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SJ? 1 i , TP?' ' : ' &s w ' BOBO CONNECTS ChaDefiger Pierre Langlois (left) of France, reels backward after taking a punch on the chin thrown by Champ Carl (Bobo) Olson in the ninth round of title fight in San Francisco's Cow Palace. Fight was stopped in the 11th because ot a bad cut over Langlois' left eye. Bobo kept his middleweight crown with aTko victory. Magnesia is used sometimes as a lime substitute in the man ufacture of certain kinds of glass products; "Comr.dt jcltnfijb nw or- . dtr reads 'Instead of inventing -new flying sauejrs. mere im portant to discover secret of OLD Mr. BOSTON VODKA'." No feV-fate bftstii sJS?T. $220 PINT 'DIST. FROM 100 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS 80 PROOF MR. BOSTON DIST, INC, BOSTON European Editors NameBannister Top Sportsman London (U.R) Europe's top sports editors elected Roger Bannister of Britain as their "Sportsman of the Year1 today in a final salute to the man who has bowed out of college ath letics in the year during which he became the first man to shat ter the four-minute mile. Votes were polled from 24 editors who acclaimed the 25 year-old Bannister with 210 points 58 more than the 152 they handed Leningrad Marine Vladimir KutS for. second place. On a basis of .10 points for a first-place nomination, nine, for second, eight for third and so on, John Landy of Australia, present mile record holder, placed third with 94 points. He received 14 more than American shot-putting 6tar Parry .O'Brien, of Los An geles, who polled 80. SOUTH AFRICAN GROWTH Johannesburg U.PJ South Africa will have more than doubled its present population by the end of this century ac cording to Dr. L. T. Badenhorst, senior lecturer in 'sociology at the University of the Witwaters- rand. Discounting the possibil ity of immigration on a large scale, there would be about 4,500,000 whites in South Afri ca in the year 2,000 and nearly 26,000,000 non-Europeans. . ; I Dead line Sunday Classified li at at. noon Saturday. P Don't Forget the BASKETBALL GAME TONIGHT Between Phoenix & Jacksonville at Phoenix COOK'S FOUNTAIN Will Be Open After the Game and All Day Sunday . Phoenix, Oregon Baker Favored To Beat Wallace New York "(U.Rj The odds men figure it's even money that someone Will be counted out in tonight's "Bob Baker-Coley Wal lace heavyweight battle and Wallace .'. has been voted most likely to get flattened. Baker, - the fourth -ranking contender who has been waging a quiet campaign for a shot at Rocky Marciano's crown, has been tabbed a . 12-5 choice for their nationally televised return bout at Madison Square Garden. But Baker will be making the greater risk' After being figured as washed up. because of weak hands, he's now rolling along on a brilliant comeback with five straight triumphs and could con ceivably sidle into a Marciano shot before too long. But a loss to Wallace. would set that cam paign way, way . back. Whitworth Gets 82-54 Verdict Over Cal Poly Spokane, - Wash. (U.R) Whit worth College took an early lead and went on to defeat California Polytechnic 82-54 in a non-con ference basketball game last night. Phil Jordan, Whitworth cen ter, and forward Ernie Hall of Cal Poly, shared scoring honors with 31 apiece. The Pirates led 40-23 at the half. It was Cal Poly's fourth loss In seven games during their Northwest road trip. Medfoi Tribune (NTlDnnTTRTP 11 Class A Quintets Meet B Schools in Four Scuffles It's Class A teams against. B schools in four prep basketball games tonight and Saturday night. J" : v 'r ';. ' Scraps this evening take Jacksonville to Phoenix and Talent to ; Glendale. . Phoenix goes to Talent on Saturday and Crater to Rogue River. Jackson ville, Talent and Rogue River are B competitors and Crater, Willamette Overcomes CPS in Extra Period Salem (U.R) A long shot and three free throws by Dave Gray in overtime gave Willamette a b-bd DasKetoau victory over College of Puget Sound here last nieht. The score was 59-all at the end of regulation time and CPS led 30-28 at the half. Gray's last minute scoring splurge gave him 11 points for the night while Pete Reed led the winners with id. John Barnett of CPS was high for the night with 18. 1 ro PtJirm Everyone who's tired of walking will like these k i 1 if. Ninth and Bartfett . Streets COUkTESY Sold only by on authorized Chevrolet dealer Phone 2-6115 Medford Bus Firms Merged; CampWhiteService WillBe Expanded Increased bus service to Camp White and revision of the schedule . to Eagle Point and Camp White effecive Sunday, Dec. 19, .was. announced today, following purchase of the stock of the Valley Transit Co., Inc., by Henry J. Huber, owner, of Evergreen Bus lines. ' 'Monday through Friday' buses will leave ' Medford for Camp White at 7:30 and 10:45 a.m.; 1:15, 3.30, 7:45 and 11 p.m. The Saturday schedule will be the same except that the first bus will leave Medford at 8:40 a.m. instead of 7:30. Buses will leave Camp White for Medford at 9 and 11:40 a.m. and 1:40 4:40, 8:10 and 11:20 p.m. Monday through Saturday. . ' Buses leaving Medford at 10:45 am. and 3:30 p.m. will operate through to Eagle Point, leaving Eagle Point for Medford at 11:20 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. - ": Sunday Services T Sunday services will be be tween Medford and Camp White only, with departures from Med ford at 9:30 a.m. and 1:15, 4:30, 7:45 and 11 p.m., and from Camp White at; 10:00 a.m. and 1:40, 4:50, 8:10 and 11:20 p.m. ' To meet ? a request ; for ! bus service from residents . on and near Crater, Lake ave., the bus leaving Eagle Point at 11:20 a.m. will come in on Crater Lake ave. to Jackson st., leaving the junc tion" of Crater Lake ave. and Crater Lake Hwy. at 11:50 a.m., and the 1;15 p.m. bus from Med ford will use Crater Lake ave. from Jackson st. to Crater Lake Hwy. Monday through Friday the 7:30 a.m. bus will use Cra ter Lake ave. outbound and the bus leaving Camp White at 4:40 p.m. will use Crater Lake ave. inbound for the convenience of Camp White personnel. Coordination of -evening sched ules between Valley Transit Co. and Evergreen Bus Lines will result in the elimination of the 11 o'clock bus to Jacksonville Experience over the past several months indicates very little de mand for this service, with, sel dom more than one or two pas sengers from Medford to Jack sonville. UN Expected To Okay San Francisco Meet United Nations, N.Y. (U.R) The UN -General assembly is ex pected to adopt unanimously to day that it hold a seven - day 10th birthday meeting in San Francisco starting June 20. The UN Administrative and Budgetary committee agreed yesterday, by a vote of 44 to 0, to recommend that the meeting be held. ' In the final session of its ninth annual meeting the Assembly is expected today to give its un animous final approval of the plan. ' ' It was proposed originally that the United Nations meet for two weeks in San - Francisco, its birthplace, to commemorate its formation. - However, delegates felt that a . one-week session would be long enough, four days of gen eral celebration and programs and three days of non-official UN meetings. Phoenix and Glendale areA's. Talent is unbeaten ; in five starts and will be after victories six and seven. The Bulldogs have already turned back' both Jacksonville and Glendale once. They victory oyer Jacksonville was in the Souttiern Oregon col lege tourney where Talent es tablished y itself ) the strongest among the Jackson county "B's in the meet. But the tussles' this week end are an opportunity, for Jacksonville's Redskins to show that they must still be reckon ed with in regular , loop play. , Comparison - - ; :; Crater's hassle with Rogue River will afford it a compari son with two Rogue League riv als, Illinois ; Valley and . Eagle Point. Rogue River has whip ped Illinois Valley twice-and lost the same number of ; times to Eagle Point. Phoenix gets a tip on Rogue League possibilit les since Talentj has defeated Eagle Point.' V - Rogue River, which did 'not vie in the college's tourney gets some idea of how it matches with Talent , from the Bulldogs series with Glendale, its own game with -Crater and Crater's two wins over Glendale. Friday, December 17, 1954 L. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUTE THIRTEEN G. P. Plywood Firm Names Hew Officers Grants Pass Successors to several officials of Southern Oregon Plywood company, who have resigned to form Fir-Ply, Inc. in Medford, were announc ed this week by A. E. Anderson, Brookings, president of SOPC. Jackson Beaman was named" general manager to succeed Carl Jacobson, who was elected pres-; ident of Fir-Ply. Ray Smith was named plant superintendent : to: replace Ernie Clark. ; - Robert Van Duker, office man ager who will be secretary-treas-' urer of the new organization, has not yet been' replaced. ST. MARTIN'S WINS . Olympia (U.R) Linfield dropped a 71-66 basketball deci sion to. St. Martin's here last night. Skip Olson of the winners hit 23 points while Don Porter had 21 for Linfield.- - MIXUP Waterville, Me (U.R) Bobby Bates is a . back on the Colby College freshman football .team while Dave Colby is a back on the rival Bates College frosh club. ". ; TURKEY SHOOT PHOENIX GUN CLUB Sun., DEC. 19 j sg at 10 a.m. ; i Miie souHi .of ! . Fern Valley School Murder Charge Filed On Albert C. Knowles - The Dalles (U.R) Donald Heisler, Wasco county district attorney, has filed a second de gree murder charge against Al bert C. sKnowles, 47, confessed slayer of Albert C. Stuart, 58. Heisler said Knowles would be brought back to Wasco coun ty as soon as he can arrange it. He is leaving .tomorrow for Sac ramento, Calif., where Knowles is awaiting sentencing on a plea of guilty to a Dyer act charge. He will appear in Federal court Monday to ask Knowles' release. A body," which Knowles told authorities was that of Stuart. was, dug up from a shallow grave-along Highway 97 near Shaniko last Sunday. Knowles had led officers to the scene a'ft er confessing he killed Stuart, a harvest hand, in 1953. McCarthy Backers End Count of Signatures New York (U.R) Rear Adm. John G. Crommelin (ret.) said today that "ten million Ameri cans Mobilizing for Justice" had stopped counting signatures on petitions protesting the censure of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy aft er reaching a total of 2,300,000. The committee stopped counting on Eec. 6. ( Crommelin, chief of staff for .the organization which sought 10,000,000 signatures against censure, said the remaining peti tions were presently .being sepa rated by states and -might be counted later but "it's a little bit unnecessary, we feel." McCarthy was "condemned" by the Senate Dec. 2. Crommelin said definite plans had not yet been made for con tinuation of the organization set up to handle the petition drive. Water covers 143,000,000 square miles of the earth's ap proximate 179,000,000 square Cutter Steams To Aid Of Disabled Craft Honolulu, (U.R) A Coast Guard cutter steamed today to the aid of the fishing boat "Commonwealth," which report ed its engine broke down in rough seas 165 miles west of Oahu. : . -. ," . . . Trie 114-foot vessel was re turning to Honolulu after an un successful ' two-day search for two men aboard her sister ship, "The Brothers." . Both boats were from Seattle, Wash. The Brothers, sank early Sun day 65 miles northwest of Hon olulu.' Aboard the boat were Ar thur and 'John Otness; . ;;.The skipper of the Common wealth, Harry Sperling,' radioed the Coast Guard yesterday that his engine was. overheated and breaking jdown in heavy swells near Kauai island.' - Dead line" for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. . . j - a . . !When Jn-doubt,. gfvft. Shirts", is .a -good rule I A.jtY?Xk 111 B for gifting men.; Because shirts are what most ' I s H H Unconditionally Washable in Finf Quality, ! f II Long Wearing Gabardine .1. ( I I ; ALL THE POPULAR j D COLORS! Tl f P I Heleo Purple I i - V7 f I Pink ' Gold LT M i Black ' Navy Blue vN J jL ' Aqua Charcoal 7 J .. ' Coral Rust; CS - ' v- ; TO THE LUCKY WINNERS OUR GRAND OPENING CONTEST! 1ST PRIZE-$55.0t) Men's Suit Betty Jane Reed, 1T28 N. W. Hillside, Grants Pass. 2ND PRIZE-$10.00 Thomas Sport Shirt Mrs. Mike Kaiser, Rt. 2Box 98 E, Eagle Point 3RD PRIZE-$5.95 Golden Gate Stratford Sport Shirt W. M. 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