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Aaron Rates Maglie Tops As Pitcher By FRED DOWN Brooklyn, N.Y. CUR) A ris ing young star saluted a grand old pro today when Hank Aaron declared that 39-year-old Sal Maglie "is still as good a pitcher as I've ever seen." "They say I didn't see him In his prime," said the Milwau kee Braves' 22-year-old Aaron, who leads the National League In hitting. "But I don't see how he could have been much better than he is today." Dodger Manager Walt Alston, who seldom grins or talks, did both when advised of Aaron's appraisal of the one-time "scourge of Brooklyn." 'I guess Maglie'd be just as accurate if he said he never saw a better hitter than Aaron," Alston said. "That kid s just as good a hitter as there is any where in baseball." The soft - spoken Brooklyn pilot added that Maglie, acquir ed in mid-season from the Cleve land Indians, "has done a truly great job for us." Records Fool You "The odd part is that it doesn't show in the records," Alston pointed out. "He's got a 4-3 won-and-lost record with us but he hasn't pitched a really bad game for us. In fact, the worst game he's pitched was a 10-5 win over the Cubs on June 26." Maglie pitched a three-hit shutout against the Braves for his first Brooklyn victory on June 4 and Wednesday night yielded only one run in 6 13 innings before being relieved by Clem Labine in a 2-1 Dodger triumph. "He just moved that ball all over the place," Aaron said. "He'll curve you anytime no matter what the count or the score is. I don't know how often he can pitch at his age but give him his rest and he can pitch that big game for you as well as anybody I've ever seen." Alston explained that Maglie has been a key factor in the Dodgers' battle to break back into the National League pen nant race. "Pitching was our basic prob lem when the season started," he said. "We lost Johnny Podres in the Navy, Karl Spooner with a sore and Billy Loes didn't come through for us. In picking up.Maglie, we added a pitcher who has given us a fourth start ing pitcher who can beat anybody." MEDFORDj&tWTRIBUNE gipqpiHnrg Williams Records 10.1 In 100-Meter Event Berlin U.R) Willie Wil liams, a U. S. Army private from Fort Knox, Ky., bettered the listed world record for the 100 meter run today when he was clocked in 10.1 seconds in a race at an international military track and field meet at West Berlin's Olympic stadium; Williams. 24, bettered the of ficial world mark of 10.2 sec onds set by Jesse Owens in 1936 at Chicago. Dodd Proposes National Football Grants-in-Aid By DON MAHTIJf Greensboro, N.C. U.R Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech was sounding out a two-pronged program today to clean up the recruiting evils clouding the na tional football picture. The Tech tactician would es tablish a national grants-in-aid program and Immediate firing of grid coaches if they violate a standard code of ethics. The Tech coach presented his proposals at the North Carolina Coaches association clinic meet ing here this week. He said his plan would stop colleges from at tempting to operate an amateur program with 18 and 19 year olds on a "big business" level. Dodd's plan: 1. Establish a national grants- -in-aid program whereby a pros pective high school player is signed to a scholarship which would be honored by all other colleges in the country. 2. Have it understood by col lege officials, the alumni and the public that when a coach is hired he must obey athletic rules and regulations set up by the proper organization ... or be fired. "There is something wrong with college football today," the Tech T-formation wizard said. "And I feel that it is really seri ous. Five years ago you had only a couple schools in trouble with the NCAA and today you've got a long list of them. It means more and mpre schools are undergoing the pressure of hav ing a winning football team." Oswego Nips RV 3-2 In Oregon Tourney Klamath Falls Oswego scored a run with two out in the seventh inning here last night to edge Rogue Valley 3 to 2 in Russia Rejects Japanese Demands Moscow U.R) Soviet For eign Minister Dmitri Shepilov today -rejected Japanese de mands for territorial changes which they wanted included in a proposed peace treaty now be ing discussed. He said the terri torial question already has been settled. The Soviet foreign minister replied to the Japanese propos als at a two-hour and 25-minute negotiating session. Shepilov said the territorial question was settled mainly by the Yalta agreement, which gave the Soviet Union certain Jap anese islands in return for its part in World War II. Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, who is heading the Tokyo delegation here trying to negotiate a treaty to end Japan's technical state of war with the Soviet Union, in turn rejected Shepilov's stand. He told newsmen after today's formal session that "Shepilov said Japan has no right to raise any claims on territory occupied by the Soviet Union." "We cannot understand this argument," he said, adding that he told Shepilov that Japan did not participate in the Yalta con ference and that any agreement made there could not be bind ing on the Japanese. Don't Miss the BIG 14th Annual ROGUE RIVER ROUNDUP 3 Thrilling Nights! August 10-11-12 at the Posse Grounds MEDFORD, ORE. See the O HORSE PARADE FRIDAY - AUGUST 10 at 5 P.M. O MAIN PARADE SATURDAY - AUGUST 11 at 2 P.M. Rodeo Tickets Available in Downtown Medford Watch for Horse Trailer! (Friday Night Is Family Night-Special Prices for Children) the Oregon women's Softball tournament. In other games Roseburg trim med Albany 5 to 1, .Oakridge beat Red Britton's Klamath County All-Stars 6 to 1 and Klamath Falls got by Lakeview. Rogue Valley was to have played Lakeview this afternoon in the loser's bracket with the winner to tussle tomorrow morn ing against the victor of the Albany-Red Britton farm. The tourney is double elimination. .Victories last night sent Oak ridge against Forest Grove, Os wego against Eugene, Roseburg against Salem and Klamath Falls against Orenco in games today. In the seventh inning last night Oswego loaded the bags on a hit by Jess Safrick. a walk and an error. Shortstop Bernice Big ham snagged a line drive from Bea Collins and threw to Diane Tuttle at third for a double play. Then a ground ball by Joan Safrick was muffed letting in the winning run. Each team scored once in the fifth inning and once in the sixth. Elle Callaghan homered for RV in the fifth. The other marker was on a ht by Doris Hickson, a base on balls, an er ror and a passed ball. t-INESCORE: Roruc Valley ... (ion oil 0 2 4 4 Osweso 000 Oil 1 3 5 2 Barron and Maine; Rice, Carlson 6 and Lindsay. New Military Strategy Planned Washington flJ.R) Gen. Nathan F. Twining says the ad ministration has decided on a radical new military strategy based almost exclusively upon atomic weapons. It was the first official con firmation that -there has been a top level decision to make a change in defense planning. Rumors of such a change have been recurring, but the Defense Department refused to confirm them. Twining, Air Force chief of staff, made the disclosure in testimony in June before the Senate Armed Services subcom mittee. A transcript of the hear ing, censored by the Defense Department, was made public Thursday night. Twining told the subcommit tee flatly that "Our mind is made up that we are going to develop a new strategy built around the use of atomic weap ons of war." He said the new strategy means that "we could reduce our forces considerably." This lent weight to reports that the administration is considering cutting back the present 2,850. 000 man force by hundreds of thousands of men in the next few years. Twining said the new strategy "is the only way we can pro vide the forces for the country within a reasonable standard of financing." Chaplain Unsurprised By Grace's Pregnancy Monte Carlo 0J.R) Father Francis Tucker, Prince Rainier's personal chaplain, said today the announcement of Princess Grace's pregnancy was "no sur prise to me." "I never for a moment thought that the young couple would not have a child," he said. Um Mail Tribune Want Ada Friday, August S. 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN McKeon's Jury Composed Entirely Of World War II, Korea Veterans Parris Island, S.C. (U.R) The "blue ribbon jury" of six Marine officers and one Navy doctor that will decide the fate of S-Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon is composed entirely of veterans of the battle fields of World War II and Korea. Four of the seven are "mus tang'' Marines who earned com missions while serving as enlist ed men. Col. Edward L. Hutch inson, senior member and pres ident of the court, is a lormer drill instructor, the same job that McKeon held when he led the "death march" last April 8. Looks Like Movie Version Hutchinson, a handsome, dark complexioned man of stern face and heavy build, looks like the typical movie version of a Ma rine colonel. Hutchinson enlist ed in the Marine Corps in 1931 after two years in the U.S. Naval Academy, and went through "boot" camp here. He was commissioned in 1934, served on Samoa -and during the bitter fighting at Tarawa during World War II. He later spent a year and a half in China with the First Marine division. Hutchinson is a native of Wood bury, N.J. Lt. Bentley A. Nelson, the Navy doctor, is the junior mem ber and the "baby face" of the seven man board. Nelson, from Salina. Kan., served as a surgeon with Marines fighting at Pusan, Inchon, Seoul, Hamhung and Chosen in Korea. The junior Marine on the panel is Maj. John G. Demas, who won the Navy Cross, Navy Letter of Commendation and a Purple Heart in Korea. Next to the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross is the highest decoration a Marine or Navy man can win in battle. Demas joined the Marines in 1942 and was commissioned in 1945 after completing the Navy's V12 course at Muhlenberg col lege. Maj. Edwin T. Carlton, a toughlooking little leatherneck, has 24 years service as enlisted man, warrant officer and officer. He enlisted in 1932. and was a first sergeant when appointed to warrant rank in 1942. He was commissioned the following year. Carlton holds the Bronze Star medal and six battle stars for World War II and Korean ser vice. He is from Palo Alto, Calif. Pacific Vet A tall, gaunt, leathery-faced man, Lt. Col. Duane Fultz, was graduated from the University of Illinois in 1941 and was com missioned a Marine second lieu tenant that November. He par ticipated in the Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan campaigns. Lt. Col. Daniel J. Regan, a heavy-set, ruddy-faced Irishman who was graduated from Boston College in 1941, was commis- '' S'" PROTESTING THE HARD WAY Georgia State Di rector of Corrections Jack Forrester demonstrates how 36 incorrigible prisoners, swinging 10-pound sledge hammers, broke their own legs. The convicts were protesting against working conditions at Rock Quarry State Prison in Buford. The penitentiary is known as "Little Alcatraz" of the Georgia Penal system. Crippled Georgia 'Cons' Questioned Reidsville, Ga. U.R) State legislative investigators of mass leg smashing at a rock quarry prison visited a penal hospital today to question some of the 41 crippled convicts. The inmates of Georgia's "Devil's Island" for incorrigibles smashed each other's legs with 20-pound sledge hamers. Fellow convicts told the investigators Thursday the mass torture was a protest against brutality. State Sen. D. B. Blalock and his joint Senate-House commit tee began questioning the mu tilated prisoners to follow up a public hearing Thursday at the scene of the mass tortures. Guard Doyal "Boss" Smith, whom the convicts accused of brutality, admitted striking some of them when they "bucked" him. The convict witnesses said White and Negro convicts took turns smashing each other's legs at the rock quarry last Monday and Tuesday in protest against beatings and other cruel treat ment by guards. Only one of the victims, the last to undergo the sledge ham mer ordeal, smashed his own leg. X-rays showed 34 victims with broken bones. The committee in all ques tioned seven convicts chosen at random at the rock quarry, keeping their identities secret to shield them from possible reprisals. Use Tribune Want Ads Quick in Results'. Because You Pay the Most Doesn't Mean You Get the Best - - - Investigate "The Amazing Volkswagon" MORSE MOTORS 1201 N. RIVERSIDE J Eskimos, born and reared near the water, almost never learn to swim the water's too cold, says the National Geo graphic Society. sioned that year after prior ser vice as an enlisted man. Regan saw combat at Guadal canal, Saipan. Tinian and Iwo Jima in World War II, and in two campaigns during the Kor ean conflict; he earned the Bronze Star medal at Iwo Jima. Next to Hutchinson in senior ity is Lt. Col. Nicholas A. Sisak, of North Braddock, Pa., who holds degrees .from the Univer sity of Pittsburgh and Harvard. Rather small of build, he has a pleasant face topped by the close-cropped haircut of the Marine Corps. No stranger to Parris Island, Sisak was range officer here in 1940 and was a machine gun pla toon leader at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck there Dec. 7, 1941. Rain Sweeps Plains States By UNITED PRESS Rain swept across the North ern and Central Plains Thurs day night and early today, with heavy precipitation in South Dakota and Colorado. At Denver, rain again flooded streets and basements. Air flights were temporarily halted Thursday at Stapleton Airfield by a cloudburst, which flooded low spots of the field. Officially, 1.50 inches of rain was reported at the airfield in a half hour storm. Huron, S. D., reported 2.48 inches of rain in a six - hour period ending Thursday. Scattered showers and thun- dershowers also were reported in the upper Mississippi valley, westward through Montana to Oregon, in Virginia, North and South Carolina, western Texas and New Mexico. Otherwise, it was generally fair. Cooler air, meanwhile, con tinued to push southward in the Northwest. Lowest temperature reported was 39 degrees at Mullen Pass, Mont. Fair weather was forecast for the North Atlantic Coast states and the extreme Southwest. Else where scattered showers and thundershowers were expected 11 Listed Dead in Burma Border Clashes Rangoon, Burma (U.R) Re ports from Lashion said today 10 Chinese Communists and one Burmese were killed in a bor der clash but that "no shooting war was in progress now. Three Burmese were reported injured. The reports said the "situa tion is under control" and that an extremely heavy rainfall in Shan and Wa states had washed away roads and jungle paths, cutting off communications. Traders arriving in Rangoon from Kunlong Ferry said they had not heard of the reported invasion of Chinese Commu nist troops, said to have oc cupied 1.000 square miles of Burmese border territory. Siskiyou Retains Planning Consultants Yreka A six month contract with a Redwood City planning firm. Wise associates, was ap proved Wednesday by the Sis kiyou County Planning commis sion following an investigation of the firm's background. Commission chairman Dom Sirriani said an investigative trip to Redding by commission members had revealed little basis for criticism of the Wise firm. A representative of the Wise firm explained that his firm's differences of opinion with cer tain persons in Shasta county had had to do with the speed of planning work. In explaining the schedule his firm planned to. follow in start ing preliminary planning work. Wise said one of his men would be in Siskiyou county about three days a month for the first few months laying the founda tion for later work. Ue Mail Tribune Went Adl Dead line Sunday Classified la et at noon Saturday 'oeposrreo viias BY THE IK . EARN FROM THE flAT.... SAVINGS LCSM ASSOCIATION SINCE 1909 rrt. Easl Warn - Mr dWrf 1L, leaBBBBlleMBl -i Miracle fabric developed 22 Years ago for famous Lee Work Clothes No man-made "miracle fabric" . . but nature's own miraclfe cloth, proved by 22 years of use! That's Jelt Denim, tough, exclusive Lee Fabric in Lee Dungarees. 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