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MedfordJ5Tribune Nitie Records Fall On WllllameEfte May Salem U.R) Some 2500 fans watched today as college track and field men broke nine meet records and a crowd of 1700 prep athlete set four new standards at the fifth annual Willamette Relays here. Top Discus Hear A star performance was turned In by Fortune Gordien of Sandy, Ski Conditions Skiing conditions war "good lo excellent" at Crater lake yesterday, according lo the ranger's office. Nine inches of powder snow had fallen in the prerious 24 hours, bring ing the total on the ground to 108 inches, compared to 134 inches at the same time last year. Maximum temperature Fri day was 28; minimum Satur day was 12, and it was 15 at I a.m. Saturday. Highway 62 was open and was slippery in spots. The road to the rim was open, but chains or snowtread tires may be required Sunday. The warming hut will be open, weather permitting. By UNITED PRESS Southern Cascades: Partly cloudy Sunday; freezing level 3500-4000 feet Sunday; winds at 7000 feet 10-20 MPH Sunday. San Francisco, UCLA . Accept NCAA Invitation . New York U.R) San Francisco's newly - crowned NCAA basketball champions and UCLA today accepted "guest invitations" to play in the fourth annual holiday fes tival tournament at Madison Square Garden next December 26, 28 and 30. The tournament is sponsored by the Eastern College Athletic conference. Asa S. Bushnell, ECAC commissioner, said six conference members soon will be chosen to fill the rest of the eight berths in the holiday com petition. San Francisco was voted the nation's No. 1 team this year by the United Press Board of Coaches. Ore., Olympic discus champ, Gordien heaved the platter 180 feet 11 inches for the Multnomah Athletic club. Willamette university's hurd ler Dean Bryson brought the crowd to its feet with a time of :14.6 over the high hurdles. Washington State won three events includine the mile relav with a time of 3:26.8. Cougar Burls Gunils put the shot 51 feet, 9-inches in the novice class. Oregon's sprint medly team toured the course in 2:33.3, a new meet record. Two New Marks Lewis and Clark, last year's conference charrmions set two new targets in the 440-yard relay and the section B mile relay. In the prep class, Duane Mar shall of St. Helens set the only individual prep record by heav ing the shot 54-feet, 6-inches. Two Portland high schools came up . with a record apiece. A Grant team ran the sprint medly in 2:46.9 and a Roosevelt 880-yard relay team covered the distance in 1:35.1. Nirth Salem high established the other record in the 44C-yard sprint relay with :45.2 time. Two Golfers Invited To Colonial Tourney ' Fort Worth, Tex. U.R) The field for the invitation only 10th annual Colonial National Invita tion Golf Tournament has been increased to 38 with addition of Eric Monti of Los Angeles and Gardner Dickinson Jr., of St. Andrews, 111. The field for the $25,000 Colo nial is limited to 48 golfers. The tournament offers the richest guaranteed purse among regula tion PGA tournaments which charge no players entry fees. inis year s tourney will be Mav 4-8. Charles Comiskey Made Director of Cardinals Chicago (U.R) The Chicago Cardinals professional football team reached over into baseball territory Saturday and made Vice-President Charles A. Comis key n, of the Chicago White Sox a Cards' director. ( Walter Wolfner, managing di rector of the Cardinals, made the announcement and the Cards who play their football games at Comiskey Park on Chicago's South Side said the new ap pointment meant the Sox facili ties, ticket outlets, public ad dress and other working ar rangements will be available to them. Ned Garver to Open Season for Tigers Atlanta (U.PJ Manager Bucky Harris said Saturday that Ned Garver will open the Amer ican League season for the De troit Tigers against the Athletics at Kansas City April 12 and that Steve Gromek will start the next day. Harris named southpay Billy Hoeft for the Tigers' home debut against the Cleveland Indians April 14, with bonus baby Bob Miller, another left-hander, to follow. Harris said he expects these two veterans and two youngsters to be Detroit's front line pitchers this season. Jockey Gloomy; Wishes It'd Been April 1 Joke Albany, Calif. (U.R) Jockey Taylor Powell wished gloomily it had all been a big April Fool's joke. While driving to work at Golden Gate fields Friday, his 1953 Cadillac smashed into the tear of a garbage truck and he got a ticket for care less driving. When Powell finally ar rived at the track, stewards told him he had been sus pended for five days for im proper riding Thursday. Valuable Senior Award Goes To Jim Loscutoff Portland U.R) Jim Los cutoff, Oregon smiling basket ball star, Friday night was awarded the Bill Baker trophy for being named the most val uable senior on the University of Oregon basketball team last season. The award was made at a Duck club banquet here. Stu Holcomb Selected East Shrine Mentor San Francisco U.R) Stuart (Stu) Holcomb, head coach ' of Purdue University since 1947, today was named to the coach ing staff of the East for the next Shrine East-West all-star classic. Holcomb joins Woody Hayes of Ohio State as a mentor, with one other coach still to be named. Wilmington, N. C.ttJ.R) Billy Maxwell, the chunky, former National amateur champion from Odessa, Tex., bogied the last three holes today but man aged to retain his one stroke lead in the third round of the $12,500 Azalea open golf tournament. let Us Ml a Wheel And See If the Brakes On Your Car or Pick-up Are Safe. If They Are Not . . . 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Mercury is also in the morning sky but too near the sun for observation. The lit tle "messenger of the gods" will pass almost behind old Sol on April 22. For "evening star and planet study, let us observe at about 8:0 p.m. standard time. Mars is still in the evening sky as a red dish object near the Pleiades, not very far above the horizon. Spurrier Misses New Record Try Fresno, Calif. U.R) Long Lon Spurrier, former University of California trackster who broke the world record for the half-mile a week ago, was hamp ered by gusty winds Saturday as he 'failed in his attempt to crack the recognized mark for the sec ond time in as many Saturdays. Spurrier, who shattered the existing mark by more than a second at Berkeley last Satur day, was clocked in 1:50.5 this afternoon an even three sec onds off his record of 1:47.5. Bud Held and Cy Young, both of the Olympic club battled it out in the javelin and despite the wind Held threw 250 feet 7 inches, almost a foot better than his Olympic mark. Young's throw was good for 242 feet 4 inches, and a new stadium record. Little Hope Held After Knockout Trenton, N. J. (U.R) Boxer Bryan Thompson clung tenuous ly to life Saturday, two days after a neurology surgeon had held out "little hope" for his re covery. - Officials at St. Francis Hos pital, where the 23-year-old mid dleweight was taken after a knockout in his first profession al bout last Tuesday, said there was "no change" in his condi tion, described as "very criti cal." State Boxing Commissioner Joseph H. Walker, keeping close tab on Thompson's condition, said he intends to hold a full hearing if the fighter dies. Jerry Luedde of New Haven, Conn., the opponent who floored Thompson, has been notified to prepare himself for further questioning if the injury proves fatal. State Fair Board Gives Approval to Circus Pact Salem (U.R) The Oregon State Fair Board Saturday ap proved a contract with the Bailey Brothers-Christian! cir cus for the eight-day State Fair starting here Sept. 3. Dr. E. B. Stewart of Roseburg was re-elected chairman of the fair commission, and Henry Ahrens of Turner was re-elected secretary. Other memberi are Russell Brown and Kenneth Hall of Portland and Harold Barnett of Pendleton. TROTTERS TRIUMPH Philadelphia (U.R) The Har lem Gobetrotters trailed only once Friday night in defeating the college Ail-Americans, 67 60, before 12,452 fans, which set a new Convention Hall basket ball attendance record. MOYERS SLATES WOODS Portland , (U.R) Promoter Tommy Moyer said lightweight Bobby Woods of Spokane would fight in his first fight card here May 3. Moyer said he hoped to get Sonny Amoroso of California to oppose Woods. GETS NEWBERG JOB Estacada (U.R) Keith Moore, football, track and wrestling coach at Estacada high school, said today he had resigned to coach at Newberg high next fall.. No successor has been an nounced here. It is getting so distant that it is hardly brighter than the Big Dipper stars. Very high a little southwest of the zenith Jupiter is brilliant. (Saturn will rise in the east-southeast about 10 pjn. It is a yellow, non-twinkling ob ject of considerable brightness.) All Real Stars Aside from the moon now approaching the full phase all the other luminaries in the heav ens are real stars, intensely hot, blazing suns, many far larger than our sun but appearing small only because of their in conceivably enormous distances from us earth dwellers. Low in the southwest the fin est of all stellar lights, Sirius, the Dog star, glitters vividly. This is the principal star in the Big Dog, the follower of Orion, the Hunter. Dimmer stars in this locality complete the group. Sir ius is often pictured as the jewel hanging from the dog's collar. Higher and toward the zenith we find Procyon, of lesser bright ness, which marks the location of Orion's Little Dog. Orion himself now hangs low above the sky line in the west southwest. Note a short horizon tal line of three stars of equal brightness. This is the hunter's belt. A large four-sided figure with prominent stars in each corner surrounds the belt and outlines Orion's body and legs. The reddish star in the upper left is Betelgeuse; the white flasher in the lower right, Rigel. Twins Seen A little southwest of the ze nith in the direction of Orion note the Twins standing side by side, orange Pullux and yellow Castor. Much lower and almost due west, orange Aldebaran tops one arm of the small V (mostly dim stars) of the Hyades. To the right of the Hyades the, tiny, charming dipper of the Pleiades catches the observer's eyes. Con siderably above the Pleiades, yel low Capella is splendid. Low in the southeast, white Spica scintillates. Well up and about due east orange Arcturus is prominent. Tracing to the left of Arcturus one can outline among dim stars the shape of a kite lying on its side. Almost south of the zenith blue-white Rgulus marks the end of the handle of the celestial Sickle. 1 REVOLUTIONARY NEW MULTI-PURPOSE ROTARY TILLER SPRINGFIELD Easiest of all tillers to control, thanks to stabilizer design! Lifetime breakage guarantee on tollers! Adjusts from 7W to 214" width without tools; just add or re move tiller sections. 2 h.p, 4-cycle engine, throttle and dutch, adjustable 10" transport wheels.' Optional equipment inclndes power roller, soil and sod aerator, edger, furrower, extra tine sections. 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Two organizations have been set up to fight any of the several proposed plans whereby sets could be hooked into special cir cuits that would carry special TV entertainment solely for subscribers. The latter weuld drop a coin in a clot, punch a card or otherwise register pay ment for each program they wanted to see. The dissenting organizations are the committee against pay-as-you see TV and the organi zations for free-TV. They are co relating their activities and this week they announced the joint retention of Hogan and Ho gan Laboratories, Inc., as engin eering counsel. "We are confident that this firm will develop information that will be most useful to the commission," said a statement of the committee against pays TV. The FCC has set May 9 as the deadline for submission of re ports from all parties interested in the matter. An economic study of the mat ter in behalf of the committee against pay TV is being pre pared by Dr. Dallas Smyth of the University of Illinois. The "anti" organizations ex press the fear that subscription television will work an eco nomic hardship on viewers who, both in radio and TV, have nev er had to pay for the entertain ment out of the air.' The subscription TV people, of set the applecart, that the cur rent type of broadcasting will carry on as usual and that their offerings will just be a plus in entertainment for those who want to buy it at a rather nomi nal fee. While May 9 is the deadline set by the FCC for submission of opinions and presumably it will thereafter plunge right into work toward a decision, experts in the industry believe it will be a considerable time,, possibly as much as two or three years, be fore an opinion is reached and announced. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho (U.R) Mrs. Martha Luella Alkirewho once hid her children in a corn field and stood guard with a rifle during an expected Indian attack, died Wednesday night. She was 103- PEPPERDINE WINS Los Angeles . 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