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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. July 13, 1952 THE FINISH Crowds cheer as a 15-rar- today on Queen Anne hill will be eligible to old Dayville, Pa., boy flashes to victory In the compete in the 1952 All-American derby at 1951 All-American Soap Box derby at Akron, . Akron, August 10. Ohio. The winner of the Rogue Valley derby MEDFO) rTRIBUNE Canadian Golfer Drubs Bruce Cudd For Men's Northwest Championship Tacoma, Wash. OI.R) Bill Mawhinney, Vancouver, B. C, today won the men's Pacific Northwest Golf association championship with a 12 and 10 victory over Oregon's Amateur Champ Bruce Cudd. Pat Lesser, Seattle, defeated Mrs. Henry Hulscher, Tacoma, Women's Golf Activities A two-ball foursome with al ternate tee shots will be the golf play for ladies day, July 17, at Rogue Valley Country club. Pairings will be made by the committee starting at 8 a.m. No advance pairings are being made this month and next because of the vacation periods of members. Ten Rogue Valley women par ticipated in the Klamath Falls invitational on Friday and brought back four top prizes. Mrs. Sam Colton won the nine hole division and Mrs. William Schei was Class A winner. Mrs. W. W. Davies had low gross and Mrs. Tom Culbertson Jr., low net. Others going to Klamath were Mrs. Ray Larson, Mrs. Ruby Elbert, Mrs. William Mil ler, Mrs. Belle Scheneck, Mrs. Leslie Schneider and Mrs. Ar thur Peters. Twenty-three women vied in a score without putts tourney on Thursday. Mrs. Culbertson took Class A with 32, Mrs. Jack Wood Class B with 35 and Mrs. Ray Frisbie and Mrs. William Finch Class C prizes with 35 and 42, respectively. Willamette Valley - Southern Oregon Golf association team play is set for July 30 at Bend. Women going from Rogue Val ley are asked to sign up at the locker room. Young Pheasants Released Here The Oregon State Game Com mission has announced the re lease of 720 eight-weeks-old pheasants each in Jackson, Jose phine and Douglas counties. - The birds, about equally di vided between hens and cocks, were released in this county in the Sams Valley, Camp , White, Central Point and Phoenix areas. They will supplement the native birds and 327 birds liber ated earlier as breeders. A game commission agent said the birds stood the heat well in the trip from the E. E. Wilson game management farm near Corvallis. It is hoped to liberate more adult cocks here before the season opens. Bettor's Error rs Off Well 8 and 7 for the women's title. Championship play . was over 36 holes in both divisions. Cudd Friday upset men's title-holder Jack Westland of Everett, Wash., 4 and 3, in the 36-hole semi-finals. Bill Maw hinney eliminated Spokane's Al Mengert 1 up for the otter final spot. Miss Pat Lesser of ' Seattle, reached the final brackets in the women's division by leading most of the way to defeat de fending champion Edean Ander son of Helena, Mont., 2. and 1. Mrs. Henry Hulscher, Ta coma, eliminated Mrs. Banks, Seattle, 5 and 4 Friday. Central Point Swimmer Receives Severe Cut Fred Williams, Ehrheart court, Central Point, was given 12 stitches for a cut artery in his right hand Saturday afternoon following a swimming party mis hap at the mouth of Little Butte creek, according to Community hospital attendants. The cut was described as "quite severe," attendants said, and happened when Williams was swimming and cut himself on broken glass from a bottle that had been thrown into the river by unknown persons. Mulligan Defends Padre Manager Portland U.R) Bill Mulli gan, general manager of the Portland Beavers baseball club, Saturday defended Lefty O'Doul, San Diego Padre manager who has been warned to conduct his team in a more dignified man ner. Clarence Rowland, president of the Pacific Coast league, scolded O'Doul for fraterniza tion with fans. "Baseball can use a sense of humor," Mulligan said in de fense of O'Doul's antics on the field. "The times in which we live are grim enough and if Lefty can provide a few laughs and still not hinder his work as a manager, I certainly see noth ing wrong with it in fact, I think it's a good idea." Four Timber Tracts Due For Sale Next Week by BLM Office Four tracts of O and C timber totaling 11,000,000 board feet will be offered for sale at 10 a. m. Tuesday, July 22, in the Bu reau of Land Management of fice in city hall. The tracts have been appraised at $237,000. Only one of the tracts is in the Jackson county master unit. It includes about 1,000,000 board feet of pine and fir near the Dead Indian road east of Ash land. It is scheduled for oral auc tion bidding. Two of the other sales are- oral sales in the Josephine mas ter unit. One is for 4,500,000 board feet of pine and Douglas fir on Walker mountain, seven miles north of Grants Pass near the Pacific highway. This tract was mistakenly listed in the tim ber sales notice for sealed bids, but a corrected notice has been sent to all potential bidders on the mailing list. OTHER ORAL SALES The other oral sale is in the Poorman's creek drainage of lower Grave creek. It totals 5, 000,000 board feet, mostly Doug las fir. The Josephine sealed bid sale involves 680,000 board feet in the Deer creek drainage above Selma. District Forester E. K. Peter son reminded local lumber op erators that the marketing area for the Josephine master unit includes manufacturing plants in Jackson county from Medford west to the county line. All timber included in the "July sale of O and C timber is sched uled for partial cutting. Each tree included in the four tracts has been designated for cutting by a BLM forester. Tracts are scheduled for oral auction bidding when the own er of a road or land which must be used to reach the BLM tim ber has agreed to allow any po tential bidder to cross his prop erty or use his road. Tracts scheduled for sealed bids are generally accessible over public roads, Peterson said. Helicopter Rescue Attempt Started at Site of Crash Whitehorse, Y. T. (UP.) Halicopter crews and a rescue team prepared Saturday to evacuate one dead and six sur viving crewmen of an American B-17 bomber that crashed in Canada's for north while search ing for another plane missing since June 30. Parachute rescue crewmen jumped from a U. S. search plane in mountainous country near the Alaska Highway 30 miles northeast of Snag, Y. T., where the bomber made a forced landing Friday. One Dies in Firs They said one of the B-17's Nine Persons Die in Fire As Three Vehicles Collide Yakima (U.R) An investi-l children are visiting in North gation was underway Saturday i Dakota, was trapped in the cab into a flaming crash between a I of the tanker when it burst into Pay! New York U.PJ A bettor at Aqueduct racetrack meant to bet on No. 11 in the first race and No.. 3 in the second Friday. But he was excited and asked ,the clerk for No. 10 in the first race. He did not realize he had made a mistake until his ticket had been punched. The bettor argued with the clerk but noth ing could be done. No. 10 won the first race and paid $142.50. No. 3 took the sec ond and paid $9.70. With two $10 tickets, the bettor collected $13,429 in the track's biggest daily double pay off of the year. MINERS KILLED Johannesburg, South Africa, (U.PJ Five miners fell one mile to their death Saturday in the main shaft of a gold mine in Orange Free State. Seven mi ners were killed in a similar fall nine days ago. . gasoline tanker, a truck and an automobile which claimed the lives of nine persons, including six children, Killed in the accident Friday were, Merle R. Erickson, 28, Seattle, driver of the tanker; Don Campbell, 23, Selah, Wash., driver of the auto; Mrs. Lee M Johnson, 38, and her six chil dren, Lee Jr., 8, Eugene, 7, Con stance Marie, 3, Gary,, 4, Kath leen, 2, and Robert, 5. Mr. Johnson, the driver of the truck which carried his wife and children, was seriously injured in the wreck. According1 to one witness, the tanker swerved in an effort to avoid Johnson's truck as it came out of a side road. The tanker's efforts to avoid the crash failed, and it collided with the truck and the Campbell car before plunging over, an embankment. The tanker burst into flames and spilled 7,200 gallons of gas oline onto the highway as the fire spread with the mtensity of a blast furnace. Thrown into Flames State patrolmen said Mrs. Johnson and the children were thrown- into the burning gaso line by the impact of the crash. -Erickson, whose wife and two Newspaper Guild Grants Autonomy to Wire Men Portland U.R) Delegates to the 19th annual convention of the American Newspaper Guild left Portland Saturday after .granting near autonomy to press service members during the final session of the week long meeting. The wire service segregation problem, characterized by Guild President Harry Martin as "the most serious before the conven tion," was resolved when the delegates approved a one - year experiment allowing 1700 Guild members employed mostly by the United Press, the Associated Press and International News Service to conduct their, own affairs. 1 flames. All of the victims were burned, some almost beyond recognition. seven crewmen died from burns when it caught fire and two oth ers were in serious condition from burns. The others were reported shaken and bruised but otherwise unhurt. The B-17 took off from Elmen dorf, the Alaska base of the 10th U. S. Rescue Squadron, and was to have landed here Friday night. When it failed to return, two American and two Canadian planes were sent to search for it. Supplies Dropped One plane reported it had sighted the downed bomber and was dropping supplies. The U- S. Air Force sent a para-rescue team from the North- way Air Base to Snag. The team will jump to aid the bomber crew. The B-17 was one of nearly a score of aircraft that had been searching for a Mitchell bomber which disappeared north of Whitehorse June 30. The Mitchell had a crew of four aboard. Central Point Sewer Contracts Now Ready at Recorder's Office Central Point Contracts . for basis between individual prop- ihe Freeman road sewage con nection with Central Point's main are available for signing in the city hall, according to A. R. Pinkham, city recorder. To date, five of the individual property owners along the pro posed main have signed con tracts for construction, the re corder noted. Ten more signa tures are needed. The installa tion is being done on a contract GoYeror's Phophecy Proves To Be Right Chicago-dl.R) Gov. Douglas McKay of Oregon proved him self a first rate forecaster Friday. "We are going"to nominate the President on the first ballot," McKay said as he strode into Convention hall before the Re publican national convention be gan its vote. , The governor cast Oregon's 18 votes for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Chicago U.R)i Dov. Douglas McKay of Oregon predicted -a first ballot victory Friday for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.- While the instructed Oregon delegates prepared to cast their 18 votes for Eisenhower at the Republican national convention, they hadn't decided who they favor for vice president. "We haven t had a meeting oj vice president," McKay said. We are -going, to nominate the president on the first ballot, and then we'll caucus." Cm Hail Trlirane Want Ads In 1951, says the National Geographic Society, 83,297,000 watermelons valued at $30,197, 000, were raised and consumed erty owners and the contractor. Five property owners live out side the city limits and 10 live inside, making a special prob lem of connection. The exten sion will be 1,423 feet of eight- inch line. Central Point's city council adopted the 1952-53 budget totalling $56,207.97 at a council meeting held July 7. The budget ordinance adopted calls for $381.39 over the 1951-52 levy of $23,424.21, of which $15,060 is outside the six per cent limi tation, but a special election is not necessary as the sum is cov ered . by a 15-mill continuing levy. In other business, the council repealed an old ordinance re quiring all vehicles to stop at the railroad crossing on Pine street, and denied an application by Ervin H. Adams on South Haskell street to obtain a license to erect a wrecking yard.' PERTINENT QUESTION Tupelo, Miss. (U.PJ When two-year-old Timmy Robinson disappeared frantic searchers, sure he had fallen into a 20-acre lake near his home, began drag ging the body of water. Two hours later young Timmy, a pop- sicle in each hand, walked up and asked searchers, "Whatcha fishing for?" GATE CRASHING SPIKED Fort Worth, Tex. (U.R) New locks have halted the newest type "black market" in , Fort Worth. Police said teen-agers have been paying $2.50 for dup licate keys to the back doors of Will Rogers memorial coliseum, where numerous public events are held. Attendance Asked of Festival Musicans Hans Lampl, director of music for the 1952 Oregon Shakespear ean festival, expressed concern today over poor attendance at rehearsals of singers and instru mentalists who have joinedthe various groups organized for the season. Mr. Lampl, brought from south ern California to direct the fes tival music, pointed out that the music is considered by fes tival backers and association members as a community proj ect for Ashland, Medford and adjacent districts. "Unless evervone who has promised to participate comes to renearsais, we cannot nave a successful performance," the di rector said. "I cannot emphasize too strongly the fact that coming rehearsals must be well attend ed, or the project will not be a credit to the festival." ' The director pointed out that people from many different cities all over the country will be at tending the concert and that a poor performance will reflect on the quality of music taught and played here. He said "there is much talent" in this district and that the project can be suc cessfully carried out if those who promised to play and sing attend rehearsals regularly. The next combined rehearsal of Medford and Ashland mem bers of the chorus, to be held Friday at the Episcopal parish house in Ashland,' Mr. Lampl declared was "very important." Medford chorus members will also rehearse Monday night at Roosevelt school here. Red Cedar Ceilings Effective July 15 Portland U.R) Dollars-and-cents ceilings for producers' sales of untreated poles, piling and anchor logs cut from. West ern Red Cedar will become ef fective July 15, Director Carl C. Donaugh of Price Stablization said Saturday. The ceilings ako apply to poles and piling and logs pro duced from Western Larch and Lnland Douglas Fir west of the 100th Medidian and east of the Cascade mountains. Ceilings established are ap proximately at the levels which prevailed at the end of 1950 ex cept for those on Western Red Cedar of more than 55 feet in length, which are approximate- ly 10 per cent above previous prices. Aspirin does not help to pre serve cut flowers, as some be lieve but there are commercial products available which do keep cut flowers presentable for long er than usual. Daily Bible School Upper Applegate Sunday school will hold a Daily Vacation Bible school at the Upper Applegate Grange hall from July 14 through July 18. Classes for all ages will be held from 8 to 9 ajn. each day. The public is invited. PREFERS JAIL TERM Hartford, Conn. (U.R) Dale A. Stairs, 18, chose Cheshire re formatory in preference to pro bation. He told a superior court judge frankly that "he probably would get into trouble again on probation.' The judge obliged with an indefinite term. NOT EVEN A FREE LOOK Portland, Conn. (U.R) A Wesleyan university geology class got a stony reception when it tried to inspect a rare rock on a woman's lawn. As the stu dents approached she .covered the prize specimen with a tarpaulin. 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