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Auto 'Thrill Tournament' Tonight at Posse Grounds H ol I vv, ood ' u r. t m ( r t be i:cr.iTz jrt two vj'r.s ar.d d''a'.:i hours c thr,::? T:.e "To'..rr.arr.rT.t r,f T'r. is scheduled for 3 p m. a' shpriff's p"'cs": ro:;r:ri-; on rd. wr.- ' : '..:.. ! - am a: here will r,f: t'.mzht o:.. The stur.tir.c-n arc- w-il k: l' theater ar.d television tb id- lnees by the same stunU they will display but seldom are th y sen in person by aud:--.-ur-. Harry Woolman whi i,."- in a car shot from a cannon. f'r-ddv LaMonte will bo blown up 1:1 a paper box with 20 sticks of MEDFORDv Valdes Hurls 4-Hir Shutout Over Padres By john Mcdonald United Press Sports Writer Seattle Manager Luke Sewi !l, who specialized in doing ti.o im possible, brought ids pennant hungry Rainiers home today trailing Los Ang' Ies by 1hr;c : games but still determined to j slug it out for the flag wi'h one of the greatest nowernouses m Pacific Coast league his'ory. Sewell. who brought in the old St. Louis Browns by a whisker for their only pennant in 1944. faced what h.okwl like certain defeat V.'i cine-day as the San Francisco Seals led Seattle 12-3 in the eighth inning. But his Rainiers battled back for 10 runs in that frame to nose out the Seals 13-12 in the first game of a twin hill. Veteran Max Surkont shut out the Sewells in the nightcap with a neat five-hitter. 30. but that garrison finish in th' first game had the pennant gleam in Sow ell's eye, bright as it ever was with the Browns in another dec ade. The Rainiers lost a half game by the split as the Angels pro pelled by Steve (The Wrecker) Bilko powered over Sacramento twice. 8-1 and 4-0. Hollywood turned back Vancouver 4-1 and Portland, with Rene Valdes twirling a four-hitter, edged San Diego. 1-0 in a single game. Taylor Swats Them Seattle's Joe Taylor was the ; Scooter Too Priming for Seafair Run By DON THACKREY Livermore, Calif. (U.R; The crew in a sand and gravel plant in this California town of 7.000 have an uncommon interest in the outcome of a hydroplane race on Seattle's Lake Wash ington a week from Sunday. The race is the S25.000 Sea fair regatta for unlimited hydro planes and the reason for the interest of the workers at the sand and gravel plant is that one of the boats. "Scooter Too." is practically their baby. The Scooter is one of two boats entered in the Lake Wash ington championship by Edgar Kaiser and it was designed, built and perfected at Kaiser's Livermore sand and gravel plant. Jack Regas. who will pilot the boat, is a welder at the Kaiser plant. Bart Carter, who designed the Scooter and built it in a reconverted warehouse at the plant, is the plant super intendent and a former mayor of Livermore. Plenty of Help Mechanics Tim Lee and Ed Olsen also work in the plant and innumerable other em ployees of the sand and gravel company have had a hand in building the Scooter and getting her ready for racing. Regas reported that he had the hydroplane out on Lake Washington Wednesday and "she did well over 100 miles I .ltts,,t l per hour without prosing. I She is rated at 2.000 horse-1 power at 2.600 revolutions per : minute and has a tested soeed ' , of 160 miles per hour. ; The Scooter Too was com Scooter TOO was com- I pleted in June. 1955 and quali fied for the Gold Cup in Seattle last year but rank before the first heat. Earlier this month she was breezing to victory in the fourth annual Gold Cup Championships at Lake Tahoe but broke a propeller blade in the third heat after winning the first two heats and did not finish. OPERATOR TOO CHUMMY Tallahassee. Fla. X',R The Florida Railroad and Public Util ities Commission Wednesday fined Miami bus line operator ' Abe Alianell S500 for failing to ! show proper courtesy toward his patrons. Alianell. operator of the ' Southwestern Coach Line, was accused of calling his feminine patrons, "darling" ar.d "sweet- , heart.'' J and Cheston Tarver h.? car into two o'h t a -a ay. Bud McRae through flan.::'.? gas her performer 1; Bobo oiirsc. ado Known s Tno oare- .,n and h:? -''.! T tf-rr.-.cd a fur.house on Ford Cars wiil be demolished in a cra:-h roll-over contest and autos ...otorcycles v.-h! run 'hrouch '.-:-.-r f.arr:-r- u.-.r- t:.1 a :;u v. he skcd on to the tracK r-.fu r ! 'he show to nwt 'he' Muntrnen ! ar.d ask 'horn rpf.cti,r.. WrRIBtE power in the first game Seattle victory, driving in five runs with a pair of homers. He put the Rainiers on the scoreboard with a three-run blast in the fifth and then put them back in the iame with his second homer in the 10-run eighth. The slu;;fe.-t saw a total of 41 haw hi'-. 21 of them by the: Seals w ho led fi-0 and then 12-3 ! j only to blow the duke in that .fatal Yighth. ! The Seals' Sal Taormina ! matched Taylor's attack driving in five runs hi.-ns.-lf. two of them v. ith a homer in the seventh and three others with singles. In the second game, Surkont was at his best scattering five hits while the Seals sot him 16 blows good for eiiht run.-. Johnny Briggs. a Solon list year, lost a shutout in the ninth frame as Sacramento nicked him for its only run in the Angel first game win. Jim Bolger belted in five runs with a homer and a two run single. Bilko Again In the nightcap. Bilko erupted with his 42nd home run with a ci-.Turr. i' man on in the third frame. Dave j with 5 24, 53.R vctnrv It man gave up just two sing es j Walter K r o w e I, Manhattan both of tnem by Harry Bright, Beach Calif ar.d struck out seven in the sev-j j 7-year-old Portland con-en-innmg affair. It was H.I1-; tostnnt. vicki chanello. took th man s 13th win asamst just four j umen s title with a 50-12. 50-31 'r'nf '1' , , , , J triumph over Gertsie Selbv, Bob Purkey picked up his first i Boulder. Colo wio of the season as Hollywood took the rubber game of its five name set with Vancouver. Spook. Jacobs accounted for two of the Stars' tallies with a double and a single. The Motilities' only run came on Kal Segrist's sixth homer in t he fourth. Portland's Lloyd Merriman doubled and Dick Young singled him home in the first inning and the run stood up all the way for the Beaver's victory. Rene Valdes proved himself top man in a tight pitching duel as Portland won over the Pad res. Valdes. by shutting out the hosts, emerged with a 14-7 rec ord. John Carmichael. who gave up only five hits in the close j hurling contest, suffered the loss and emerged with a 7-10 record. Dick Young collected three of the five Beaver hits. The Beavers scored the lone run of the tight ball game in the initial stanza when Lloyd Mer riman doubled to right field and Young singled him home with a shot over second. The Padres threatened in the! seventh. With Earl Rapp aboard, Ebba St. Claire hit a lone flv against the right field wall, but i Merriman leaped up and picked I it off for the third out of the I inning. I The Pads threatened to score t again in the ninth, but as in the seventh, failed to come through. I INl seORFS: (1st camp 1 l.es Aniroles . .v3 noo nnns to 1 Starranir-'.-iTo non 000 001 1 R 2 Bncc- qnd T;tppr Watkin? Slanka 4 . Pnririy i9 and McNamara. '.'nd garnet I Anefies Sacran'emo thiiman and n.-m-h. 102 noo t 4 9 ooo noo n n 2 Tappc; Harrist ; '1st came s;,sn;ti non mo inn n in n San Francisco 144 010 20O 12 21 n juason. uicKev u. ts.cnnenv io ;lna Avhvard 0rte,e ,,. R G Smith ;na s . casaic . Henry a Aber- nsrh" ,!" and smiivan. '-nd tamti Seattle noo oo noo n 5 n San Francisco 2:0 003 02.x R is o Shailock. .tud.on -8' and Orteic, Surkont and Sullivan. Portland 100 000 oon 1 5 1 Son Dieiro . 000 000 ono 0 4 0 Vatdes and Bottler. Carmichael and St Ciaire Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport t. CB-NB Beats Loggers 12-5 "IITHF.RV ORFGOV l.t AOl f. ST A N IJINGS W. I . p, t ! . 3 7 533 . 7 3 .4C7 .7 3 .4-i7 5 7 .417 -North Eer.i CViu.Ke Coo? Bay-North ; P.'. r.d downed CoruiUle i2 to 5 j -re la.n n:;ht to lake its second half Southern Oregon league series with the Loggers. The two j clubs split last week end. The Lumberjacks put them- ' ' ires two within a game of the '; l'-adi.ng Med ford Cheney; Su:(i-. Coqi.i;,. is now two Kaim s off the .Medford pace and tied with Drain in third. : CH-NIi v.-a--- guii'y of five mis-; c-a-.s hut Don I.;,.,,. held the Log- S -' rs down by allow ing only four nits while the 'Jacks got 14. i I INESCORE: CB-NB .. ...(inn 442 11!12 14 S Co-iuille r2n 210 000 5 4 2 Lrtne and Oicon: Stafford. Morana 5 and Harnneton. Keeps Horseshoe Toss Mantle Murray, Utah U.R. Tireless 'led Ailen. a veteran performer from Boulder. Colo., successful ly defended his world's horse shoe pitching championship here early today with a sensational rally that .thwarted youthful Don Titcomb. Sunnyvale, Calif. The title was the Colorado rancher's second straight and his s( venth in his career. A'', four finalists were defeat ed at least once. Titcomb then d'-feated Fernando Isais. Los An geles and Allen ousted Curt Dav of Frankfort, Ltd., to plav for the title. Champ Rallies Allen overcame a 12-0 deficit in his first game with Titcomb to win a 0-45. Titcomb. the meet darkhorse who was making his first bid for a title, won the second set 50-40. In the third and deciding match Titcomb came within one shoe of taking the title. The Cahfornian, obviously affected by the pressure, tossed' wild with the shoe that could have won. The wild toss followed a miss by Allen. Sam Somerhalder. Ruskin. ch wnn thn r'l-ic c? Rogue Valley Girls Take Douhlehill The Rogue Valley gii Is soft ball team took a doubleheader from the Red Britain All-Stars at Chilotiuin last night. The Rogue Valley team won the first game 15 to 4. the second 6 to 0. Barron pitched for the win ners in the first encounter, giv ing up three hits. Arlene Hick son and Ellen Callaghan swung for homers for Rogue Valley. Hickson allowed onlv one hit jn the second game shutout as her teammates got five off pitch er Hutchinson for the All-Stars. Hutchinson pitched both games for the Chiloquin team. The RV girls go to Eugene this Saturday for a night game with the McCulloch Chain Saw girls softballers from that city. The game will be played at 7 p.m. in Amazon park there. (1st game) R H E 9 3 RV Girls 15 All Stars 4 3 2 Barron and Maine: Hutchin Jon anci Ncwhouse. f2nd game) R H E RV Girls 6 5 1 All Stars 0 12' Hickson and Maine; Hutchin son and Newhouse. Dead line Sunday at noon Saturday Classified Is at Seat Covers , JmS$ I For the Finest f-..jl. " I In Seat Covers L Custom or Ready-made SEE THE: EDFORD 303 NORTH BARTLETT ALSO: Convertible tops truck cushions boat seats FREE Estimate and Satisfaction Guaranteed JOE LOUIS BENCHED AS WRESTLER Ex -heavyweight Champ Joe Louis is shown as he threw Big Jim Bernard in Detroit last may during his first, and probably last, appearance as a wrestler. The Illinois State Athletic Com mission ruled that Louis will not be allowed to wrestle in Illinois for at least six months due to a heart condition. Other National Boxing Association states will likely follow suit. The day after the above bout, Dr. Robert C. Bennett, Louis' friend and physician, discovered a broken rib and said that it had caused damage to his heart. Visitation To National Forest Winter Sports Areas Sets Record Portland Visitors during the 1955-1956 winter sports season to the 26 winter sports areas on the national forests of Oregon and Washington reached a rec ord total of 720. 8S0. according to Regional Forester J. Herbert Stone. Stone said. "Skiing continues to increase in popularity each year. Now winter sports is ex ceeded only by camping and pic nicking as far as national forest recreation activities are con- ; corned.'' Most winter sports areas showed an increase of use over last season. Those areas having Junior Toga Clinched by Medford ites Medford's intermediate team romped to its fourth Southern Oregon Junior Baseball league ! win without a loss yesterday and wrapped up the champion- I ship of its circuil. I The Medfordin s defeated Ash 1 land 5 to :t as Dennis Painter ! threw a one-hitter. Ken Durkee : ! got two of Medford's four hits with a double and single. Paint er struck out 10 batters. Intermediate play winds up next Wednesday when Ashland '. plays at Central Point. ' Alex McDonald, head coach for the Medford public schools' i summer baseball program, re ported that classes, regularly held Monday through Thursday, will be conducted also Friday this week. Instruction will not i be held next Wednesday and Thursday. August 1 and 2, be-' cause of the Shrine circus use ; of senior high athletic facilities. A session this Friday will make I up for one of the days missed next week. Other days may be made up during the seventh week of the program. This is the fifth week of the baseball school. SHORT SCORE: R H E Medford 5 4 2 Ashland 2 1 3 Painter and Pond: McKinnis and Nelson. Bandits, Again Broke, Return To Crime Scene Detroit (U.R' Anton Ahee, a i grocer, thought there was some thing fimiliar about two men who walked into his store but he didn't realize who they were until one announced thev were the bandits who had robbed him two weeks earlier. "We're sorry, AUTO PH Next the greatest increase were Tim berline Lodne (143.500 visitors in 1956 as against 90.300 in 19551, Snosqualmie Pass '139. C50i visitors in .19.jG compared to 117.600 in 1955). and Tollgate (39.900 in 1956 as against 31.000 m 1955'. Tomahawk, a new area near Klamath Falls, attracted 3.800 visitors in 1956. With new facilities being installed this year by townspeople, this area should receive considerablv more use in the future. Improvements In commenting on the increase in use of winter .-ports areas, Stone said that new develop ments have taken place. These new improvements have includ ed the installation of new lifts and tows, additional clearing of slopes, improved eating facili ties all designed to provide more comfort and satisfaction lor winter sports enthusiasts. Additional incentives for more and more people to enjoy this wholesome sport were highway improvements a n d excellent service by volunteer ski patrols who assist ski tow operators and forest service whh accident pre vention and first aid. Stone said that a directory of national forest winter sports areas is now being revised and will be available early this fall for those who wish to obtain copies from forest supervisors' and rangers' offices. Some Portland Waler Supplies Run Short Portland U.R1 Temperatures dropped in the Portland area yesterday but water shortages continued to plague some dist ricts. Garden Home water district southwest of Portland joined the prnun thnt has ncL-pH rnsirlpntc in lrjm their water use. j chairman of the district's ! boarri of rnmmiinnrri; nnnaid Prairie, said the district's 500. 000 gallon storage tank was almost dry. He asked residents not to sprinkle their lawns for the re mainder of the week but said a constant flow of water for the Maplewood district would sup ply enough water for household purposes. There is a service station for every 293 automobiles, trucks and buses in the United States. but we're broke again," one bandit said. Thev made Ahee : put S145 in a paper bag and fled. Dead Mne Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday 10 a m Monday for t Monday; other days 5:30 previous day to Selby Glass OLSTERY Thursdar. July 26, 1S58 Seven College To Beat Reno Reno- U.R A group of seven college students won S96.000 at roulette through a new 'sys lem." the manager of a Reno gambling casino reported Wednesday. Raymond I. Smith, manager of Harold's Club, said the seven began working out their system about June 1, concentrating on a wheel that had 36 numbers and a single zero. At first only two students took part, but then they hired five others to help them. They man ned the wheel in six-hour shifts. Prudential Invests $4 Million in Loans Investment of S4.03L967 in mortgage loans to finance real (-state projects in Oregon during the first half of 1956 was an nounced j-esterday by the west ern home office of Prudential Insurance company. T. M. Garhart, Medford mort gage loan supervisor for the company, said total disburse ments for the six months ending June 30 represented SI, 813.337, for residential purposes, S965, 000 for commercial and indust rial properties and $1,253,630 for farm loans. Jet Trainer Rams Apartment Building New Castle, Pa. (U.R An Air Force jet trainer, pilotless when two airmen bailed out, crashed into a two-story apart ment building Wednesday night. There were no fatalities. Six persons suffered shock. The plane sheared off a tree, plowed through the roof of the brick building and burst into flames, leaving only two walls of the structure standing. Air Force officials at Youngs town, Ohio. Municipal Airport identified the pilots as 1st Lt. Gordon McLeod. 26. Hollvwood, Calif., and 2nd Lt. William Ryan, 24. Fort Worth, Tex. The officers, stationed at Perrin Air Force Base. Sherman. Tex., were on a routine flight from Stewart AFB. N.Y.. to Chanute AFB, 111. Ryan was at the controls. The pilots bailed out at 4,000 feet over the nearby community of Princeton minutes before the crash. They told ir Force au thorities the je trainer's elec trical control Xystem had "conked out'' arid the craft was uncontrollable. They said they had no other choice but to leave the plane. Thp limestone quarry at Rog ers City, Mich., is the world's largest. GET THAT TROUT Ii ..then get yourself .some fine OLD anil 'M ! OLD 1 HERMITAGE i BRAND ! I BOURBON WHISKEY ; I The Old Hebuit acc Commki -0j OLD HERMITAGE CO., DIV. OF NATIONALIST. PROD. CORP. .FWENKFORT.KY.KENTWKYSTRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, 86 PROOF, MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN Students Devise 'System' Roulette Game of $96,000 recording ea'ch spin of the wheel for many days. Then they were ready. Last week end, they began a four-day marathon during which they won most of their S!)6.000. Smith said. The marathon ended Mon day morning. Smith said the collegians var ied the numbers they played from day to day. However, they placed many of their best on 6, 8. 9. 10. 20, 27, 32 and 34. They never bet more than S25 on a single number. US Jumpers Plan To Challenge USSR Chute Superiority Moscow (U.R) Skydivers from the United States and nine other countries will challenge Russian superiority in the re cently developed sport of para chute jumping here Sunday. The Russians hold 37 of the 38 world records in the sport but American and French iumD- ers are expected to give a good snowing in this third holding of the World Parachute Champion ships. The jumps are expected to attract more than 100.000 spec tators at Tushino Airport. Heading the eight-man Ameri can team is Jacques Andre Istel, 27, a Princeton graduate and Korean war veteran of Bed ford Village, N.Y. Other Jumpers Other team members are steeplejack George Stone of Cleveland; au'o mechanic Floyd Hobby of Elyria. O.: Camenter Lew Sanborn of North Lauder dale, Fla.; sign painter Bob Fair of Athens, Tenn.; upholster er Lyle Hoffman of Seattle; sewing machine repairman George Bosworth of Buffalo, N.Y., and flyer Victor Schraeger of New York City. The American team arrived Arrest of Drunken Drivers on Increase San Francisco (U.R) Arrests of drunken drivers in the un incorporated areas of California during the first quarter of this year increased almost 25 per cent over the number picked up dur ing th same period in 1955, ac cording to figures from the Na tional Automobile Club. During the first quarter of 1956. 2.905 were charged with drunk driv ing, as compared to 2,329 in the 1955 period. bourbon.. - . M Hae w jm Sssaow 6 years L The students were so success ful that club employees wonder ed if the roulette wheel was at fault. That particular wheel has lost nearly S120.000 since the first of the year. A check of the wheel with pre cision instruments showed it had no mechanical defects or faults. Smith said he did not know the names of the students. He presumed they attend University of Nevada. "It's wonderful what a college education will do for young peo ple." he said. Wednesday, but Soviet sports men declined to comment on American chances to match the highly trained Russians and Frenchmen. The Russian team was drawn from a reservoir of almost 1.000.000 amateur parachutists. lit T or Pur 1; i "WW DRV P0C BRAKES ANY CAR move Front WHls, Intpoct Linina. 2 Clean and Ropack Front Whool Boa ring. Inspect Brafco Drvmi. 4 Check and Add Brake Fl.ld. Adjust Brake Shoes. Carefully Test Brake. WE HAVE IT . . . Rl VETIESS BRAKE LINING MO arvfTS TO SCO1 MAKI DtUW Ut TO 1S MOM makino imrcx MOVIH . . USID AS OIIOINAL IQUIPMIW ON MAMT 1949-51 CAt mmmsm Jir$$ton& STORES 214 S. Riverside Avs. great old T 4 5 Qf. V Ut UC . . a Here's What We Do O 1 , f
