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'Legal Brains' of Phenix City Crime Ring Set To Face Trial Br ROBERT W. TALIAFERRO United Prm Correspondent Birmingham, Ala. (U.P.) For mer solicitor Arch B. Ferrell, reputed "legal brains" of a Phe nix City sex and gambling syn dicate, will follow convicted ex deputy Albert Fuller to trial for the murder of crime foe Albert Patterson. Fuller, the burly two gun chief ' deputy sheriff already facing a seven-year prison term for ac cepting bribes to protect a bor dello In the notorious sin city, was found guilty of first degree murder by an all-male jury late Friday. The jury, after its six hours nd 40 minutes of deliberation. recommended mercy and this au life imprisonment Instead of electrocution. Vol Fraud Acquittal Ferrell, 38, a tense, close mouthed former prosecuting at torney during Phenix City's crime era, at the same time was acquitted in another trial on a charge of switching 600 votes in Birmingham in a futile attempt to defeat Patterson's nomination as state attorney general. Chief state prosecutor Cecil Deason said this acquittal would have no effect on plans to try Ferrell within a few weeks on a charge of murdering Patter son after the long time crusader against Phenix City vice won tomatically fixed his sentence at the nomination despite the al leged rote fraud The state's case against Fuller was built around testimony of Lamar Reid, former county Dem ocratic Executive Committee chairman at Birmingham, who turned state witness after being indicted on the same charge. Complacent During Trial Fuller managed to fight back tears and resume the outward manner of friendly complacency which he maintained during the 29 days of the longest criminal trial in Alabama history. "I still say I'm innocent in nocent all the way," he said as he was led under heavy guard from the courtroom three floors from Ferrell's trial room. Portland Takes Padres by 12-10 Ontario, Calif. (U.R) - Port land scored four times in the first inning and stayed out in front the rest of the way Satur day to knock over the San Diego Padres. 12-10. Ed Mickelson drove in three of Portland's winning runs, while teammate Artie Wilson got four hits in six times up. Dick Hogan and Jim Gladd blasted home runs for the pennant-defending Padres, but both were belted with the bases clear. Each team collected 20 hits in the loosely-pfayed contest be fore a benefit game crowd of 1,000, The Padres play Los An geles at Fullerton today. BASKETBAll SATURDAY COLLEGE RESULTS Louisville 91. Manhattan 86 (NIT. lit round). .. St. Francis rPenn) 89. Seton Hall 78 (NIT tournament. 1st round). Kentucky 84. Penn State (NCAA tournament consolation). V'illanova 64. Princeton 37 (NCAA tournament, consolation). Tulsa 68. Southern Methodist 67 (N C.A.A. tournament, consolation). LaSalle 99. Canisius 64 (NCAA tour nament. Eastern reifionals). St. Louis 110. Connecticut 103 (NIT, 1st round). FRIDAY COLLEGE GAMES NCAA 1st Round i At Philadelphia, Pa.) ' La Salle 73. Princeton 4 Canisius 73. Villanova 71 At Evanston, 111.) Marquette 79. Kentucky 71 Iowa 82. Penn State 53 (At Manhattan. Kan.) BradJcv 81. SMU 79 Colorado 69. Tulsa 39 (At Corvallls. Ore.) Oregon State 83. Seattle Tl San rrancisco.78, Utah 38 JfAIA Semi-finals Southesat Olcla. 68. W. Illinois 61 East Texas St. 81. Ark. Tech. M Jackson Asks Data on Air Raid Instructions Washington U.R) Sen. Har ry M. Jackson urged Saturday that the people get crystal-clear Instruction on what to do in the mors frequent and more realis tic civil defense tests ordered by President Eisenhower. The Washington Democrat, member of a Senate subcommit tee looking into civil defense problems, applauded the Presi dent's order, disclosed Friday by Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson. But Jackson said it will be unwise to dramatize" the dan gers of atomic explosions and subsequent radioactive fallout without Jiving the people a clear idea of what is expected of them." An estimated S3 per eent of all Canadian forest land is publicly owned. Torch Fires Open Games Mexico City U.R) The sec ond Pan American games were officially opened last night as white-clad Indian runners carry ing a flaming torch lit the ever burning Olympic fire amid cheers of more than 100,000 spectators. President Adolfo Ruiz Cor tines of Mexico inaugurated the biggest sports show of the West ern hemisphere in the huge new university city of the outskirts of this capital. Then the athletes, more than 2,000 strong, paraded the flags of 22 nations around the jam packed stadium and stood at at tention while the thousand-year-old ritual of the Aztec "new fire" climaxed the celebration. Argentina, host and unofficial winner of the first Pan Ameri can games in 1951, led the pa rade of athletes around the oval, but the large Mexican delega tion and the blue-clad United States forces drew the most en thusiastic ovation from the crowd. Ruiz Cortines spoke only a few words as the athletes and spectators stood in silence. Sports Bulletins New York (U.R) St. Francis of Loretto, Pa., a small college with a magnificent big leader in Maurice Stokes, fought off Seton Hall's per sistent last - half threats last night for an 89-78 victory which earned a quarter final berth in the National Invita tion Basketball Tournament. Philadelphia (U.R) LaSalle College, defending NCAA champion, set another tourna ment scoring record last night when it blazed to a 39-64 vic tory over Canisius to earn a semi-final berth in the nation al championships. Evanston, 111. (U.R) Iowa staved off a desperate rally for the last two minutes last night to eke out a 86-81 triumph and advance into the semifinals of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Manhattan, Kans. (U.R) Colorado's basketball team pulled away steadily from Bradley last night for a 93-81 victory in the NCAA Western Regional to gain a berth in the semifinals in Kansas City, Mo., March 18. Mark Tied By Woodson Mlwaukee, Wis. (U.R) Abe Woodson, Illinois track and foot ball star, made the only out standing international perform ance in the Milwaukee Journal games last night when he tied the world indoor 50-yard high hurdle mark of 6.1 seconds. Cowboy Wes Santee of Kan sas failed in his announced bid to break the world indoor mile record and dropped short of the meet record with a slow 4:08.6 victory in the featured invita tional mile. Local Dog Gets Champion Rating "Rona," a Weimeraner owned by Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Davidson, Medford, gained recognition at a recent dog show in Portland. Competing against 14 others, she took first prize and three other honors for close conforma tion to the ideal of the breed. This win gives her an official champion rating. At shows last year she won her companion dog rating for obedience work and is now list ed as "Champion Catalano's Rona. CD." "Rona" was bred by Mr. Frank Catalano, Central Point. MEDFORIVaSrWrRIBUNB SDPCDMTS Cabbies Edge Cow Girls in Hilarious Fray Friday When men's and women's quintets tussle on the basketball court, it's just like real life. Men go out of their way to be gentle men and the gals take advantage of it if they can. Action followed that theme Friday night as the Yellow Cab, independent team of Medford, played host to the colorful Texas Cow Girls, barnstorming profes sionals in a hilarious evening at St. Mary's school gym here. Some fine basketball talent was displayed during the eve ning but entertainment was the feature and even scoring took somewhat of a back seat as the casaba cuties from the Long horn state showed their skill, their charms . and their laugh provoking antics. The Cabbies were stoogies for most of the humor but joined in the fun and even helped these guests out. They had as much fun as the girls and the meager audience and they had some consolation in the final score of 58 to 55 in their favor. Wiles and Smiles Lacking the height and stam ina of Cabbies, the Cow Girls had to use their wiles and smiles and a variety of other tactics. Occasionally they outsmarted the Car Jockeys with some clever passing but they got some of their best advantages with hair-pulling, shirt grabbing and general holding and hanging on. They even put hands over the Cabbies eyes when the Medford man had the ball. Gentlemanly referees V i r g Swanson and Lee Flink were prone to overlook these tactics by the so-called weaker sex. But let one of the Cabbies try the same thing and their whistless blew right out. The of ficials let the girls score in a cross-net basket but nullified a Cabbie bucket made the same way. Chuck Stacy's 6-feet 7-inches f " , , , ,1, ,,.,.",. I Myers; for Cab, Knutaon 4. Obisso. 2, ne ci noia ine oau nign in me air Moore 4. Kline 3. Vernon 6. Johnson 4. and the Cow Girls would Jump up and down in futile attempt to retrieve the casaba. But big Chuck was dealt with hardest by the refs. In the closing moments Center Shirley Dorow oi the Texas gang accused him of pinching. Stacy was escorted to the sidelines ' and banished from the fray. Ref Swanson even played for the girls and scored a point when Florence Holder, who took over his whistle, let him have four tries. Kline Tied Up A lot of the Cow Girls special stunts came in the fourth quar ter and Dick Kline, smallest player for the Cabbies, had his hands tightly bound. That left the men with only four players on the floor for a bit. Stacy at one stage was left without a shirt. The girls tossed a midget ball into the action. Music blared up in the final half-minute and four Cabbies and four Cow Girls danced out the final seconds. Stacy was led from the court into a dressing room by the Dorow gal while this was going on. The accurate long range shoot ing by Florence Holder and the drive in pointmaking by Ellie Panas were features of the Cow Girls performance. Each had seven field goals. Miss Holder was credited with another shot for her by Don . Harris of the Cabbies. Miss Panas had 20 points and Miss Holder 19 for the evening. Don Wendt scored 12 for Yellow Cab. Miss Holder, captain of the traveling team, scored five free shots out of 10 tries blindfolded in a halftime event. Miles Rob inson, co-coach of the Cabbies, not blindfolded made three of 10 attempts. 5S Yellow Can f 4 Harris f 9 Foster e 4 Stacy S 12 Wendt a 6 Werner For Cow Cow Girls 55 Fl. Holder 19 Evans 2 Dorow 8 Fr. Holder 2 Panas 20 Substitutions Girls, Sunday, March 13, 19SS MARQUETTE KENTUCKY, VILLANOVA CLUBS 79-71; LOSES By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer. The upset lightning knocked three favorites out of the NCAA Basketball Tournament Friday, but defending champion La Salle and National champion San Francisco had no trouble qualifying for the quarter-final round. Ousted in first-round surpris- EP Fives in Independent Concluder Eagle Point An all-home town Saturday night final re sulted when the EP Townies and . Lettermen won Friday night semi-finals in the Eagle Point Independent basketball tournament. The Town team licked Butte Falls 66 to 41 and the Letter men nudged Bufelson's of Cen tral Point 82 to 80. Losers went into the playoff for third place. Prospect Townies and Eagle Point outlaws gained the con solation or fourth place finale. The Towners of the logging community tipped Headquart ers company of the National Guard, Medford, 84 to 67 while the Outlaws topped the Pros pect Lettermen 60 to 52. Eagle Point Lettermen head ed 49 to 39 halfway through their semi-final. Burelson's was missing its Crater high players but had Lloyd Hoffine and Keith Johnson of Southern Ore gon college who made 29 points each. Bill Caldwell got 25 for the Lettermen. EP Townies were sparked by Mike Brown with 14 tallies and had a 32 to 19 halftime margin. es Friday night were Kentucky, beaten 79-71 by Marquette; Vil lanova, nipped 73-71 by Canis ius; and Southern Methodist, rapped 81-79 by Bradley. But La Salle hardly flexed its famed muscles in romping to a 73-46 victory over Ivy League champion Princeton, and San Francisco displayed its best-in-the-nation defense in walloping dangerous Utah, 78-59. Other first-round winners in the four regional tournaments were Iowa, in an 82-53 romp over Penn State; Colorado, by 69-59 over Tulsa and Oregon State, in an easy 83-71 decision over Seattle. The results set up these re gional finals: Kansas City Beckons At Philadelphia, La Salle vs. Canisius; at Evanston, 111. Mar quette vs. Iowa; at Corvallis, Oregon State vs. San Fran cisco. Saturday's winners qualified for the semi-finals at Kansas City next Friday, when the Phil adelphia and Evanston regional winners meet for the eastern ti tle and the Manhattan and Cor vallis winners meet for the west ern title. The following night, eastern and western champions meet for the national champion ship. Kentucky, three-time NCAA champion which had been rated the second best team in the na tion behind San Francisco dur ing the regular season, bowed to Marquette only after a wild battle at Evanston in which the score was tied 15 times and the lead changed hands 13 times. Marquette finally got the upper hand by taking a seven - point i lead with six minutes left and successfully played a control game to close out the battle. Kentucky was missing two regulars because of injury and ineligibility. A frMs & ,fFast Color, Sanforized Kitchen Prints w 36 inch first quality cotton prints. Spe- I cially suited for kitchen curtains, aprons, " j etc. Fast color bright prints. 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