Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 08, 1954, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextFOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday December t, 1SS4 Ducks Find Scoring Range; Defeat Seattle Club 86-73 Eugene U.W The Uni versity of Oregon basketball squad, which dropped its first two games, found its scoring eye last night and defeated Seattle university 86-73 in a pre-season contest. The Ducks went into the lead after less than three minutes of play in the first half, and led through the remainder of the contest. Halftime score was Ore gon 47, Seattle 37. Stan Glowaski, Seattle for ward, and Max Anderson, Duck forward, shared scoring honors with 25 points apiece. Dick Stricklin made 16 points for Se attle from his forward post. Scoring Divided .Aside from Anderson's effort, Oregon scoring was evenly Safe Driving Day Proclaimed Here By Mayor Flynn - Following is the text of Mayor Diamond L. Flynn s proclama tion of Dec. 15 as Safe Driving day: PROCLAMATION Whereas, December 15, 1954, has been set aside as S-D day SAFE-DRIVING DAY, through; out the United States to demon strate that motorists and pedes trians alike can .reduce traffic accidents, and ; Whereas, the President of the United States and the Govern or of-the State of Oregon have asked all Mayors and officials for their active support in this campaign, and Whereas, accidents last year killed one person on the average of every 14 minutes around the clock and throughout the year for a total of 38,300 Americans, ' Now, therefore, I, D. L. Flynn, Mayor of the City of Medford, do hereby proclaim December 15, 1954, as S-D day SAFE DRIVING DAY, in the City of Medford and urge every.- citi zen to . cooperate in this great cause and challenge them to re main completely free of traffic accidents for the 24 hour period. D. L. Flynn, L Mayor. Spokane Robber Gets 10-Year Term Spokana (U.R) George . Quastling, 21, a native of Czech oslovakia who nearly got away with one of the biggest bank jobberies in ; the history of the Northwest, was sentenced yes terday to 10 years in prison. Quastling, Denver, Colo., rob bed the Dishman state bank at Dishman, a small suburb east of here, of $135,000 on Sept. 10. Quastling, who earlier had pleaded innocent to charges of bank robbery and interstate transportation of stolen vehicles and stolen guns, yesterday changed his plea to guilty -of bank robbery. He was to be taken to McNeil island federal prison today. The other counts against Quastling were dismissed. Radar is a contraction of terms meaning "radio detecting and ranging," which also describes its purpose in the location of un seen objects at various distance ranges. , Births REAVES To Mr. and Mrs. Gerald D., route 1, box 351. Cen tral Point, Dec. 8, 1954, a girl, weight 8li pounds, at Commun ity hospital. ' SLIGER To Mr. and Mrs. Harold, 776 Agate st., Dec. 7, 1954, a boy, weight 6Vfc pounds, at Community hospital. - IRWIN To Mr. and Mrs. William, Butte Falls, Dec. 7, 1954, a girl, weight 6Vt pounds, at Community hospital. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Mostly cloudy and not so cold with occasional show ers tonight. Partly coludy with a few showers Thursday. Low tonight 34. High Thursday 45. Western Oregon: Rain, changing io shewery conditions tonight. Diminish ing shower activity Thursday. Low to night 35-45. High Thursday 45-55. LOCAL DATA Temperature a year ago today: Highest 41: Lowest 34: Total monthly precipitation SI inch. Deficiency for the month 21' inch. Total precipitation since September 1. 1954, 3.34 inches. , Deficiency for the season 2.59 inches. " Relative humidity 430 p.m. yester dav 74: 4:30 a.m. today 96r0. Observations Taken At 4:30 A.M., 120 Meridian Time . ' High Low Prec. Boise , ; 41 27 28 Boston ',. Chicago Denver . Eureka . Grants Pass Havre Klamath Falls Los Angeles Medford ' New York Omaha Phoenix Portland Reno Eugene - Salt Lake . San Francisco . Seattle Spokane Washington. D.C Yakima Tomorrow 35 ,59 55 48 .44 38 64 49 29 37 71 48 45 51 42 57 35 37 36 48 19 22 26 46 32 24 24 46 ,27 26 21 41 38 19 . 33 21 40 36 28 20 24 44 divided, with Jerry Ross and Jim Loscutoff, scoring 13 points each, and Howard Page and Phil McHugh notching 12 each. Oregon meets Portland uni versity at Portland tonight inits last game before making a whirl wind tour of the Midwest. Ore gon plays Louisville Dec- 20, Day-ton Dec. 21 and Detroit Dec. 22. Eugene (UJJ Coach Bar ney Holland's Oregon JV bas ketball team opened its season here last night by downing Ton gue Point Navy 89-41. John Lun dell, former The Dalles ace, led the winners with 18 points. Car los Murphy and Bob Norman had 12 each for the losers. ' High School Scores TUESDAY BASKETBALL St. Helens 68. Lincoln 46 Columbia Prep 51.- Mt. Aneel 37 Franklin 56. Camas.- Wash.. 40 ' Milwaukie 78. West Linn 59 Roseburg 42. Cottage Grove 41 Hood River 49. White Salmon, Wash 23 Umatilla 69. Benton City. Wash., 66 Brownsville 36. Lowell 32 North Salem 43. Sweet Home 42 South Salem 66. Dallas 50 Oakridge 42. Creswell 32 . Vancouver. Wash.. 66. Gresham 52 . Newport 42. Siletz 30 - Hermiston 55. Pasco. Wash.. 46 St. Francis of Eugene 59. Willam ette 45 . . Mohawk 52. Westfir 37 Coburg 75, Crow 27 Taft 42. Neahkahnie 30 Sherwood 49. Tigard 26 ' Coiton 63. St. Paul 31 Troutlake, Wash., 64. Cascade Locks 42 Forest Grove 55. Scappoose 42 North Marion 39. Woodburn 27 Clatskanie 58. Hillsboro 38 Alsea 39. Waldport 38 Amity 43. Perrydale 38 . Corvallis 59. Central 39 Mosier 48. Wishram. Wash.. 36 Mapleton 51. Siuslaw 30 Gaston 47. Yamhill 32 Parkrose 65. Sandy 49 -Jewell 66, Astoria J-V's 44 Nyssa 61. Adrian 45 Zt ' r - 2 gSTST- , , ill r s. - F tNr - 111 FIGHTING HIS WAT into end. zone, Bob Craig, Navy halfback, is finally dragged down by three Army men alter scoring first touchdown in traditional battle at Philadelphia, (International) Wimer Youfhs To Face Destruction Charge Two 18-year-old Wimer youths are to appear in district court on Saturday at 10 a.m, on a charge of wilful destruction of a street lamp on West . Evans creek rd., in Rogue River, ac cording to court records. .. One of the youths, Gaylord Eugene Slack, appeared yester day and pleaded guilty. He was released on his own recogni zance. The other, Carl -Martin, posted $100 bail earlier. ' The action is alleged to have been committed on Nov. 22 with a .38 caliber pistol which is being held by the sheriff's of Kuchel Denounces McCarthy Attack , Los Angeles .(U.R) ' Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (R-Calif .), who 'voted against censuring Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, last night denounced the Wisconsin Republican for his attack on President Eisenhower. . "Sen. McCarthy is 100 per cent wrong," Kuchel declared. "The last Congress, ; under the leadership of President Eisen hower, passed thei strongest anti subversive legislation in the his tory of Congress." Rood Crew Flagman Killed in 'Accident Salem U.R) William M. Shaw, ' flagman on a Marion county road crew, died yester day in Santiam Memorial hos pital east of here from injuries suffered 'while ; working near Aumsville last Thursday. Shaw, 66, was working on Market road 40. . The road crew was picking up dirt along the shoulder when Shaw fell between two trucks and his head lodged against the wheels of one of the trucks. - Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday ; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day Robbers Take Truck School Lunch Money Spokane (U.R) Police searched today for two masked robbers who. . commandeered a Spokane city school district truck and escaped with $7,833, mostly in silver. . : ; The money,: for the school lunch program, ' weighed nearly 600 pounds. Detectives Dave Watson and George Calarman said the rob bers commandeered the closed body pickup truck just after Kelsey Watkins and Mrs. Wen una Bolch had left the school ad ministration building yesterday to make their regular weekly de posit of the lunch funds. BOY SCOUTS Troop 8 A meeting of Trocp 8 was held Dec. 7, when most of the time was spent assigning different boys to the Christmas tree lots to sell trees. The lots are located at the Big Pines Lumber com pany on Sixth st., and the For tune Gas station at the points of Central and Riverside in South Medford. : A display of the' pine cones was set up in the window of Trowbridge and Flynn on West Main st. The cones may be pur chased there and the boys also plan to make house to house calls selling them. ! - Cookies were served at the close of the meeting.- Delbert Harvey, scribe. SISTERS SHARE BIRTHDAY . Roanoke, Va. (U.R) Even when it falls on Friday, Sept. 13 is a big day for the Hubert W. Whitlock family. The latest addi tion to the family, Nancy, ar rived Sept. 13 this year. Two older sisters, Alice, 12, and Jane, 2, also were born Sept. 13. .117 S. CENTRAL PHONE 2-6241 CST F SAVINGS JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS - EXTRA SAVINGS ON MANY APPLIANCES r iBliiBIIIiSBiittBi . . -. . . .... ... , 17" TV REGULAR 139.95 129.88 On safe. Picture is bigger-looking than other 17" sets because front of the cabinet is all picture. 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