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hJr L Mi HONORING YANKEE SLUGGER, Mickey Mantle is being crowned at "Tops in Sports" banquet sponsored by the Maryland Professional Baseball Players Association, Bal--,timore. He has returned contract unsigned to New York Yankees, reportedly demanding $75,000. (International) Sport Parade Rochester, N.Y. (U.PJ Boyish Mickey Mantle insisted today that Babe Ruth's record 60 home runs "is safe from me" but insisted that Duke Snider of the Brooklyn Dodgers "well may break" the Bambino's mag ic record. "I don't think ,1 can improve on the 52 home runs I hit last season," Mantle said as he" ac cepted the S. Rae Hickok $10, 000 gold and diamond belt as the Professional Athlete of the Year. "But Snider could because he has a lot of power and a good park to hit 'em in." The difference between Yan kee. Stadium and Ebbets Field, where Snider plays his 77 home games annually, was Mantle's major reason. "Look at it this way," said the triple crown champion who also paced the major leagues with a .353 batting average and 130 runs batted in. "Mostof my power is to center field and it's 470 feet to the center field wall in Yankee Stadium." Analyses His Batting Mantle acknowledge that his mental processes "went too many different ways" at the end of last season and thus cost him Stan Musial Set to Pact; Remains Highest Paid in NL By UNITED PRESS There's a sentimental story be hind the St. Louis Cardinal con tract Stan Musial is all set to lign for about $75,000 within a Week. Musial and General Manager Frank Lane already have agreed to terms for 1957 and Stan The Man again will be the National League's highest salaried player at approximately $75,000. He drew a base bay of $75,000 last year plus $5,000 because the Cardinals attracted more than a million fans. Although Musial, who batted .310 last year and led the league with 109 runs batted in, has okayed the new terms, he hasn't officially signed his contract yet. Lane Explains Delay Obsolete Diesels Given Useful Life Chicago 'JSi.fi Mechanical experts of the Chicago and North Western Railway system have come up with an idea to give obsolete diesel engines a new and useful life. The "successful operation" was performed on a 17-year-old diesel switcher, which according to the experts, was "beyond eco nomical repair." Removing the engine's 600 horsepower engine, generator and accessory equipment, includ ing the engineer's cab, a con crete block was cast inside to compensate for the loss of weight. The only items left were elec tric traction motors geared to each axle. As a result, the unit has no engine or fuel. The key to its success how ever, is in its future use as a "booster" coupled to a normal engine, receiving electric power for its traction motors from the generator of the diesel locomo tive to which it is coupled. According to Earl Walston, general superintendent of motive power for the Northwestern, it will as a booster "provide the traction of a second unit in moving freight trains at a frac tion of the operating cost of normal diesel locomotives here tofore used for such purposes." GADABOUTS Los Angeles U.R Uni versity of California sociologists have concluded that city dwel lers drive farther for social rea sons than for shopping. A study by Dr. Svend Riemer and John McNamara of metropolitan Los Angeles showed that most of the interviewees indicated they did their shopping within their neighborhoods, but social con tacts were some distance be-j yond. yCC4 OSCAR FRALET JJ Sperti Writer Unitd Press a higher batting average. "I should have hit for a high er average," he asserted. "But unconsciously I must have been swinging for the long ball late in the season as I started to think about the possibility of breaking Ruth's record. Then, too, I began to think about win ning the triple crown, and Al Kaline and Ted Williams were right behind me. "At the start of the season I was taking a nice easy cut and not worrying about anything," he added. "Then, when I start ed to take that full swing. I started striking out more often. I think if I play It right I should be able to hit for a higher av erage." Mantle disclosed that, having refused one Yankee salary of fer for 1957, he had met with General Manager George Weiss in Chicago but still had not ar rived at an agreement. The Oklahoma kid is believ ed to have earned $32,500 last season and reportedly is de manding $75,000 with the idea of accepting $60,000 to make him the highest paid player on the club at $2,000 more than catcher Yogi Berra. Sign $75,000 Lane has been criticized for the delay in signing Musial but he explained Monday it was be cause of the absence on vaca tion of club secretary Mary Murphy. "Miss Murphy has officiated at all 15 of Musial's contract signings and we would not think of closing with Stan without her present," Lane said in a tele gram to Sports Editor J. Roy Stockton of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. The Brooklyn Dodgers corral ed four pitchers at a clip today when they announced Roger Craig, Don Bessent, Ed Roe buck and Don Elston had agreed to terms. With Clem Labine slated for starting duty, Bessent, who had With Clem Labine slated for starting duty. Bessent, who had a 4-3 record last season but sav ed numerous other games, looks like the Dodgers' key man in the bullpen. Craig, the . stringbean righthander, had a 12-11 slate after getting off to a jack-rabbit start Roebuck was 5-4 last year and Elston 7-8 at St. Paul in the American Association. Detroit Leads League Detroit leads the American League pen-and-ink race with 23 players signed up to now. The Tigers signed two young pitchers today in Charles Dan iel and Don Lee. Daniel had a combined 15-12 record hurling for Durham, N.C., and Augusta, Ga., and Lee, son of former White Sox and Cleveland pitch er Thornton Lee, was signed by the Bengals after compiling a 15-0 record at the University of Arizona. He won seven games and lost three at Augusta. Milwaukee announced the signing of right-handed pitcher.-. Bob Trowbridge and Richard Grabowski while the Red So? signed up pitcher Bert Thiel. up from Dallas of the Texas League where he had an 18-11 record last season. First basemen Ron Jackson and Jim Marshall returned their signed contracts to the White Sox but 20-game winner Billy Pierce asked for a little more time to "think over" the club's latest offer. OFF TO GOOD START Miami, Fla. (U.R) Willie Hartack is off to a good start at the Hialeah meeting. The 1955 56 national jockey champion has ridden nine winners during the first four days of the session. Portland OJ.R) Progress , made in all phases of fishery development in relation to de-: velopment of the water resourc- j es of the Columbia Basin will be outlined at a meeting of the Columbia Basin Inter-Agency i committee here Wednesday. I Mick Mantle Winner of Hickok Belt Rochester, N.Y. (U.R) Mickey Mantle, who specializes in spec tacular belts, added a diamond studded. $10,000 one to his col lection today as the winner of the S. Rae Hickok "Professional Athlete of the Year" award The switch-hitting, 25-year-old center-fielder, who received the costly belt at the annual Rochester-Press-Radio Club Polio Fund dinner here Monday night, thus became the third New York Yan kee player to win the award. Former Yankee shortstop Phil PJzzuto was the first winner of the belt in 1950 and ex-Yankee pitcher Allie Reynolds won it the following year. Rocky Mar ciano was the 1952 winner, Ben Hogan captured the belt in 1953, Willie Mays of the Giants in 1954 and former Cleveland Browns' quarterback Otto Gra ham won it last year. Mantle, who led the Ameri can League in batting, -home runs and runs batted in last sea son, beat out teammate Don Larsen and heavyweight cham pion Floyd Patterson in a na tionwide balloting by sports writers and sportscasters. License Change Needed for Dam Portland (U.R) A spokes man for Pacific Northwest Pow er company which wants to build two Snake river dams, one of them at Pleasant Valley, said yesterday that before a higher dam could be built at the site the Federal Power Commission would have to make some changes in its license for Hells Canyon dam. Referring to Interior Secre tary Fred A. Seaton's move to study further the feasibility of construction of a higher dam at the site, the spokesman said un der present restrictions the high dam would be impossible. John Dierdorff, vice president of Pacific Power and Light Co., said the 500-foot-high dam pro posed by PNP would back up water for 34 miles, right to the foot of the authorized low Hells Canyon dam. He said a dam 90 to 95 feet higher, which Seaton discussed Sunday, would flood the Hells Canyon site. Idaho Power Co. has not start ed construction on its Hells Can yon dam yet. Spectacular Fire Razes Elevator Chicago U.R) A multi-million-dollar fire, one of Chicago's frorst in 23 years, destroyed a grain elevator and threatended to blow up another huge gran nary before it was brought under control today. Nearly half of the city's fire fighting forces battled the spec tacular blaze, which raged out of control on Chicago's river front for about five hours in rainy weather.' Northeasterly wind gusts of up to 35 miles per hour sent flames licking 250 feet into the air and whipped sparks over a 10-block area. The flames were visible for 15 miles and attracted about 10,000 spectators to the scene of the city's southeast side. CORN WHISKEY CHEAPER Tupelo, Mi'ss. (U.R) "Just make mine corn whiskey, judge," a defendant told Judge Charles Hutchinson in court Monday. Hutchinson had told the defendant the fine was $100 for drinking beer and $15 for drinking corn whiskey. PHONE 3-4381 HIGHEST TRADE IN VALUE NEW STYLING V Longer V Lower V Smarter TODAY'S if t f- E - ' 1 ..V ''trtiMiammmmi CROSSING TO FREEDOM Reminiscent of famed paint ing of Washington crossing Delaware, three Hungarian refugees stand before an American flag streaming m the breeze in snow aboard the USNS Marine Carp. They are straining for a first look at their new homeland as the ship approaches New York. Among boatload of Hungar ion escapees that docked at the Brooklyn Army Base, they are Zoltan Jager, Miklos Lakatos and Istvan Kulchar (left to right). Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS . Washington President Eisenhower pointing out a float dis playing a small satellite circling the globe for Mrs. Eisenhower during the Inaugural Day parade: "Would you take a look at that. That is wonderful." Washington Movie cowboy Monty Montana, who lassoed President Eisenhower during the 1953 inaugural parade but was warned not to do it again during this parade, calling to the Presi dent: "I can't get you this time." Kearney, Neb. High school principal Louis Ninegar, warning male pupils that anybody caught' wearing an Elvis Presley hairdo would be expelled from school: "I will not tolerate any more foolishness either in or out of school. If I've got to be responsible for your actions, then I'm go ing to be your daddy." Venice, Italy: Judge Mario Tiberi, forbidding photographers to take pictures of the trial of the son of a former foreign minis ter, a onetime Rome police chief and a self-styled marquis for the death of party girl Wilma Montesi: "Venice is famous for hundreds of tourist spots. You have plenty of place to photograph, but don't do it here or I will be forced to prosecute you." New York Joseph Koevago, mayor of Budapest during the anti-Communist uprising in November, haltingly asking in broken English for direct aid to Budapest: "Our people fought to the point of suicide and now they need something to justify their faith and hope." London Mrs. Duncan Sandys, daughter of former Prime Min ister Winston Churchill and wife of Britain's new defense minister, announcing she left her husband early this month: "I have parted from my husband. I have no other comment to make." Paris Ingrid Bergman returning to Europe after her first visit to the United States in seven years: "It was all like a dream. People I can never thank enough covered me with flowers and gifts. I was very moved." Agriculture Program Urbana, 111. 4U.R) The co operative program sponsored by the University of Illinois college of agriculture, is being received with appreciation and enthusi asm in India. Dean Louis B. Howard of the college of agriculture returned recently from an observation trip and, on the basis of what he found, will recommend that the present three-year contract, which expires in about a year, be renewed. By this contract with the In ternational Cooperation Admin istration, the college is one of five landgrant institutions in this country given the responsi bility for setting up agricultural education, research and exten sion facilities in cooperation with the government of India. WHITE'S SALES PARTS NEW PERFORMANCE NEW ROOMINESS Wrap-Around Bumpers Washable Head Liner Foam Rubber Seats BEST VALUE - Received With Favor Associate Dean H. W. Hannah, head of the college group in India, has developed a "blue print" for a land-grand college in India which has been "en thusiastically accepted" by the Indian government. "India is a young democracy," Howard said, "and it needs all the help we can give it to make this experiment in democracy a complete success. "By stabilizing agriculture we can strengthen their new govern ment. That's why we ae in India." DEFENDIS WINS By United Press New York, St. Nicholas Arena Angelo Defendis, 169, Brook lyn, outpointed Jerry Luedee, 171, New Haven, Conn. Turn Key Starter Leather Upholstery Valve in Head Engine DRIVE ONE IS Tuesday, January 22, 195T Whopping Corn Yield Expected In Twenty Years Chicago (U.R) Farmers in the year 1976 can look for corn yields of at least 100 bushels an acre and new chemical sprays that will make crops immune to disease for life. These ideas were expressed in a recent article prepared by the extension editorial office of the College of Agriculture, Uni versity of Illinois. The article said the ideas were based on current research, and, with practical application, were believed possible.- The au thors pointed out, however, that none was guaranteed. When John Farmer starts planning for the year 1976, the article said, "he will begin by seeing a qualified farm planning consultant, who, with the aid of electronic computing equip ment,, will find the enterprises that yield top production and highest returns on John's farm." Then: "The facts and figures needed to work out this tailor-made plan come from John's records kept by a record-keeping firm with electronic accounting and computing equipment used so that at the end of the year a complete summary of expenses, income, yields and production costs can be furnished." Change in Diet The farm specialists predict ed John's corn would be a hy brid, shorter and stiffer-stalked grain than farmers raised in 1956. They said yields of 100 bush els an acre would be common, and added that better farmers would think of 200 bushels as the yield to shoot for. During the 1976 harvest, su per corn combines will be used to husk, shell and blow corn into portable drying bins, after which it will be dried artificially as it is hauled to storage, the article predicted. The experts said practically no corn would be stored In the ear. Plant diseases in 1976 will seem much less of a problem, the article said, "with new sys tematic chemicals sprayed on crops, making them immune to disease for life." The experts said that 20 years from now, automation of Am erican industry will have pro duced a working population that will need mental alertness and skills but less physical ef fort. "The diets of all will be key ed to generous amounts of pro tein and less fat, which means more fresh fruits and vege tables, eggs, meat and poultry and less fats, potatoes and cer eal products," they concluded. 'Steer Giveaway' Conducted by Jaycees The annual Medford Junior Chamber'of Commerce March of Dimes "Steer Giveaway" started Saturday' at the corner of Main st. and Central ave. The steer will be at the corner next Satur day. Art VanLeeuwen and Bob Hjelm are in charge of the pro gram. The steer, "Pogo II," was donated by Leonard Ward of Butte Falls. Transportation and lodging have been donated by Fred and Tommy Hall of Eagle Point, and other firms which have donated services include Wilson and Mc C a b e Refrigeration company, Chrystal Meat company, and Medford Meat company. 36 SO. BARTLETT SERVICE V Hydraulic Clutch VEleetrie Wipers VOver 30 M.P.G. TO BUY ONE Support of In Dispute Class Attire Sought Urbana, 111. (U.R) A minister sought to rally fellow clergymen to his cause today following the permanent suspension of his two children from school in a dis pute over scanty attire in gym classes. The Rev. Orval Lee supported his two youngsters when they refused to attend required physi cal education classes on the ground that the gym courses fos ter "immoral dress and unholy positions." Supports Boycott Lee, who is assistant super intendent of the United Holiness Churches of America, supported his children's boycott after see ing a newspaper picture of a gym clas in which a girl was shown lying on the floor with her instructor's hands on her ankle and hip. Lee said he felt that such prac tices "unconsciously instill in teen-age girls the idea that a boy could do the same thing." He said he would not bicker with parents who allowed their chil dren to take part in gym classes, clad only in the customary brief attire. "But I want them to respect my children and the children of our belief in the stand we take against immoral dress and un holy positions," he added. The children, Philip, 12, and Naomi, 13, had been under "technical suspension until Mon day night, when the Urbana Board of Education unanimously agreed that they be permanently suspended from school. Under the technical suspension, the two had attended all classes except physical education. Must Attend Program The board warned that "the suspension will remain in effect until they attend the regular P.E. program or a modified pro gram which takes into account their objections to wearing gym garb and in engaging In exer j. Mm "I "'ii ifjm iiii','ihj m jfli,rTTirn''f'n'yi'tiiipTW iliniilii)il II I H 1 1 1 1 1 .. " jfiOjx f ,. x, i 'wwifrmi winmiii " ' '' "J V - , Kessler does the impossible! IMAGINE ! Never a trace of bite or burn in your whiskey! Try one drink of kessler tonight -without mixer or chaser.". . and see I The Smooth as Silk whiskey " JUUUS KISSUI CO. UWtUCUtlte, IIDIMU. ILEMDIS HH1SUY. K PSOOf. 72',, GUI! (UITUI SPItITt MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINB Clergy Over Gym cises with the body in prone or recumbent positions." The minister said he already h a i received encouragement from fellow ministers in Illinois and across the nation. They have supported his crusade against "sex revolution" and "atheistic onslaughts in the modern school system," Lee said. He also said other ministers have written letters of protest against the physical education requirement to Gov. William G. Stratton and members of the state legislature. Some Motorists Poor Sports About Trouble Grand Ripids, Mich (U.R) ' Walter Grycsnoskl says he has proof that soma motorists are poor sports about motor trouble. Grycsnosk! displayed a black eye Monday which he said ha received when he not iced another driver "stalled" in the snow. Grycznoski said he stopped and offered to help. The other driver punch ed him In the eye and drove away. Use Tribune Want Ads Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport
