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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1953)
I BabShow Pfenned At Hawthorns Park A baby show will be held at Hawthorne park at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Mrs. Richard Camden, playground supervisor at the park. A number of ribbons will be awarded for various Items in cluding the baby with the largest dimples and the baby with the CP. Pottmatterthlp Examination Scheduled . Washington UJD The Civil Service Commission said today It will hold examinations to fill the vacant postmastership at Grants Pass and Eagle Creek, A written test will be held at Portland for the Eagle Creek Job, but no written examination will be held for the post at Grants Pass. The Commission said ap plications for the examination must be received here not later than Sept 8. llavy Trainer Planes Crash; Two Pilots Die . Pensacola, Fla. CUJ3 Two Navy trainer planes collided over this naval air station late last night and plunged to earth less than 100 .yards from the nurses' quarters, killing the two student pilots. The Navy identified the pilots, whose bodies were recovered, as Ens. Robert L. Coffyn, 23, and Lt JG Blllie L. Flostram, 25. Coffyn was survived by bis widow, Jenet, who was living Wednesday, Jkagoat IS. 1939 MEDFORD (OBZOON) MAIL TRIBUHE KIKE Suggestion Favored Portland (UJO The Oregon Ian said today a suggestion by Vancouver, Wash, Mayor Ralph Carter that the city change its name to Tort Vancouver met with widespread approval in a survey conducted by the news paper. The suggestion was made to help avoid confusion with Van couver, B. C Roseburg Man Loses Supreme Court Appeal ' SalemQMS Frank Monk of and he was again convicted and sentenced to three years in Ore gon state penitentiary. The high court, in an opinion by Justice George Rossman, said Monk did not plead former Jeopardy as permitted by law "and his failure to have done so constituted a waiver of former Jeopardy as a defense." Roseburg today lost his 'appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court from his conviction la Douglas county of embexiling $257.25 while he was manager of the Veterans lounge. The money belonged to the Patrick Kelly post of Veterans of Foreign Wars. A former convic tion was reversed upon appeal. A new indictment was returned, correcting some' Irregularity, curliest hair. All parents are invited to enter their babies in the show. at Navy. Point here, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C L. Cofryn, of Portland. Una tunda Oaaalflaii la at Saturday: 10 am atonda for Monday, ether day 8 JO previous day. Sport pK y$CA rRALlY II rarade 2$3 wh Oku fntey the strain on New York 0J.B The me chanical man of goU will be 41 tomorrow and, while the gears are mean ing T better than ev- A er. Ben Hogan U In a ia is that 4 "there are times when I feel like I'm 90." Those times are under ad verse weather conditions o r when he puts too much slender frame which almost was dismantled in a near fatal automobile accident in early 1949. But Hogan, who was bora in the tiny cow town of Dublin, Tex., Aug. 13. 1912. will be around for the big ones quite a while yet. -Golf is my life," he grins. "Actually, I feel fine. It's just that I'm getting too old to have birthdays any more." Ten can't prove thai to the tournament aces who have been chasing Bantam Ban with such ever increasing futility that the slock golf argument sew la whether Hogan ia greater even than the im mortal Bobby Jones. The de bate reached its peak after Ms British Open triumph, giv ing Ben a record of five wins la six starts this year. - His other triumphs were in the U. S. Open, the Masters. Colonial Invitation and Pan American Open. In his other tart, he finished third at Greenbrier. "In the future," Ben says, "IH play in the Masters and the U. S. Open and possibly the Colonial Invitation. I don't know about nlavlns In the British Ooen anymore. That's too far in the future." Almost all agree that Hogaa Is the greatest active player, and most of them feel that he even surpasses the "Emperor Jones." This, of course, enters the realm of whether Demp sey was better than Louie, Man oWar greater than Colin or Cy Young was a finer pitcher than Walter Johnson. Equipment is better now than in the Jones era yet it seems im possible, in view of the fast pace of today's game and the hundreds of outstanding players, that one man could completely dominate the game. Yet Hogan does. BULLETIN New York U.B The faded New York Giants dis played their complete faith in Manager Leo Durocher today when they signed him to pilot the club for two more years at an estimated salary of 150. 000 a year. NAM IL PROMOTED Tokyo U.R) Communist Pel ping radio revealed today that Gen. Kim Kwang Kap has suc ceeded Gen. 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