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Thursday. August 13. ItSS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTn v -r-f ' - Si If -1 L i SLO-MO-SHUN IV RETAINS GOLD COP Sto-Mo-Shun IV, the world's fastest speedboat, pulls away from Gale II (background) during the second heat of the Gold Cup Races on Seattle's Lake Washington. Slo-Mo-Shun IV successfully defended her championship with an average of 92 miles an hour for the BO-mile grind. Hardtoppers Ready To Go At Speedway Racing as hot as the weather will greet hardtop fans at the Jackson County Speedway Fri day eight. The hardtopping speed merchants will be out to get in the Race of Races, the special event to be made up of the fastest cars and drivers on the track. Trophy dash winners and driv ers that made the fast time in the time trials. There will be a lap run for each car in the event. Bernie Miller will be back try Ing to duplicate his win of last Friday when he outdrove the rest of the field to a spectacular win in the main event. With only a few laps to go, Jack McCoy was leading the field, followed closely by Bernie Miller and Cecil James when a slow caT caused Jack to slow up and Mil ler and James roared past. It was a thrilling finish to a thrilling event, Roy Duetchman lumred the rail in nearly the same spot that Jack Milhoan staged his thrill show of last week. Jack tried to duplicate his rail-jumping episode of last week but pulled his mount back on the track at the last minute. Elmer Sisemore, gunning hard for another main event win, blew a tire and parked his little M-46 alongside the rail. Doing a very good bit of driving he avoided an accient and was towed from the track. FIGHTS Clayton Lewis ' Fires 69 at RVCC Clayton Lewis fired one of the better rounds of golf shot this year at the Rogue Valley Country club this week posting a par breaking 69. Lewis carded a 36 on the first nine, and then came in with a red hot 33. He was playing in a foursome with Bob Rector, Felix Cecot, and Bob Stone, of Port land. Rector carded a 74, Cecot had an 87, and Stone fired a 93. In other golf news, Dr. Wil liam Miller and Mrs. Ken Teeter tied with Mrs. Miller and Teeter recently to take top honors in a two-ball foursome match. Both twosomes carded net 36s. Six teen couples took part in the tourney. Seismore on Spot In Ashland Races Ashland Elmer Seismore, M-46, will be in the "defending spot when main event time rolls around at the Ashland speedway Saturday night. Seismore, one of the leading drivers for two seasons at the Ashland track, broke into the winning circle for the first time this season in last Saturday's wide open race, which found 8 to 10 cars in contention. The speedway management to day reported that in addition to the full hard top racing program, a "destruction derby" will again be offered to fans as a special event. Eagle Pointers Set Tourney Play Portland (U.R) The state women's softball tournament opens here tonight with eight entrants scheduled to se action. Rest of the 12 entries will play tomorrow in opening games of the double elimination tourney. Br UNITED PRESS New York Gil Turner. 151'i. Phil adelphia (topped Ramon Fuentes. 131, M Angeles 13). Actor, Labor Delegate, Misplaces Union Card San Francisco (U.R) Actor Walter Pidgeon. a delegate to the convention of the Califoria Federation of Labor, was stopped at the auditorium door by the sergeant at arms because he didn't have a union card. "It's in my other suit," said Pidgeon, who is president of the Screen Actors Guild. A fellow member of the guild finally vouched for him as the doorman 270-pound ex-boxer Jack Cas- pers, let him in. I Wjgl ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? mjfout-noH: What do I get Jj' paid for being active in th Army Reserve? ANSwil: The pay of your grade or rank for each training amenably or day in camp while in a unit. ootmof How much par time a year must I spend 1 to earn a lifetime income? ANswtt: Only IS days at tiiimif camp plus 40 hours of additional Beserve activities every year. CHJfSTJOMi How much re tirement income will I get? ANtwti: It can be $90.00 or nor per month for enlisted men. YOU COUNTRY NEEDS YOU! tiH"oi Ct M flat torn tnm ytm New Building To Be Architectural Sight Kansas City, Mo. -(U.R) A multi-million-doUar, eight-story Kansas City building not only will have its largest floor on top and street-level entrances for each floor, but it also will house a functional zoo and a green house. The structure to be built for Hallmark, greeting cards manu facturers, promises to be one of the leading architectural sights m the midwest. Among its at tractions will be a gallery for original paintings. The $6,000,000 building will follow the contour of a rocky plateau near the downtown area. The site had been ignored by builders in spite of its excellent location until Joyce C. Hall incorporated-the rugged terrain in to his plans. The top floor will overlay the entire mound, making it the largest in the building with 200,000 square feet of floor spaceLower floors decrease in floor space down to the ground floor which will have but 10, 000 square feet. The zoAwill be located on the eighth floor. It will house ducks, chickens. Tabbits, puppies, kit tens, and numerous other small animals and birds that frequent ly appear on greeting cards. Builders hope to comolete the structure by Jan. 1, 1955. Eagle Point's girls softball team is scheduled to play their first game in the state tourna ment tomorrow. Portland Teams Win ABC Games Portland (U.R) Molalla meets Fir Pine and Oregon City faces Willamette here tonight in American Baseball Congress tournament action. Two Portland dity league teams, Heales' Babes and the Longshoremen, registered Vic tories last night. The Longshore men dropped Hillsboro, 6-0, and the Babes defeated another Portland team, Friberg's, 4-2. Dead line for Sunday Classified 1 at noon Saturdays. Salem Drops Double Bill To Vancouver BY UNITED PRESS The Vancouver Capilanos picked up ground on the Western International league leaders last night by defeating second place Salem 6-1 and 3-1 In their double- header. L Salem dropped four games be hind league-leading Spokane, while Vancouver came up within one half game of the Senators. Vancouver got off to a fast start in the second game with Jimmy Clark's double scoring K. Chorlton and Harvey Storey both of whom had singled. First baseman Gene Petralli led the Capilano plate attack with two singles and a double in four times at bat. Salem's lone tally in the sec ond game came in the second on two walks and Dave Dahle's single. Some 3,287 fans were on hand. In the opener, the Caps struck for two runs in the first inning on singles by Jack Bukawatz, Storey and Frank Mascero and an error by Salem third baseman Dick Sabatini. Salem's lone score came in the seventh on a double by Les Witherspoon, an error by Vancouver shortstop Clark and Don Masterson's single. In other games, Spokane downed Tri-City in both ends of a double header, taking the opener 6-5, and the nightcap 12 8; Edmonton swept a twin bill from Wena tehee, 11-5 and 2-0; Yakima defeated Victoria 6-5, and Calgary edged Lewiston 5-4. HORSESHOE TOURNEY SET Hillsboro (U.R) The 29th an nual Oregon state horseshoe tournament will be held at the Washington County Fair Aug. 28-30, Otto Johnson, tournament chairman for the Oregon State Horseshoe Pitchers Association, said today. I Richards Rated Top By Managers New York U.R) Paul Richards may not win a pennant with the Chicago White Sox this year but he is winning re peated praise from his fellow pilots today as "the smartest manager in the majors." Even such National League skippers as Chuck Dressen, Leo Durocher and Rogers Hornsby are paying tribute to Richards' managerial genius while a poll of American League managers reveals that he Is rated at the top. "Richards would be success at anything he undertook," points out Manager Marty Mar ion of the St. Louis Browns. "He's smart as a whip, he knows how to get the most out of his material and he always comes up with the unexpected." Bucky Harris of Washington and Freddie Hutchinson of the Detroit Tigers also rate Rich ards highly. When Casey Stengel of the Yankees was asked point blank whether he thought Richards was the smartest manager in the majors, he grinningly replied: "That would be a great thing for me to say, now wouldn't it? But I will say this much. He's a real smart cookie and you know you've been in a ball game every time you play against him." IdahorOngon Onion Growers Plan Promotion Ontario, Ore. UJW Mem bers of the Idaho-Oregon Onion Growers Association voted last night to Join with the Idaho Ad vertising Commission to promote their crops. About 100 growers attended a special meeting to discuss a slumping onion market. It was agreed that the Oregon growers, all of them in Malheur county, will vote later to decide on an assessment to finance the advertising program carried out by the Idaho Commission. Pepper berries, when ready for harvesting,' look like clus ters of red currants. There are about 45,000 motor courts or motels in the U. S. Hawii lies about 2,000 from the U. S. mainland. miles ft I I - .ttUTAII t-d STRAIGHT IU? VJ? iOMiOl U . . .One of America's GJ3TV7 famous uia limsKevsi fivrrn 0UHTMN IDGE WIISKET MNtSNU fOUt KIMS CAP 86 PBOOT . COOOUOMM 4 OSrjUD.rC0.ax ystettrJ C2r) moments If axe pleasant IU1 LTU M TOP M Featuring the Season's TOP Drivers Buster Axle, Elmer Sisemore, Louis Kurz, Freddie Miller, Cecil James, Jack McCoy, Johnny Wyncoop and Jerry Johnson. mm Time Trials 7 P. M. First Event I P.M. 'JAGBSOfl CO. SPEDUM AT THE SHERIFF'S POSSE GROUNDS sDd MEDFORD, OREGON So smooth l!ri h leaves you jSSi breathless SgJ Jsmirnoff IK VODKA OamttUttaa IMA rai ncwml nfam. Its KkUff Ti ta n n s n a n W lit In M mora IniiTillliiuiffi CTv e nn ' . v m. over . vy The ADMIRAL corporation, manufacturers of the world famous Dual-Temp, refrigerators and electric ranges and the world's largest manufact urer of television, is presenting for the entertain ment of its many friends in the Rogue Valley one of the greatest sports classics in America The annual Football game between the college All Stars and the Detroit Lions. The program will come to you direct from Soldiers Field in Chicago . 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