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Chisox Sign Nellie Fox For $40,000 By UNITED PRESS The Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Indians have adopted decidedly dif ferent methods in dealing with potential holdouts. The White Sox seem to be meeting all the demands of their players by doling out record salaries, but the Ind ians have instituted a "get tough" policy with six of their "stragglers." All - Star second baseman Nellie Fox, no-hit pitcher Bob Keegan and veteran south paw Billy Pierce accepted their 1953 contracts with the White Sox Wednesday. Fox became the highest paid player in the history of the club when he signed for "over $40,000." Pierce, the Sox's top-salaried pitcher in history last year at about $35,000, also was given a slight pay boost while Ke egan, who pitched the only no-hit game in the majors last season, received " a sub stantial increase." Lane Issues Warning However, all was not so serene in the Cleveland tepee, where General Manager Frank Lane warned six Ind ians they may lose much wampum if they don't sign by March 1. Lane said that $100 will be deducted from the contract offered to each holdout for every day he fails to report at the Indians' training camp at Tucson, Ariz. Veteran outfielder Gene Woodling, one of the six un signed Cleveland p I ayers, answered Lane's threat with a threat of his own. "I won't hold still for any thing like this," he declared "It just means that my price will go up $100 every day after March 1. We have a baseball commissioner and I think he ought to step into a situation like this. B Leaguers Vie Friday Jackson County B league basketball rivalry, with the championship already decid ed, has reached the anti-climatic stage. But tangles Fri day will find the new diadem bearer, Talent, attempting to maintain its unbeaten status and three other clubs fight ing to improve their positions in the standings. Talent high goes to Butte Falls and Prospect encount ers St. Mary's in Medford. The Bulldogs of Talent will be after their 14th straight win of the loop and 16th of the season. Butte Falls is battling to retain second place in the standings and St. Mary's to go back into third spot. Prospect, which has shown much improvement in recent competition, seeks its jecond league decision. Petersburg Play Begins St. Petersburg, Fla. (IP) me nations top women golf ers teed off today in the fifth annual St. Petersburg Wom en's Open golf tournament on a tight, tree-lined course at Sunset Golf club. The $7,500 tourney was won last year by Mary Lena Faulk of Thomasville, Ga., who set a women's world competitve record for 72 holes with a 279. The mark still stands. OFFSPRING FOR SWAPS Lexington, Ky. (IP) A bay colt, the first offspring of 1955 Kentucky Derby winner Swaps, was foaled at the Darby Dan Farm of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Galbreath of Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday. TK"e dam is Sage Miss, a daughter of former Irish champion Noor. During his career Swaps amassed earn ings of $848,900 and set six world - records. An average freight train today contains 66 cars against 46 cars in 1926. Lfilk: District Wrestling Meet ' Scheduled at Grants Pass Medford high will enter 25 men and Crater 18 in the dis trict wrestling tournament which opens Friday and con cludes Saturday at Grants Pass. Other schools in the dis trict include Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, "Glendale, Il linois Valley Eagle Point, Henley and Brookings. The grapplers will contend in 13 weight divisions with ; Medford entering two men in each of the classes except un- limited, or heavyweight, in which Jim Funston will be the lone entrant. He is one of three brothers in the tour ney for the Tornado. The others are Fred Funston, 157 pounds, and Al Funston, 148. The latter is from McLough lin Junior high. Another pair of Medford Medfo: SIPCMRTTS Cincinnati Close To NCAA Bid; Robertson Gets 50 By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer High-scoring Oscar Robert son and his Cincinnati team mates had a "lock" on an NCAA tournament berth to day while Bradley's beaten Braves eyed a National Invi tation tournament bid as a consolation prize. With Robertson scoring 40 points, Cincinnati virtually nailed down the Missouri Val ley conference title and the NCAA bid that goes with it Wednesday night via a "re venge" 94-77 victory over Bradley. Bradley beat Cincin nati, 79-73 on Dec. 30 and kept it close Wednesday until the Bearcat! went off on a 20 point second-half spurt that opened their lead to 82-61. Connie Dierking, 6-9 V2 cen ter who missed Cincinnati's Dec. 30 game with Bradley, shared honors with Robertson Wednesday by tallying 12 points and proving a key man off both backboards. A capa city crowd of 7,291 saw the game at the Cincinnati Field House and another 1,200 watched on a closed circuit TV showing on the campus. Robertson was held to nine points in the first half but then broke loose with 31 in the second, and his game total Field Trial On Sunday Second in a series of five Picnic field trials held by the Rogue Valley Retriever club is to take place at the old military bridge area on the south side of the river on Sun day, Feb. 16, starting at 8 p.m. The judges for the various stakes are: Open, Charley Miller and Irv Warren; quali fying, Weldon Kline and Gene Hunt; derby, Hillman Miller and Dr. Lee Harlow; puppy, Frank Carter and Ray Ritter, field trial chairmen are Walt Cavanaugh and Les Settell. The public is invited to at tend any and all of these trials. There is no admission charge. Budd GibbsOSC Grid Assistant Corvallis (IP) Athletic Director Spec Keene said to day Bud Gibbs, 30, a former four-year letterman at Ore gon State, had been hired as an assistant football coach. Gibbs .ill report here March 1 in time for spring practice. He was a high school star at Hood River before playing end here in 1945, 1947, 1948 and 1949. Gibbs became assistant football coach at Tigard high after graduation and for the past four years has been head coach at Albany high school. vs crater IMS K Y J C H?o Your Mail Tribune Sports Station Friday-8:05 p.m. Saturday 8:05 . p.m. brothers are Bill Hampton, 130, and Merle Hampton, 115, with Merle coming up from McLoughlin. Crater also has a brother combination in Don, 157, and Ron Gillaspey, 168. MEDFORD ROSTER: 97 Don Learn, Ward Mover: 106 Dennis Pugmire, George Chambers; 113 Dan Eddy, Mer Hampton; 123. Sam Jennings, Ray Smith; 130 Bill Hampton, Arnold Wolfe; 136 Jack Joyce, David Aos: 141 Warren Horton, David Jenkins; 148 Al Funston. Henry Courtner; 157 Fred Funston. Jim Scourey; 168 Don Harrison, Har old Friend; 178 Gary Heath. Den nis Jenson; 193 Tom Morris, Don Mann: unlimited Jim Funston. CRATER ROSTER: 97 Butch Barber. David White; 106 Charles Warren; 115 Dick Conway. Mike Nolta: 123 Ralph Dillon, Gay Dean Jones: 130 John Taberna; 136 Max Burton 141 Dean Lamp: 148 Dick Burns; 157 Don Gillaspey, Dole Boles: 168 Ron Gillaspey, Calvin Rhodes or Lorenzo Miller; 178 Jim Gold- enpenny, Curtis Payne; 193 Mike Martin. RIBUNE was the most ever tallied against a Bradley team. The 40 points raised Oscar's season total to 633 in 19 games for a 33.32 average compared to El gin Baylor's 33.72 average and Wilt Chamberlain's 31.07 mark. The loss was the second in the conference and the fifth overall of the season for Brad ley, which is expected to be invited to New York to defend its National Invitation Tour nament title. West Virginia, the nation's second-ranked team, clinched first place in the Southern Conference when it clobbered Virginia Military institute, 104-58. Unlike Cincinanti, however, the Mountaineers must win a post-season confer ence tournament before clinching an NCAA berth. Mixed Golf Duo Upset Jupiter, Fla. (IP) Nan Ber ry of Quincy, 111., and Billy Watts of Fort Lauderdale, who upset one favored team Wednesday, faced another top-flight couple today in the National Mixed Foursomes golf tournament. Miss Berry sank three 30 foot putts to help defeat Bar bara Mclntire of Lake Park, Fla., and Dick Chapman of Pinehurst. N.C., 3 and 2. The Mclntire-Chapman team tied for medalist honors in the qualifying round Tuesday, but lost in a playoff to Joanne Goodwin of Haverhill, Mass., and Jim McHale of Philadel phia. Little Trouble Miss Goodwin and McHale had little trouble advancing Wednesday over Mrs. Grant Messenger of Denton, Tex., and Frank Jones of Dallas, Tex., 5 and 4. Today they were scheduled to meet Cyn thia Sullivan of Harrisburg, Pa., and Harry Shoemaker, Tallahassee, Fla., in an 18 hole morning round. Miss Berry and Watts were paired against the talented Ann Casey Johnstone, Mason City, Iowa, and Bob Cochran, St. Louis, who Wednesday beat Paulette Lee, Coral Ga bles, Fla., arid Wayne Daly, Pompano Beach, Fla., 8 and 7. Two 18-hole rounds were scheduled today, with the semi-finals Friday and the finals Saturday. Texas Golf Open Starts San Antonio, Tex. (IP) Defending champion Jay He bert and 150 other top pro fessional golfers were sched uled to tee off on a course left soggy by melting snow today in the 31st annual Texas Open golf tournament. mm Ml UTAH MENTOR Ray Nagel (above), an assistant coach at UCLA, has been named head football coach at the University of Utah. He succeeds Jack Curtice who resigned to become head coach at Stanford. FIGHTS By United Press Albuquerque," N.M.: Billy Pea cock, 118, Los Angeles, outpointed Gaetano Annaloro, 115, Milan, Italy (10). Pilot Quint Wins 77-54 Vancouver, Wash. (IP) University of Portland defeat ed Montana State 77-54 here Wednesday night to sweep their two-game series. Port land won 74-63 Tuesday night. Montana State got off to an early lead but Portland final ly caught up to tie the score 15-15 with 11:38 to go in the first half. Portland went ahead and moved into as much as an eight point lead in the late stages of the half and ended with a four point margin at halftime, 33-29. Game Knotted In the second half Montana State got in two quick bas kets to knot the score at 33-33 in the first minuate and a half. Then Portland went into a six-point lead again and was never behind for the rest of the game. Jim Altenhofen of Portland was high scorer with 19 points, followed by teammate Dick Jolley with 18. Larry Chanay was high man for Montana State with 15. Jim Armstrong had 14 and tall Ray Scott hit 11 for Portland. Rogue Streams Running High Portland (IP) The weekly report on fishing conditions prepared by the State Game Commission: Southwest: North and South Umpqua would be fair to good if water drops and clears; Cleveland rapids area of main river has been good for steel head. Steelheading fair to good in outlet of Tenmile lake; south ; coastal streams high muddy; Rogue, Applegate and Illinois high. BASEBALL BROADCASTS Portland (IP) Radio sta tion KPOJ announced today it would broadcast the com plete 154-game schedule ( of the Portland Beaver baseball team for the 1958 season. It said play-by-play broadcasts would be made available to other Oregon radio stations outside of Portland. Press Conference To Hear Speaker Eugene (IP) An adver tising agency official will dis cuss "Newspapers and Public Relations" at the Saturday luncheon meeting of the Ore gon Press Conference which opens Friday. Sidney Copeland, former newspaper reporter and now an official of Cole and Weber Advertising Agency of Se attle, will deliver the talk. More than 100 Oregon edi tors and publishers are ex pected to attend the confer ence which is sponsored by the Oregon Newspaper Pub lishers Association and the University of Oregon school of journalism. Francis Ziegler To Seek Reelection Corvallis P Benton County Republican Francis Ziegler today filed his candi dacy for reelection to the Ore gon Senate. He will be seek-! ing his second term in the of fice. Ziegler, a Corvallis crea mery man, has served in the Legislature since 1948 when he was first elected to the House of Representatives. He served three sessions in the House and then, in 1954, was elected to the Senate. He has served on the Ways i and Means committee each session, twice as vice chair- i man. , Investigation of Discrimination in Northwest Slated Washington (IP) Oregon was promised Wednesday that the Defense Department would look into allegations of discrimination against Pacific Northwest firms in awarding of military contracts. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) and Roy F. Renould, chairman of the Greater Portland Com munity Industrial Committee, met with Perkins McGuire, as sistant secretary of defense for supply and logistics. Accompanying them was Robert Weadock, a staff mem ber of the Senate Small Busi ness Committee. Morse said the committee will be asked to investigate the discrimina tion complains if the Defense Department does not satisfy Oregon officials. Morse said he pointed out that Oregon had heavy unem ployment and bankruptcies, that Portland was a labor surplus area and that the area has fine facilities for handling defense work.' Morse also said it was claimed that some 200 ne gotiated defense contracts have gone to San Francisco area firms compared to about a dozen in the Northwest. "We asked to have this in vestigated," he said. "If true it can't be justified." Navy Seeks Part Of Nuclear Bomb Savannah, Ga. (IP) The Navy searched today for a "portion of a nuclear weapon" dropped into the sea last week by an Air Force bomber dam aged in a collision in air. The Air Force reported Wednesday that the B-47 jet bomber pettisoned the device shortly after it collided with an Air Force F-86 at 35,000 feet. But spokesmen said the weapon was not assembled and the portion posed no threat of explosion or radio activity. - -' ' The bomber suffered con siderable damage in the col lision but made a safe land ing at the Air Force base here. The pilot of the fighter bailed out and was unharmed except for frost bite. The people of Savanah ap peared unconcerned about presence of the part, thought to be in an area just off Tybee (Savannah) Beach, 18 miles from the port of Savannah. "These atomic bombs come in many pieces and they aren't dangerous until they actually are assembled," com mented Mayor W. L. Mingle dorff. The Air Force made routine announcement of the collision last Wednesday and made no mention of the nuclear device. It disclosed today that the Navy has been searching' for the part day and night since last Saturday. Michael Wildi Marries Actress Las Vegas (IP) Actor Michael Wilding, 45, former husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor, was married shortly before midnight Wednesday night to Mrs. Susan Nell, 42, English interior decorator. The tall, English film star and Mrs. Nell, who was di vorced in London last July, were wed in the Orchid Chapel, one of about a dozen wedding chapels that stay open around the clock in this gambling resort. . Wilding was wed to Miss Taylor in February, 1952, and divorced by the beautiful film star in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1957. The actress was awarded custody of their two children, Michael, 5, and Christopher, 3. A short time later she mar ried movie producer Mike Todd. Paisley Area Rancher Killed Near Lakeview Lakeview. Ore. OP) A collision between a car and a pickup truck north of here on Highway 395 Wednesday killed one man and injured two others, State Police re ported. Vance Morgan, 69, Paisley area raucher, was killed. His son Grover Morgan. 39, and Arthur Newcomb, 42, Lake- view, the truck driver, were injured. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrewt Ph. SP 2-4107 " " ACCEPTING APPOINTMENT as director of advanced research projects agency, han dling space and antimissile programs, Roy W. Johnson, General Electric Company vice president, greets newsmen at his Stamford, Conn., home. With him are wife, Ellen, and daughter Kristine. Painting is work of Johnson, amateur artist. (International) ILLINOIS VALLEY 0 Valentine Party Slated By HELEN BOTTEL Cave Junction A Val entine king and queen will be crowned at the Parent Teachers association dance on Friday, Feb. 14, at Illinois Valley High school. J. Van Johnson, . music di rector for valley schools, will provide a live orchestra. In charge of arrangements are Mrs. Joe Ollis, Mrs. Orville Meredith and Mrs. Pat White ley. Kerby Parent Teachers as sociation will meet Thursday, Feb. 13, for a "Founder's Day" observance. The Kerby Ditch associa tion board of directors has voted major improvements for the irrigation ditch that provides water for many Kerby and Cave Junction properties. Work, which is to be com pleted this spring, will con sist of rebuilding the upper part of the ditch from the point of diversion on the East Fork of the Illinois river to the bridge on the Redwood highway. The staff at the Illinois Valley Ranger . Station is cruising timber in the Yeag- er Creek area, as weather permits, preparatory to a sale of 12 million feet of tim ber before the end of this fiscal year. The area will be cut into tracts which range from 20 to 40 acres each. It is locat ed along the upper part of Sucker creek, about four miles above the Cedar fire guard station and Grayback Forest Camp. Yiu Chang Han and Yuan Kien Yong, engineers from the Republic of China, Tai wan, visited Oregon Caves last week with R. H. Tub man of the Siskiyou Nation al Forest of f ice, 1 Grants Pass. Bill Blanchard of Grants Pass, millwright at Morre's Mill 2 in O'Brien, and Eu gene Pulley, welder and maintenance man, were call ed back to work Monday. The men are to conduct general repair and mainten ance jobs at the mill which has been closed since last fall. No date has yet been set for its reopening. Ole Ballard, electrician at Moore's Mill, left last week for California where he is COMPACT TABLE RADIO PEAK PERFORMANCE AND TONE POWERFUL S-TOM CHASSIS HIGH IMPEDANCf LOOP ANTENNA SWEEP-HAND DIAL TUNING INDICATOR HEAVY-DUTY PM DYNAMIC SPEAKER NO MONEY DOWN PACKARD 122 E. Main - Medford .Phone SP 3-5348 STORE HOURS: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. IX win la t morning 4 Is soothing masic. Ex I Aw optionally fin ton Thursday, February 13, 1958 employed as an electrician at Arrow Mills, Orick. The state bookmobile is to visit the Illinois Valley Feb. 18. Schedule of stops is Sel ma General store and post office, 10-10:45 a.m.; Kerby Library building, 11-11:45 a.m.; O'Brien school, 1:30- 2 p.m. and Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce, 2:30 5 p.m. The Chamber of Commerce will be hosts to Librarian Miss Rose Davidson and the driver, Donald Bunse at a luncheon, while William J. McLean, local member of the county, library board, has invited them to be his guests a dinner. Miss Davidson and Bunse will stay overnight at a local motel. ' After. four years of house trailer living, Mr. and Mrs. Don Orton and their chil dren, Mike and Connie, have moved to their newly pur chased home on Sucker Creek rd. Mrs. Gordon Stephens and six daughters, Janice, Vir ginia, Leah, Barbara, Lola and Joyce O'Brien, have mov ed to Klamath, Calif., where Stephens has been, employed for the past several months. Blue Star Mothers will meet Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Nila McKinnon, Foster Court, south of Cave Junction. Illinois Valley debaters will have a busy February They are to meet in Grants Pass Tuesday, and on Feb. 20 21, and 22, teams will travel to Linfield college for an invitational tournament, Because no official school census is to -be taken this year, Arch Johnson, princi pal of Kerby grade school, and other grade school prin cipals in the . valley are ask ing families with soon-to-be six year olds to notify them this spring. A fairly accurate count of children who are to enter school next fall is needed, and must be provided in great part by the parents. Those having children who will be six on or before Nov. 15 are asked to send names into Johnson's office at Kerby. First of several exchange musical programs was held . . . ONLY 50c A WEEK BELL MODERN CLOCK RADIO 5A Q5 NO MONEY DOWN vnii MEDFORD (OREGON) Rocfcef Fuel To Be Made af Portland Portland (IP) Pennsyl vania Salt Manufacturing Company said today it plan ned to start manufacturing here soon a fuel used in rock ets and missiles. The firm, which built an electrochemical plant here at the start of World War II, said it would manufacture am monium perchlorate for solid propellants used in missiles. It said production would start within six months. About $800,000 will be spent on plant expansion. Wednesday, Feb. 12, when members of the Illinois Val ley High school band and choir presented a. concert at Crater High school in Central Point. The Crater band and chor us will come to the Illinois Valley Friday, Feb. 28 for a similar exchange program, to be given at a general as sembly. ' Three fathers from the Illinois Valley, Bob Cherry, and Mervyn Hogan of Cave Junction and Ivan Burr of Selma, attended Dad's Week End at Oregon State College, Corvallis. Their sons are Ron Cherry, Dennis Hogan and Alan Burr. Dr. C. N. Versteeg's black Labrador "Velvet" was win ner of third place in open competition at the Rogue Valley Retrievers club trials recently. He competed with close to 50 dogs. This was the first of five trials to be held during the year. Next is set for Sunday, Feb. 23. The J. J. Castleberry ranch on the Holland Loop rd. has been purchased by an Idaho couple, Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Smith. Visiting the S. S. and Ab Castleberry families in the valley is Mrs. Fanny Castle berry of Beaver Creek, mo ther of the two. Another visiting mother Is Mrs. Louise Ehler of Bis marck, N. D., who is spend ing a vacation here with her son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Ehler, and her daughter, and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Goff. New officers for the Sage Saddlie'rs, 4-H riding club are Clark England, president; Ray Thrasher, vice president; Peter Hines, secretary and Arlene Hoover, reporter. 9VC TO ECU 77 MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEBH Price of Fuel Oil Reduced at Portland Portland (IP) The firsts fuel oil price reducation here in nine years was announced today. T Shell Oil Company said iter tank truck delivery price on heating oils would be reduced .7 of one cent per gallon. This " will cut its Portland deliver- " ed tank truck price to distri-" butors to 14.5 cents a gallon on furnace oil. t Several distributors said", the retail prices to homeown-" ers would drop from 16.5 to A 15.8 cents a gallon. ... so good its remarkable: I!"? 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