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rTRIBUNI Central Point, Camp White Win Medford Softball Loop Contests Central Point trounced Andy's Jewelers, 8 to 0, and Camp White edged by Trowbridge and Flynn Electric, 6 to 4, in Med ford Softball league games play ed here last night. The Central Point victory, racked up behind Flink's two-hit pitching, was rolled up in 4Vi innings. In games tonight, Crater Lions will play Andy's and Cen tral Point meets Eagle Point. Flink had the Jewelers under control throughout the contest last night as he struck out 11. of the 19 batters he faced, tie re tired the side on strikes in the second and fifth innings. Central Point iced the contest in the first frame as they tallied twice. The victors added two more in the second, one in the third and three in the fourth to win going away. Camp White took what ap peared to be a safe margin in the second game by going ahead 3 to 0 in the second inning. Trowbridge and Flynn came back in the fifth with four runs to take a brief lead, but Camp White scored once in the sixth and twice in the seventh to gain the win. Upset Victories Feature Tourney Astoria U.R) A number of upset winners Thursday led the Oregon Coast Golf tourna ment being held here this week. Co-medalists Lou -Rose and Jake Burns, both of Portland, lost out in two of the top match es of the men's 40-to-50 division of the championships. Rose fell, 2 up, before De fending Champion R. J. Nichols of Astoria. Nichols ran down a 30-foot putt for a birdie duece on the 17th hole to go 1-up, then added the 18th when Rose three putted for a bogey five. Art Green, Portland, defeated Burns, 6 and 5. Burns, along with Rose, had led the intermed iate men's qualifying play with an even-par 72. In another upset, Art Niemi, Kelso, Wash., turned back Don MacPike, 1950 runner - up from Portland, with a winning par four on the 19th. LINESCORES: Central Point 221 3x 8 8 Andv' Jewelers .. 000 00 0 2 Flink and Sullivan; T. Landers and Steele. Camp White .. .003 001 2 8 8 1 Trowbridge and Flynn 000 040 0 4 7 S Corwin and McKeeknie; Cory and Ettinger. 120,000 Veterans Newsmen Allowed To Get Increases To Loiter Near Vancouver Nine Starting Drive By UNITED PRESS The Vancouver Capilanos are putting on the pressure in their drive to overtake Victoria, cur rent leaders of the Western In ternational League. The Caps moved into second place Wednesday night ahead of Spokane by knocking off the In dians twice by 3-1 scores. The victories came on fine pitching performances by Paul and Van Fletcher. The Caps wrapped up the sec ond game in the third inning on two walks, a double steal an in field out and a single by Jimmy Moore. Fletcher contributed to his 10th victory in the seven-inning opener by driving in the winning run with a single in the third In single games, Victoria main tained its winning pace by dump ing Lewiston, 6-4, Salem blanked Yakima, 3-0, and Tri-City clubbed Wenatchee, 7-2. WHISKY A IIEH0 U MOOT s? mm NEUIUL SIMS LflDtfDK ON IPage 3 SECTION TWO TODAY FOR GROCETERIA SAVINGS! Annual Red Cross Meeting Saturday New board members will be elected and officers nominated during the annual luncheon meet ing of the Jackson County Red Cross chapter at 12:30 p.m. Sat urday at the Rogue Valley coun try club. Seth Bullis, a district member of the national resolutions com mittee, will report on the na tional convention of the Red Cross which he attended in Cleve land. The principal speaker will be Richard Van Metre, regional di rector for the Pacific area. He served overseas as a field direc tor during World War II. Anyone who is interested may attend. Reservations may be made by calling the chapter of fice, 2-4405. In Compensation Nearly 120,000 blind, crippled and tubercular veterans of war and peacetime service will re ceive increased compensation payments in their checks due September 1, according to the Veterans Administration. The increases, resulting from a law recently signed by the president, are automatic for all veterans who are receiving com pensation checks, and are speci fied in the law. But veterans not now on the compensation rolls but who are covered by the new law must file applications with the VA. Receiving the increased "allot ments will be veterans who have been awarded statutory allow ances for the loss of hands or feet, for .blindness, for total deafness and for arrested tuber culosis. Rang From $5 lo $40 Monthly increases range from $5, for veterans who have lost one hand, foot or eye, to $40, for veterans who have lost both hands, both feet, been totally blinded or have received a com bination of such disabilities. The minimum monthly rate of compensation for service-in curred tuberculosis is increased from $60 to $67 and extended to cover World War II and Korean veterans. Previously these bene fits have been available to World War I veterans only. These new rates also are pay able for peacetime service if the disabilities were incurred while engaged in extra-hazardous serv ice. Rates of compensation for disabilities incurred during oth er peacetime service are 80 per cent of wartime rates. Cse Mail Tribune Want Ada ft ) y WITH EXPRESSIOr.-Jwoslava Kritkova, Czechoslovakia shot putter, puts a lot of expression into her work as she practices for the Olympic Games at Helsinki. WAITED BARLEY 1 OATS I WHEAT J We Have Cash Buyers. Bring in Your Samples. Top Prices for "Good Quality Crops. Legion Convention At Klamath Falls Klamath Falls (U.R) The annual state convention of the American Legion opens here Sunday with Gov. Douglas Mc Kay and National Commander Donald R. Wilson of Clarksburg, W. Va., scheduled to address the opening session. More than 2,000 persons from all parts of the state are expect ed to attend the four-day con vention. Registration starts Friday. Events will include a mass barbeque and an outdoor drum and bugle corps contest. Trade Schools Accused Of False Advertising Seattle (U.R) Hearings began here Wednesday on com plaints by the Federal Trade commission accusing three Port- Army Trial Site Ft. Meade, Md. (U.R) The Army Thursday dropped a cor ner of its security veil around the court martial of Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow, but the pro ceedings were still shrouded in secrecy. Gen. Edward H. Brooks, com mander of -the 2nd Army, an nounced that newsmen and pho tographers would be permitted to "loiter" outside the building where the 57-year-old former U.S. military attache in Moscow is being tried on charges of let ting his personal diary fall in to Communist hands. Secrecy Great at Start The secrecy was so great as the trial opened Wednesday that the Army refused even to admit for a while that the court mar tial had started. Grow is accused of improp erly recording classified infor mation in personal papers and failing to safeguard secret in formation. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and dismissal from the Army. Army Man Finishes Parachute Classes Pvt. Robert W. Ball, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Ball, 613 Catherin street, Medford, recent ly graduated first in his class from a 12-week Army parachute rigger's school at Ft. Lee, Vir ginia, according to an Army press release. The school teaches how to pack and maintain parachutes, and before graduating the student must make a jump with a para chute he has packed himself, and also watches a jeep, supported by a parachute, dropped from an aircraft. Private Ball was given a pen and pencil set for being first in the class of 90 men. He has now returned to the 82nd Airborne division at Ft. Brag g, North Carolina, where he is with a parachute maintenance company doing various jobs until he has put in enough time to become a full-fledged rigger, the release said. land, Ore., corporations of using "false, misleading and decep tive" claims in advertising a cor respondence school. Named in the complaint were Tractor Training Service, Trac tor Training Diesel Institute, and Tractor Training Service of Illinois. All have the same head quarters in Portland, the FTC said. Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at noon Saturdays. Latest Democratic Tabulation Still Favors Kefauver Chicago (U.R) The latest United Press tabulation of dele gate votes for the Democratic presidential nomination. The tabulation is based on pledges and known first-ballot prefer ences, but does not reflect votes that will be switched to major candidates by states with "fav orite sons" candidates on the second ballot or thereafter. Sen. Estes Kefauver 283Vi Sen. Richard B. Russell ....210 Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson ..1712 Averell Harriman 116 Sen. Robert S. Kerr 47'2 Gov. G, Mennen Williams 40 Gov. Paul Dever . 36 Robert J. Bulkley 27 Sen. Hubert Humphrey .... 26 Sen. J. William Fulbright 22 Sen. Brien McMahon 16 President Truman 14 Oscar Ewing 4 Sen. Paul Douqlas 1 Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt .... 1 Speaker Sam Rayburn V2 Sen. William Douglas V2 Uncommitted or unknown 213 W Total 1,230 Needed to nominate 616 Valley Residents Quell Three Fires Residents and lumber workers of the Applegate - Ruch area "swarmed all over" three recent fires in that area, and had them nearly out by the time state for estry department crews arrived. it was reported today by District Warden Ted Maul. One small fire was started, probably by a cigarette, near the top of the hill between Jackson ville and Ruch yesterday morn ing. Maul said that women who live near there reported the fire, and then fought it to a standstill by the time a pumper and crew reached there. Two other smaller fires Tues day were put out by crews from Hunter and Best Lumber com pany mill at Ruch and the Apple gate Lumber company mill, at Applegate before state foresters got there. The mills closed down voluntarily when the fires were reported, Maul said. Thursday, July 24, 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN lker Tacticians Like Plan To Pull Demos Into Fold Denver U.R) Dwight D. Eisenhower and his political tac ticians Thursday put their faith in a new plan to pull disgrunt led Democrats and independent voters into the Republican party fold. " The plan involves the contin uation of the National Citizens Committee for Eisenhower, an organization that has function ed in recent months outside the regular Republican party but which was instrumental in get ting the GOP presidential nom ination for Eisenhower. Ike Emphatic Eisenhower talked over his campaign plans Wednesday with Sen. James H. Duff, R-Pa., Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado, and Ralph H. Cake, Republican na tional committeeman from Ore gon. Duff said Eisenhower was em phatic in his belief that the committee should be continued Court Records POLICE COURT Kenneth E. Keith, expired vehicle license. $5 bail. Mrs. Martha Alice Blank, no opera tor's license. $5 bail. Ashland Earns Safety Pedestrian Plaque Ashland Medford Mayor Diamond Flynn was here Tues day to give Mayor Phil Stans bury an award honoring Ash land for its outstanding pedes trian safety record last year. The award came from the American Automobile associa tion and was presented during a chamber of commerce lunch eon at the Elks lounge. Ashland was one of only a few citeis in the nation under 10,000 popula tion which had no pedestrian traffic fatalities. Mayor Flynn presented the award on behalf of Herb Grey, a director of the Oregon State Motor association, an affiliate of the AAA. DISTRICT COURT James Douglas Whiteley, overload. $100. Donald Richard Bandfield, overload. $67.50. ' Milton Justin Gowman. overwidth, $6. Gary Lawrence Sheldon, improper muffler, $5. Dale Howard Job, truck speeding. $10. Bert G. Parrack. operating motor vehicle while driver s license suspend ed. $10. George M. Thompson, no registra tion card, S6. Thomas F. Ambrose, parking in pro hibited area. $5. Joseph B. Cathey. overload. $23. Joel F. Jamison, more than three in driver's seat. $10. Doran A. Knipht. no PUC declared weiRht certificate. $6. John Samuel Robbins. failure to stop at stop sign. $10. TOUiam Earl Atwood. following an other truck too close. $7.50. John Calvin Morris, truck speed ing. $10. Calvin J. Hansen, overwidth, $8. Odett Bean. 39. of 429 South Central avenue. Medford. Edward Everett Bostwick. 31. of 965 Shafer lane, Medford. and Flor ence Beulah Rush. 46, of 965 Shafer lane, Medford. Robert Wesley Loveless. 30. Grants Pass, and Nina Marie Llovd. 32 Tal t Kermit R. Bickel. 41, Central Point, and Marguerite Cotton. 40, Olenwood Springs. Colo. Ray Dillon Woodard. 18. route 2 Box 3640, Medford, and Dixie Pearl Valin. 15, route 2, box 181, Central Point. Roy Bern Weaver. 23. Grants Pass, and Frankie Jean Watson, 18. Grants Pass. Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at noon Saturdays. CIRCUIT COURT Lorraine W. Petty vs. Prentice C. Petty, divorce decree. Grover C. Leach vs. Virginia I. Leach, divorce complaint. Jean M. Tucker vs. Lester Paul Tucker, divorce decree. MARRIAGE LICENSES Donald Eardley MacWhirter Jr.. 19. Santa Rosa. Calif., and Verna Jean Meadows, 18, of 1036 Crater Lake avenue. Medford. Walter Vivian Sherrick, 33, Cutten, Calif., and Annie Victoria Loomis. 33, Klamath. Calif. Darold Roger Barritt, 18. route 1. box 6580, Eagle Point, and JoAnn Kuyper. 18, Box 87A, Butte Falls Star route, Eagle Point. Stephen W. Agee. 46, of 429 South Central avenue. Medford, and Rita and made available "to inde pendents and Democrats and whoever wants to join in the move to elect" a Republican president. roflTEJlFIlL H KENTUCKY Mf-i wwl $0 1 J QfJJ- 'J SMOOTH mM KENTUCKY i BLENDED fuHSli WHISKEY iJMvSSsThu $J70 irMISe Pint MK&SZ&ZXi 86 PROOF 701J3RAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS Mfatemll nd Frajier Distillery Co, Bardstown, Ky. I modTrhfold I I iff IF The door that closes like an accordion. Saves square feet that swinging doors waste. 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