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o Howard School Benefit Sports Night on Tuesday Tuesday, March 13, at 7:45 p.m., the Howard grade school will sponsor a community sports night to raise money to buy equipment for the new Rogue Valley Memorial hospital. A game of volleyball will be played between the ladies of the community and the woman faculty members. Fathers and ons will compete in a relay bas ketball game. Girls in the sixth grade physical education class will give a gym demonstration. Refreshments will be sold with the proceeds to go to the fund. Admission will be by contribution. High School Scores By UNITED PRESS (At larje pUyofO North Salem 56. Cottage Grove 32 (District 4 playoff) Molalla 47, Sandy 43 (State B tournament) Echo 30. Brownsville 48 Knappa 78. Elkton 81 Malln 77. Sisters 64 Elgin 62. Jefferson 33 Medford&vTribune Black Hawks Ousted In Hockey Loop Race By UNITED .PRESS The TJational Hockey League season ended 10 days early for the Chicago Black Hawks. Dick Irvin's last-place skaters were mathematically eliminated for the Stanley Cup playoffs Thursday night when they drop ped a 6-4 verdict to the New York Rangers in a neutral ice game at St. Louis. The Detroit Red Wings re mained tied with New York for second place by tripping the Boston Bruins, 4-2, while the Montreal Canadiens edged the Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-3. GIANTS PICK CAMP Inooski Park, Vt. (U.R) The New York football Giants announced today that they will train at St. Michael's College from July 23 until August 23 next summer. St. Michael's of ficials were told that the Giant squad would number about 60 players. CRITICAL EYE Melbourne, Australia (U.R) Hugh Weir, president of the Aus tralianCAmateur Athletic Union, warned Thursday that the coun try "will be under the critical eye" of world sports fans in the 1956 Olympic Games and said "there are flagrant breaches of amateurism" among some athletes. PIN TOURNEY BILLED Columbus, Ohio (U.R) The International Bowling Congress announced Thursday that its an nual women's tournament -will be held In Miami, Fla., April 19 May 20 with 1,918 teams from 38 states and Canada competing. Dave Newland Defending Coast Mat Title in Meet at Cal Poly University of Oregon, Eugene Oregon's wrestling team, dual meet champions of the Pacific Coast, try for the tournament title this weekend at San Louis Obispo competing with 15 teams at the Cal Poly gym. Coach Bill Hammer's Ducks went through the regular season without a defeat and hung two wins over Oregon State, and Washington State as well as single wins over U.C.L.A., Cali fornia, San Jose State, Lewis and Clark, Portland State as well as a tie with Portland State. Coach Hammer said he be lieved the championship battle would be settled among five State, Washington State, UCLA and San Jose State sharing the best chance to win the team title. Oregon's entry list will in clude Don Lovett (115), Roy Schlesser (123), Jack McBrien (130), Ken Karnes (137), Dave Newland (147), Howard Tim mons 157, George Krupicka (167), Ken Kesey (177), and J. C. Wheeler (191). Newland won the PCI cham pionship last year as a sopho more, Schlesser was second and Kesey took third. The 1955 meet was the first for the Ducks, who have been wrestling only three years, and they finished fourth teams with Oregon, Oregon in the team totals. Medford High Athletes Out Now For Track, Baseball Basketball season isn't over for another week for Medford high school but already spring sports activity is underway. While a good number of as pirants have been working for more than a month, March 1 was official opening date of practice for the defending state champion Black Tornado track squad. Yes terday was first general day out for baseballers. Pitchers began loosening up earlier, drilling in side. Coach Bob , Newland reported a total of 78 youths out for the cinder and field squad. Twenty five to 30 boys have answered the call of new diamond mentor John Kovenz. Both squads will be joined later by a number of top candidates who are now play ing varsity basketball. Newland expects to have 24 lettermen on hand for the sea son. State track meet entries back from last year are Eldon Francis, state javelin champ; Wally Larson, second in low and fifth in high hurdles; Mike Hawkins, district broad jump champ and a hurdler and sprint er, and Neil Plumley, champion shot putter in the district. Plum ley is still out for basketball. Baseball Nucleus Players around whom the baseball crew may be built are Duane Sides, Ernie Tyler and Henry Putney, pitchers; Dick McLaughlin, catcher, first base and outfield; Larry Perkins, second base; Gordon Owsley, shortstop; Larry Gober and Jim Putney, third basemen, and Ed Reinking, outfield and first base. McLaughlin, Gober, Perkins and Reinking are on the varsity basketball crew. First baseball game will be March 24 at Yreka, Calif. Some trackmen have been out since February 1 when 45 suits were issued and javelin throw ers, Eldon Francis and Gary Lewis have been working since January. Wet and cold weather hasn't deterred drills much. Those who've wanted to keep at it haven't missed a day of work outs because of weather, accord ing to Newland. Runners, he said, are coming along in great shape. Field men have suffered some, however, being limited quite a bit to wind sprints. Spearmen Doing Well Francis and Lewis, neverthe less, have been coming along in their spear drills. Under more or less normal conditions Francis has been heaving the javelin out around 177 feet consistently with one throw of 189. Lewis has been hitting around 170 with one toss of 177. With a strong wind behind him Francis had a cast of 193 feet recently and Lewis got off a 180-foot heave. One of the top running pros pects appears to be Mike Russell, sophomore, state junior AAU quarter-mile champ last spring. Another leading sophomore as pirant is Bilbee Lane, half-miler and transfer from Rogue River. Bob Tisdel, high and broad jumper, and Larry Slessler, weight man are a couple of field men still with the hoop squad. When snow recently threat ened to halt trackmen the school Is That So? Tokyo, with Japan Air Lines To a first-time visitor, Japan is indeed a land of surprises. Among the many things I learned, did you know that . . . Japan consists of more than 1,000 islands, but principally four. Their area is less than that of the state of California. Only about 12 per cent of the land is tillable, the rest mount ainous. Crowded into this small area are 86,000,000 people more than one-half the total popula tion of the U.S. The capital city, since 1868, is Tokyo, formerly called Edo, meaning estuary. It contains today almost one-tenth of Japan's entire population, more than 8, 000,000 making it the world's third largest city, exceeded by London and New York. Much of Tokyo was destroyed by earthquake and fire in 1923. According to Japanese tradition, a huge catfish lies under the ground and every tremor of the earth is attributed to the move ment of the fish. Silly as this belief may seem, experiments at the Imperial Uni versity have proven that the cat fish actually can feel an earth quake of much less intensity than a human can; and further more it can feel an on-coming quake of great intensity sooner too. Japan has hundreds of rivers. With their waterfalls and rapids in the upper reaches, they are picturesque and greatly enhance the beauty of the landscape. But the longest, Shinano, is only 229 miles long. Most of their stream beds are U shaped, permitting a swift run-off. Second Twin Slder The second of a pair of twin children is considered the elder. There are no flowers in a Japanese landscape garden. Many do not even have grass. One of the most famous is made up of 15 rocks, some moss, and raked sand. Sets of cups, plates, cushions and such come in groups of 5 and 10; not 6 and 12. . On New Year's day, everyone gets older, by one year. Thus, one who is born on Dec. 30 'is one year old; on Jan. 1, two days later, he is two. In using Japanese names, the surname always comes first thus, Smith Fred adding the honorific term, san thus, Smith san. This honorific title can only By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist ' be omitted in addressing a per son inferior in social standing. San means either Mr., Mrs. or Miss. Whales are sometimes killed off the coast of Japan. Because the oil taken from the sperm whale's head does not freeze at low temperatures, it is often used in airplanes ' operating in district grader was pressed into service to push the snow back and clear a path for runners. In some of the coldest weather run ners donned waist-length under wear, rain slickers and stocking caps. They , have been able to practice starts and do other run ning in the 80-yard "tunnel" un der the old grandstand. Deal with a j urn ce team! NORTHWEST STUDEBAKER DEALERS SAVE YOU MONEY IN THEIR DRIVE TO STAY FIRST IN SALES! Success, we love it! Northwest Studebaker Dealers are first in sales among all Studebaker Dealer groups in the entire country! . And we're dealing high, wide and then some to stay that way. Just try us and see! Come in. Let us prove that Studebaker offers you more styling . . . more power . . . more com fort . . . more safety and more economy than any other car within hundreds of dollars of the price! But hurry today's the day to get a "once-in-a-blue-moon" deal! O O o with tit to. P" longttt itAmAm 6i lt tUM. nitfil Get a top deal from America's top Studebaker Dealer DE LEIGH MOTORS 134 SO. RIVERSIDE AVE. MEDFORD ALWAYS BUY CERTIFIEP USED CARS BY STUDEBAKER PHONE 2-5219 S-9-S6 cold countries; it is also used for a base in facial creams. Tea Used as Medicine When tea, the national bever age, was first introduced from China in the 8th century, it was often used as a medicine. Today coffee is gaining in popu larity. The favorite alcoholic drink is heated sake, a rice wine. Beer and" a "rare old vintage scotch" are also manufactured in Japan. Most of the best Japanese em broidery was done by men and boys, not women. In the life "of a man, the 25th and 42nd years are considered calamitous; with women, the 19th and 33rd years. To ward off misfortune on these years, festivities are held. All distances in Japan are computed from a light pole in the center of the famous Ni- honbashi bridge, in downtown Tokyo. The present Japanese flag a round red sun on a white field was first displayed in the U.S., 1860, upon the "arrival of the first embassy ever sent abroad by the Japanese government. Twelve years later, it was first used in Japan. National Anihem From Poem The national anthem, Sover eign Reign, comes from a poem about 1,000 years old. The music comes from an old Japanese melody but it was first harmon ized by a German bandmaster, Franz Eckert, director of the Marine band of Japan, 1879- 1898. Japanese call their country, Nihon or Nippon which means "the origin of the sun." When Marco Polo, the great Venetian traveler of the 13th century, came to the orient he spelled the name Japan, Zipangu, although the Chinese at that time called it Jih-pen. From that came our present English name, Japan; in France it is Japon; in German, Ja-pan; in Italian, Giappone. In Munster's New World Atlas, 1545, Zipangu was located di rectly off the coast of Cali fornia, U.S.A., a slight geograph ical error of 5,000 miles. (Copyright. 1956, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Friday, March 9, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN Italian President Cheered in S.F. San Francisco U.PJ Throngs of Italian-Americans lined the streets of San Francisco's North Beach today to cheer President Giovanni Gronchi of Italy. The . dynamic Italian states man and his wife motored through the streets of the Italian quarter, smiling and bowing in response to the acclaim of the crowd. After their tour of the North Beach, Gronchi and his party were to cross the Bay bridge to Berkeley for a tour of the Uni versity of California campus and an inspection of the cyclo tron. After lunch with UC Presi dent Robert Gordon Sproul, the President and his party were to fly to Colorado Springs from Alameda Naval Air station. 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Police Find Money Stolen in Portland Portland U.R) Detectives today announced the recovery here of most of the $520 stolen Wednesday in a holdup of the Canteen Co. where four employ ees were slugged and pistol whipped by a trio of bandits. Detective Lt. Bard Purcell said $401 was found underneath the porch at the home of a girl friend of one of three suspects. Charges of assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon were filed against Tho mas Luther James, 25; Adolph Wesley Bonner,, 26, and Jimmie Abel, 23, all of Portland. They were held for $10,000 bail each. Weapons used in the holdup have not been located but Pur cell said clothing similar to that worn by the thugs was found in the basement of the same house where the money was found. 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