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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SPORTS TuMday. May 7, 1957 Coach Denies The Stilt1 Turning Pro Buffalo, N. Y. (U.R) Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain, Uni versity of Kansas All-America basketball star, will definitely turn professional with the Har lem Globetrotters this fall, it was reported today. Lawrence, Kan. (U.R) Re tired University of Kansas bas ketball coach Dr. Forrest C. Phog Allen denied today that he ever said Kansas' seven-foot cen ter Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain would "definitely" turn profes sional. Allen said he didn't refer to Chamberlain "in any shape or form during a speech at Buffa- lo, N. Y. Monday. He accused re porters of "twisting the facts. The 71-year-old retired coach said that he discussed Chamber lain and Kansas University "in general" during a "bull session" Monday. During the session, he said,- someone asked if he thought Chamberlain would be back next year. Allen said he told the group, "I don't know, but I think not." ' ' Patterson . Not to Fight Under IBC New York (U.R) Floyd Pat terson plans a defense of the heavyweight crown at London this year because of his mana ger's bitter feud with the Inter national Boxing club. "Whether it will be a June or September defense we do not know yet." manager Cus D'Ama to said today. "But I intend Floyd to defend for promoter Harry Levine at London some time this year." He said there' a possibility 22-year-old Floyd may risk his title for.the first time somewhere in the United States "for an inde pendent promoter." D'Amato, torridly critical of Jim Norris and his IBC, de clared: "One thing is certain. Patterson will not fight for the IBC under any circumstances." Sugar Hart Challenges . Contenders New York U.R Young Gar net (Sugar) Hart, surfeited with victories over unranked welter weights, yelled a fight-offer of "winner take all" to four of the top 10 today. The 21-year-old Philadelphian was somewhat miffed because he had to be content with a 9-1, 9-1. 9-1 decision over Al (Sugar) Wilson in the TV bout at St. Nicholas arena Monday night, and he said, "he's the last un ranked opponent I'll meet." Hart and manager Marty Stein hurled 'the winner-take-all challenge at the three top con tenders; Tony. De Marco, .Gaspar Ortega and Isaac Logart, and at riinth-ranking Walter Byars, wh won anupset decision over Hart at Madison Square Garden, March 8. Hart, favored at 5-1, handed a thorough trouncing to lanky 31-year-old Wilson of Engle- wood. N.J.; but he couldn't flat ten him. "He fought like a turtle," declared the irate Su gar, "all arms and elbows for protection. And he was just in there to last the distance. ' Dressen May Be Released Detroit U.R) Cookie La agetto was named manager of the Washington Senators today lo replace Chuck Dressen. GETTING THE KNOW HOW Big George Mikan, former Minneapolis Lakers star, uses his six foot, six inch frame in trying to stop little Tommy Brady, 12, from dribbling around him during basketball clinic in San Francisco. Mikan, now retired from competition, is on a nation-wide tour conducting his clinics. Cattlemen Draw ! Governor's Praise Eugene (U.R) Gov. Robert D. Holmes today praised the Ore gon Cattlemen's association for promoting and supporting "forward-looking legislation in the public interest." At the same time, he took ex ception to some of the criticisms aimed at the Democratic tax program now being considered by the Oregon Senate. The governor, in an address at this morning's session of the cattlemen's convention here, gave the association chief credit for Oregon's meat- inspection program; for spearheading the successful fight in the state against tuberculosis in cattle and for backing "and forcing it through" the present' Legisla ture a brucellosis bill. He said the bill will expedite a program "that about 20 per cent of the areas affected have been drag ging their feet on." Gov. Holmes also said he looked forward to appointing ag ricultural representation on the State Board of Forestry. ' 'Miracle Metal' Sought by Scientists Knoxville, Tenn. (U.R) University of Tennessee scien tists are working on a "miracle metal" that1 some day may Re place tungsten for use in light bulbs and radio tubes. The metal, rhenium, is strong er than tungsten at very high temperatures, and can be made harder than any other pure met al. Prof. Michael J. Joncich, di recting experiments in the de velopment of the metal, said rhenium could . be valuable as a wear-resistant' plating for pre cision instrument points and an Detroit (U.R) Calvin Grif fith, president of the Washington Senators, was due in Detroit to- dav to discuss a player-trade and-or the possible release of manager Charlie Dressen. The Senators dropped their eighth straight game Monday at Kansas City and Griffith, en route here from Washington, was quoted as saying "something drastic has to be done." The Washington Post and Times Herald said Monday night it had learned Griffith plans to dismiss Dressen and promote one of the team's coaches Billy Jurges or Cookie Lavagetto a.s temporary manager. The Senators arrived here Monday night for the opening of a three-game series. However, neither Dressen or Griffith were available for comment. Johnny McHale, the Tigers' new general manager, said he planned to meet with Griffith for possible trade talks. . NEARLY A CENTURY Buxton, Me. vU.R) The presi dent of the Saco River Tele graph Co.. Samuel B. Shepard, will be 100 years old next birth day. His company, founded in 1889. serves about 1,000 sub scribers in this area. L. Rookie Stars In Celt Win Honolulu (U.R) Rookie of the Year Tom Heinsohn led the Boston Celtics to a 115-105 vic tory oven the National' Basket ball Association All-Stars here Monday night before a closing game crowd of 2,300. The victory gave the Celtics a clean sweep of the four-game island series with the All-Stars and brought the 124-game 1956- a7 season to a close for the NBA champions. It also marked the Celtics'. 15th win in the 21-game tour with the All-Stars. Heinsohn, former Holy Cross All-American. stored 28 points with an amazing assortment of shots to spark the Celtics, who were hard pressed to win after rolling up a club record, of 154 points Sunday night. Eisenhower To Ask For Scaled-Down Foreign Aid Plan Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower plans to ask Congress in about 10 days for a new scaled down foreign aid program of approximately $3, 900,000,000. Administration officials said today they are working overtime to get the project into final shape by May 17. Chief attention center on problems related to a new economic development loan fund expected to total about 500 million dollars for the first year. Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles and Ambassador James P. Richards are hurrying home from Europe and the Middle East for a special White House meeting on foreign aid. The meeting with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders will be held Thursday. Dulles Due Back Dulles was scheduled to arrive today from the North Atlantic Treaty meeting in Bonn, Ger many, to. lead the administra tion's fight for its foreign aid program. Richards arrives Wed nesday from the Midlle East where he has been selling the Eisenhower doctrine of economic and military assistance against Communist penetration of the oil-rich Bible lands. When Eisenhower presented his budget earlier this year he estimatedh is foreign aid request at $4,400,000,000. On April 18, however, he said $500 million in new spending authority could 1 . X 1; , - .r ue tut uum nis earner esumaie due to savings on military aid. Administration officials expect a tough fight with congressional budget-cutters even on. the- seal- eddown request. Some budget cutters want to cut foreign aid in half, or deeper. Eisenhower is sure to urge approval of the full 53,900,000,000 as a vital contribution to the free world's fight against Communism. Oregon Senate Lauds Overhulse For Excellent Job Salem (U.R) Oregon sen ators paid homage to their pres ident, Boyd Overhulse, Madras Democrat, and members' of his family Monday and expressed appreciation for his excellent job of presiding through the long session. It brought a response of hope on the part of Overhulse that the work would be completed and the session adjourned by the end of next week. Overhulse", Mrs. Helena Over hulse and their two daughters, Emiline and Helena Overhulse, were jescorted to the rostrum by Sens. Warren Gill, Lebanon Re publican, and Phil Brady, Port land Democrat, with Sen. Walter Pearson, Portland Democrat, presiding as master of ceremon ies. Presented Corsage Emiline and Helena Over hulse were presented with cor sages by Sen. Sid Schlesinger, Salem Republican. Mrs. Overhulse was presented with a bouquet of red roses by Sen. Alfred H. Corbett, Portland Democrat who said "a good deal of the good humor our president has displayed, we are sure, is due to the fact that you have been here to help him during the session." Sen. Harry D. Boivin, Klam ath Falls Democrat, presented President and Mrs. Overhulse with a handsome silver service set on behalf of the Senate "as a token of goodwill and appreci ation, and an indication of the high esteem in which you are held by all of us." Overhulse, noticeably over come by the gift and the gesture, took a grip on himself, then smiled: "Mrs. Overhulse now will be after me to build a new house to match this magnificent set." Former Yqnk In Hospital New York (U.R) The condi tion of Larry MacPhail, former major league baseball executive, was listed as "satisfactory" today at New York Hospital, where he has been under observation since last week. MacPhail entered the hospital after suffering a recurrence of an intestinal attack. A similar seizure hospitalized him last De cember After selling his stock in the New York Yankees in 1947, Mac Phail served briefly as manag ing director of the Bowie race track. In recent years, he has been a successful breeder of thoroughbred horses at his Glen Angus Farm near Belair, Md. alloy or plating injhe construc tion of modern, high-speed air craft and missiles. He said the metal is not practical for com mercial use yet because it sells for some S4 per gram more costly than gold. Another favorable quality of rhenium, added Joncich, is its corrosion resistance, which is the subject of new research by the university. SURGERY V Logan, Utah flJ.R) Utah State University forestry stu dents quickly applied tree sur gery techniques when someone possibly rival engineering classmen crept up on a 14-foot- high, hand-carved statue of Paul Bunyan and chopped off . his head. Dollar, Steak Reward for Hound Chicago !U.R) A 70-pound foxhound named Rocky has re ceived a reward a silver dol lar and 15 pounds of steak. A standing reward of SI, 000 offered by the Chicago Currency Exchange association for appre hension of anyone burglarizing one of its exchanges made Rocky eligible. It started back on April 14, 1956. Junius Harrell, Rocky's owner, took his alert foxhound for a walk. As they passed a cur rency exchange on the South Side, Rocky began to growl and pulL He had seen two men at the door of the -exchange, ap parently trying to make a forced entry. Harrel pulled Rocky from the sidewalk and into his apartment where he phoned police. One of the captured men was sentenced to prison. But how was a dog to be re warded? Officials of the Curren cy Exchange association finally hit upon the. answer. Rocky was induced to climb upon a scale at the association's headquarters. The scale showed 70 pounds. Then $1,000 in silver dollars was placed on the scale. The sil ver dollars came to 62 pounds. The officials doubled the dif ference of 7V4 pounds and placed an order for 15 pounds of steak all for Rocky. Harrell and the two police men who made the arrests each received a S333 share of the $1, 000 reward. Rocky got the ex tra buck.: Otto Gilstrap Dies In Eugene Sunday Eugene Otto Thomas Gil- strap, 86, a resident of Eugene for 66 years and an uncle of Bob Gilstrap, 1120 East Jackson St., Mail Tribune employee, died here Sunday. Mr. Gilstrap for many years was associated with the Eugene Morning Register and was a lead ing figure in local fraternal and civic groups. He was a member of the Christian Science church and Eugene BPOE lodge. He was born March 22, 1871, at Pleasanton, Kan., ' and came to Eugene with his parents in 1891. He married Georgiana Dil lon, who survives him, on July 20, 1914, in Eugene. Other survivors include a son, Sidney, of Seattle; two sisters, Mrs. Roy Curtis, Eugene, and Mrs. Lulu Lowe, Portland; a brother, Orval, Portland, and six grandchildren. While in the newspaper busi ness, Mr. Gilstrap was associated with a brother, Ernest R., who with- Frank Jenkin6 was a con trolling stockholder when the Register was sold in 1930 to the Eugene Guard to form the Eugene Register-Guard. Ernest R. Gilstrap was the Mail Tribune business manager until his death a few years ago ' ' 1 1 1 State Tax Receipts Higher Than Expected Salenf 4U.R) The State Tax Commission Monday told Gov. Robert D. Holmes that collec tions from personal and corpora tion income taxes were higher than anticipated this year. Commissioners Sam Stewart, Carl Chambers and Ray Smith said collections for 1955-57 were estimated at S185.087.124. of which $99 million was to have been collected in 1956-57. However, the commissioners said that fairly complete returns for April indicated that the fig ure would reach $104 million. This would jump the general fund surplus from S32.786.527 to S36,886,572, depending on ad justments from increases or de creases in general fund revenues from other sources. One reason for the increase, the commissioners said, was the "extraordinary" gains made last year by Oregonians from the sale of capital assets. TTse Mai Tribune Want Ada Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day At OK MARKET. 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Read and Use Classified Ada The Community's Bieeesi Marketplace The Low Cost Way To Sell Slide Rule Figures Way Out oi Penalty Louisville, Ky (U.R) Mar vin Lee Perryman Jr., 29-year-old engineer, used his slide rule to figure his way out of a traffic fine in Criminal Court. Perryman, charged with driv ing 70 miles per hour in a 35 mile zone on Henry Watterson Expressway, brought his slide rule to Traffic Court. He produced a . hand-drawn map and used the slide rule to show that police could not have clocked him at 70 miles per 'hour. He was fined $75 but ap pealed the fine in Criminal Court. He entered a plea of guilty to an amended charge of breach of peace and was given a suspended fine. Use Mail Tribune Want Adi Dead line Sunday Classitieo u at noon Saturday; 10 ajn Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 crsvious day. 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