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ROGUE LEAGUE CHAMPIONS The Phoenix high bas ketball team, above, will attempt this week end to add the District 6 A-2 southern division championship to the Rogue league crown it wrapped up recently. The Pirates will be among seven teams vying in the subdistrict tourney start ing Thursday night at Southern Oregon college gym in 6 A-2 Subdistrict (Opens Thursday at With Phoenix the Rogue league champion, it would be natural to make the Pirates of Jackson county the favor ites in the District 6 A-2 southern division tourney which opens Thursday at Southern Oregon college in Ashland. However, a review of the Rogue campaign shows a close chase and points up that three other teams must be considered hot contenders for the division banner. They are Glendale, Brookings and Eagle Point. And Henley, from Klamath county, rates as an "unknown." Glendale opens the tourney on. Thursday with a 6:30 p.m brush with Rogue River. Oth er games are Eagle Point ver sus Henley at 7:45 p.m. and Brookings against Illinois Valley at 9 p.m. Glendale-Rogue River win ner wil meet Phoenix at 7:45 p.m. on Friday and the Eagle Point-Henley victor will op pose the Brookings-IV winner in t the other Friday semi final. Championship finals will be on Saturday at 9 p.m. after third place and conso lation games. A consolation round tussle also will be played on Friday and the I tourney schedule is three games per night. Phoenix, which has a 14-2 record against prep competi tion for the 1957-1958 season, Voa out in the Rogue league by ne game over Glendale an Brookings. Eagle Point, which is 10-8 for the full league and non-loop slate, Was only two games off the Stle pace. Rogue River was vinless in the circuit and Illi aols "Valley defeated only Rogue River in the league. Neither is considered a strong contender for the tourney toga but each will be trying for at least a spoiler role. Henley enters the tourna ment with an 11-10 mark. Most of its games were with Klamath county B aggrega tions. The Hornets played an ALL YOU CAN MAKE on ine mggesi seuer Of the pr7ovner;imodeJ I There hare been some exciting changes made since yon bought your car. And no need to look twice to discover that the BIG change is in Olds for '58! Big-car style, big-car comfort, big-car performance with economy mean big-value leadership! It's rocketed Olds into 1st place in sales in the medium price class. We're celebrating with our gala "OLDSmobility OPEN HOUSE!" Stop in NOW for a Rocket Ride. SEI YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED OLDSMOBILB DEALER DARRELL MILLER CO. -41 independent regular season schedule. With a total of 826 mark ers, Phoenix has averaged 51.6 points per game. Oppo nents piled up 639 for 39.9 average. Jim Stout has been the individual scoring leader with 217 and a 13.56 average for 16 games. Gary Simmonds has collared 155 for 9.69 per conflict. Other scoring totals and averages are Lester Schleigh 103 for 6.44, Doug Witte 98 for 6.13, Jim Heath 88 for 5.5, Don Wallace 73 for 4.56, PITCHING ACE John Antonelli (left), ace mound staffer for the San Francisco Giants, shows off his pitching form under the watchful eyes of rookies Ernie Broglio (center) and Pete Burnside during Giants' spring training session in Phoenix. Ariz. Both rookies are considered good pitch ng prospects. THIS WEEK A TERRIFIC DEAL cars! is the BIG value with the BIG style change! 5 S. RIVERSIDE AVE. Ashland. They drew a first round bye and will appear Fri day in the semi-final round. From left are Gary Simmonds, Don Wallace, Lester Schleigh, Jim Waldron, Doug' Witte, Bob Taylor, Jim Heath, Ron Daugherty, Jim Stout and Terry Hamilton. Coach is Jack Woodward. Tourney Asfila Jim Waldron 59 for 3.69. Ter ry Hamilton 27 for 1.69, Ron Daugherty 7 for .44 and Bob Taylor 4 for .25. Eagle Point has piled up 780 points averaging 43.3 dur ing 18 games while opponents totaled 811 for 45 plus. Bill Turner recorded 270 counters for 15-point average. Ron Veach put in 159 for 8.8, Wayne Christian 132 for 7.76 and Bill Hubbard 84 for 4.7. Radio station KYJC will broadcast the Thursday games and Saturday cham pionship ruckus. CLUB NEWS Howard Feeders A business meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Kurtz. Jimmy Jones called the meeting to order, and Gary Spirers led in the pledge. The Friendship Fol lies were discussed. Keith Longie, Reporter. Crooked Stitches Club The 4-H Crooked Stitches club held a meeting Feb. 24 in the Hanby school cafeteria following school hours. Mrs. Walter Dye, our leader, told us how to make back stitches. Ten members were present. Brownie Troop Visits Mail Tribune Plant Members of Brownie Troop 60, third grade of Jackson school, visited the Mail Trib une Tuesday afternoon. They were Nikki Marshall, Judy Rickard, Maria Ysunza, Virginia Martin, Peggy Drink water, Carol Borgen, Shirley Isaacs, Conny Varner, Almeda Stabler, Retta Culy, Donna White, Gail Rothboeck, and Alice Schafer. They were ac companied by Mrs. B. E. Culy and Mrs. C. W. Marshall, leaders. Paulette Goddard, ' Husband, Honeymoon Branford, Conn. (IP) Ac tress Paulette Goddard and her new husband, author Erich Maria Remarque, were honeymooning today at a place that was kept a "won derful secret." Miss Goddard, 42, and the author of "All Quiet on The Western Front" were married late Tuesday in the office of Town Court Judge Cornelias T. Driscoll. nd 443 SPORTS Philadelphians Eye Clincher By UNITED PRESS The Philadelphia Warriors, who dealt a death blow to the New York Knickerbocker's hopes for a third place finish in the Eastern Division of the National Basketball Associa tion, will get a chance to nail down the coffin tonight. Philadelphia beat the Knicks, 132-110, in the fea ture game of a Madison Square Garden double-header Tuesday night to gain a four game lead for the last play-off spot. 'With only nine games left, the Warriors can virtual ly clinch it with another win tonight when the two teams meet in the opener of a Syra cuse twin-bill. In the opener of Tuesday's doubleheader, George Yard ley scored 44 points as the De troit Pistons edged St. Louis, 114-113, in overtime. Prep Scores TUESDAY BASKETBALL, By United Press Grant 78, Wilson 45 Rosevelt 53. Benson 42 Jefferson 57. Cleveland 53 "Lincoln 55. Washington 51 Franklin 81. Madison 31 Talent 45, Jacksonville 30 Beaverton 65. Parkrose 50 Forest Grove 68, Lake Oswego 48 Oregon City 57, Newberg 44 Milwaukie 45, David Douglas 44 St. Helens 85, Tillamook 62 Central Catholic 54, Hillsboro 45 Tigard 54, West Linn 49 - Hood River 70, WyEast 52 Molalla 81. Sandv 60 Oakridge 71, Willamette 53 North Marion 48, Serra 41 Scappoose 63, Clatskanie 43 Philomath 51. Willamina 38 Dallas 53, Central 49 Woodburn 42, Cascade 40 (double overtime) Banks 42, Yamhill 41 Silverton 43, Gervais 42 Sherwood 54, Dayton 43 Estacada 63, Canby 58 Corbett 58, Concordia 48 Stayton 69, Mt. Angel 44 Star of the Sea 50, Warrenton 43 Cub Scouts Lone Pine Cub Scout Pack 44 The Lone Pine Cub Scout Pack 44 held their blue and gold dinner at the Lone Pine school recently. Bob Shirley, new Cubmaster, conducted the ceremony. Bob Church and Paul Gasparatte were speakers. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Merriman and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stroup. Receiving Weblos badges were David Wilson, Tom Childens, Doug Thomsen; lion badges, Jack Kenny, Cliff Dalton, Dick Lindsey; bear badge, Bruce iHawkins, Tom my Woods; bobcat pin, James Garnet. Golden arrows were given to Cliff Dalton, Mike Gard ner, Gary Horton, Steven Vance, David West, Gary Redfield; silver arrows, David Thomsen, Cliff Dalton, Kent Clark, Mike Gardner, Gary Horton, Phillip John, David West, Gary Redfield. A one-year pin went to Martin Kees, Greg Paul, Da vid West, Steven Vance, Phil lip John, Mike Gardner. Denner stripes went to Criss Heisel and Douglas Verschoon. Leond Gage Wins Contest for Divorce Las Vegas (IPl Leona Gage, pretty 22-year-old moth er of two who was Miss USA for a day last summer until her marriage was discovered, has divorced her husband, Air Force Sgt. Gene Ennis. The shapely brunette, now a Tropicana showgirl, was granted the divorce Tuesday and $50 monthly support for her two children, Gene Jr., 3, and Nathan, 2. Miss Gage entered the Miss Universe Pageant in Long Beach, Calif., as Miss Mary land, and was chosen for the Miss USA title. Later she was disqualified. . Slie was married to Ennis in 1954 in Vernon, Tex. IMiteff 5th In Ratings Of Boxers New York (IB Young Alex Miteff of Argentina jumped from ninth place to fifth among heavyweight con tenders in the Ring Magazine's latest ratings today because of last Friday's gory victory over big Nino Valdes. Miteff, 23 years old Tues day, is now ranked just below the United States "big four" Eddie Machen, Zora Folley, Willie Pastrano and Roy Harris. Valdes of Cuba dropped from sixth to eighth because of his split-decision defeat at Madison Square Garden. Miteff now has 15 victories in 16 starts. Coincidentally, big Mike DeJohn of Syracuse, N. Y., who tagged Miteff with his only defeat on Oct. 9 with a first - round knockout, was dropped from seventh clear out of the top 10 because he hadn't fought since then. Ingemar Johansson of Swe den was boosted from 10th to seventh because of last Fri day's impressive 13th-round kayo of Joe Erskine of Wales. Johansson also gained the Ring's "Fighter of the Month" award. Willie Besmanoff of Germany' re-entered the top 10 at number nine because of his upset victory over Pat Mc Murtry of Tacoma, Wash., who sank from fifth to 10th. Moore on Top Davey Moore of Springfield, O., became top contender for the featherweight crown be cause of another in his series of victories a win over Mexican Fili Nava. Moore re placed Cherif Hamia of France who dropped to second be cause of inactivity. In the light heavyweight division, Canadian Yvon Du relle advanced a notch to second because of his kayo over Clarence Hinnant. Yo lande Pomey of Trinidad, B.WI.. slipped from second to third. Young Gene (Ace) Arm strong of Elizabeth, N. J., en tered the middleweight rat ings at number 10 because of his 14th straight professional victory on a decision over Charley Joseph of New Or leans, who dropped from ninth out of the ratings. In the lightweight class, vet eran Orlando Zulueta of Cuba sank from number nine, out of the rankings, to make room for Dave Charnley of England. RAMS SIGN SWIACKI Los Angeles HP) Bill Swi acki will return to pro foot ball next season as an end coach with the Los Angeles Rams. A former Columbia university All-America, Swi acki played with the New York Giants and Detroit Lions from 1948 through 1952 and later served as head coach of the Toronto Argo nauts for two seasons. TAR HEELS ADD IRISH Chapel Hill, N.C. (IP) The University of North Carolina will meet Notre Dame in bas ketball next season at Char lotte, N.C. It will mark only the second time the schools have met in basketball. The Irish whipped the Tar Heels, 89-70, in Chicago earlier this month. Ask Name Change For Coos Bay School Coos Bay (IP) Officials of the Coos Bay Chamber of Commerce said here today thev will try to persuade stu dents of Marshfield high school to change its name to Coos Bay high school. Tom O'Dwyer, president of the chamber, said the city loses much favorable public ity that would accrue from the school's fine athletic record because of confusion over the name. When the city of Coos Bay changed its name from Marshfield. students at the high school voted to retain their old name. School directors have said they would not change the school name without student consent and the school's stu dent body has voted several times against any change. 35 Drown as India Bus Swerves Off Road New Delhi, India (IP) Thirty-five passengers were drowned Tuesday when a bus swerved off a road into a wat er hole, it was reported today. The victims included 18 women and five children. Nicaragua is about the same area as Michigan. WANTED Link Trainer Operator Military or Civilian Trained To Operate Link Part Time Rogue Flying Services, Inc. Mun. Airport, Medford Phone SP 3-251l' i x IIPIHI sir " 2 ! t. '. ' ' 'Vi,!..".'.'."vy .'.y ,i .1..' .. M ww:-, . I960 OLYMPIC SYMBOL This is the symbol selected from more than 600 preliminary designs as the official emblem for the Vm Olympic Winter Games to be held in Squaw Valley, Calif., in 1960. The symbol, a free-form design by the art department of the Knollin Advertising Agency of San Francisco, Calif., will be imprinted on posters, windshields and baggage stickers, for world-wide distribution. Talent High Cage Campaign Unbeaten Jacksonville Talent high closed out its regular season against prep competition un beaten by tripping Jackson ville 45 to 30 last night. It was the 18th straight triumph for the Bulldogs. Quarter leads all favored Talent 11 to 4, 24 to 12 and 35 to 22. Phil Combs of the Bulldogs topped scorers with 22 markers. Jerry Baer was next with nine for Talent and Fred McKeen had eight for the Redskins. California Defense Best Among PCC Los Angeles (IP) The Uni versity of California's defense, as suspected by its opposition, ranks as the best in the Paci fic Coast conference, official PCC statistics showed today. California, currently hold ing down the PCC basketball lead, has permitted its foes only 52.1 points per game. The Golden Bears also rank second in rebounding, with a percentage of 52.6 compared to 58.2 for league leading Oregon State. Oregon State is second in defense yielding an average of 54.8 points per game. Stanford is next with 59.8. Idaho, whose Gary Sim mons has the top individual scoring record with 22.5 points per game, heads all other conference fives in team scoring with an average of 69.5 for 13 games. Oregon State has 65.2 and UCLA, 63.8. Oregon State boasts the best field goal percentage 39.4, trailed by Idaho with 38.9 and Oregon with 38.2. Oregon State's Dave Gam bee, although only fourth in scoring for the season, broke an all-time PCC record last week when he pushed his total for three campaigns to 858 points. That surpassed the previous mark of 855, set by Bob Houbregs when at Wash ington in 1951-53. Smart Second Trailing Simmons in the in dividual scoring race were Doug Smart, Washington, with an average of 20.9 points a game, and Charlie Franklin, Oregon, with 19.8. Gambee's average is 18.9. Smithsonian Gets Texas Sardine Washington OP) The Smithsonian Institution has acquired a Texas sardine. It is, naturally, 16 feet long. It s name is Xiphactinus and it lived 100 million years ago in a large sea that cov ered Texas and the rest of the Great Plains. It preyed on smaller fish. The Smithsonian got its specimen from the University of Texas. It said Xiphactinus "was a member of the herring tribe and might have been de scribed as an overgrown sar dine.',' "It must have been one of the terrors of the primeval ocean," the Smithsonian said. Wednesday, February 26, 1953 Ends Regular Fouls hurt the Jacksonville cause. Talent picked up a 17 to 8 margin in free tosses. Eldon Smith of Jacksonville suffered a cut above the eye which necessitated stitches. Jacksonville won the junior varsity fray 31 to 30. LINE-UPS: 45 Talent Jacksonville 30 F 2 Gingerich Perreard 4 F 4 Walls Bransom 6 C 22 Combs Dowell 6 G 9 Baer Davis 2 G 7 Welburn Smith 4 Substitutions For Talent, Con ner, Pitman 1, Toll, Snyder, Sea ver; for Jacksonville, Hanley, Whit ney, Matheny, Cair, McKeen 8. Aggregations Smart leads all rebounders with 18.7 per game, against 15.5 for Gambee and 14.5 for Hal Duffy of Oregon. Gerry Thuesen, of Stanford, is setting the pace in free throw percentages with 30 good in 33 tries, while team mate Dick Haga has the edge in field goal averages, thanks to a record of 44 buckets in 86 attempts. Hal Damiano of Idaho, who played only seven games before injuries side lined him, has an average "of .467, compared to .451 for Lee Harman of Oregon State. Gambee is second in both rebounds and free throws, averaging .846 in the latter de partment on 55 gift points in 65 attempts. Don Mcintosh of Cal is third, with .837 on 46 in 55 efforts. . Russian Native Gels $128,000 From Quiz New York (IP) A native of Russia who came to America 10 years ago, as a penniless immigrant pocketed the first installment of $128,000 Tues day night on a television quiz show for his knowledge of American history. Dr. Alexander Sas-Jawor-sky, a veterinarian now of Abbeville, La., won the money on CBS's "$64,000 Question" program last week. He appeared Tuesday night to say he would not try for the show's top $256,000 jackpot. Sas-Jaworsky said he thought it was time to go home to his family and "my patients." The program's master of cere monies announced that the prize would be paid over two years. Sas-Jaworsky left with a $64,000 check. The wool clip in Texas in one year amounted to about 44,220,000 pounds, and it is estimated it was worth about $26 million at market prices then. HFC solves 2 million money problems a year RS IRS Modern money terviee backed by SO yean of experience f AUTO RUjA mm 0USEH0LD FINANCE 128 E. Main St., 2nd Floor PHONE: SPring 3-5301 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN" Tornado Seeks to Boost Scoring Strenght for GP Two chances to one it will be "make or break" in the Friday and Saturday night basketball series between Medf ord and Grants Pass high schools. j If the Cavemen of GP re serve their success of previ ous encounters and sweep both games from the Tornado, they'll clinch second place in the Southern Oregon confer ence and gain a berth in the state A-l tournament. If Med- ford can come out on top in both games, it will take over second spot from the Climate city boys but any cinching still would have to wait a week until the final series of the season with other foes. A split in the games Friday night at Medford and Satur day evening at Grants Pass will preserve the Cavemen's one game lead over the Tor nado. The two tussles are still rated toss-ups. Medford won the previous contests this year 46 to 40 and 43 to 42. KF at Crater Other Southern Oregon conference action this week will have Klamath Falls meet ing Crater Friday and Satur day at Central Point. The Pelicans already have claimed the league champonship. As the Tornado preps for the Cavemen this week, Coach Frank Roelandt is working to develop a combi nation which will provide more scoring strength but not lessen the effectiveness of other departments. Lowell Dean, sophomore regular who missed the Ash- Mover Records Knockout Win Portland OP) Denny Moy er, Portland, scored a fourth round knockout over Howard Dixon, Seattle, in the final televised fight card at the Eagles hall here Tuesday night. In the prelims, .Harvey Burke, Portland, -knocked out Dave Miner, Portland, in 3; Bobby Wright, Portland, scored a second round TKO over Ralph Colvin, Portland; Billy Cox, Vancouver, Wash., won a second round TKO over Don Dee, Portland, and Hugh Williams and Bull Hal sey of' Portland fought to a four-round draw. Peron Expected To Remain in Exile Buenos Aires IB Ousted Argentine dictator Juan D. Peron probably will remain in exile, political observers said today. Arturo Frondizi, elected president Sunday in the na tion's first free election in 30 years, declared throughout his campaign that he favored complete amnesty for all po litical prisoners. But he said Monday that amnesty will be granted through Congress and not be executive decree. He added in reply to a di rect question that it also would be entirely up to Con gress to decide whether Peron would be allowed' to return. Frondizi hinted that he would not send a message to Congress on the subject of Peron's return, even though the former strongman aided Frondizi's election by instruct ing his large bloc of followers here to support Frondizi. 'Fair Lady Composer Suffers Thrombosis New York (IP) Frederick Loewe, 56, composer of the hit musical "My Fair Lady," suffered a coronary thrombo sis in his hotel room early to day and is in serious condi tion at a hospital, his office announced. Loewe was stricken in his room at the Hotel Algonquin where he makes his home, his associate, Norman Rosemount, said. About one-third of the autos in use in the U. S. are more than 10 years old. More people borrow from HFC than any other consumer finance company. Reason: HFC has an 80-year reputation for helpful advice on money man agement and prompt, friendly service on loans. You can borrow up to $1500 from HFC with repayment terms you choose. land series last week end be cause of a foot infection was" back in practice, uniform yes-.-terday and may be ready for duty against the Cavemen. He just "shot around" yesterday and Roelandt pointed out that Dean, the team's leading scorer, naturally won't be in " top condition after his forced lay-off from the maplecourt. " ' Pete Rasmussen, a junior--- reserve, is on the ailing list. He turned his knee at home"' Sunday. 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