Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 29, 1952, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Fanfare By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Spaitt Editai This Southwestern Oregon Baseball league of which the Cheney Studs club is a member, becomes more potent week by week. Latest report Is that the Co quille Loggers, whom the Studs meet on Saturday and Sunday at Coquille, have signed Bobby Doerr, stellar American league second baseman until he retired at the end of last season from the Boston Red Sox. , The Logger roster also lists Dick Larner, who has hurled for San Francisco in the Coast loop and chucked In the Pioneer league and who beat PCL crews in exhibitions while moundman for University of Southern Cal ifornia. He was losing pitcher in Roy Helser's 1 to 0 win for Drain over Coquille last week-end. Co quille has Aldon Wilkie, ex Coast and major leaguer; Claude Buckley, outfielder for Eugene In the dormant Far West league; Dave Douglas, considered one of the top all-around performers in the circuit, and Joe Segura, Uni versity of Oregon catcher. TO BROADCAST GAMES ' Madford fans will hava a chance to haar tht play by play account of the Coquille Madford series. Radio lation KYJC will broadcast both in Saturday night and Sunday afternoon games. DRIVES TO GAME Paul Gehrman, who tossed a flve-hlt 6 to 1 win for the Studs over Roseburg last Saturday, worked up to 2 p.m. that day then drove from Bend to Med ford the long way around, via Klamath Falls. SCORES IDENTICAL Whan Grants Pass beat Prospect 17 to 2 In tha Rogue Valley Basaball league last Sunday, It duplicated tha aeora that It won by whan the two clubs last mat. Sunday marked tha first tussle be tween saml-pro clubs of tha two communities since July 10. 1949. Notes from the Western Inter national league thanks to the Sporting News , . . Mike Kan ahln, Medford Rogues pitcher in 1950, has been released by Wen tchee . , . Gene Howard, Rogue first baseman In 1951, has been "returned to San Francisco" by Yakima . . . Mike Donahue, Ya- Irlma nninlr. with the RoffueS last year, recently tied a loop record for catcher, witn live as sists only to see the record mashed a few nights later. WINS TUNA DERBY ., Nassau, Bahamas U.R) George Bass led all anglers In the Blmlnl tuna fishing tourna ment. Bass, Birmingham, Mich., reeled in six tuna for a total of 2,700 points. FISH WORMS with Fish Appeal ioi Loiiar Lana Ph. 2-6935 FISHING BASS, TROUT Catfish, Crappie, Bluegill NO LICENSE NO LIMIT Bobs Twin Ponds 1V Ml. off Cr.ttr Like Hiw.y an Butts Filli Rod Buy Your Favorite FISHING TACKLE WHOLESALE 40 OFF ON POPULAR RODS REELS LINES CREELS, etc. Alio Popular Wttchei and Many Other Itomi PHONE 2-7373 7 A.M. to P.M. YOUR BEST BUY TODAY ! FAMOUS . SINCE 1S7 ' Sl I . . 'in, -..u. MedfordTribuns Sprint Car Races Friday On Track At Grants Pass Three auto racing groups will be in competition for the first time on Friday when they parti cipate In the Indianapolis sprint car Memorial day races at the Josephine county fairgrounds half-mile track. They are the Oregon, Wash ington and Western Racing asso ciations. Time trials are sched uled to get underway at 12:30 p.m. and the first of the races at 2:30 p.m. Heats will be five laps. There will be a trophy dash, a 20-lap B main and a 35-lap main event, with nine events in all on a 3Vi-hour program. There will be six top drivers each from the Washington and Oregon groups and 15 from the Western association, a California organization. Nehl Heads Washington drivers will be George Macoll, Johnny Gorman, Bob Simpson, Curley Steves, Bill Menchel and Oscar Lof quist. Thomas F. Nehl, Portland, Taking of Fawns llleg; al, Game Ag tents Point- Out PnrtlnnH If vnu're temoted to nlrk nn a fawn this snrine and haul it home as a playmate for the children, don t do n warns the game commission for by act of the last legislature it Is un lawful to take the young of any game bird or animal from its natural habitat and hold it in captivity. Nearly all fawn cases Investi gated by game agents amount to "fnwnnnninff:" bambi really wasn't lost, just hiding until mom returned. A newborn lawn ha. nn nrinr and nrotective COl- oration and freezing are its best protection. An Astoria resident nnea zi In Justice court this week for nnaMMlnif B fflUn WAV the first Oregonian convicted of "fawn- napplng," and the Justice warn ed that the price of fawns Is going up. Fiwm In Court Until thlc vnr. same accnts retrieved fawns from their cap tors and took them to State game farms. Now the lawns will nrsi appear In justice court wllh their captor before the trip to the game farm foster home. Fawns held in captivity soon shed their gentle Innocence, and on many occasions game agents have been called upon to dispatch a pet deer that turned on Its owner. There are several records of fatal Injuries from the slashing hooves of a pet deer. If there is reason to believe a mother deer has been killed or Injured, a game agent or the state police should be notified, but the fawn should not be dis turbed. Few Predict New Set in Indianapol Indianapolis (U.R) Drivers of cars in Friday's 500-mile Speedway race indicated by their actions Thursday the win ner probably will go most erf the way at around 128 miles per hour. Such a mark would be a new record, surpassing the 128.244 mile per hour speed with which Lee Wallard won a year ago. Openly, few in the field were willing to predict a new mark. The man who has gone the fast est on the track, Chct Miller, said flatly there will be no new record. Changing Goart "It's going to be slower than last year despite all the speed so far," Miller said. "The boys are going to change their gear ratios and conserve their engines." Miller turned In the fastest qualification mark on record on Monday, 139.034 miles per hour for four laps. Saturday he set Thursday, My 29. 1952 will head the Oregon sextet. He is a former Midwest sprint car champion. The Californians are led by Cecil Burnaugh, champ In the southern part of his stale. Burnaugh is president of the Western Racing association. The big car event, usually held at- this time in Southern Calif ornia, is being brought to Grants Pass for the'first time and there by will provide a traveling con venience to Washington and Oregon racers. Gales at the track will op"n at noon. Basinski Slates 500th Straight Coast Loop Tiff San Francisco (U.R) Fid dler Eddie Basinski, Portland second baseman and off-season violinist with the Buffalo sym phony, will play his 500th conse cutive Pacific Coast league game Thursday night when the Bevos try to tie strings around high pitched San Diego. Basinski, a competent work man, started more slowly this season than he did with the 1951 early-speed Beavers. A 29-year-old right-hander, he is hitting in the .235 neighborhood for his second division mates. . Record 669 The PCL record for consecu tive games played is held by Hugh Luby, the ex-Seal and Oak, who worked 868 in a row. It would take Basinski more than two years to tie that mark. Basinski and the Beavers fid dled while San Diego won its seventh straight game Wednes day night, 8-2. The success stretched the Pads' lead over second-place Hollywood to four games. The Stars succumbed to Oak land and squat Eddie Lake's ho mer, 4-3. Elsewhere, Los An geles whacked San Francisco, 5-1, and Sacramento jumped back out of the cellar with Ken Gables' 7-2 pitching victory over Seattle. WILDLIFE SESSION Portland Youth summer camp directors for 90 Oregon camps, including Boy scout, Girl scout, YMCA, Campfire girl, 4-H Future Farmers of America, and denominational camps, have re quested the two-day wildlife ses sions to be offered this summer by the game commission information-education department. In itiated in 1950, the wildlife ses sions have expanded from an original 24 camps to nearly all youth summer camps in the state. The classes and field trips, conducted by game commission personnel, are designed -to ac quaint young campers with Ore gon wildlife in a natural setting. Record Will Be is Auto Race the record for one" lap, 139.600 miles per hour. DUCK TO TOUR Eugene U.R Daryle Nelson, University of Oregon's outstand ing senior second baseman, will play for a team of college all stars '.hat will tour Japan this summer. If the trip, which is un der the guidnnce of John Sco linos, head baseball coach at Pcppcriline college, meets with success in Japan, the team may continues on to the Philippines and Hawaii for games there. WESTERN STARTS St. Louis, Mo. (U.R) The forly-ninth Western open golf championship underway here Thursday at the Westwood coun try club wllh 121 pros and ama teurs teeing off. The pros con cede that the tough part of this tourney will be Sam Sncad, a favorite to win. 7 HOGAN AGAINST AMER ICA Ben Hogan, above, called by experts the greatest golfer of this generation will pit his skill against an estimated 300,- 000 golfers on National Golf day on Saturday, May 31. On that day Hogan will match strokes against divoters on 4.970 courses throughout the country. He will shoot an 18-hole round at Dallas, Tex. At the same time America's week-end golfers with their own handicaps will try to beat Hog an s round on their home courses Those who do will get a bronze medal. Proceeds from the $1 en try fee will go to the USO and the PGA national golf fund. Life magazine and the PGA are spon sors. National Golf Observance Set At Rogue Valley Rogue Valley Country club, along' with its other activities this week-end will participate Saturday in National Golf day in which linksmen will compete in an 18-hole round with famed golfer Ben Hogan. Golfers throughout the coun. try will compete against Hogan, who will play on the Dallas, Tex., course. Proceeds from the small entry fee will go to the USO and the Professional Golf ers association national fund. Redding Team Coming Nineteen golfers from Redding, Calif., will play a Rogue Valley team here Sunday, June 1. Qual ifying play for the Oregon Golf association Alderwood invita tional at Portland started' Wed nesday for Rogue Valley team aspirants. A four-man team will represent the Medford club in the tourney on June 7 and 8. The qualifying stint is 36-holes. A team of Rogue Valley di voters will play a Klamath Falls crew at Klamath on June 8. Standings COAST LEAGUE W. I,. San DIcbo 31 20 Hollywood 32 23 Oakland ....... 29 2.1 I.oa AnKelM 28 27 San Franciaco 26 30 Portland 23 30 Sncramcnto 23 33 Seattle 22 32 Pet. .649 .3R2 .537 .509 .4R4 .434 12 .411 13a NATIONAL LEACil'E w. Prt. GB .7B3 607 J'i .568 6', .528 8 .455 10 'i .447 1 1 .406 12 .179 21', New York Brooklyn . Chicago Cincinnati Philadelphia .... St. Louif Roxton PlttiiburKh 2(1 21 21 ..10 15 . 17 13 7 AMERICAN l.EAGl'E W. I.. Cleveland 24 15 Washington .. ... 20 15 Itoston 20 15 New York 17 15 Chicago 19 19 St Louli 19 23 Prt. .615 .571 .571 531 .500 .452 .419 .324 Philadelphia 13 ueiroii it WESTERN INTERNATIONAL W. I.. rrl Victoria 25 9 Spokane 22 15 Vancouver . 18 13 t.ewl.ton IB IB Wenalcheo 17 19 .733 .594 .551 .500 .472 .447 .378 .331 4'i 8 9 10 12'i 13 'a Salem .. 17 21 Yakima 14 23 Trt-Clly 13 24 BASEBALL WKnxF.sn.ws mrsi'LTs Const Lpakii Oflkliinrt 4, Hollywood 3 1. 01 AnRclos 5. Sun Frnnciico 1 Saornmrnto 7. ReMttp 2 San Diego 8, Portland 2 Nnltnr.Ni If Am New York H. Brooklyn 7 Chtrauo 7. St. Louts 2 Cincinnati 9. Ptmhursh 1 (night) (Only fames scheduled) Amorlran League St l.otni 3, Chicago 1 might) Detroit (I, Cleveland 2 (night) (Only games scheduled) Western International Victoria 10, Spokane 3 Trt-Cily Salem B Lewtiton 6, Wena tehee 4 Yakima 8. Wenatehea 3 Head line Sunday Clanvtheds Is at S 30 pm for following dav; 10 am Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday m. You'll Always Find Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY Mr Andre. Road Phone 2-5271 Tru-Mix Concrete Co. Beaver Trappers Take Many Pelts During Season Portland Trappers partici pating in the 1951-52 Oregon beaver trapping season, the first held in 20 years, have reported a take of 15,253 beaver pelts to the game commission. Chester Kebbe, furbcaring an imal expert for the commission, values the catch at $120,000 based on an average of $9.73 received for all beaver pelts. Top prices for prime blanket pelts ranged between $18 and $22. Commission records show only 2,270 licensed trappers in the state, a reflection of the current! low in the raw fur market. Largest take of beaver was in the South Willamette valley and Columbia and Clatsop counties. Lane county with, a catch of 2, 98 beaver led the state. Observa tions of commission game agents and trappers, who are checking streams opened for the Novem ber. 15 to January 15 beaver sea son, show no appreciable effect on the beaver population. Farm er complaints of damage to fruit trees, blocking of ditches and drainage tiles, and holes in the dikes by the aggressive rodents have not diminished. Another Season Talked At the annual May conference of all State game personnel held in Portland much discussion was devoted to the possibility of rec ommending another beaver trap ping season this winter. Other furbearers taken by trappers in the recent trapping season included 3635 mink aver aging $13.93, 210 otter averaging $14.35, 64,000 muskrat averaging $1.20, and 184 marten averaging $16. Prices for long-haired pelts were so low that few predators were reported sold. Gray fox pelts, for example brought 30 cents, skunk 79 cents, and red fox 60 cents. Morris AAU Meet Entry Portland (U.R) Two of Ore gon's finest track stars are scheduled to compete in the Northwest AAU track and field meet to be held here Saturday. ' Both athletes were high school performers last year, but in the Saturday event Dean Parsons of Eugene and Frank Morris of Medford wil compete under the banner of the Seattle Athletic club. Parsons and Morris are freshmen at the University of Washington. Parsons won the shot put in the 1951 state meet and Morris set a new high.hurdle record at the same time. Kid Gavilan Halts Pruden Indianapolis (U.R) , Welter weight champion Kid ' Gavilan declared himself ready for his July title defense against Gil Turner, even though he hardly warmed up before he finished off Canada's Fitzie Pruden in the Coliseum Wednesday night. Gavilan, whose title was not at stake in the scheduled 10 rounder, won by a technical knockout when Pruden failed to answer the bell for the sixth round. Pruden was not permit ted to continue because of cuts around both eyes. Savirr Ousted In Net Tourney Paris (U.R) The United States chances for victory in the French international tennis championships rested Thursday on the shoulders of Gardnar Mulloy. He remained the lone Yank survivor following Dick Savitt's defeat at the hands of South Af rica's Eric Slurgcss, 8-2, 6-8, 4-6, 8-6, 6-3, in a quarter-final match Wednesday. Mulloy was schedul ed to play a quarter-final match Wednesday against Jaroslav Drobny, of Egypt, but rain post poned it until Thursday. Dead line Sunday Cla.jlfiedi li at 5 30 pm. tor follmvirm day; 10 am. Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. EARL HERNDEN ll Now Working At FRY'S BARBER SHOP Hotel Allen Building Valve-Turning Ceremony Will Loose Water in Columbia Basin Ephrata, Wash. (U.R) Fed eral Reclamation Commissioner Michael Strauss turns a valve Thursday to loose water from the Columbia river onto the first acres of the world's biggest irri gation project. The water, as it flows into a 66,000-acre section of the Co lumbia basin, will fulfill a dream that has inspired engineers and agriculture experts since the pio neer days of the Pacific North west. By 1958, more than 1,000.000 acres in the basin will be irri gated with water from the Grand Coulee dam reservoir, 50 miles north of here. The life-giving water will make it possible for farmers to work the soil of the arid Eastern Washington district on a prac tical basis for the first time. Thursday's event has been celebrated in towns throughout the area during the last week. Hundreds of visitors came from throughout the country to join the festivities, including pa- Training Camp Scheduled for Tornado Gridders Medford High gridders will have a week of conditioning and practice at Lake o'Woods prior to their 1952 campaign, Coach Fred Spiegelberg announced. Training session will open on August 24 and the boys will be quartered at the Boy Scout camp. Spiegelberg said that it is desired to have all grid aspir ants who can attend the camp, since those who don't make the trip will be far behind others in season preparation. Actual Play There will be actual football play in addition to conditioning because of the nearness of the game schedule to the practice opening date. First action will be an inter squad game on September 5. The A. Z. (Tubby) Dean Memorial scoreboard will be dedicated at the game and proceeds will be used to pay for the training camp. Fishing To Open At Diamond Lake Roseburg (U.R) Fishing will open at Diamond lake Fri day and continue, through Sept. 30. Roads leading into the lake, aid to be the home of the biggest trout in Oregon, ere open. Bait fishing, outlawed at the lake last season, is legal this year end game commission of ficials report many king-sized trout have been seen in the Diamond waters. Salem Two Medford students at Willamette university were among 23 youths who received track letters at Willamette uni versity this spring. Vern Shan gle, Medford, a junior, received his third letter, and Ray Freth eim, Medford, got his first. 60.SICOND How to choose your Have ox. of Catvort put in one glass and the same amount of any other whiskey in an-other-wifiouf know ing which i which. WHISKIES DIFFER GREATLY IN TASTE, SO ... Be your own whiskey ex perl I Make this simple taste test between Calvert Reserve and any other whiskey. It will pay you to learn which brand gives you the greatest enjoyment . which is smoother, mellower, free from harshness. We believe you'll choose Calvert, because its taste is determined by a "Consumer Jury" of thousands of folks like you. But if you still pre fer another brand, stick with it. Fair enouih? Calvert Challenges Comparison with any whiskey on the market I .CAMRl KSUYI IllNDfO WWSKtY . 16.1 MOOf .5 CSAIN NtUTRAl JMiTS. CAIVHT WSTHURS COf, K T. C ' rades, aquaramas, pageants and fairs. Many plan to stay as modern day pioneer settlers in the area newly opened to farming. As part of the celebration, hundreds of men worked today to carve a 160-acre .farm from the desert for Donald D. Dunn, 30, named as the nation's most deserving veteran in a national contest. The entire farm will be cre ated in the 24-hour period that started at midnight, Dunn's farm will be the first in the basin project. In Othello, Wash., on Saturday, the federal government will conduct a land drawing to determine which of the eligible applicants for other homesteads will be allowed to purchase 199 farms to be avail able in 1952. Reclamation Commissi oner Strauss will turn the valve let ting the water into the basin at 5:30 p.m. (PDT). Strauss said the history-mak ing event was only a symbol of greater things to come, how-j ever. j Grand Coulee and the Colum- j bia Basin project, Strauss said, are the "biggest everything" by i present standards. The dam is the biggest in the world. It pro duces more power than any oth er, and the irrigated acreage is more than in any other single project. But Strauss said projects like it are "not sufficient to meet the I need." The nation, he said, is going to have to think about j moving water 1,000 miles or j more before it goes onto farm 1 land. ! A quarter of a million per-! sons are born throughout the world each 24 hours, he said. The population of the Pacific Coast states increased by 50 per cent in -the past 10 years. "Food shortages are becoming urgent," he said. "The velocity of the reclamation program will increase and the law regulating It will change." With Columbia Basin's 1,000,-1 uuu acres, the irrigated acreage in' the 17 western states will amount to 7,000,000, he said. That's about half of what the available water will irrigate under "a present financial stand ards," he said. There's plenty to be done yet in the Columbia basin, he said. The Pick-Strauss plan designed by Strauss and Lt. Gen. Lewis Pick of the Army Corps of En gineers, lists some 200 dams in the watershed and only a small minority of them are underway. HERE ARE THE WINNERS In Elrod's Trout Derby Mrs. G. L. Witte, Medford $20, largest fish. 13 14 inchei long, 14 ounces Chester Weaver, Jacksonville, Chet Sicler, Medford $10 for largest catch each caught 45 C. F, Epperson, Phoenix $5, for smallest fish ELROD'S TROUT FARM 4 Miles West of Talent on Anderson Creek TASTI TIST TILLS... in. j?. Sniff on brand for aroma. Taste it criti cally for smoof hnesa. Swallow carefully to judge its freedom from harshness. But he said other riven on the coast are being "exhausted." The dispute between California and Arizona over the waters ot the Colorado river, he said, shows that river is about used up. How fast new irrigation pro jects are started ,he said, is up to Congress and the appropria tions it allows. He complained that his bureau hasn't any as surance it will get money to complete the 1,000,000 project here, let alone for the 200 dams in the Pick-Strauss plan. nibesr ANGEL FOOD Quick CAKE Mix eH add wolul F GRANTS PASS FAIRGROUNDS Friday, May 30 BIG INDIANAPOLIS SPRINT CAR MEMORIAL DAY Time Trials 1 P.M. Raeei Start 2:30 P.M. West Coast's Biggest Sporting Event The Best Cars from Calif., Ore., Wash. Championship Drivers 8 BIG EVENTS WILL RUN RAIN OR SHINE Enclosed Grandstand whiskey: Taste the ether whiskey in the m analytical way then pick the one that nelly tastes better to you. jiri9 H APINT