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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, January 10, 1958 Six Night Club Acts To Accompany Globetrotters In January 17 Show Here Six of the top acts from the night clubs of America will accompany the Harlem Globe trotters basketball team when they make their annual Med ford visit, at Hedrick junior high school gym on Friday night, Jan. 17. Game time is eight o'clock. . Included will be Mike Pick ering, trampoline and juggling star from the midwest; the Farios unit, hand-balance spe cialists from Cuba; Jacques Cordon, unicyclist from Brus sels, Belgium, and Ray Wil bert, said to be the world s foremost hoop manipulator, from Niagara Falls, N.Y. Al together, the evening's enter tainment is designed to last two hours and 20 minutes, it was stated. The Globetrotte'rs will go gainst the Washington, D.C., Generals in the basketball feature. The Generals will bring an aggregation of top profession al stars gathered from colleges throughout the country and have been giving the Trotters plenty of trouble on their cur rent tour. Tickets are on sale at Lam port's sporting goods store in Medford. There are no re served seats but advance pur chase of tickets may eliminate the possibility of fans having to stand in line at the box of fice, which will open at 6 p.m. .Elaine Soule iLoses Composure JDuring Testimony : Redwood City, Calif. HP) Suzanne Elaine Soule lost her Icareful grip on her compos ure Thursday when the moth er of her slain roommate took the stand in her murder trial. -- Miss Soule, 20, a typist from Freeport, N. Y., is ac- cused of murdering Catherine ;Marie Elvins. 19, daughter of ; prominent Seattle physician, -last July 24. Miss Elvins' mother, Mrs. C Naomi Elvins, took the stand - to testify as a prosecution wit--ness. She focused her gaze upon Miss Soule so intently 5 that attorneys had to repeat -questions for her. She re ferred to Miss Soule only once -by name. The rest of the time ;s!ie was "the defendant." :Visit Described " Mrs. Elvins told how she ;'and her husband. Dr. Richard j-E. Elvins, came to California "from Seattle last May to visit -their daughter. At the time Catherine was sharing an 'apartment in Burlingame with Miss Soule. It was the same -apartment In which she was killed. Mrs. Elvins said she, her 'husband and their daughter " were planning to visit a rel ative in San Francisco on that . Tartipiila- Mnv rfav QVto -iA ' Catherine put on a new tweed ;suit for the occasion. "The defendant salti, 'Oh, I - have a blouse that would look good with your suit.' Cather ine said, 'I have lots of blouses.' But the defendant Insisted. f "And while Catherine was getting dressed, the defendant wrapped a birthday package that Catherine was going to deliver to a cousin. She did many things like that. . .' Dabs at Eyes When District Attorney Keith Sorenson asked her the circumstances in which she identified her daughter's body. Mrs. Elvins dabbed at her eyes with a white hand kerchief. The defense did not ask her any questions. When Mrs. Elvins left the stand, tears formed in Miss Soule's eyes and dripped down her cheeks. A sheriff's matron slipped her a handkerchief and Superior Judge Frank B. Blum called for a 10-minute recess. Earlier, Dr. Elvins testified that his daughter and Miss Soule enjoyed an apparently "harmonious rela t i o n s h i p" yrhen he saw them in May. L He took a seat in the back of the courtroom as Dr. John E: Rosander, a pathologist who performed the autopsy, "began his testimony. He said Miss Elvins suffered 31 head wo u n d s believed inflicted vith an electric iron and 20 stab wounds in the chest. 1 ft JACQUES CORDON Unicyclist-Juggler Girl Who Didn't Like Presley Clubbed With Bat Redwood City, Calif. ( Carol Taylor, 15, Redwood City, was in critical condi tion at Sequoia Hospital here today after being bludgeoned with a baseball bat by a 15' year-old boy in an argument over Elvis Presley. The boy, Cordie Lee Pen dleton. gave himself up Thurs day after running away "to try to think things out. Cordie and his brother, Robert, 11, had been living with the girl's family as fos ter children. Mr. Taylor is ex ecutive secretary of the San Mateo County chapter of the American Red Cross. Fought All the Time San Mateo county author ities said Cordie told them that he beat Carol up because she didn't like Elvis Presley. "We fought all the time," Cordie said. 'This time it was about Elvis. She didn't like him. She didn't think he was any good." He said he began hitting Carol with the bat shortly after she called Elvis "just a stupid Okie." . "She just thinks she's bet ter than I am because she has her real parents," Cordie said. "Every time we have fights she tries to run me off." Going To Shoot Self Cordie said he picked up a 25-20 rifle at a neighbor's iome and walked away after the beating. "I went up on the hill and tried to think things out," he said. "I wanted to figure out what to do. I was going to shoot myself." Cordie said he then decided to give himself up to the Hill- crest Juvenile Hall. Mrs. Taylor said her daugh ter, and Cordie had often quarreled "but it didn't ap pear to be serious. The chil dren didn't like each other too well, but it was nothing out of the ordinary." Hospital authorities said the beating had driven pieces of bone into the girl's brain. Wilt Still Holds Lead In Scoring New York W Catching Wilt Chamberlain of Kansas in major college basketball's individual scoring race is like I trying to outjump him to grab a rebound. The seven-foot Kansas star hasn't played since Dec. 30 because of a groin ailment but remains the No. 1 scorer with 322 points in 10 games for a 32.2-point average. The NCAA, which bases the standings on average points per game, included games of Jan. 7 in its latest statistics. Oscar Robertson, Cincin nati's six-foot, five-inch sopho more, was runnerup to Cham berlain with 297 points in 10 games for a 29.7-point average. Don Hennon, Pittsburgh's five-foot, nine-inch guard, was third with a 27.4-point aver age. Leo Byrd of Marshall W. Va. was fourth at 26.8 and Bailey Howell of Mississippi State rounded out the top five at 26.6. Crosthwaiie Accurate Ralph Crosthwaite of West ern Kentucky led in field goal accuracy. He sank 77 of 121 shots for .636 percentage. Arlen Clark of Oklahoma State was second with 36 of 61 for .590. Kenny Sidwell of Tennes see Tech led in free throw ac curacy, sinking 40 of 44 for a .909 mark. Clark was runner up, sinking 43 of 49 for .878. Alex Bo Ellis, six-foot, five inch Niagara star, topped the rebounders. He grabbed 199 of the 769 available in his games for a percentage of .259. Al Inniss of St. Francis, N.Y., was second with 118 recov eries out of 458 for .258. Jp ' Rosburg Nabs Lead In Crosby Tourney Pebble Beach, Calif. Bobby Rosburg, a living ex ample of "drive for show, putt for dough," took a two-stroke lead over a crack field Thurs day in the 550,000 Bing Cros by National Pro - Amateur Golf tournament. Rosburg, a 31-year-old pro playing out of Napa. Calif., used just 28 putts Thursday as he toured the Monterey NLA Tataphoto HIGH -SALARIED GIANT Willie Mays (left) becomes third highest paid player in baseball as he signs contract held by San Francisco Giants President Horace Stoneham. Mays' salary is "in excess of $65,000" for the 1958 season, which also makes him the highest paid player in the Giants' history. Medfoi Tribune SnPdDDfiTS Rogue League Hoop Fives Open Campaigns Tonight Hunt for Missing Boy Called Off International Falls, Minn. Authorities called off an in ternational search for a miss ing 5-year-old boy Thursday night and theorized the youth was either dead in the frozen brush or abducted. Federal Bureau of Investi gation agents stood by in case local authorities, seek their aid in probing the kidnap possibility. "I don't know where to look next," Sheriff Ed Ander son said after a two-day search by more than 1,500 American and Canadian vol unteers through the rugged border country failed to turn up a definite trace of the boy. The youth, Danny Lamon, disappeared Wednesday short ly after he was put in his back yard to play. Danny's grief-stricken parents could not explain his disappearance. Three games tonight kick off the 1958 Rogue league basketball campaign. Defending champion Eagle Point goes . to Brookings, Rogue River travels to Glen dale and Illinois Valley vies at Phoenix. lne league slate has no bearing on the District 6 A-2 titular race but is the prelude to the subdistrict tournament which was won last year by Phoenix TEACHER IS 'PRINCESS TWuerzburg. Germany n 7 A 25-year-old Salt Lake City, Utah, schoolteacher has been chosen Wuerzburg's car Tiiyal princess for 1958. it was atinounced today. She is Monde Carma Baggs, who Teaches fourth graders at the U.S. Army's Benjamin Frank lin school here. To be elected - "Fasching" princess is con sidered a great honor in any German city. Fasching is Ger many's version of Mardi Gras and lasts 45 days. Court Dismisses 5f umbo Action Roseburg HFi A case against Robert Stumbo, spokesman for the Stumbo clan of the Wolf Creek area, was dismissed Thursday, on motion of District Attorney Avery Thompson. A complaint had been filed by the Southern Douglas County Highway Association charging Stumbo had subdi vided land before a plat had been recorded, the case in volved one lot of two square inches. Thompson had asked for postponement of the trial but Judge Warren Woodruff re fused, whereby the district at torney moved for dismissal. The Stumbo clan had divid ed a 26-foot strip of relocated Highway 99 into tiny lots which they put up for sale for S2 each. They claimed the Highway Commission did not have legal title to the land. The sale w.as halted by a con demnation suit which is sched uled to come up in Circuit Court next month. ISRAELITES SENTENCED Jerusalem, Israel HP) A Tel Aviv court has sentenced three Israelites to life impris onment in the slaying of Dr. Rudolf Kastner, former chair man of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Nazi-occupied Budapest. Sentenced Tuesday for the March 3, 1956 slaying were Joseph Menkes, Zeev Eskstein and Dan Shermer. Earlier the court had branded Kastner as as man "who sold his soul to the devil" by -cooperating with the Nazis in the extermination of Jews in Hungary during World War IT 14. Gangland Killer Dies in Sing Sing Ossining, N.Y. (IP) Gang land killer Elmer (Trigger) Budke died in the Sing Sing electric chair Thursday night with a nervous smile on his lips and uncounted under world secrets hidden in his heart. Burke, who drew top rub out assignments in his 40 year life of crime, was exe cuted, for murdering his best friend, Ed (Poochie) Walsh, a longshoreman who made the fatal error of disagreeing with him in 1952. Killer, thief, prison break er and decorated soldier, Burke entered the green walled death chamber at 11:01 p.m. (e.s.t). Officials put him to death reluctantly. They had offered him his life if he would tell what he knew about water front killings in New York, the million-dollar Brinks rob bery in Boston, and other un derworld activities. Bulldogs Win; Hornets Draw In Wrestling McLoughlin Junior high ninth grade clipped the Ash land freshmen wrestlers 44 to 6 and Hedrick knotted Grants Pass 25-all on Thursday.., The McLoughlin Bulldogs took 10 of the 12 varsity matches and Ashland won four of the five exhibitions. Hedrick and GP each won five counting matches and drew in two. Candidate, 90, Wins City Council Post Portland, Me. (IP) William H. O'Brion. 90, said he knew all along he "was going to win" his fourth term as a councilman from the Munjoy Hill district. The nation's oldest city councilman said he didn't "have any trouble defeating two much younger candidates. O'Brion added that he will continue to run. for council man as long, as his health is good. "I've nothing else to do so I might as well be a council man," he said. The cigar-puffing, happy-go-lucky O'Brion ran for ll straight years before being elected to the post in 1948. Since then he has been re elected to three three-year terms. O'Brion, who still likes a good horse race or boxing match, was a clerk with the U. S. Bureau of Marine and Navigation Inspection for 43 i years before he retired. Mclaughlin results: Exhibitions 114 Heinricks (A) pinned Leaver ton (M Parker (A) dec. Deubert (M) 129 Ross (M) pinned Thomas (A) i snadDourne (A) pinned Gunt er (M) Johnson (A) pinned Mitchell (Mi Team Matches 87 G. Fields (Ml dec. Powell (Al 97 Moyer iM) pinned Levison (A) 105 Chambers (M) pinned Kaylor (A) 114 Eddy (M) pinned Rasphone (A) 122 Hampton (Ml pinned Snyder (Al 129 Schmaltz (Al dec. W. Fields (M) 135 Nason (Al dec. Custance (M) 140 Jenkins (M) pinned 'Reeves (A) 147 Earl (M) dec. Moses (Al 156 Connolly (MJ pinned Tabor (A) 167 Shaw (M) dec. Rush (Al Hvy-Funston (M) def. Baily (A) (defaultl Brookings, Phoenix, Glen- dale and Eagle Point are fig ured to fight it out for the Rogue River don't appear as title contenders but could rise up in the role of spoilers for the others and could be threats by the time of the tournament. Starters Return Glendale reportedly has all its starters back from last year plus some fair height up from the junior varsity. Phoe nix lost only one man from its starting crew last year and has a senior line-up including returning reserves. Eagle Point has only two regulars back but is figured to con tinue improvement through the season. Brookings which has done well -in the pre league slate, has its tall front line men back. At Phoenix Coach Jack Woodward put his charges through stiff drills Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and rested the hoopmen yester day. The Pirates got fast break and pressing drill and worked on offense against a pressing defense. Henley, seventh member of the subdistrict is not vying in the conference but is ex pected to be a contender in the tourney with its aggrega tion reported the best Hornet club in several seasons. Death of Mice In Spring Seen Bend (IP) Donald A. Spencer, U.S. Fish and Wild life Service biologist, predict ed Thursday that Oregon's infestation of mice would die off naturally early next spring. Spencer spoke here at a five-county meeting to dis cuss plans to meet the rodent threat. He said the huge mice population was part of a cycle phenomenon which occurs about every four years. Good summer weather in Oregon resulted in an unusually large number of mice, he said. A special committee was appointed to meet with the State Emergency Board next month to seek $84,000 to pur chase poison and grain to kill off mice colonies. J. Ralph Beck, assistant di rector of the Oregon State college extension service, said steps should be taken im mediately to destroy the mice if present crops were in dan ger. He said that if the die-off predicted for early spring is not significant poison should be spread before new crops are planted. Representatives of Crook, Deschutes, Klamath, Jeffer son and Lake counties attended. Country Club in 65 strokes seven under par to takea two-shot margin over a pair of veterans, Tommy Bolt of Los Angeles and Bo Wininger of Odessa, Tex. Rosburg, a great believer in the power of positive thinking, believes every putt that he starts toward the cup should drop in. He had three 15-footers, one from 20 feet and another from 30 feet Thursday. Unorthodox The ex-Stanford athlete is noted as an unorthodox swinger and he still uses a baseball grip on his clubs. But noon e can fault his putting. He three-putt the first hole. Then used only 25 putts on the last 17 holes. He was out in 33, back in 32 on a course that reads 35-37. He had one eagle plus six birdies. Not only that, but Rosburg, with the help of golf writer Nelson Cullenward of San Francisco, was tied for the lead in the pro-amateur di vision with a best-ball of 61. Two Arrested on Assault Charges James Michael Hughes, 36, of 802 West Jackson st., and Walter Scott McAlister, 54, of Camp White, were arrested by Medford police on charges of assault and robbery Thurs day night after they admitted, in signed statements to police, taking about $30 from Charlie Payne, 66, of Camp White. Police said McAlister asked Payne to go for a walk and when they passed the rear door of Otto's Tavern, 39 South Front st., Hughes struck Payne on the back of the head with a sock filled with rocks. Payne was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by police. He was treated for head cuts and released, police said. Though its relatives van ished from the earth a hun dred million years ago, the liz ardlike tuatara survives on islets of New Zealand, the Current experiments In de veloping a synthetic attrac tant may mean doom for the gypsy moth. The attractant would lure the moths into trans. SEE THE EOT Only 7 Moving Pirtl in Engine Up to 35 Milei Per Gallon Front Wheel Drive COMPARE k Roominess k Economy -k Initial Cost -k Looks Keith Schulz Garage 116 N. Front Pb. SP 2-4756 Pebble Beach, Calif. OP Eddie Hogan of Portland led Northwest golfers in the Bing Crosby tournament with a first round score of 70. Chuck Congdon of Tacoma had a 71; Harold West, Long view, 73; Bunny Mason, Sa lem, 75; Joe Greet, Yakima, 76; Ed Oldfield, Roseburg, 78, and Joe Steiger, Spokane, 82. IB ma Security Agency Sets Date for Interviews Sfc. C. Beecroft will be In Medford Jan. 15 to talk with those interested in joining the Army's security agency, an or ganization concerned with communications security. He will conduct interviews at the Army recruiting office in Medford post office build ing. Applicants will be offered schooling, in languages, mathe matics, physics, electronics and allied subjects, according to Beecroft. , "Wrong-way" Corrigan flew the Atlantic in 1938. il j i TAKING third-round lead in Los Angeles Open , Gay Brewer Jr., Cincinnati, is low with a total of 207 strokes. (International, 1 Rental Equipment Air Comprcsors Water Pumps Cement Finishing Machines Electric and Gas Cement Vibrators Roller Water Wagon WITH OPERATOR 2 Graders Shovel 4 Cranes Back Hoe Drag Lines Tractors with Bulldozers, Ripper or Carryall 2 Turnapulls Gunnite Machine with Mobile 600 Cu. Ft. Compressor I CONCRETE C9 HSilivettd-s? 2-5271 248E.McANDREYSRB. tammmmmwmnmmmmmmmmMWMMWwwamwmmmmmmmamammmm III, .il i HEDRICK RESULTS: 87 Roy Ray (H) pinned Plantz (G) 97 Larry Poling (H) drew with Holley (G) 103 Trotter (G) pinned Bruce Burt (Hi 114 Mike Flett (H) drew with Holmes (G) 122 Waldron (G) dee. Bob Walker (Hi 129 Bramblett (G) dec. Blanken ship (H) 135 Ken Morse (H) pinned Hol- brook IG) 144 Phil Morris (H) dec. Stevens iGl 147 Larry Gunn (H) dec. Riplev 156 Warren Park (Hi pinned Marsh (Gi 167 Fuhrmeister (G) pinned Terry O Sullivan (H) Hvy-Ryan (G pinned Stan Hobbs (HI Two Dances Are Set at YMCA This Week End Two teenage dances will be held at the Young Men's Christian association this week end, according to Herb Partridge, youth director. Charlene Francis and Nan cy Maxson are chairmen of a Junior high school dance starting at 8:30 p.m. today. A senior high school dance, "Teen s Against Polio", is scheduled at 8:30 p.m. Satur day, Jan. 11, for high school students. All proceeds will go to the polio fund, according to the senior class of the high school, which is sponsoring the dance. Highway Crashes Take Three Lives By UNITED PRESS Three persons were killed Thursday night in two Ore gon highway accidents. Two of them died in a two-car crash near The Dalles and an other was killed west of Eu gene. Charles E. Webb, 51, and Charles E. Webb Jr., 22, both of Pullman, Wash., were killed in a head-on collision between Hood River and The Dalles on Highway 30. John W. Hines, 41, Eugene, was killed when his car skid ded on a road about 10 miles west of Eugene. He was thrown from the vehicle. Four other persons were injured in the accident on Highway 30. They were Jimmy Lee White, 26, driver of one of the cars; Airman Williams, but the girls were ! Pondal Dale Rich, and his wife, Thelma, both of Hood River. White and Rich were treated and released while Mrs. Rich and the airman were hospitalized at The Dalles. Portland UPl Establish- ; ment of Fort Clatsop, Oregon, i near Astoria, as a national j memorial under jurisdiction ; of the National Park Service was recommended to Congress i trvrloir v Watfielrl Philsnn lin- ! 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