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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1957
No. 27
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Nation's Reds Call
For Kremlin Ties;
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Rightwing' Purge
New York U The n-
tion's top Conimunist called Sat-
urdaff) for continued close ties
between U.S Red and the Krem
lanCa purae of "rightwing"
party leaders who favor "Tito-
ist break with Moscow.
William Z. Foster, filing 75-
year-old Communist party chair
man, nede his demand in a
speech read for him at the open
ingrmession of the party's 16th
National convention.
Fos- was oh the platform
while nis speech was read by
Benjamin J. Davis, a negro for
mer member of the New York
Ciiy runcil, who was convicted
in 1949 of conspiring against
' trt government.
(SSacR Conflict
"?iie chairman's remarks put
q (fcirti in sharp conflict on some is
ifirs ayith the party's second in
ofafimand, Eugene Dennis, gen-
fal secretary.
Dannis, in his keynote address
O Vat th convention, called for
feloption of a new Communist
Feyty constitution, declaring its
independence from Moscow.
Vnter took the opposite stand.
O i mac his sharpest remarks
Can what he called a "grave crisis
Off leadership in the American
Communist party. He said top
gArty members have failed their
w parity during me lasi lew cnu
O t' months."
Setter called for some mem
Otors recruited from labor union
rtmt nd fresh leaders, partic
ularly among negroes, young
Mnple nA women.
f)oslr expressed vigorous op-
OPosition to abolishing the Com
munist party and making it a
olitical action association. He
(0i it wold be a "disastrous
O ep backwards" o the Comma
fist politic! association of 1944
grid 1945, which led to the ouster
of Harl Browder as party chair-
man. Communists distributed
copies of both speeches but bar
Ored reporters from the conven
tion sessions.
An Estimated 250 to 850 Com
mAiists, most of them residents
O of New York, held their conven
tion in a former Russian Orth
odox church on New York's low
er East Side. For the last eight
or nine years, the building has
Aeri Steed as a dance hall. It was
the only building the Commu
nists could hire for their con
avntion after they were turned
d4wn by at least 20 midtown
O hotels, including the Astor and
New Yorker.
QThe convention opened with
ge singing of the "Star Spangl
ed Banner" which was followed
by a moment of silence In mem-
lane" Pin School
Obsess 100th Year
Lgpe Pine The Lone Pine
school is commemorating its
lOfiih anniversary today as a
registered school district.
Jhe school district was regis
tered on Feb. 10, 1857 and has
(ty;en in continuous operation
verence. Patrirk Dunn was the
liSk clerk and D. Linn was the
OJ!ift treasurer, according to
(ajounty records. John Flinn was
iti$erinteOdent of Jackson coun-f-hools
as the time.
&tel description of the dis
it. ;gned by Flinh, was as
'School District 10 has been
rmc by the division of Dis
trict by a li$e running from
(9 fountain bounding the val-
- ley on the east and crossing the
bridges over the gulch at the
njpihsjest corner of the Con
(jnfs' farm, thence up the gulch
$ the mountain bounding the
valley on the west, (leaving the
mpsons' farm in district 5),
and thence bounded by the
kpuatain to the place of be
Kinntig, including all the terri
tory in the upper part of the
vaey within the aforementioned
O line."
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey Saturday
denounced thg state depart
ment's am on travel of U. S,
rSt'smi to Red China.
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7:15 a.m.
5:37 p.m.
4:34 a.m.
(T) Sunet
, Moon set Monday
ORION, the constellation that
Otas more hripht stars than any
other f roun of stars, is now
well up in the southeast at sun
Tonight it will be in the
toulh at .. :24 p.m.
and in the southwest 10:42 p.m.
ory of all the dead American
Communists,
On the platform there was an
American flag and on the walls
hung posters attacking Wall
Street, pleading for full employ
ment for negroes and declaring
"welfare not warfare."
The Communists' chief theme,
as it emerged from the conven
tion's activities as relayed to the
press, which was excluded, ap
peared to be renewed efforts to
win members among negroes
and laboring people.
Russian Budget
Calls for More
Consumer Goods
Moscow i'U.P.) The Supreme
Soviet (Parliament) Saturday
unanimously adopted the 1957
budget and an economic plan
calling for more consumer goods
and public housing.
The Chamber of Nationalities
(lower house) and the Soviet of
the Union (upper house) approv
ed both measures at separate
meetings and then adjourned un
til Monday.
The budget, introduced last
Tuesday at the opening session
and approved with minor chang
es, prdvided for a six per cent
cut in military expenditures
amounting to six-billion rubles
($1.5 billion at the artificial rate
of exchange.)
Accept Budget
The Supreme Soviet, running
behind on its -eight-point agenda
since it convened last Tuesday,
accepted a budget of $154,289,
000,000 in estimated revenue
and $151,145,250,000 in estimat
ed expenditures. The expected
surplus amounted to $3,143,750,
000 at the rate of four Rubles to
the dollar.
Mikhail Pervukbin, deputy
chairman of the Soviet council
of ministers and new trouble-
shooter for the Soviet industrial
program, told 'he Soviet of Na
tionalities that an additional
$271,500,000 would be allotted
for consumer gdods this year.
Additional funds will be pro
vided for construction of schools.
hospitals, and dwellings through
out the Soviet Union, he said.
As a result of a plea before
the supreme Soviet by health
Minister Maria Kovrigina on
Thursday for more aid to tuber
culosis patients, it was announc
ed that roughly $112,000,000
would be set aside for this pur
pose.
At Saturday s session, the So
viet of Nationalities also voted
to transfer to the 15 Soviet Re
publics the right to draw up
their own civil, criminal and
procedural legal codes.
The republics held this right
until 1936 when the "Stalin Con
stitution" made legal codes a
central government matter.
Sen. Morse Attacks
Department Decision
Washington (UP.) An Agri
culture department decision to
slice some 53,000 acres off the
Three Sisters wilderness area in
Oregon's central Cascade moun
tains came under bitter attack
from Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.)
Saturday.
Morse said he will ask Con
gress to overrule the decision.
"I shall propose that the de
partment's action be cancelled
by the Senate Committee on In
terior and Insular Affairs by the
incorporation of appropriate lan
guage in the Anderson bill
which will set up a national out
door recreation commission, the
senator said.
Sen. Richard Neuberger ID-
Ore.) and Rep. Charles Porter
(D-Ore.) also criticized the action
of the Agriculture department
Friday in opening the tract to
road building and timber cut
ting.
Along with the action on the
area the department established
three new wilderness areas in
the state. Besides the Three Sist
ers area. Mount Washington and
Diamond Peak wilderness areas
were established.
Morse Opposed to
Inclusion of Project
Washington U.R)
Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said Sat
urday he was "vigorously op
posed" to inclusion of the
Bruce's Eddy project in the om
nibus rivers and harbors bill.
In a letter to the Senate Pub
lic Works committee, Morse said
Bruce's Eddy "is not the next
logical multi-purpose dam start
in the Columbia river basin."
150,000 Israelis
Display Solidarity
In Demonstrations
Support Government's
Refusal to Withdraw
Jerusalem, Israeli Sector
OI.P.) More than 150,000 Is
raelis demonstrated in major cit
ies Saturday in a display of sol
idarity behind the government's
refusal to withdarw from Egypt
ian soil.
Banners protested against the
United Nations demand for re
moval of Israeli forces from the
Gaza strip and the southern Si
nai desert. Only France, of all
the world's powers, drew ap
plause at rallies, because France
supports Israel in the dispute.
The government itself
through interior minister Israel
Ben Yehuda, denounced the new
U.S.-Saudi Arabia arms agree
ment as being as dangerous to
Israeli security as the Commu
nist arms deal with Egypt.
Denounces Arab Stales
The Israeli interior minister de
nounced all the Arab states as
"Fascist."
Ben Yehuda also denounced
Russia on grounds that it sup
ported Israel in the 1949 Pales
tine war only to get even with
Britain and now supports the
"Arab Fascists" to settle ac
counts with the United States.
The Israeli government stood
firm on its refusal to consider
appeals from President Eisen
hower for withdrawal of troops
from Egypt.
Israelis charged that the Unit
ed Nations is engaged in a "stran
gulation policy" against Israel.
March With Banners
Some 120,000 demonstrators
turned out in Tel Aviv to march
down Allenby street, past
crowds of other Israelis, with
banners defying the U.N. reso
lutions for withdrawal.
Another 15,000 gathered in
Haifa to hear Mayor Abba Hushi
and interior minister Ben Ye
huda denounced the resolutions.
An estimated 5,000 demon
strated in the Israeli sector " of
divided Jerusalem with banners
describing the call for evacu
ation of the Gaza strip as a sur
render to Arab oil interests.
Hew Attempt Made
In Tugboat Strike
New York (U.R) Federal
mediators made a new attempt
Saturday to get contract talks
going again in a nine-day strike
or 4,000 tugboat and harbor wor
kers that has cut off 70 per
cent of the city's fuel supply
and threatened a critical fuel
shortage.
Federal Mediators Harry Win
ning and Thomas Dougherty re
ported at a three-hour meeting
with Mayor Robert Wagner and
top city officials that both sides
have been invited to resume ne
gotiations at a 2 p.m. Monday
meeting.
The mediators said both sides
are still "very far apart" and
that only "limited progress" has
come out of the many meetings
held.
Charles Preusse, emergency
fuel oil coordinator, told the
Mayor that although there was
no crisis yet, the situation
could easily take a turn for the
worse by the middle of next
week.
FUR SEALS PROTECTED
Washington (U.R) The
United States, Canada, Russia,
and Japan Saturday signed a
new convention to protect North
Pacific fur seals from indis
criminate slaughter.
The convention, subject to
ratification by the four powers,
was initialled after 14 months
of negotiations. It replaces those
in force since 1911 and will be
effective for six years.
Legislators
Salem IU.R Pressing build
ing needs of Oregon schools
were down under discussion in
the Oregon Legislature Satur
day as the House Taxation com
mittee started consideration of
two bills designed to increase
the bonding capacity of school
districts.
Chairman Clarence Barton, Co
quille, said it would be up to his
committee to set policy on bond
ed indebtedness after studying
the entire picture of school needs
and the state's total bonded in
debtedness. He said it would
then be up to the Education com
mittee to come up with a speci
fic recommendation on bonding
limits.
Cecil Posey, Oregon Educa
tion association representative,
told the Tax committee Friday
that the bonded indebtedness of
w n I
REP. EDITH S. GREEN
To Speak at Banquet
Mrs. Edith Green
To Speak at SGD
Banquet Feb. 18
Rep. Edith S. Green, Oregon
congresswoman from the third
district, Multnomah county, will
be guest speaker at the Student
Government Day banquet Mon
day, Feb. 18, at the Elks club
in Medford, according to Dick
Woodcock, exalted ruler of Med
ford Elks Lodge 1168.
The Student Government Day
project, which is Elk sponsored,
involves 125 upper division stu
dents from eight high schools in
the jurisdictional area of the
Medford lodge. This annual event
is scheduled for Monday and
Tuesday, Feb. 18 and 19.
Activity Highlight
The Monday evening banquet
is the highlight of the two-day
activity, Woodcock said. At the
dinner, parents of participating
students, as well as city and
county officials and high school
faculty advisers, are guests of
the Elks lodge. The second day
is devoted to student officials
working with their official coun
terparts and participating in
tours of government installations
in this area.
Mrs. Green has long been ac
tive in state events, Woodcock
pointed out. She is a graduate of
Salem schools and has '.her de
gree from the University of Ore
gon. She also attended Willa
mette university and did gradu
ate work at Stanford university.
She is married to Arthur M.
Green and has two sons. Mrs.
Green taught in Salem public
schools for 11 years. Her record
includes service as legislative
chairman of the Oregon PTA
Congress, program director of
the American Cancer society in
Multnomah county and former
director of public relations of the
Oregon Education association.
She is a member of the League
of Women Voters, AAUW, Ur
ban League of Portland, United
Nations association and the
BPW. She was elected to the
84th Congress on Nov. 4, 1954,
and was reelected at the last
general election. Mrs. Green is
a member of the house educa
tion committee and insular
committee. She has received an
honorary doctor of laws degree
from the University of Alaska.
Forest Service Plan
Upheld by Peterson
Washington (U.R) Assist
ant Agriculture Secretary Ervin
L. Peterson Saturday upheld a
forest service plans to sell sub
alpine type timber from nation
al forests in the Crescent lake
area of Oregon.
Sub-alpine timber includes
western hemlock, true fires and
other low-grade and minor
types. Peterson said these trees
were considered unusable a few
years ago, buj the lumber in
dustry has developed new uses
for them.
The original forest service de
cision to sell the trees had been
protested by the Bend, Ore.,
Chamber of Commerce, acting
also for other central Oregon
groups, Peterson said.
Discuss School Needs
school districts now runs to S92
million. He estimated that ele
mentary and high school build
ing costs would run to $155 mil
lion in the next eight years.
Districts Seen Distressed
Rep. Allen Tom, Rufus, said
that if the limit -raLing bills
were not passed, there would be
more than 70 distressed school
districts unable to meet building
requirements. He said that num
ber could be reduced to about 30
under the proposed bonding
bills.
Tom said the study of whether
or not the bonded indebtedness
limits should be raised was re
lated to what th- Legislature
does about doubling basic school
support and providing S7 million
for relief of distressed school dis
tricts. Both bills are up for consideration.
New Warning Being
Prepared to Israel
To Withdraw Troops
'Risk of War' May
Be Increased in Area
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower and his diplo
matic advisers are considering
a stern new warning to Israel to
withdraw her troops from the
Gaza Strip and the Gulf of Aq
aba, it was learned Saturday.
Failure of the Israelis to with
draw "very soon," administra
tion officials said, could bring
on a new explosion in the Mid
dle East. They said the "risk of
war" would be increased dan
gerously, particularly if the Un
ited Nations votes sanctions
against Israel.
Clearing May Halt
They also said clearing of the
Suez Canal might be halted.
High level U.S. efforts are
underway on several fronts to
persuade Israel to withdraw.
From his vacation retreat at
Thomasville, Ga., Mr. Eisenhow
er took time out Friday night
and again Saturday to discuss
the growing Middle East crisis
by telephone with Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles.
Dulles himself conferred at
his home throughout the day
with Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State Robert Murphy, Wil
liam M. Roundtree, Assistant
Secretary of State for Middle
Eastern affairs and other offic
ials. Matters To Head
Informants said Mr. Eisenhow
er and Dulles believe Israel's
refusal to quit territory gained
by her attack on Egypt, is
bringing matters "to a head pret
ty sharply."
They predicted the adminis
tration will make some new
move over the week end to con
vince Israel her own best long
term interests lie in obeying the
overwhelming United Nations
recommendation that she with
draw her troops.
Aside from the danger that
force might be used again in
the area, the administration be
lieves that no more than one
third of the members of the Un
ited Nations would oppose sanc
tions asainst Israel if a vote is
taken. The United States wants
a "solution" of the problem ra
ther than see sanctions invoked.
Second Round ol
Shots to Start
The second round of Salk anti-polio
shots will begin at .Jack
son county schools Monday
morning, according to Dr. A.
Erin Merkel, public health phys
ician.
The round of shots is the sec
ond phase of the county-wide
nnlin immunization nrogram
started last month. About 7,700
youths under the age of 19 re
ceived the first shots at that
time.
rr Merkel said vaccine sta
tions will be in operation be
tween 9 and 11 a.m. Monday at
Phoenix elementary school,
Butte Falls school, Jewett pri
mary school at Central Point
and McLoughlin Junior High
school in Medford.
Phvsieians and nurses are con-
ti-ihiitinir their services in sup
port of the current Salk vaccine
program. ,
QUEEN AMUSED
T.nnHon U.R) Oueen Eliz
abeth was amused Saturday at
reports of a rift between her and
the Duke of Edinburgh.
A member of the Royal court
said she shrugged off the rumor
and gave the impression that her
rpuninn with the dashing Duke
in Portugal this week after the
longest separation of their mar
riage would effectively squeicn
further gossip.
Most witnesses favored in
creasing the bonding limitation
based on present county tax ra
tios. Thev said this would in
crease the binding capacity of
most Oregon school districts.
Rep. Joe Rogers, Independ
pnrp. chairman of the House Ed
ucation committee, said the most
acute building problem faced
high schools which will soon be
feeling the impact of babies born
during World War II.
House action saw a bill intro
duced to abolish the Oregon De-
velooment commission and es
tablish a new Department of
Planning and Development un
der the governor. Gov. Robert
D. Holmes asked in his inaugu
ral address for a department to
promote the growth and devel
opment of the state.
Price Suppw Lowered
On Eight Farm Products
"I Think We're Ahead'
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Ex-Congressmen Said
In Line for Federal
Appointments Soon
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington (Special) Ore
gon's two Republican ex-congressmen,
who were defeated in
last November's election are. re
portedly in line for " appoint
ments to federal jobs by the Eis
enhower administration.
Harris Ellsworth of Roseburg,
who lost out to Representative
Charles O. Porter of Eugene, is
slated to become a member of
the Civil Service Commission,
possibly its chairman.
Sam Coon of Baker, who lost
out to Representative Al UU-
man of Baker, is in line for ap
pointment as assistant adminis
trator at Lima, Peru, for the
International Cooperation Ad
ministration, the U.S. agency
which handles foreign aid.
Rumored for Post
Ellsworth has been rumored
for the Civil Service post for
weeks but there have been no
vacancies. Other reports had
him heading for one of the sev
en posts on tne federal com
munications commission. Com
missioners for either agency
draw $20,000, and the chairman
gets $20,500.
The Washington Star reported
Friday that Philip Young, chair
man of the Civil Service com
mission, and George Moore, one
of the five commissioners, plan
to quit the end of the month to
take other positions within the
administration. .
The newspaper said Ellsworth
and Christopher H. Phillips,
Sheriff's Office
Collects $4 Million
The Jackson county sheriff's
office collected a grand total of
$4,353,910.88 in taxes, service
and miscellaneous fees during
the last six months of 1956, Sher
iff Howard Gault reported to
day. Collections of 1956-57 taxes
totaled $3,992,389.20, according
to the semi-annual report. Back
taxes collected for years be
tween 1949 and 1956 totaled
5358,318.19. , Total of. all taxes
collected during the six-month
period was $4,350,707.39. '
Service and miscellaneous
fees totaled $2,341.04; personal
taxes, $26.55; gun permits, $123:
prisoners' board, $31.90 and
transportation of prisoners $681,
for a total of $3,203.49.
Of the grand total collected,
$2,673,621.84 has been proces
sed by the tax department and
turned over to Treasurer Karl
Janouch. The remainder will be
turned over to the treasurer as
soon as it can be processed, tax
department officials said.
Mt. Etna Erupts in
Series of Explosions
Catania, Siciliy Mount Et
na erupted in a series of violent
explosions Friday night, spew
ing steam and ashes high into
the air.
Volcanologists reported no im
mediate danger. The eruption
did not produce the usual um
brella-shaped cloud of dust and
no molten lava appeared.
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Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for International Organi
zation affairs, are reportedly
set to move into the vacancies
left respectively by Young and
Moore.
The Civil Service commission
declined comment on the report.
Coon is awaiting security
clearance for liis overseas; assign
ment. Saud to Gel $50
Million in Arms ,
Washington (U.R) King
Saud of Saudi Arabia will re
ceive $50 million worth of U.S.
arms in return for a new five-
year lease on the Dhahran air
base in his country, diplomatic
sources told the United Press
Saturday.
The Arab leader had hoped to
obtain $250 million worth of mil
itary equipment during his glit
tering two-week state visit
which ended today. But he set
tled for the smaller amount with
the understanding it would be
over the five-year period of the
lease and subject to possible
changes either increases or
decreases.
The base is vital to Allied
defense strategy. It is less than
1,000 air miles from the Soviet
Union and forges a vital link
in the ring of bases the United
States has drawn around Rus
sia to prevent an atomic attack
on this country.
The State Department has
kept the amount of the agree
ment secret. It declined to con
firm the $50 million figure. Of
ficials said some details still
must be worked out.
CP Firm Guilty oi
Unfair Practices
Washington U.R) The How
ard-Cooper corporation has been
guilty of unfair labor practices
at its Central Point plant near
Medford, the National Labor Re
lations Board ruled Friday.
The ruling upheld an examin
er s ruling maae earner wnicn
said the firm had refused to bar
gain with the AFL-CIO United
Auto Workers Union.
The board ordered the firm to
bargain with the union and stop
discouraging membership in the
union. Between six and 15 men
are employed at the plant, the
number fluctuating seasonally.
Dispute Arises Over
Possession of Oil Line
Reno (U.R) A dispute
arose Saturday between city of
ficials and the Sierra Pacific
Power Co. over who should
have possession of a broken sec
tion of gas main taken from the
scene of Tuesday's downtown
blasts and fire.
Fire chief Karl Evans declined
to turn over the two-inch pipe to
the power company saying it
was to be sent to San Francisco
for laboratory examinations by
a city-hired firm.
Cuts Designed to
Curb Surpluses;
Protests Are Seen
Benson Uses Power
Under Support Law
Washington U.R) Sec
retary of Agriculture Ezra T.
Benson Saturday lowered 1957
government price supports for
eight major farm products in a
move to cut down surpluses but
left dairy props unchanged.
Using his powers under the
administration's flexible price
support law, he cut the government-guaranteed
"floor" price
for 1957 on rye, oats, barley,
sorghum grain, cotton, cotton
seed, flaxseed and soybeans. He
previously had announced low
er supports for this year's corn
crop. '
Cut Market Value
The reductions for the nine
crops, if fully reflected in mar
ket prices, could cut their com
bined market value $700 mil
lion below last year if produc
tion matches that of 1956.
While department officials
said the cuts are designed to
curb surpluses now tieing up
more than $8 billion in federal
funds, the action appeared like
ly to bring strong protests from
the congressional farm bloc.
These legislators, many of
whom have unsuccessfully
fought for higher mandatory
supports, point out the cuts come
when costs of farm production '
have soared to record highs.
Benson set the 1957 support
price for oats at 60 cents a bush
el, down 5 cents from 1956; bar
ley, 94 cents a bushel, down 8
cents; rye, $1.15 a bushel, down
12 cents; sorghum grain, $1.83
per hundred pounds, down 14
cents; soybeans, $2.09 a bushel,
down 6 cents; flaxseed, S2.P2 a
bushel, down 17 cents; and cot
tonseed, $46 a ton, down $2
from last year.
Down In Price
While down in actual price the
1957 cotton support figure
amounts to. 77 per cent of the
current "fair price" parity lev
el, compared with last year's 72
per cent of parity.
Benson promised the support
price for cotton will be increas
ed before the crop is marketed
if farm production and living
costs rise further. Officials also
held out hope the cotton props
may be raised before harvest
time if prospects brighten for
cutting down the cotton surplus.
Benson said producer prices
for butter fat and mi He will I
kept at present levels for the
marketing year starting April 1.
This appeared to rule out lower
consumer prices.
German Specialist
Returns from Moscow
Cologne, Germany (U.R)
German blood specialist Dr.
Hans Schulten returned from
Moscow Saturday and said he
still could not identify the mys
terious patient he treated in the
Kremlin hospital.
He refused to confirm or deny
that he had treated Vyacheslaw
Malyshev, Soviet minister of
machine building and former
deputy premier. Schulten also
declined to say what was wrong
with the patient. a
Sports Bulletins
Central Point Medford
made it nine rictoriet against
one loss in the Southern Ore
gon conference by defeating
Crater High's basketball team
49 to 32 here last night. Cra
ter put up an interesting bat
tle in the first half but ran
into a third quarter scoring
drougth and the Blaek Tor
nado took the opportunity to
salt the game away. Dick Mc
Laughlin tallied 14 points for
Medford and Dick Puhl 12.
John Greb was high for the
Comets with seven.
Phoenix Illinois Valley
high nosed out Phoenix 29 to
27 here last night in a Rogue
league basketball game. Free
shots made the difference
with IV making 19 to thePi
rates' five. Dan Slanaker of
the Cougars was high scorer
with 10. Jim James and Jim
Stout each had eight for Phoe
nix. Ashland 37, Grants Past 33
OTI 110, EOC 62
Calif. 62, Ore. Stale 51