Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 25, 1958, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextI osizales Gap on Dallas, Tex. W Pro ten nis kins? Pancho Gonzales said today he thought he played the best tennis of the current tour Monday night when he defeated Lew Hoad, 6-3, 7-5 to narrow the Aus sie's lead to 16-9. "It was the first time I have been satisfied with my game since the start of the tour," Pancho said. "I feel I am getting stronger and my , Speedster Planning 220 Record Smash, Marriage . By CLYDE JABIN United Press Sport Writer Fresno, Calif. (W Dimin utive Mike Agostini of Fres no State College is planning a permanent, calypso - style spring into the far reaches of Canada where a pretty blonde is his main attraction but he also still has his eye on a new 220-yard world record. Agostini, the smallest of the current crop of "world's fastest humans," has been smitten by the love bug. The object of his affection is Mad eline Finnegan, 18, of Edmon ton. Alta. The couple became engaged during the Christmas season and Mike has applied for cit izenship papers. Before his matrimonial pur suit, however, the' 23-year-old Trinidad speedster is going to take another crack at the spring dash events. Mike not only wants a 200-yard dash record again but has a new theory for outrunning the pack. "That's relax, man; you gotta relax," says Agostini. "And that's what I aim .to do this season. In the past, I be came so keyed up before some races my legs hurt." Run For Fun One way the five-foot, sev en and one-half inch sprinter believes he can relax is "to run for the fun of it and may be the record time will come along." Mike zipped into the track spotlight two years ago with a record 20.1 clocking in the 220 at Bakersfield. The time was lowered to 20 seconds flat .by Duke University's Dave "Sime and Mike believes a time as low as 19.6 is possible for the event. Agostini, who began com- tm o o c o frire$tonc STORES 214 South Riverside Ave. Phone SP 2-7119 'II., (3S U A-2 Bistrict iASCCETISMIL Starts Hoad in serve is as good as it ever has been. "I feel as though I can con tinue cutting the gap between us now," he said. "I've won two of the last three matches we've played." Hoad, however, was a bit gusted with his play, although he was not disappointed. "I don't even have to win half the remaining matches to win the tour," he said. petitive sprint races at 16, also has excelled in the 100 yard dash where he has had an unofficial 9.3 clocking to match the world mark. How ever, he prefers the 220 be cause "in the hundred I think the distance is so short. I have to run hard all the way." Slowed By Illness An attack of Asian flu last autumn forced Agostini to give up daily workouts for the longest period since he began racing. He now has started gradual practice sessions for his final season at Fresno State and hopes to regain his form. j. Mike, who competed in the 1956 Olympics for Trinidad, met Madeline last summer while running in the British Empire Games. She is a Scottish highland dancer. But love is not the only reason why Agostini wants to becsme a Canadian citizen. He explains that he prefers the cool weather there as compared to the warm cli mate in Trinidad. He also plans to take graduate study in Canada after getting his degree in business adminis tration at Fresno State. "I'll always have a love for Trinidad naturally," he adds. "And I hope the island's loss will be Canada's gain." Program to Help Taxpayers Slated Salem A comprehensive program for assisting taxpay ers in all parts of Oregon in filing their state income tax returns has been scheduled by the State Tax commisf.on from now until the April 15 deadline, according to Com missioner Chairman S. ' W. Horn. Auditors already are avail able for such purposes at the commission's headquarters in Salem and at the Portland branch office. Part-time serv ice will be announced locally by the commission's branch offices in Astoria, Bend, Eu gene, Klamath Falls, Medford, North Bend, Ontario, Pendle ton and Roseburg. In March and April, traveling audit teams will cover virtually all other communities in the state, Horn reported. Places, dates and hours will be an nounced well in advance through newspapers, radio stations, and by posters. , Taxpayers presently seek ing assistance at the commis sion offices in Salem and Portland are finding little or no delay, he said. As the deadline nears, the waiting lines will grow, necessitating delays in many cases, he pointed out. Brazil is the world's second largest corn grower, the U.S. ranking first. The Direct from So. Oregon College Gym! For SPORTS it's KYJC Your Mail Tribune Station THURSDAY 6:30 p.m Glendale vs. Rogue River 7:45 p.m Eagle Point vs. Henley 9:00 p.m Illinois Valley vs. Brookings SATURDAY 9:30 Championship Game Closing Matches With a fourth of the tour completed, Hoad could win onlv 35 of thp remaining matches and still dethrone Pancho. In Monday night's matches, Pancho s big service carried him to the two-set match win. He broke through the Aussie's serve in the sixth game of the first set, and again in the third game of the second set In the 11th game, with Hoad serving, Gonzales won a love game, then went on to take the 12th also. In the Dreliminary match Tony Trabert stretched his lead over Pancho Segura to 6-5 with an 8-5 win. In the doubles nightcap, Gonzales and Trabert beat Hoad and Segura, 6-4, 7-5. Oregon Frosh Post 11th Win Eueene (IP) The Ore gon Frosh bounced Grays Harbor junior college, 88-61, in a preliminary basketball game before the California- Oregon tilt in McArthur court Monday night. The Frosh amassed 58 points in the second hi If, to post their 11th win in 14 sea sonal starts this year. Frosh forward Denny Strickland took game honors with 22 points. Guard Den nis Stepp was high for Grays Harbor with 18. The Duck lings led at halftime 30-27. BEAVERS SIGNS PACT Portland (IP) Ollie Brant ley, right-handed pitcher who won 22 and lost 15 for Eugene last season in the Northwest league, has signed his 1958 Portland Beaver contract. Truman Not To Criticize Ike New York (ffl Former President Truman said today he would not criticize Presi dent Eisenhower for taking Mrs. Eisenhower on a government-paid trip to Arizona, "even though some people think Mr. Eisenhower went too far out of his way." "Whatever the President sees fit to do for the welfare of his family he should be allowed to do without a lot of people jumping on him," Truman said. "I remember when I used to go home to see my mother on her deathbed, some unfair newspaper pub lishers screamed at me and said I was wasting the tax payers' money. "I don't believe in attack ing a man through his family. They could say what they wanted about me when I was president but when they at tacked my family they knew they'd better look out." Truman spoke to newsmen at his hotel here before leav ing for .the airport and a flight to Washington. COW HAS TRIPLETS Maryville, Tenn. HP) An Ayrshire cow beat the 100,-000-to-one odds Monday by giving birth to triplet calves. She did not overcome the 400,000-to-one odds against the calves being identical, however. They , were merely similar. A slope from the head to the foot was a feature of beds in the 12th and 13th centur ies. 1230 on your dial mi PRE-SEASON SWEAT Milwaukee Braves pitcher Bob Trowbridge tries out the sweat box with a towel assist from Don Kaiser Medforiv&,Tribune Yost, Erskine Show Way in Spring Camps By UNITED PRESS Eddie Yost and Carl Er skine, a pair of 31-year-old veterans who had it tough in 1957, are showing the rookies what hard work means this spring in an effort to reestab lish themselves as stars. Yost, told he'll have to bat tle Harmon Killebrew for Washington's regular third base job, checked in at the Senators' camp Monday and gave a sparkling exhibition around the hot. corner. "This is the first time in four years I'm reportong with no aches, pains or lingering illnesses," he said. "I think my physical troubles are be hind me and I'm ready to go." Erskine Pitches Hrskine, a sore-arm case who only had a 5.-3 record with the Dodgers last season, delighted Manager Walt Al ston when he pitched batting practice for the first time. "He was only pitching about half speed," comment ed Alston. "But he was throwing better than he. did at any time all last spring." Alston also said that John Roseboro, one of three top contenders for the stricken Roy Campanella's catching job, "is responding to special batting instruction." Rose boro, 24, hit .273 in 48 games for Montreal last season but only .145 in 35 games for the Dodgers. Manager Al Lopez wasted no time putting his high-salaried pitching staff to work when trie Chicago White Sox officially opened camp at Tampa, Fla. Early Wynn, ac quired from Cleveland, was the first to work, followed by Billy Pierce, Dick Donovan, Jim Wilson, Bob Keegan and Bill Fischer. All 43 White Sox players participated in the drill.' i Ruben Gomez was the eye opener at Phoenix, Ariz., where the San Francisco Gi ants began training, Gomez, 15-13 last season, breezed through his first mound chore and won, the comment, "He's ready right now" from Man ager Bill Rigney. Oregon Maternal Death Rate Low Portland (IP) The State Board of Health said today provisional figures showed Oregon last year continued its record as one of the world's safest places to raise a fam ily. Only eight deaths were re corded from causes stemming from pregnancy or childbirth for a rate of 0.2 deaths per 1,000 childbirths, placing 1957 in a tie with 1955 for the second-lowest number of maternal deaths in Oregon's history. All-time low was the five deaths and rate of 0.1 re ported in 1951, when Oregon set a new national record for safe childbirth. Dr. Harold M. Ericksbn, state health officer, said only one mother died last year for each 4673 deliveries, com pared to one per 1000 deliv eries a decade ago and one per each 167 deliveries in 1930. INVESTIGATE EXPLOSION New Delhi, India (IP) In dian Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon planned a trip to Pathankot today to in vestigate a railroad yard ex plosion which killed 30 per sons and injured 15 others. Civilian laborers and military personnel were among the victims. The blast occurred Monday 350 miles northwest of here. Notes from other camps: Manager Fred Haney had his world champion Milwaukee Braves bunting early and of ten at Bradenton, Fla., but General Manager John Quinn is still having his signing trouble. No less than 13 Braves were unsigned. . .Ken Lehman, slender lefty who had an 8-3 record last season, signed with the Baltimore Or ioles for an estimated $4,000 raise. Dick Drott, who won 15 games and struck out 170 bat ters as a rookie last season, is expected to report to the Chi cago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., to day. .. .Outfielder Lou Skizas agreed to terms with the De troit Tigers, . leaving only Charley Maxwell unsigned. . . .Pitcher George Susce Jr., was placed on the Boston Red Sox' holdout list but showed up a few minutes later with his signed contract in his pocket. The New York Yankees' holdout list was reduced to six players today with the signing of pitchers Bob Grim and Johnny Kucks. R. F. GUGGENHEIM, Business Executive, San Francisco, Calif. "I've never before felt, such comfort and pride of possession." The trend is after the two hurlers arrived for spring training at Bradenton, Fla. Kaiser recently was traded to the Braves by Chicago Cubs. Youth Burned As Rocket Explodes Portland (IP) Allister MacPherson, 20, a young rocket fancier, was severely burned Monday night when a military rocket he was un loading exploded. and burned in the basement of his south west Portland home. The house was damaged by fire. He suffered burns over much of his body and was taken to a hospital. MacPherson said he was not certain what caused the explosion. It might have been the result of a spark or fric tion. The home was filled with acrid smoke and firemen wore masks in combating the resulting basement blaze that caused an estimated $75000 damage to the house. A friend, John Robinson, said MacPherson had obtain ed a box of military rockets from a surplus store in Olym pia and was taking the pow der out of one to render it harmless for a rocket lecture he had been invited to give. KEEP NAME SECRET- Frankfurt,. Germany (111 Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco have chosen the name for their expected second child but are keeping it a "state secret," Mrs. Mar garet Kelly of Philadelphia said today. Mrs. Kelly, moth er of Princess Grace, arrived Monday from Monaco for a 10-day visit. Her parents were born in Germany. More Edsels sold in less time than any other new make of car! OWNERS SAY EDSEL IS THE GREATEST DANIEL C. GOLD, Builder, Daytona Beach, Fla. "More than 300 horsepower yet I get 21 miles to the gallon on the road, 17 in town." Over 38,000 Edsels sold to Edsel-so we're making See your Edsel Dealer and road-check 1958's most remarkable automobile COLEMAN-EDSEL SALES, INC. Sixth and Fir IN OTHER AREAS SEE YOUR LOCAL EDSEL DEALER Tuesday, February 25, 1?58 Willamette Narrows Gap in NW Circles By UNITED PRESS Willamette closed the gap in the Northwest Conference basketball race Monday night by trimming Whitman while Linfieid was losing to College of Idaho. After the eastern invasion in which both Oregon teams lost two out of three games, Bonneville, Copco Make Power Pact Richmond, Va. Arrange ments have been completed whereby Bonneville Power administration will transmit over its lines power supplied by California Oregon Power company to the Reynolds Metals company aluminum smelting plant at Troutdale, Ore. Reynolds has become the largest industrial user of pri vate power in the area. The contract between Bonneville and Copco makes available for purchase by Reynolds 65, 100 kilowatts of firm power with the amount to be in creased on July 1, 1959 to 95, 200 kilowatts. The contract extends until June 30, 1973. Bonneville will continue to supply additional power to the Troutdale plant and to a similar facility operated by Reynolds at'Longview, Wash. Debbie Reynolds Has Second Child Hollywood (IP) Actress Debbie Reynolds was "doin' fine" today at St. Joseph's hospital in nearby Burbank where her second, child, a son, weighing 8 pounds and 7V& ounces, was born Mon day. Her husband, singer Eddie Fisher, was so confident the child would be a boy he sent a box of "It's A Boy," cigars to an NBC rehearsal stage while he waited for the birth. Fisher had been forced to miss rehearsal for his show. The boy was born shortly af ter noon. The couple has a daughter, Carrie Frances, 1. GENERAL WEDS Santa Barbara, Calif. (IP) Gen.' Ear le E. Partridge, com manding general of the Air Defense command, Colorado Springs, Colo., was wed here Monday to Mrs. Elizabeth Cowles. BETTY M. HARRIS, Secretary, Memphis, Tenn. "Drives and handles like a dream. Teletouch shifting is so easy and convenient." in five months this special introductory offer: MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN" Liiniieia suu noias a narrow half-game lead with a 9-4 mark to 9-5 for the Salem team. Willamette, with one con ference game left, just about had to come through Monday night. And the Bearcats did that by downing Whitman 85- 75 as they sank 31 out of 44 free throws. Willamette's Vic Backlund led all scorers with 24 while Tom Johns had 23. Linfieid took a 93-86 beat ing from College of Idaho which hasn't lost on its home floor in a conference game this season. Bill Machamer. who had 38 points against Whitman Saturday night, had just 8 Monday night. Jackie Riley had 22 for Linfieid while Don Moore hit 21 for the winners. HABITUAL GENEROSITY Towner, N.D. (IP) An empty cream bottle was left on the counter of a store here for about 24 hours. When a clerk noticed it, he found it jingling with almost a dollar in "contributions." The bottle has gone back to the cream ery; the change went to the March of Dimes. OLD STORE - NO MORE! NEW STORE - VALUES GALORE! Yes, ACME Has MKIDVIEIID Out of the High Rent District! " Our New Building is Conveniently Located at 245 South Central at 10th FREE PARKING While you shop at SPECIALISTS 245 South Central at CLYDE C. POWELL, Insurance Exec., Dothan, Ala. "A beautifully built car . . . and I know I got an exceptional deal when I bought it." Sonic 1 1 Because we know owners enthusiasm is sell ing Edsels like nothing else can, we'll give you a special introductory allowance. You'll save hundreds of dollars if you act now. Edsel is the only car in its field selling more every day with over 21 increase the last month alone! You know, yourself, how many more Edsels you've been seeing on the road. And we're pushing sales higher still with this wonderful deal , So come in soon. See how great the Edsel is to drive how easy to own! EDSEL DIVISION FORD MOTOR COMPANY Man Arrested for Theft of Speaker H Ashland Bert Leroy John son, 20, of 120 Jeannette st Medford, was arrested by; Ashland city police earlj; Sunday morning on a charge of petty theft. -? Johnson, who was turned over to Jackson county sher iff's officers, is charged with the theft of a speaker from Lithia drive-in theater last year. Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (IP) Dr. Ervin S. Acel, a United States Olympic fencing tearm member in 1928, died Mon--day at the age of 69. He was president of Ervin S. sAcel. Inc., an advertising firm ift New York City. AIL MAKES OF . Garden Tractors And Lawn Mowers SERVICED! Repairing Sharpening PICKUP ft DELIVERY Service BIG Y SUPPLY 1948 Pacific Hiway North Phone SP 3-31 60 QUALITY At Lowest Prices! IN HOMEWARSS I 1 0th Phone SP 2-5201 E. GALLAHER, Chief of Police, Pendleton, Ore. "Rugged, powerful, eas iest to handle. I'm glad our new police cars are Edsels."