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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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