least one and possibly four
of the seven were expected to
send a representative before a
joint session of the NCAA's
executive committee, general
council and compliance commit
tee with arguments to show why
the code governing aid to ath
letes is unworkable In their re
spective schools.
Vote Due Saturday
If their pleas fail, the conven
tion will vote Saturday on
whether to expel them from the
NCAA. A two-thirds majority
is required.
Baugh May Quit
Pro Grid Racket
Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R)
The Washington Redskins indi
cated today they will give Sling
in' Sammy Baugh a release from
his professional player contract
if he wants to become head foot
ball coach at Baylor university.
There was nothing definite
yet. Baylor had not offered
Baugh the job and the Redskins
announced no official decision
on releasing him.
But the famed passing star
said he is "interested" in the
Baylor position, and sources
close to the Waco, Tex., school
say the school's athletic commit
tee seems to want him if he can
get loose from the 1950 contract
he already has signed with the
Redskins.
Basketball
Columbia 58, Fordham 51
Army 61. Harvard 58
Colgate 68. Clarkson 52
Carnegie Tech 02. Pittsburgh 42
Villanova 84. Rutgers 67
Princeton 72. Penn 53
Dartmouth 60, Maryland Tchrs. 50
Rhode Island State 70. Brown 58
Trinity (Conn.) 00, Yale 56
Navy 54, Johns Hopkins 40
Wake Forest 50, Furman 41
Georgia 63, Mercer 57
Houston U. 63, Hardin 38
Loyola (Chicagoi 59, Marquette 56
Notre Dame 58, Depaul 53
Arizona 80. Texas Western 58
Occidental 57, Chapman 52
St. Mary's 48, College of Pacific 47
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President Colgate Darden of
me university of Virginia was
expected to lead the defense. It
was believed that three southern
conference schools involved
Virginia Tech, Virginia Military
academy and The Citadel also
would be represented.
Names of the three other col
leges have not been revealed.
A sampling of delegates with
voting power indicated consider
able difference of opinion on
whether the seven .would be
kicked out or given another
chance to comply with the code.
Other Investigations
The NCAA compliance com
mittee, meanwhile, went ahead
with its investigations of at least
three other colleges for actions
next year. Seven more were said
to be likely candidates for fur
ther investigations.
In one of the several major
side meetings, the American
Football Coaches association was
scheduled to hear its rules com
mittee's report on a decision to
recommend retention of two
platoon football.
The rules committee voted
unanimously yesterday to leave
the mass substitution rule "as
is" but further recommended
that one substitution be allowed
after each down while the clock
is running.
Ben Hogan Heads
North for Golf
Los Angeles, Jan. 12 (U.R)
Ben Hogan, confident but not
cocky, headed northward today
for the Bing Crosby pro-amateur
tournament at Pebble Beach,
Cal., in the second stride of his
magnificent return to the too of
golfdom.
The final chapter in Hogan s
courageous performance in the
515,UUU L.os Angeles open be
came ami - climatic yesterday
when rains forced postponement
until next Wednesday or his
playoff with Sam Snead for
$2,600 first-place money.
By then Battlin Ben will have
had another tourney to streng
then his battered legs, which are i
still woDDiy alter me automo
bile crash which almost cost him
his life last winter.
Minor Leagues Retain
Bonus Rule Regulation
Columbus. O.. Jan. 12 (U.R)
The minor leagues have voted to
retain the controversial bonus
rule, it was learned reliably to
day. The 455 minor league clubs
affiliated with the National As
sociation of Professional Baseball
leagues, in a mail vote just com
pleted, voted to keep the bonus
rule despite the major league
repealing of the rule last
December.
It was not learned immediate
ly, however, by what margin the
minor league clubs voted to keep
the rule in effect.
SEATTLE PLAYER SIGNS
Seattle, Jan. 12. (U.R) Frank
Colman, Seattle Rainier first
baseman and outfielder, has re
turned his signed contract for the
1950 Pacific Coast league base
ball season.
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A Nichols' Worth of
Comment On
By HARMAN
United Pntl
Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R)
The wets and the drys squared
off today in the historic caucus
room of the
marble hailed
s e n a te office
building.
The question:
Shall we pass
the Langcr bill
which would
pro hibit "the
transportatio n
in inters t a t e
c o m m erce of
advertising of
alcoholic bev
erages?" The
same sort of
tUrman Nichols thing came up
in congress a year or so ago.
The drys contend that such
ads, which often show a man
looking bright-eyed and bushy
tailed of a morn after a night of
sipping Old Aunt Hetty gin, lead
to excessive drinking. The youth
of the land, the drys cry, is en
couraged to bow to the demon
rum.
R. E. Joyce, the president of
Distilled Spirits Institute, Inc.,
has different ideas and let it
be said without delay that I am
trying hard to take no sides and
am presenting both sides as they
show up.
Anyhow, Joyce says that pre-
Hockey
By United Press
The northern and southern di
visions of the Pacific Coast Hock
ey league stood each other off
last night.
The contending Tacoma Rock
ets from the north and the lead
ing San Francisco Shamrocks
from the south fought for 60
minutes and each came out with
four goals.
In an exclusively southern di
vision game the Los Angolcs
Monarchs swept past Fresno's
Falcons 8-5 while Portland was
humbling Seattle 7-3 to clamber
out of the northern division base
ment. The Portland win over Seattle
gave the Penguins eight- out of
the last 10 games.
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W. NICHOLS
Future Wrltei , ,
paration of liquor ads Is a diffi
cult task. You not only have to
follow the letter of the federal
law, but you also have to watch
out for quirks in the state
statutes.
Special Requirements
Thirty-three slates, he said,
have special advertising require
ments. "The state of Virginia, for in
stance," he said, "forbids an ad
vertiser from displaying any
except a picture of a bottle or
of the label on a bottle."
Joyce warmed up to his sub
ject after that.
"Take Oregon," he said. "We
are allowed to use the pictures
of big dogs there, but are not al
lowed to use pictures of little
dogs. There is no apparent rea
son for this so far as we know.
"In Utah, we are prohibited
from using the picture of any
dogs at all big or little. In the
state of Washington we can use
a picture of any dog we want to
mongrel or blooded, big or
small.
Business Complicated
Joyce said that' the liquor ad
vertising business is so compli
cated you lose a lot of good ad
vertising men that way.
One state forced a liquor out
fit to remove balloons which had
been used as window displays
and which said "Light on the
purse," meaning the liquor didn't
cost very much.
State officials ruled there was
a law against any prices In the
winnows.
"That wasn't the end of that
one, Joyce said. "We ordered
new balloons without the slogan
and redecorated all the windows
only to be told that these new
balloons were illegal because the
regulations prohibited any mo
tion in window displays. After
that we put the balloons on
sticks, eliminating all motion.
We finally gave up balloons
when the state ruled that bal
loons were illegal because they
might have an appeal to chil
dren. Me, I'll leave the arguments
to congress. It ought to be an
interesting hearing.
Naming Of Negro First
Citizen Under Attack
Portland, Ore., Jan. 12 U.R)
The title of "Negro First Citizen"
just bestowed on Oliver E.
Smith, Portland, was criticized
today by the executive secretary
of the Portland Urban league as
"infamous, stupid and dishon
est." Secretary Edwin C. Berry
blasted the method of selecting
the Negro first citizen after
Smith was given the honor by
the Negro Democratic society.
Smith was supervising fore
man at a night club until state
liquor commission agents raided
and closed it last month.
Berry said Smith was not a
board member of the Urban
league as listed in his "first citi
zen" qualifications, nor was he
a board member of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of colored people. NCAAP
Vice-President Mrs. J. W. Inger
soil said Smith's board member
ship in the organization dated
back several years.
MYSTERY EXPLAINED
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (U.R)
Frank Breen, assistant city en
gineer, was amazed when the
rain guage registered three inch
es, for it hadn't rained the night
before. A park department em
ploye finally admitted sloshing
an excess of water on the lawn
near the guage.
WAS IN DOCHOUSEI
Hillsdale. Mich. (U.R) Under
sheriff Estel Pifer said goodbye
to his wife, locked the basement
door, and went to work at the
county jail. When he arrived
home for dinner that night, he
found his wife still locked in the
basement.
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Ashland Riding Group
Elects 1950 Officers
Ashland. Jan. 12 (U.R) Wal
ter P. Hamby was elected uresi
dent of the Ashland Hiding asso
ciation at a meeting here this
week. Other new officers include
William M. Briggs, vice-presi
dent, and J. P. Daugherty
secretary.
The ten members of the asso
ciation's board of directors in
clude Hamby, Briggs, Daugherty
H. G. Endcrs, Clyde Caton. Dan
Campbell, C. B. Harrison, Verne
Thomas, Dave Kerr and Andy
Anderson.
Plans were made at the meet
ing for activities for the year,
including present repair work on
the valley view rodeo grounds
and early spring snows.
The group will join with the
ftiecitora Trail riders lor a cov
ered dish supper and square
dancing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday
at the Phoenix school. The gct-
togetner is an annual event.
DITCH EXPANDS FAST
Macon. Ca. (U.R) Workmen
wanted only to dig a thrce-foot-
wldc slit trench, but before they
were done they thought they
were shovelling a short cut to
China. Every time a shovel cut
the dirt, the ditch would cave in.
The "three-foot ditch" finally
stopped at 30 by 35 feet.
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Souvenirs Recall
Bygone Splendor
For White House
Washington U.R) A woman
whose mother was a bridesmaid
in a White House wedding in
1874 has closed a gap in White
House files.
Because of a fire in the state
department some years ago,
there are almost no records of
past White House social func
tions. Mrs. Arthur Doig, former
ly of St Louis, Mo., now living
in Washington, permitted the
White House staff to copy some
oi ner motner s souvenirs of sev
eral formal White House dinners.
Mrs. Edith Helm, White House
social secretary, said one was sig
nificant because it shows the ear
liest recorded use of the Presi
dent's seal on a formal dinner
invitation.
Mrs. Dolg's mother was Anna
Barnes, daughter of the Army's
surgeon general in the Grant ad
ministration. She was one of
eight bridesmaids attending Nel
lie Grant at her marriage in 1874
to Algernon Sartoris, an English
man. Cards Elaborate
In connection with the wed
ding festivities Miss Barnes was
invited to several dinners at the
White House. She saved her in
vitations as well as her place
cards.
Mrs. Helm observed that the
place 'cards of 1874 were far
more elaborate than those used
in the White House now. Miss
Barnes' card was four-by-five
Inches with .an engraving of the
White House over the guest's
name. Now, Mrs. Helm said, the
place cards carry the President's
seal and the gucsts's name.
Mrs. Doig's souvenirs revealed
that the White House dining
hour has been pushed up con
siderably. The usual formal din
ner there is billed for eight
o'clock. Miss Barnes received
one from the Giants for seven
o'clock and one from President
and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes
for six o'clock.
FIRE CHIEF'S FLAME
Albany, Ga. (U.R) The reputa
tion of Fire Chief D. W. Brosnan
must be getting around. He re
ceived a greeting card addressed
to "the outfightin'est fire chief
U.S-A." The cord was postmark
ed from Cilquitt, Ga., 50 miles
away.
Roanoke. Va. (U.R) Roanoke
city councilmen, who are paid
$3.29 a day, emerged from an
eight hour and 20 minute session
figuring they really had earn
ed their day's wages.
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To Fight State's
Fair Trade Act
Stockton, Cal., Jan. 11 (U.R)
Grocer Charles Hawkins, who
was forcibly carried off to jail
for selling a bottle of wine for
6 cents less than the state fair
trade act, was fighting mad to
day. Hawkins said he planned to
take two steps to get aroind the
price law. He conferred with his
lawyer about using his case as
a test to overthrow the act. He
also announced he would run for
the powerful board of equaliza
tion, which is charged with en
forcing It.
Feuding With Board
Hawkins has boon feuding
with the board for two years.
The fight started when he per
sisted in selling beer and wine
for less than the law said he
should. He claimed he could sell
his merchandise at any price he
wanted to. The board then sus
pended his liquor license
On Tuesday, a board agent
bought a bottle of wine from
Hawkins for 38 cents instead of
the "legal" price of 45 cents.
Then seven agents went to Haw
kins store to arrest him.
Carried To Jail
Warned of their coming, Haw
kins barricaded his store and de
fied the agents to remove him.
They broke down the door and
earned him off to jail, kicking
and screaming.
He and his clerk, Byron Nor
ton, were arrested for disturbing
the peace and for selling liquor
without a license. Both will ap
pear for a preliminary hearing
January 10.
A Los Angeles court already
has upheld California's price
fixing statute in a case that was
not appealed. However, two
other cases are pending In the
state appellate court.
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Music League Will
Present Two Plaques
Hollywood, Jan. 12 (U.R)
British composer Benjamin Brit
ten and Movie Producer Arthur
Freed will receive plaques Feb
ruary 10 from the inter-Amerl.
can Music league for "the great-
est contributions to
music
in
1949."
Britten's operas "Peter
Grimes" and "Albert Herring"
gave him the classical music
award, the league said.
Freed won honors for the sec
ond consecutive year because of
his work in the movies, "On The
Town," "The Barkleys of Broad
way" and "Take Me Out to the
Ball Game."
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