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HARLEM MAGICIANS SEEK RUSSELL "Goose" Tatum
(standing), co-owner of the Harlem Magicians basketball
team, is shown in Los Angers with University of San
Francisco coach Phil Woolpert (left) and the latter's All
American center Bill Russell, whom Tatum is anxious to
sign. Tatum said he was prepared to pay "more than
$100,000" to get Russell and UCLA's Willie Naulls and
Morris Taft (not shown) to sign with the Magicians after
the 1956 Olympics.
MedfordWTribune
Education Board Plans Review
Of Grade Athletic Restrictions
Salem (U.R) A committee of
the State Board of Education
will take another look at its de
cision of last fall to restrict com
petitive athletics for Oregon
grade school youngsters.
George Huggins of Coos Bay
led the fight foj reconsideration.
He said American children fall
far behind those of Europe in
physical stamina.
The seven-member board de
cided to turn the situation back
to a 20-member committee for
further examination. There had
been pressure from several Ore
gon communities to take another
look at the ruling.
Mrs. Paul Patterson, chair
man of the board, was one of
two members opposed to re
scinding the ruling. She said the
athletic program for grade
school children is overempha
sized in many small communi
ties. "Too many hire people as
coaches and they don't make the
physical education program
good and interesting for all
children," she said.
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To Be Completed Tonight;
Pairings Announced by NIT
By JOHN GRIFFIN
United Press Sports Writer
The post-season basketball pic
ture will be complete tonight
when the 25-team NCAA tourna
ment adds its last entrant
either Western Kentucky or
Morehead State.
The 12-team National Invita
tion Tournament today announc
ed pairings for its competition
opening at Madison Square Gar
den, New York, March 17, and
disclosed 1-2-3-4 seedings as fol
lows: Dayton. Louisville, St. Jo
seph's (Pa.), and Niagara.
Western Kentucky and More-
head State will clash at Louis
ville, Ky., in the final game of
the playoffs for the NCAA berth
going to the Ohio Valley Con
ference champion.
Three Tied For Crown
The league race ended in a
three-way tie among these two
teams and Tennessee Tech. The
special playoff opened Wednes-
Jacksonville Pin
Enthusiasts Go
By Bus to Alleys
Jacksonville Jacksonville's
Junior Bowling league is made
up of Jacksonville High school
students, who go by school bus
each Saturday morning to Med
ford Bowling lanes. They have
entered four of their six teams,
with five on each team, in na
tional tournament play on
March 24.
Students on the Junior League
teams are: Elmina Beard, Deanna
Bishop, John Beamj, Robin Wy
att, Toni Tweedy, Linda Hardy,
Carol Hueners, Judy Iverson,
Joan Cook, Joan Fretwell, Nancy
Adams, Darlene Van Galder,
Roberta Wicksten, Karen Frohs,
Donna Dobbyn, Kay Adams,
Margie Edens, Tosha Bulkin and
Diane Robbins.
The group has expressed its
thanks to its sponsors who made
it possible to purchase trophys.
Sponsors are: Jacksonville Lum
ber company, Jacksonville Va
riety store, Bud W41son of Cour
tesy Chevrolet, Medford, Med
ford Kiwanians, Medford VFW
and Bob Cabler, Jacksonville.
Mrs. Ann Wilson, of Medford,
has given her time and much ef
fort as instructor of the young
keglers.
FIGHTS
By UNITED PRESS
Havana, Cuba Miguel Diaz,
146, Cuba, outpointed Chico
Varona, 146, Cuba.- 12. Won
Cuban welterweight championship.
MERRIMAN SIGNS
Portland (U.R) Lloyd Merri
man has signed a contract with
the Portland Beavers for the
coming campaign, General Man
ager Joe Ziegler said today.
Merriman, a fast-moving center
fielder, will report to the Beaver
training camp at Glendale next
Monday.
HOCKEY ENTRIES
Middlebury, Vt. (U.R) St.
Lawrence of Canton, N.Y., and
Boston College were named to
day as eastern representatives to
the NCAA Hockey Tournament
March 15-17 at Colorado Springs,
Colo. St. Lawrence had a 17-4
record and Boston College a 14-5
mark this year.
' Springfield, 111. (U.R) Ron
Gibbs said today he will stOD of:
ficiating basketball games after
66 years next season because the
game has become too strenuous.
Gibbs, 55, said he would con
tinue to officiate football games.
SANCTIONING GROUP
Los Angeles (U.R) The
United States Auto club was for
mally named the nation's prin
cipal sanctioning group for pro
fessional automotive competi
tions Wednesday. It succeeds the
AAA which served as the official
supervisory body for nearly 52
years.
NO ICE
South Bend, Ind. (U.R)
Uncooperative weather almost
ruined the annual St. Mary's
Winter Carnival. An unseasonal
thaw melted ice on the lake and
forced 500 guests to settle for
box lunches and an indoor
dance.
day night with Western Ken
tucky downing Tech in the last
10 seconds, 84-80.
Tonight's Ohio Valley winner
will move into a first-round
berth in the NCAA tourney at
Fort Wayne, Ind., March 12,
against Marshall.
At Hanover, N.H., Athletic Di
rector Red Rolfe of Ivy League
champion Dartmouth disclosed
that the Indians accepted an
NCAA berth as soon as it was
officially offered. Dartmouth
will meet West Virginia in a
first-rounder at New York,
March 13.
Here's the NIT set-up:
First round, March 17 St.
Francis (N.Y.)-Lafayette and Du-quesne-Oklahoma
A&M (day);
Seton Hall-Marquette and St.
Louis-Xavier, Ohio (night).
Winners Face Seeded Teams
Quarter-finals March 19:
Niagara vs. St. Francis-Lafayette
winner and Louisville vs.
Duquesne-Oklahoma A & M
winner; March 20 Dayton vs.
St. Louis-Xavier winner and
St. Joseph's vs. Seton Hall-Marquette
winner.
Semifinals, March 22 Win
ner of Niagara game vs. winner
of Dayton game and winner of
Louisville game vs. winner of
St. Joseph's game.
Finals, March 24, with con
solation for third place. Games
to be nationally-televised, both
on Saturday afternoons, are Duquesne-Oklahoma
Aggies first
rounder and the finale.
In other leading games play
ed Wednesday night: NCAA
bound Temple blew a 16-point
lead but rallied again to beat St.
John's, N.Y., 71-66, and in three
Ivy League games, Columbia
downed Princeton, 78-69, Penn
sylvania beat Yale, 67-60, and
Harvard defeated Brown, 79-66.
Rain No Worry
For Vancouver
Baseball Owner
Vancouver, B. C (U.R) Brick
Laws, who moved his Oakland
Acorns out of the foggy Bay
Area to this Canadian city, was
confronted today with a new
problem, rain that inundates
Capilano stadium, home of the
Coast League's new baseball
entry.
"I'm not the least bit worried
about this," Laws said today.
"They've been playing baseball
up here every year for a number
of years, and I'm sure they had
the water problem before and
solved it.
"It won't cost $30,000, as re
ported, to solve the drainage
problem. I am not sure just how
much it will cost, but I'm certain
it won't be that high. It's a prob
lem that I should have the solu
tion to in a couple of days."
Opimistic
Laws still was "very optimis
tic" about Vancouver as a base
ball town despite the failure of
the British Columbia legislature
to authorize Sunday baseball.
"Naturally I'm disappointed
that we won't have Sunday base
ball, but we'll solve that situa
tion by playing Saturday day
night doubleheaders and also by
scheduling on Monday nights.
"This is one of the hottest
towns I've seen for Coast League
baseball, so I have no worries
from the rain, the fans, the size
of the ballpark or the fact Sun
day will be a day off."
Juan Pomare Standout
In Golden Gloves Tiffs
New York (U.R) Juan Pom
are of New York, who marched
to the 160-poiind championship
with a pair of knockouts, was
the most impressive champion
crowned Wednesday night in the
eastern Golden Gloves boxing
finals at Madison Square Garden.
A crowd of 6,983 saw only four
kayos on the 16-bout program of
semi-finals and finals, and Pom
are supplied exactly half of
those. In the semi-finals, he halt
ed Ralph Taylor of Charlotte, N.
C, in 1:26 of the second round
and in the finals he stopped Paul
Diaz of Miami, Fla., at 1:02 of
the third.
John Harper, 23-year-old truck
driver from Steubenville, Ohio,
gained the heavyweight cham
pionship by outslugging Gary
Jawish of Washington, D. C, in
a rough final round.
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTSEH
PEEWEE ON INJURED LIST With a heating pad strapped
to his injured back, Dodger shortstop and team captain
Peewee Reese gets a massage from his wife, Dorothy, as
spring drills at Vero Beach, Fla., go on without him. It is
not known how long the sprain will keep him out of uni-,
form. ."
Changing Weather Pattern
Alters Feeling in East
Washington (U.R) People
in Connecticut once thought
floods were something that hap
pened along the Mississippi
river, those in Massachusetts
looked upon tornadoes as a by
product of Texas and Oklahoma
and Rhode Islanders viewed hur
ricanes as the exclusive property
of Florida.
The ever-changing weather
pattern, however, has drastically
altered the smug feeling that any
one section of the country may
have had as to its immunity from
the uncontrolled forces of nature
which in the recent years have
left a terrible toll of human
tragedy in their wake.
Play No Favorites
The 1955 floods in Connecti
cut, the 1953 tornado that rip
ped through central Massachu
setts and the hurricanes that
seem to have become an annual
fall menace to New Englanders
are proof that natural disasters
play no favorites.
Statistics compiled by the
American Red Cross, show that
since 1952 each of the 48 states
has experienced at least one or
more major tragedies. Texas
alone had 19 tornadoes, Missis
sippi 18, Arkansas and Alabama
17.
A Red Cross report shows that
during this three-year period,
their disaster units were in
volved in 309 distinct relief op
erations of which 15 originated
with tornadoes in 20 states, 146
from floods in 47 states and nine
from hurricanes in 14 states.
The task of supplying disaster
relief and nine other service
programs in its "neighbor help
ing neighbor" policy falls chief
ly on the publicly supported Red
Cross, which was founded 75
years ago this May. This organi
zation has participated in more
than 6,000 disasters since its in
itial contribution in the 1881
Michigan forest fires.
Vastness Reflected
How vast this contribution has
been is reflected in a recent
statement by Ellsworth Bunker,
president of the Red Cross, who
pointed out that in 1955 more
than $27,000,000 was spent in
alleviating the emergency plight
of 446,000 disaster-stricken fam
ilies as well as assisting 34,000
other families in restoring their
home-lives to pre-disaster levels.
"When disaster strikes, the
government provides for such
things as law enforcement, the
rebuilding of bridges, roads and
other vital public properties,"
Bunker said. "It is the job of the
Red Cross to give relief to the
individuals or families who are
in need.
"Red Cross aid in disasters is
two-fold. In the immediate emer-
WILLIAMS VS KING .
San Francisco flJ.R) Jake
Williams, one of Boys Town's
athletic greats, meets Howard
King of Reno, Nev., tomorrow
night in a regionally televised
10-round . bout at Winterland.
King is making , his first start
since Feb. 20 when he lost a un
animous decision to World Light
Heavyweight Champion Archie
Moore and was' knocked down
three times in the process.
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gency, food, clothing, shelter, or
medical care is provided to meet
the temporary situation of fam
ilies that cannot for any reason
provide for themselves.
Permanent Recovery '
"Following the immediate
emergency comes the bigger job
of permanent recovery. Red
Cross will help these families
whose resources are inadequate
to weather the burden imposed
by the disaster. This long-range
assistance could include the fi
nancing of home repair or re
building, purchase'' of furniture,
payment of medical bills or the
re-establishment of a small busi
ness or farm.
"The Red Cross never makes
loans or charges for these disas
ter services or assitance. All
fund are outright gifts with no
repayment ever indicated or
asked for.
"Unfounded rumors to the ef
fect that Red Cross sold services
or made charges are often circu
lated after disaster strikes. We
would welcome any first-hand
knowledge of when or where the
Red Cross has asked an individ
ual or family to repay for dis
aster services rendered.
Rising Pennsylvania
Flood Waters Threat
To Hospital Patients
By UNITED PRESS
A last minute winter outbreak
hit the nation's eastern third
with icy rain, snow, and floods
today.
. Floodwaters of the Allegheny
river and Conewango creek
spread over all but one of the
roads leading into Warren, Pa.,
virtually isolating the town. Of
ficials made ready to evacuate
103 . patients from the Warren
hospital, moving 1iem to second
and third floors as water poured
into the first floor. The com
posing room of the Warren
Times-Mirror was flooded, and
Editor Edward Lowrey said the
press motors were knocked out
so the paper could not publish
today.
Families Leave Homes
About 50 families left their
homes at Warren during the
night and others were planning
to move out today. At Meadville
west of Warren, firemen 'took
families to high ground in boats
when French creek went out of
its banks and "into homes.
In the East, flood waters were
falling in northern New York
state, but swollen rivers were
still rising in northwestern
Pennsylvania.
Earlier, the rains touched off
flash floods in New York in a
matter , of hours. Homes were
evacuated, schools were closed,
and a state of emergency was
declared at Lackawanna, where
damage was estimated at $50,
000. Elsewhere, the wintry out
break dumped seven inches of
snow on Wausau, Wis., and Pel-
liston, Mich., coated Chicago
with a treacherous icy glaze,
and dropped temperatures more
than 40 degrees.
Chicago was caught unawares
by an innocent-seeming drizzle
which turned to ice when the
temperature fell. A snowstorm
followed and rush hour traffic
was tied into knots, with traffic
accidents occurring at a rate of
100 an hour.
Farther south, the tempera
ture dropped more than 30 de
grees in Texas, 40 degrees in the
Ohio valley, and from 80 to 38
at Memphis, Tenn. At St. Louis,
Mo., where 80-degree heat rec
ords had been set for two
straight days, the mercury didn't
get over 42 Wednesday.
Highway 99 Cleared
Of Wolf Creek Slide
Grants Pass (U.R) A slide
which blocked highway 99 was
cleared yesterday and north
south traffic resumed through,
the 'main route connecting Ore
gon with the South.
It was the fourth time since
the first of the year that the
route has been blocked in the
area by landslides occurring at
the Wolf Creek summit.
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