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Padres Stop Portland; Twinks Move Up,SF Seals Skid in PCL Br DON THACKREY United Press Sports Writer The dark horse San Francisco Seals were only living up to part of their name in the Pacific Coast League today. Before the season the Seals now a farm club for the Boston Red Sox were touted as being dangerous. But the only danger they exhibit so far is to the Van couver Mounties they may fall atop them at the bottom of the standings. The Seals lost to Sea'tle 3-1 last night to fall within a half game of 7th place Hollywood. The Stars moved up on the Seals with a pair of wins over the Mounties, 9-2 and 6-2. Sacramento outpowered the Los Angeles Angels 8-2 and San Diego outblasted Portland 8-7. Bud Podbielan held San Fran cisco to seven hits and out pitched four Seal hurlers to give the Angel-chasing Suds a .3-1 edge in the series. Three early runs made it easy for Podbielan, Phoenix Athletes Receive Awards From Coaches Phoenix Phoenix high school athletes were presented their monograms at a recent award assembly at the school. Coach Jack Woodward pre sented football letters to Bill Madden, Jim Korth, Don Blan kenship. Ray Dahl, Walt Hurl but, Dale Haggard, Delmar Brood, Pete Bohn, Don Wallace, Delford Dean, Jim James, Jack Thompson, Dennis Bradley, Larry Glidden, Perry Sneed, Larry Kidwell, Fred Faytinger, Dennis James, John Garner, Danny Lovett, and Manager Charles Fisher. Junior varsity letters were given to Jim Heath, Marvin Frazier, Archie Trott, Mike Campbell, Eddy Beeson, Ronald Daugherty, Jack Rinn, and Don Korth. Basketball letters went to Bill MaHHMi .Tim Korth. Delmar Brood, Charles Wall, Don Wal lace, Don Blankenship. Jim James, Delford Dean, Don Mc Carty, Douglass Witte, Bob Clower, Gary Simmonds, and Larry Blunt, with junior varsity awards being received by Fred Faytinger, Jim Heath, Dennis James, Archie Trott, and Lester Schleigh. Manager letters were received by Alton Medcalf and Randall Stothers. Track Coach - Albert Cons bruck presented varsity mono grams to Delmar Brood, Roger Carson, David Dahl, Jim James, Jim Korth, Bill Madden, Archie Trott, Gary Simmonds, Charles Swingle, Charles Wall, Jim Wal dron, and Llewellyn Witte and Managers David McClurg and Marvin Fraiier. Baseball Coach Roscoe Larson distributed let ters to Don Wallace. Don Me Carty, Larry Blunt, Mike Camp bell, Jack Thompson, Jerry Nye, Truman Milton, Bill Clark, Dale Haggard, Rodney Strahm, and Manager Dan Goddard. who surrendered his only run in the eighth frame. Jerry Casale took the loss. Good Pitching Hollywood moved Into within a half game of the unlovely sixth spot by getting a pair of good pitching jobs. In the opener Lino Donoso held the Mounties to three hits and got home run help from Gair Allie and Dick Smith to breeze to the win. In the second game Curt Ray don and Fred Green combined on a five hitter as the Stars took advantage of three Vancouver errors and bounced two pitchers for nine safeties. Sacramento ended its series with first place Los Angeles on a happy note as Gene Bearden, the grey-beard left-hander, held the Angels to eight hits. The Solons used LA's favorite play the home run to help out in a six-run fifth inning that.' sewed up the game. Rule Crawford and Nippy Jones tapped the four-baggers as the Solons broke a 2-2 tie. Bilko's Back In the fourth Steve Bilko, homerless since Sunday, blasted his 24th of the year to tie the score at 2-2. Dick Drott was loser for the Angels. San Diego got three-run homers from Dick Sisler and Harry Elliott In beating Port land for the first time in the series. Sisler's blow in the third in ning was the big one. It put the Padres ahead to stay. However, Portland fought back strongly. including a home run by Ed Mickelson, and scored four times in the eighth to climb to within a run. But the Padres were able to hold on for the victory. LIXESCORES: Seattle 021 000 00 3 t 1 San Francisco 000 000 010 1 7 0 Podbielan and Orteiif; Casale. Thom as 5i Slack (7), R. W. Smith (9) and Sadowski. (1st came) Vancouver 200 000 0 2 S 2 Hollywood 020 403 x 9 10 0 Curtis. Baczewski 4). Searcy rs and Romano; Donoso and Hall. Naton o. Horn runs Allle. R. smith. (2nd rame) " Vancouver . .000 000 2002 I 3 Hollywood .012 001 20x 6 0 Locke. Baczewski (7) and Neal; Ray. don. Green (7) and Naton. Los Angeles . 010 100 0002 8 2 Sacramento ... 020 060 OOx 8 11 0 Drott, Pleretti (3), Fodee (7) and Tappe; Bearden and Bright. Home runs Bllko, Crawford, V. Jones. Portland 200 000 1407 13 2 San Diego '. 013 310 OOx 8 13 0 Valdes. Fiedler 14). Waibel (71, Shore (8) and Calderone: Mesa. Her rera (8) and St. Claire. Home runs Sister. Klliott. Mickel5on Medforiv,Tribune PERSONALIZED AUTOMOTIVE REPAIRS BRAKE & TUNE UP SPECIALISTS Free IsrlmafM Any trouble 30 years experience. General Motors t Hudson Motor cars. Your trouble my trouble! LEO COOKE t Beaton i Front & Jackson Phono 2-7327 Balls Prizes In Golf Day Competition Golf ball prizes will go to di voters with the two low net scores in National Golf day com petition at Rogue Valley Coun try club. Club professional Al Williams said that six balls will be pre sented for first low net and three for second low net. Saturday is National Golf day. National open champions Jack Fleck and Fay Crocker will play 18-hole rounds at Rochester, N.Y. Their gross scores will be matched against the nets of men and women golfers throughout the country. Medals will go to men who "beat" Fleck and to the women who better Miss Crocker's gross with their nets. Entry fee for the golf day competition is $1 for each round of 18 played, 25 cents for cad dies. The day's activity is under sponsorship of the Professional Golfers association and proceeds will go to the National Golf fund for charities and worthwhile projects of the links sport. Club Title Qualifying Amount raised last year was $160, 632.68 and the four golf davs held so far have totalled $478,577.33. Saturday will mark the open ing at RVCC of qualifying for the men's club championship tourney. Men have through June 24 to play their 18-hole rounds. The various match rounds are to be completed by July 1, July 8, July 15, July 22, July 29 and August 5. There will be 32 in the opening round of the cham pionship flight. First round los ers in each of the flights will drop into lower flights. George Harrington, Ed Hall, Harry Millette and Bill Hartmen will compete Saturday and Sun day for RVCC in the Alderwood cup team match at Royal Oaks course, Vancouver, Wash. At last report nine other clubs of the Oregon Golf association were entered. They are Astoria, Chain. Saw, , Chris Drugs Post Wins McCulloch Chain Saw knocked Medford Auto Upholstery out of unbeaten status in the Jackson County Softball association with a 12 to 8 triumph yesterday and Chris' Drugs gained a knot with the Upholsters for second posi tion in the standings by nipping National Guard 3 to 2. . Yesterday evening's outcomes left Lithia Motors at the head of the standings with its unblem ished record in four encounters. Big frame for the Chain Saw men was the third when five runs crossed the plate. LaRue Smith homered in the canto, Larry Irwin and Webber dou bled and Norm Loop and St. Helair singled. Three runs got in in the fourth when Irwin homered and Chuck Cowan, Tom Rodgers and Gentry singled. Granger Homers The Auto Upholsters had their big time at bat in the sixth inning with four runs on hits by Riley and Parker, three bases on balls and hit batter. Grang er slammed a home run in the second inning. The Druggists got the tying and winning markers in the sev enth inning. Hits by Wendt, Dick Sanford and Isaacs and a fielder's option broke up the ball game. Chris picked up its other run in the sixth on singles by Francis Guidry and Don Sanford. National Guard scored twice in the fourth inning on hits by Ted and Ned Landers and cou ple of errors. A typical U.S. housewife In her lifetime will wash about one- half million separate dishes, or several stacks each one as high as the Empire State building in New York. T-C Braves Gain Ground In NW Loop By UNITED PRESS The Northwest League stand ings got some shaking up last night for the first time in several days. Yakima still held the lead, in fact increased it to four and one half games by knocking over Salem, 6-0, for the Bears' sixth straight win. But Tri-City is the new third-place stockholder, and Lewiston is but six percentage points ahead, in second place.. Tri-City earned its new rating by bouncing Spokane, 15-8 in a game that featured no less than 36 base hits. Lewiston was vic timized by the visiting Wenat chee Chiefs, 12-3, and the Chiefs moved into fifth place, four points behind the idle Eugene Emeralds. Everybody changes partners tonight. Lewiston goes to Spo kane, Eugene resumes action at Yakima and Salem will be at Kennewick to meet the Braves. Wenatchee sits out this series. Tempers Flare The Yakima-Salem contest again saw tempers flare, for the second straight night. But after the brief second inning rhubarb, the loop leaders, behind Arleigh Downs' five-hit pitching grabbed two runs in the fifth and four more in the ninth inning to keep their win streak alive. Tri-City scored in all but the first, seventh and eighth inn ings after Spokane had taken a short-lived 2-0 lead in the first frame. George Huffman got five for five at the plate for the win ners. At Lewiston, Bob Duretto was the major spoiler, clouting two home runs good for five of the six tallies he drove in. Glenn Is ringhouse was the winning hurler. 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Officers said Mrs. Alonzo Wesley Turner confessed that she fatally shot her sleeping gambler husband and two of her neighborhood boy friends ad mitted they helped plan and execute the strange slaying. Mrs. Turner, mother of six children and expecting a sev enth, at first told police that a stranger came to her. door and killed the 34-year-old nightclub operator. However, she later confessed that she pumped four shots from a .22 calibre rifle into her husband as he slept. Months of Planning The killing, according to of ficers, climaxed several months of planning by Mrs. Turner and neighbors Mrs. Clestell Gay and Mrs. Audrey Roakes. All of the women are in their 20s. Mrs. Gay, the mother of one, admitted buying the rifle and shells for Mrs. Turner, and of ficers said she was apparently in the Turner home at the time of the killing. They said that she was to receive $300 for her help. Following the murder, the rifle was taken to the home of Mrs. Roakes, the mother of five, and hidden there. According to officers Mrs. Roakes aided in the slaying because she was a "good close friend" of Mrs. Turner. Friday. June 8, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN Two Accidents Are Reported to Police Vehicles operated by Conrad Johnson, 79, of route 2, box 745, Central Point, and Morton Oli ver Goffett, 18, route 2, box 184, Central Point, were involved in accident on Highway 99 at the Elk Lumber company road about 4:10 p.m. yesterday, according to state police. Police said Johnson was cited for failure to yield to oncoming traffic. . A trailer truck operated by Leon Bernard Russell, 39, of Sa lem, went out of control and over an embankment near the Lincoln Guard station on the Greensprings about 11:35 p.m. yesterday, police reported. Russell told police he pulled over in an attempt to avoid a col lision with an oncoming car and he lost control of the truck. Rus sell was. brought to Medford by Lavern Watrud, 210 Ashland ave., Medford, who passed the scene, police said. THE HASTY HEART . Newark, N.J. (U.RV Police arrested Emanuel Wade, 60, Thursday on charges he tried to warm up his sweetheart when she cooled toward him. Police said Wade, after a disagreement with Mrs. Stella Simmons, got a bucket of gasoline, poured it on her door and set it afire. Summer Homesites at Hiatt Lake Available Value of meat by-products is from 5 to 6 per cent of the wholesale value of the fresh meat. ... - . . , Fifteen summer homesite lots on O and C land adjacent to the east shore of Hiatt lake are available for lease to persons entitled to veterans' preference, Virgil T. Heath, Oregon state supervisor for the bureau of land management, has an nounced. Lots vary in size from 0.47 acre to 0.88 acre, and a plat showing locations are available at the district office in the Med ford city hall. Annual rental for each lots is $25. Leases will be issued for an initial term of three years, Heath said. Those leasing summer home lots will be required to construct substantial improvements in ac cordance with building restric tions listed in the small tract classification order. Leases may be renewed for maximum terms of 20 years at the discretion of the BLM. Persons entitled to veterans preference are honorably dis charged veterans who served in the armed forces for a period of at least 90 days after Sept. 15, 1940, the surviving spouse or minor orphan children of such veterans ,and with the consent of the veteran, the spouse or liv ing veterans. Qualified individuals who wish to apply should file a vet erans preference drawing card with the manager of the Oregon land office, 1001 NE Loyd Blvd., Portland, prior to 10 a.m. July 16, Heath said. Cards may be ob tained from the BLM office in Medford. A detailed description of the small tract lots, building re strictions and other conditions, and drawing procedure will be posted in the Portland land of fice, the district forester's office in Medford, the Jackson and Jo sephine county court houses, and the post office in Ashland. Eugene Peterson, district for ester, said if there Is sufficient interest additional lots would be surveyed but probably will not be made available for lease be fore 1957. The governors of every state in the Union except Louisiana take office in January. In Louis iana the state administrations in augurate their regimes in the month of May. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Manufacturing gained 1,693 per cent between 1869 and 1939 while at the same time the popu lation of the U. S. was increased by 43 per cent Glaciers cover 800 square miles in Switzerland. As much cotton is produced today on 25,000,000 acres as was taken from 40,000,000 acres 25 years ago, according to U.S. crop estimates. 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