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o o TOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) TRIBUNE Youth Unlimited Project Leads To Tussle Between Rademacher and Patterson By WILLIAM J. TUCKER United Piesi Correspondent Columbus, Ga. W He's going in the light an amateur, and he may come out one, too. For win, lose or draw, Pete Rademacher may not make a nickel in his attempt to win the world's heavyweight boxing championship from poker-faced Floyd Patterson. He's the last guy on the pay roll a payroll with a minmum r.f S250.000. That quarter oi a million is what his friends had to put up to give him a shot at boxing's greatest and richest title. "I didn't make this match with an eye toward making a profit," Rademacher explains. 'I'll be lucky to come out even.' If there is anything left for me it will be divided 50-50 with Youth Unlimited Inc., at Columbus." It's this Youth Unlimited that makes this title fight at Seattle, Wash., on the night of Aug. 22, possible. The story goes back to May, 1956. Rademacher was a lieuten ant in the Army, stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. Interested in Youth Because he was interested in working with youth, "to try to get the kids off the street," he became acquainted with M. C. (Mike) Jennings, a youthful looking man at 45. Jennings came here after World War II from Pittsburgh, Pa., where he is reported to have made a small fortune in the oil business. Here on the banks of the Chattahoochee riv er, Jennings married the daugh ter of Curtis Jordan Jr., a big construction and real estate man in this city of 80,000, and opened & sporting goods business. He enjoys tremendous re spect in Columbus because he has been on. radio and TV for some time with outdoor pro grams accenting youth, getting them off the streets and into the streams and woods. His youth work took him to Fog Benning one day and he met Rademacher. Traim for Olympics "Pete and I talked about a venture like Youth Unlimited from the first," Jennings says. "The plan evolved, and finally Pete said when he was training here for the Olympics: " 'I hope I do all right in the Olympics and meet a Russian in the finals so I can knock his head off. Then I want to try for the world's heavyweight cham pionship.' " "At the time he made that statement, I thought 'well, that's a pretty ambitious program' and sort of dismissed the idea. 'When Pete got back from the Olympics with the champion ship he still had that in mind and we talked some more. t "I told him, 'Pete, you don't want to go into this professional boxing if you want to continue this youth work. You're valua ble to people now, but if you go into that you'll gradually get all shaken up." Supreme Court Reinstates Saul Silberman License Tallahassee, Fla. (IP) Tropi cal park president "bet a mil lion" Saul Silberman, who ad mits he's a consistent loser at his track's betting windows, won the biggest stakes of his life Wednesday the right to operate his multi-million dollar racing plant. The Florida supreme court, by a 4-2 decion. reinstated Silber man's operating license for the beautiful palm-lined track. This upset an order April 4 J J? 3 1 FIRMLY HOLDING $50,000 check, Dick Mayer, La Jolla, Cal., asks pretty wife how much she expects to collect, after winning world championship golf tournament at Niles, 111. They stand behind trophy he alio won. (InUmatioaal "But we kept on talking and about May 17 we decided to try it. "I started moving around. I went to New York City and met Cus D'Amato, Patterson's man ager. He said he wanted a S250, 000 guarantee for the fight from Rademacher and gave me two weeks to raise the money. Decides to Try Jennings flew back to Geor gia the next day and "decided to try it." s 'I started moving around," he explains. "In about two weeks, by the first of June, we had what we needed." The money is on deposit at a Columbus bank and will De forwarded to Seattle some time before the fight. Jennings admits he is one of 22 backers who raised that quar ter of a million. He said he was not "at lib erty to identify the others" be cause they asked that their names be withheld. But it's no secret here that his father-in-law, Jordan, came up with a healthy sum. Jennings did reveal that the largest contributor put up S25, 000, and the smallest, $5,000. He admitted, too. that among them were doctors, lawyers, stock brokers and automobile sales men. All are Georgians except three one from Louisville, Ky., one from "some place in North Carolina" and one from New York. "None of them," Jennings re veals, 'especially care about box ing." But, he adds, "they are inter ested in youth work, and some of them donated as stockholders in Youth Unlimited. Others are interested only in the fight as a speculative investment." And for those who know box ing best, "speculative" is a con servative description of this un usual venture in the world of boxing. Fisheries Loan Fund Receives Extension Washington (IP) The Senate Interstate and Foreign Com merce Committee Wednesday ap proved a bill adding $3 million to a ?10 million fisheries loan fund which was threatened With depletion before Congress recon venes in January. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson CD Wash.), committee chairman, said the instability of the tuna mar ket and the small Alaskan sal mon pack may force additional fishermen to apply for loans. FEWER FARMERS? St. Paul OP) Less than eight per cent of the rural young men graduating from high school in northeastern Minnesota want to make farming a career, accord ing to two University of Minne sota rural sociologists. They sur veyed seniors in 20 Minnesota high schools. Thirty per cent wanted to go into skilled or semi skilled professions. by the state racing commission revoking Silberman's license on the grounds that he illegally bet thousands of dollars on credit at his own track and permitted 106 telephone calls to be made from his private office phone to a known Cleveland bookie. The high court said that while the credit betting was "illegal," the commission dealt too harshly with the balding, plump Silber man by revoking his license. Thuriday, August 15. 19S7 Fish Ladders Promised On Illinois Cave Junction Fish ladders at the Illinois River falls, long sought by sportsmen's group and the local Chamber of Commerce are promised by the Oregon Game commission for not later than 1959. This is the word from Cole Rivers, a representative of the commission rtationed at Grants Pass. He was principal speaker at the Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce annual picnic held Sunday at Grayback recreation area. Money for the fish ladders has been appropriated, Rivers said, but an acute engineering shortage makes a start impos sible this year. The ladders m?y be installed in 1958, he added, but cannot be definitely prom ised before 1959. Good Runs Seen The construction is expected to bring several good runs of salmon and steelhead to valley streams each year. Because the falls can only be reached on a dirt road, and are located in a fairly inaccessible place, the job of getting in the equipment for construction will be more difficult than the job itself, Rivers said. In charge of arrangements for the dinner were Casey Pil ler and his committee, losers in the recent Chamber membership unnn man RESH FRYERS LARGE ARMOUR STAR (" ) & K' Piece HORMEL'S MIDWEST BACON 5 SPARE A Real Southern Favorite lb. Pkg. Studs Bounce Drain Black Sox Nine 7-1 Ash'.and-Talent and the Med ford Studs will meet on Sat urday evening at the Fair grounds in their Rogue Valley league baseball mix. The fray previously had been set for Sunday. It will be the fi nal league game of the season for the Studs. Jerry Droscher, Frank Roe landt, Ron Owings and Frank Rector spurred a 13-hit assault and Pitcher Jerry Bartow held the opposition to five safeties here last night as the Medford Cheney Studs dumped the un dermanned Drain Black Sox 7-i in a non-league semi-pro base ball engagement. The outcome gave the Studs a 3-2 edge in their five games with the Black Sox this season. Some of the luster was remov ed from the victory, however, by the fact that the Sox came to Medford with just half a squad. Only nine players made the jaunt to the Rogue Valley. Drain currently is vying in the tourney of the Oregon championship of the American Amateur Baseball congress. Six of the Sox baseballers were in Portland awaiting tonight's clash with Beaverton. Two oth ers, including slugger Ron Bow en, could not make the trip. Droscher led the Medford hit- drive. The winning team headed by Bill Klein. 10 to 14-lb. Fancy Sugar Cured HALF or WHOLE SK1 19 STEWERS Cri Oyer 3 each SLICE FruF5 It! RIBS CHOPPED CHOPPED mm NO ting with a triple, double and a single in three batting turns. He was credited with four runs batted in, one on a base on balls. Roelandt also smacked three for four. Owings had two doubles in four times at bat and Rector socked two for two, both singles before leaving the game because of an ankle in jury. Dan Luby, two for foiyr, was the only Drain man with more than one hit. Irv Roth homered over the left field wall in the fourth inning for the only Black Sox run. Bartow struck out batters eight times and issued a base on balls just once, pitching care fully and not giving Roth any thing good his next time to the plate after swatting the round tripper. Medford received five bases on balls off two of the three Drain pitchers. Studs were strikeout victims only twice. Kovenz Drives In Two Singles by Rector, Roelandt,. John Kovenz and the three-baser by Droscher brought in three Medford runs in the first in ning. Kovenz drove in two run ers and Droscher one. Back to back doubles by Ow ings and Droscher picked up a marker in the third inning. Ow ings doubled and Droscher singled for a fifth inning coun ter. Two runs crossed without a hit in the sixth panel. There lbs. each oc WILSON'S Canned NEAT DFITB (BIF) (MOR) LIMIT SPECIALS AT OX Pendleton Seeks To Keep Prices Stable Pendleton m The board of directors of the Happy Canyon night show backed a proposal to day to keep food and hotel prices in line with regular prices dur ing Round-Up time here. The president of the Happy Canyon board, W. M. (Whitey) Breaid, said the board agreed to approve the stand taken this week by the Pendleton Cham ber of Commerce to keep prices in line with hotels and restau rants and not "gouge" out-of-town guests during Round-Up time. The Happy Canyon said it would cut down the 1 parking fee to 50 cents for both the Happy Ganyon and Round-Up show. were four bases on balls, a field er's choice1 and an error. Noel Aronson pitched the first five frames fort he Sox. Jerry Pflug went to the hfll in the sixth, issuing the four bases on balls and yielding the two runs before the veteran Ray Strat ton, manager of the Sox, went to the hill and whiffed Ed Rein king for the third out. Stratton did a creditable job over the next two innings. Pflug came in from right field to relieve Aronson and Stratton played third base be fore shifting to the mound. LINESCOUE: Drain 000 100 000 1 5 2 Medford 301 012 OOx 7 13 2 Aronson. Pflug 6. Stratton 6 and Roth; Bartow and Roelandt. WHOPPERS EVERY ONE GUARANTEED! CASABAS and HONEYDEW More of the Good Big Idaho For the CANS a Rescue Disappoints St. Margaret's BayT England (IP) Michael Cox, 11, and 13-year-old Victor Leonard were on vacation from the Cockney district of London and they did not know too much about the movements of the sea. "Coo wot's this," they asked when a rising English Channel tide trapped them at the foot of a cliff. Pals turned in the alarm and 38-year-old Albert Steed led a rescue team to the top of the cliff. A helicopter was sent out from the U. S. air base at Man ston, about 10 miles away, and the Dover lifeboat headed for the scene. The boys' pals shouted down Two Trail Crews on Smokejumper Detail Cave Junction Two trail crews of four men each aVe on a special smokejumper detail on the Gold Beach forest service district this week. The men and their supplies were parachuted in to the re mole area Monday. After main taining and cleaning the trails, they will hike out to Bear Camp Friday, where they will meet a truck for the trip back to Cave Junction. On the crews are Jack Hartcr, Bob Berry, David Arnold, Larry Wright, Ken Rosenberg, John McDaniels, Wayne Schrunk and Ron Nelson. iniir.liii'iifmiMiiii line for mei Fine LOCAL Fresh Picked BEST, See OK MARKET CANNING Silver Dollar Home of SILVER DOLLAR STAMK I I OPEN 8:00 A.M. UNTIL I I 1 MIDNIGHT V 7 DAYS A WEEK Ji EASY PARKING ' I A Stranded Youths to the bottom of the cliff that all this was happening and MiK3 and Victor looked forward with pleasure to their forthcoming rescue. Then came disillusionment. Steed lowered a rope ladder and climbed down to hoist the boys to safety. "Blimey," one of them said, "Yer call this a rescue?" "Oi, guv," the other said, "wot abaht the lifeboat and the 'elicopter?" Steed said he was sorry. Western Boy Scouts Leave for Amsterdam London (IP) A group of 160 Boy Scouts from America's Far West left for Amsterdam today and ' the beginning of a 12-day tour of Europe that will take them to 10 cities and five coun tries. The group attended the inter national Bpy Scout Jamboree at Sutton Coldfield, England, Aug. 1-12. The leader is John G. Triplelt, of Corona Del Mar, Calif. Trip lett's boys from Scout Region 12 come not only from his home state but also from Arizona, Nevada and Utah. SOCIALIST DIES New York (IP) John Lyons, 75, a member of the National Executive Committee of the So cialist Party-Sociril Democratic Federation, died Wednesday. DINNER-SIZE MELONS SACK 3 Dozen By the BOX By the lb. lb. Stamps Too
