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Hedrick 8th Victor, 9th, 7th Tripped Hedrick junior high eighth grade basketball team scored a convincing triumph Friday while rival aggregations shaded Hornet ninth and seventh grade crews. Ashland's reshmen tipped the ninth graders 38 to 37. Hedrick's eighth bounced Grants Pass 51 to 35 and the seventh fell 37 to 35 in overtime to its Grants Pass counterpart. For the Hornet ninth it was the second one point loss to Ash land which has split - by one point scores with Medford's oth er junior high, McLoughlin. The Ashlanders were on top most of the time, led 38 to 30 with about three minutes to play and survived a game end rally by the Hornets. Scot Knotted Hedrick had a 7 to 6 quarter edge, halftime score was 15-all and the Lithian were ahead 28 to 26 after three periods. Both clubs had trouble finding tne hoop but Ashland managed to outplay and outshoot the Horn ets. Bill Maurer of Hedrick and Bjork of Ashland each got 14 points and Pete Rasmussen had 12 for Hedrick. - Gary McGill was the big force for the Hornet eighth. He did great work under the boards, did a fine job guarding Patter son of Grants Pass and turned in a good floor game in addition to heading Hedrick scoring with 14 points. Wyland got 17 for GP. Four Hedrick Dlayers got 10 points or better. Score was tied 30-all at the end of regular playing time in the seventh grade scrape. GP led 10 to 6, 13 to 10 and 23 to 20 but the Medford club gained a 26-all knot before the tie at the end of regular playing time LINE-UPS: Ashland 9th 38 D. Fitch 8 Taylor 6 Mlckle Bjork 14 37 Hedrick 9th 2 Peek 14 Maurer 12 Rasmussen 7 J. Harvey Patzke 7 2 T. Monroe Substitutions For Ashland, Rosen- balm 3. Woodell, McKinnjs; For Hed rick, Winetrout, v Hedrick 8th 51 Moore 10 Frohnmayer 11 McGill 14 Olson 4 35 Grants Pass 8th f 2 Erickson f Davis c 6 Mannan g 6 Patterson Anderson 10 g 17 Wyland Substitutions For Hedrick. Parsons, Kliever, Deakins 2, Dunn; for Grants Pass, Nealy 4, Ray, Lyons, uumngton, Harvey. - Grants Pass 7th 37 Hamilton 3 f Blinka f Hathaway 11 e Walden 9 g 35 Hedrick 7th 10 Sieg 2 Dowson 8 Bray 1 Gastineau Harris 8 g 8 M. Monroe Substitutions For Grants Pass, Walker 10, Clark; for Hedrick. Mc Intyre 8. UCLA; Dons Score Wins - By JAMES C. O'NEILL : United Press Sports Writer i The UCLA Brunis won the bravos Friday night by downing their closest Pacific Coast Con ference basketball rival Stan ford 50-48 while the hero of the Hilltoo USF lost it audience BDDeal in an easy 79-46 win over Fresno State. . For the Bruins it was their seventh straight PCC victory of the season and the 18th con secutive PCC triumph over a two-year period. i , . Effortless Dons The Dons moved smoothly, al most ef ortlessly, . to their 44th uninterrupted victory. But the 4,500 fans in Kezar Pavillion began drifting out shortly after the second half until . 1,500, mostly USF students, were left at the final gun, Elsewhere in the PCC, South ern California, profiting by Stanford's loss, blasted Wash ington State 76-55 and moved Into second place (7-2). The Trojans led 22-8 early in the first period and the Cougars (1-6) never threatened seriously, although Cougar forward Larry Beck took high point honors with 19. California (5-2) downed the luckless Idaho Vandals (1-8) on their home court 54-44 with the Bears taking full command early In the second half. Ski Conditions A light snow was falling late yesterday afternoon at Crater lake and, if that condi tion continued, skiing was ex pected to be from good to ex cellent today, the national park rangers reported. - However, rain fell lightly most of the day yesterday and if rain resumed, skiing could .. be poor, it was said. Snow depth at the lake yes terday was 114 inches com pared to 75 at the same iime last year. There was an icy pack and ski conditions in the late afternoon were only fair. Chains or abrasive snow iires were advised as equip ment for cars traveling from Annie Spring to the " rim in the park. The warming hut is to be open. FILES CANDIDACY Salem (U.R) Francis W. Linklatero f Hillsboro filed his candidacy here Friday for Dem ocratic nomination for district attorney for Washington county. Jack Draper filed for Demo cratic nomination for state rep resentative from Linn county. Thousands Pay Respects at Connie Mack Funeral Rites Philadelphia 0J.R) Base ball said 'farewell" to Connie Mack Saturday. Amid the quiet tears of fam ily members, baseball men and throngs of old personal friends, the 83-year-old "grand old man of baseball" made his last earth ly journey. His body was taken from the Oliver Bair Funeral home to St. Bridget's, his parish church in the East Falls section of the city, for a solemn requiem .mass, before being entombed in the family mausoleum at Holy Se pulchre cemetery. Among the honorary pall bearers were top baseball exe-. cutives and government offi cials, many of whom paid their final respects at a crowded viewing Friday night. Thous ands of mourners filed silently past the bier of the man whose managerial deeds made history in the American league. Nuns, Police, Firemen Among . t h e m were major MedfordJTribune Southern Oregon Rambles Over OCE Wolves SO to 64 Ashland Southern Oregon college race-horsed to an 80 to 64 Oregon Collegiate Conference basketball victory over Oregon College of Education here Fri day evening. The Red Raiders of the Rogue tumped to a . substantial lead early in the game and were not in serious danger after that. SOC gathered in eight points while the Wolves went score less in the first 4Vi minutes. At the 10-minute mark of the first half the Raider margin was 20 to 8 and tally at the halftime buzzer was 40 to 28. Ten min utest into the final half South ern Oregon was on top by 16 points, 59 to 43. Hoffine Shoots . , t Lloyd Hoffine of the Raiders was main score producer with 25 chalkers. Bill Hollingsworth and Chuck Cradall of SOC rang up 19 and 14, respectively. Doug Rogers had the best effort for OCE with 11. Southern Oregon fired .559 from the field and the Wolves 361. The Raiders had an even .500. night at the gift mark and OCE shot .461: Uunder the baek boards SOC got 43 rebounds to 34 for the Wolves. Thirty-two bounders were taken from their defensive backboard by the Raiders. Entire squads of the two clubs saw action. Klamath Falls (U.R) Oregon Tech's Owls had little trouble thrashing Eastern Oregon Col lege of Education, 74-55, here last Friday in an Oregon Col legiate Conference basketball game. After a close first half with Oregon Tech leading 29-26, the Owls found the scoring range and pulled away from a help less band of Mountaineers with ease. The Owls second-half drive was led by Jerry Fasteen who had : 26 points in the contest. Only the shooting of Lowell Kojbaba and Ted Schadewitz, 'Cats Drub Coyote -Five - By UNITED PRESS League-leading College of Idaho took an 89-51 drubbing from second place Linfield Fri day night in Northwest Confer ence basketball action while Willamette rose up from the cellar to smack down Whitman, 92-56. , Linfield's big three, Bill Ma chamer; Dave Sanford and Don Porter, led the Wildcats to their one-sided victory over the Coy otes at McMinnville. Machamer scored 23 points, Sanford 20 and Porter 12 as Linfield led all the way. The Wildcats held College of Idaho's court slicker, R. C. Owens, to. 12 points. Linfield led at halftime 38-25. At Salem,' Willamette's Bear cats used their height advantage to overwhelm Whitman. The Bearcats, led by Ron Fitzgerald who scored 16 points and Neil Causbie with 15, jumped into a 23-0 lead and the Missionaries never were in contention. Baseball League Session Slated Southern Oregon Baseball League officials will convene at 2 p.m. today at the Roseburg city 'hall for the purpose of organizing for the 1956 season. This year will mark the third season for the loop. Among items on today's agenda is election of officers. President Donald E. Faber, Central Point, has reported that he will not be available to serve a third term. Bill Askwith was schedul ed to represent - the Medford Cheney Studs at the meeting. league club owners, ball players young and old, youngsters who never saw Connie's great teams, society matrons, nuns, . police, firemen, and Archbishop John F. O'Hara of the Philadelphia Ro man Catholic archdiocese. Among the thousands of con dolences was a telegram from President Eisenhower. Mack's body lay in a bronze, velvet-lined casket placed among banks of ferns and lilies. The funeral parlor was filled with scores of floral displays bearing cards from the Ameri can and National leagues, the individual teams, government officials, leading figures from all parts of the sports world, and from old friends of the Mack family. The tall, slender member of baseball's "Hall of Fame" died Wednesday afternoon, with his advanced years and the strain of a broken hip suffered in a fall at "his home last Oct. 1 con tributing to his general decline. each with 18, kept Eastern Ore gon in the ball game. The Moun taineers, however, managed to hog tie Johnny Foster, who had been averaging 17 points a game for the Owls. Last. night Foster got only nine points. BOX: Southern Oregon Hollingsworth, f Hoffine, f Titus, c Crandall, g Bates, g : Biddington Carlile .-. Munsell Tenney Lowrance FG 7 12 . 3 .. 6 . 3 .. 0 . 0 .. 0 .2 .. 0 FT 5 1 0 2 2 2 0" 2 .. 0 0 PF 2 3 5 0 4 -' 1J- 1 2 1 0 , TP 19 25 6 14 8 2 0 . 2 4 0 Totali 34 14 19 , SO Oregon College Adams, f Jones, f FG . 2 . 4 FT 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 3 0 0 1 PF 2 4 3 1 2 1 0 2 2 1 1 TP 4 10 10 8 . 4 4 2 11 0 0 3 64 Young, c . 5 Girod, g ; Miller, g Baker 4 1 2 0 4 0 0 1 Hoy Rogers Zitek Summers Buss Totals 26 12 Boin Sparks Washington To 68-50 Win Seattle (U.R) Big Bruno Boin, held scdreless in the first half, went on a spree in the. second to lead Washington to a 68-50 Pacific Coast Conference basketball victory over Oregon Friday night. , Boin scored 17 points and the Washington defense turned a close contest into a rout by keep ing Oregon scoreless in the last eight minutes of the game. Oregon's top rebounders, Cen ter Max Anderson and Forward Ray . Bell, fouled out., midway through the second half and the Webfoots lost their effectiveness on the boards. ! Oregon Forward Charlie Franklin gave the crowd of 7,700 a splendid show in free throw shooting, getting 15 of his 21 points at the foul line. His free-throw marksmanship came within two of tying the Pacific Coast Conference record for a single game. Franklin's scoring was high for the game. Fast Start John Tuft, a sophomore guard switched to forward in an experi mental move by Coach Tippy Dye, sent the Huskies off to a fast start with five baskets four of them in a row and gave Washington a 14-7 advantage after six minutes were gone. The Ducks could get no closer and trailed 28-34 at halftime. Tn Va eannn1 fV i-nfvutti-tn Oregon came back with a storm ing rush, using a tricky weave offense to befuddle the Huskies temporarily. Franklin and An derson alternated turns at loop ing in points to put the Webfoots within four points of the Huskies, 47-51, with 10 minutes left in the game. Bob Bryan, another sopho more, started hitting for Wash ington, gathering 11 points while the Huskies' defense was stop ping Oregon cold. Washington hit 23 of 69 field goal attempts for a .333 shooting average while the very cold Ducks could get only 13 for 62 and a .210 mark. 1 BOX: Washington FG FT PF TP run t 5 0-0 4 10 Coshow f 1 8-10 4 10 Jtsryan I 3-5 4 11 For a GUARANTEED GOOD USED CAR Before You Buy Be Sure To Look the Lot Over at . . . MORSE MOTORS .1201 N..RIVERS.DE - Pels Nudge Grants Pass Hoop Quint Klamath Falls The Klam ath Falls Pelicans fought off a spirited fourth quarter bid by Grants Pass high to nick the Cavemen 51 to 49 Friday night in Southern Oregon Confer ence cage play here. - The Pels, ahead 44 to 39, op ened the last frame with ball control strategy in an effort to hold or lengthen their margin. Grants Pass however, kept within three to five points, and with a couple of minutes left, buckets by Tom Bernet and Al len Drews tied the game at 47 all. Glenn Moore sank a rebound shot for Klamath for 49 to 47 but Bernet came back to knot the fray at 49 with 1 1-3 minutes left. Winning Bucket The Pelicans again went into their stall and with 30 seconds left Moore broke loose to score, Five seconds later Drews miss ed a longie. With three seconds left the Cavemen got the ball and took time out. They tried to tally on their inbounds play but Bernet's shot was blocked by Moore. Moore, tall sophomore collect ed all seven points in the last quarter for the Pels. He had 15 for the game but his teammate, Donn Taucher, was high with 17. Bernet had 12, Larry Hen derson 11. and Chuck Nevi 10 for GP. Grants Pass hopped in front 17 to 11 in the first quarter and had one lead of 19 to 12: Half- time standing favored KF 29 to 28. Lone Pine Takes Sixth Straight Lone Pine Lone Pine grade school casers extended their unbeaten record to six games Friday by whacking Oak Grove 35 to 25. The Piners ran -up 13 to 1 first quarter spread. Action was more even after that. Half tally was 17 to 7 and third quarter score was 25 to 13. Calvin Sum mers of Lone Pine was high scqVer with 16 markers. In the iayvee game Jack Ri chardson swished the net with three seconds left to give Lone Pine a 22 to 20 nod. The Pine girls also won the volleyball competition. : Over Oregon Voegtlin f 0-1 0 0-0 7-10 2-3 ,0-1 F2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 17 6 2 8 2 0 2 Boin c Nelson c Perkins g Patnoe Olsen g surutscn g Crews g Totals Oregon Franklin f Bell f Tuchardt 1 Powers f Moore f Anderson c Werner c 23 22-33 25 68 FG FT PF TP ..3 10-18 3 21 2 0 0 2-5 1- 1 0-0 0-0 2- 5 0- 0 2-2 1- 3 0- 0 1- 6 0-0 0 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 Ross g McHugh g Lundell g Bingham g . Hastings g ... : Totals 13 24-40 22 . 50 Syracuse Downs Knickerbockers By UNITED PRESS Officials, writers ,. and fans gave Joe Lapchick a rousing send-off as he ended his pro fessional basketball career, but the pesky Syracuse Nationals prevented Lapchick's TsTew York Knickerbockers from giving him a final victory. Long, lean Lapchick, once a star many years ago of basket ball's famed "original Celtics," ended nine years as Knick's coach in the first half of a Na tional Basketball association dou bleheader at Boston Friday in which New York bowed to Syr acuse, 94-88. ; In the second game, the only other action in the league Fri day night, the Boston Celtics went on another scoring rampage for a 124-100 decision over the St. Louis Hawks. - Lapchick resigned "for rea sons of health" and Vince Boyrla took over as coach with Satur day's game against St. Louis in New York. Webfoots Trim Bruins In Wrestling Ruckus Eugene (U.R) Oregon won its 11th consecutive wrestling match here Friday night,- defeat ing the UCLA Bruins, 21-10. In a major upset, - Jack Mc Brain of Oregon took a decision from Norm Vogel, the Pacific Coast champion last year, in the 130-pound class! Committees Consider Justice Improvement Salem U.R) Improvement of the administration of justice in the interest of the bench, the bar and the public is being stud ied by five committees of the Judicial Council its executive committee said Saturday. The executive committee is made up of Chief Justice Harold J. Warner, chairman; Associate Justice Walter L. Tooze, and Cir cuit Judges Arlie G. Walker of McMinnville, Charles W. Red ding of Portland and Ralpr M. Holman of Oregon City. One committee - under chair manship of Circuit Judge Eu gene K. Oppenheimer of Port land, . is studying the problems in selecting jury lists. Circuit Judge H. K. Zimmerman of As toria heads a committee study ing problems in the exercise of judicial jurisdiction by lay judges in the county courts. Cir cuit Judge William W. Wells of Pendleton heads a committee studying juror's mileage fees. Other committees are headed by Justice James T. Brand, investi gating the -collection of criminal statistics for use by social agen cies, and by Justice Earl C. La tourette, studying the problem of backlog of cases in the Su preme Court. The committees are expected to report by May 15 on the status of their research. The Judicial Council will meet the latter part of June when recommendations of thecommittees are expected to be submitted. . Revised Chemical Manual Published Salem A revised and en larged Oregon agricultural chemical applicators' manual has been published by the state de partment of agriculture and is ready for distribution. ' The department pointed out the manual is offered as an aid forthose engaged in agricultural spraying and dusting. It super sedes -the first manual, issued in 1952 under -the Oregon herbicide applicators' law. Copies are available from the Oregon department of agricul ture, division of plant industry, Van Brocklin Signs '56 Contract With Rams Los Angeles (U.R) Quar terback Norm Van Brocklin, vet eran passing star, yesterday signed his 1956 contract with the Los Angeles Rams. Van Brocklin was hampered by an injured right hand in the 1955 season but still -led the Rams to the 'Western - Division title of. the National Football league. He completed 53 per cent ofrhis 272 passes, including eight touchdown aerials. ft-: IS m m SHIPPING PROCEDURE SCHOOL Coming to Medford r H LEARN FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION -IMPROVE O Shipping Procedure O Shipping Documents O Shipping Tariffs Former EnroIIees Say . . . "Helped me maintain a better shipping department." Robert- H. Beck, Moore Dry Kiln. "Your school is very instructive." Jack Watts, Pacific : Metal Co. "Highly recommend fo anyone in shipping." Henry F. Ewing, Murray B. Marsh Co. . . Sunday, February 12. 195S Charges Unfair Labor Practices In Suit Portland (U.R Charges of unfair labor practices, in addi tion to a damage suit for $80,592, have been filed against the Teamsters Union as a result of an attempt to organize non-union lumber truck drivers. The unfair labor charges were submitted to the National La bor Relations board here. They accuse, the union tf sevefal vio lations of the national labor re1 lations act. They charge the un ion with' unfair practices in Portland, Vancouver, Wash., Newport and Coos Bay. The damage action, filed by Yaquina Bay Dock & Dredge company of Newport, also names the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union as defendant. The company asks the money for damages allegedly suffered when longshoremen re fused to cross Teamster picket lines to unload non-union lumber trucks. . Bids Submitted For New Mooring Basin Portland (U.R) A- b i d of some $53,00 below the govern ment estimate was submitted for a modern mooring basin at Charleston, Ore., Army engi neers said Saturday. The bid of $476,137 was sub mitted by Coos Bay Dredging Company, Inc. The work calls for dredging a basin 900 feet long and 500 feet wide at Charleston near the entrance to Coos Bay. The basin will be pro tected from the seas by a stone breakwater. Earty construction was forecast. There were three other bidders. Court Records POLICE COURT Leonard Eugerfe Steege, violation of basic rule, $10. , Edwin Ernest Collom, violation of basic rule, $10. Richard Alan Loros. violation of ba sic rule, $10. Kennetn Roger Tapiett, violation ot basic rule, $10. Phyllis Lynette Kriopp, violation of basic rule, $10. - John Burton Hanacher, violation of basic rule, $10. DISTRICT COURT Lewis B. Ansted, violation of basic rule, $15. John F. Bush, reckless driving, $55 and operator's license suspended for 30 days. Jack H. Ladd. failure to yield right of way, $15. Gladys V. Muse, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. Grace H. Orr, violation of basic rule, $15. Delia Mable Hughes, no operator's license, $10. CIRCUIT COURT Leota Lee Cline vs. Lloyd Marion Cline, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Paul M. Wrede, . Hollywood, Calif., and Sybil Nannette Furry, Phoenix. Stanley Alen Kee. Shady Cove, and Patricia Daun Reeves, Rogue River. 7:30 P.M. Each Tuesday icksori Hotel NO ADMISSION CHARGE OR OBLIGATION! List Committees for Annual Pear Festival Committee members for the ihird annual Roguet Valley Pear Blossom festival were named and April 21 tentatively set as the date for this year's festival, at the first J.956 board of direc tors meeting Thursday, The Pear Festival organization incorporated as a non-profit cor poration last year. 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