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12 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or., Friday, April 11, 1958 Silky Runs In Race at Golden Gate Albany, Calif. IP Silky Sullivan, the horse with the jet-propelled finishing spurt, took his final West Coast pre Derby workout at Golden Gate fields today when he went to the post as a probable 2-5 favorite in a $10,000 al lowance race. The powerful chestnut, win ner of seven out of 12 starts in his short career, was to be faced by seven other three-year-olds in a one-mile test over a lightning fast track. He was to pack 122 pounds. His rider was to be Willie Shoemaker, who also will be up when Silky goes to the post in the Derby at Louisville May 3. For a three-year-old who has won only one major race in his life. Silky probably has had more written about him than any horse in history. Unorthodox But that is because he is un orthodox. His style is to let the rest of the pack get ahead of him anywhere from 20 to 45 lengths. Then he turns on the steam and comes up to win or come close in the last few strides. For his airing here, he'll at tract a record week-day throng of around 20,000 through the turn-stiles. Ordinarily, week day attendance runs between 6,000 and 10.000. The record for a week-day crowd here was set a decade ago when 12,598 attended. Trainer Reggie Cornell says that Silky will be allowed to run his usual race. "He likes to do it that way, and as long as he keeps win ning that's the way we'll let him run, said Cornell. Three Teen-Agers Share Limelight in AAU Swim Dallas, Tex. OP) Defend ing champions and records were having a tough time of it in the Women's National AAU indoor swimming and diving championships as com petition moved into the second phase today. Three teen-agers took com- Investigation of Unidentified Air i Activity Reported London (TO British war planes Jhave "scrambled" sev eral times recently to investi gate unidentified planes along the Iron Curtain, The London News Chronicle reported to day. The paper said Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan will be asked to disclose in Parlia ment whether American H bombers based here also have been sent on the Iron Curtain investigation missions. , The report followed -a re port from Omaha, Neb., by Frank Bartholomew, presi dent of the United Press, that radar alerts have sent planes carrying nuclear bombs to ward Russia from U. S. bases in North America. Close Questioning. Due The News-Chronicle said leaders of Britain's opposition Labor Party "plan to question the Prime Minister closely" on whether U. S. bombers in Britain also have been sent aloft. The paper said the Royal Air Force fighters were armed with cannon and air-to-air guided missiles. "But," the newspaper re port added, "no laden British H-bombers have been sent to ward Russia, as has happened along America's Arctic de fense line." Laborites fear the Strategic Air Command Headquarters in the United States would order squadrons from Europe into the air without waiting to inform the British govern ment. Qnadian Bank Robber Captured Vancouver, B. C. KPI A gunman robbed the main branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce of S2,400 Thurs day but was captured before he had a chance ta count his loot. The bandit handed teller Mrs. Irene Kennedy a paper bag and ordered her to fill it with money. As he left, she screamed and two male bank employees chased the thief. The two men caught the robber after a chase of two blocks and turned him over to police after a short scuf fle. Skull Fracture Kills Porllander Portland HP) Andrew W. Link, 36, Portland, died un der surgery for a skull frac ture at Good Samaritan' hos pital here Wednesday night.' Link had been arrested on a drunk charge early Wed nesday after he was found ly ing in a gutter. Police said he appeared uninjured when he was booked. But when jailers noticed blood oozing from his mouth Wednesday afternoon, he was taken to the hospital. Police said there were no known relatives. Upland Bird Plants Will Be 30,500 Portland Oregon upland bird gunners will get supple mental plants of some 30,500 pheasants, quail, and chukar partridge this summer accord ing to the production sched ule approved recently by the game commission. The pro duction schedule calls for 23, 000 pheasants, 4,000 chukars, 2,000 gray partridge, and 1,500 bobwhite quail. On the west side of the Cas cades slightly more than 14, 000 pheasants wil be released with the heaviest plants in nine counties in the Wil lamette valley. All of these birds will be reared at the E. E. Wilson game farm near Corvallis. The Hermiston game farm will produce about 10,500 pheasants for eastern Oregon releases. Central Oregon coun ties will receive plants of 3,400 birds, northeastern coun ties 5,200, and the southeast 1,800. Some of the pheasant plants have already begun for the year with the release in March of about 4,300 surplus adults to augment the wild breeding population. Follow ing the egg take in June about 2,800 adult birds -will be re leased to make way for the young breading stock to be held at the farms. Summer Releases Summer releases will take place when the young birds reach eight to ten. weeks of age, and fall releases of fully plumed birds will be just prior to the hunting season. Since all available chukar habitat has been well stocked with this colorful rim-rock dweller and good populations are present, the commission decided there was no need to raise large numbers of these birds. As a result the Hermiston game farm, for the first time since the chukar program began, will curtail production and produce only enough each year to main tain a good breeding popula tion. Future releases will be made only in areas where the numbers are reported to .be low. About 5,000 will be-released this year. Bobwhite quail production will be limited to' 1,060 birds, most of which will be re leased in Jackson, Morrow, and Umatilla counties. Three Boys Perish In Fire at Home San Diego, Calif. (IP) Three young sons of a Navy chief . petty officer were burned to death, Thursday night when fire swept their housing project home. Six other children and the wife of CPO Clarence de Goy ler, 34, escaped death in the inferno. The dead were Neal, 9, Billy, 4, and Kevin, 2. De Goyler said he was broil ing a chicken in the oven shortly before midnight when it caught fire. He said he dashed a bucket of water onto the flames and the fire spread over the kitchen. The father carried most of the children to safety and his wife, June, 32, also escaped. GUARD AGAINST SHARKS Johannesburg, South Africa OP) The Natal Coast Safety Bathing association proposed today that South African bombers stand by "at a min ute's . notice" to bomb and machine-gun sharks threaten ing bathers along the coast. Nevada has the smallest population of any state 160, 600 people in 109,821 square miles. mand of Thursday's opening events in the 25-yard Perkins Natatorium pool on the South ern Methodist campus. Sylvia Ruuska of Berkeley, Calif., and the Lafayette. Ind., Swim club, Chris von Saltza of the Santa Clara, Calif., Swim club and defending champ Carin Cone of Ridge wood, N. J., all had a field day with the record books. Miss Ruuska smashed her own 400-yard individual med ley mark of 5:08 with a 5:06.4 in the afternoon and hit a blistering 5:03.5 in waltzing away with the finals. Miss Von Saltza clipped off a 57.2 100-yard freestyle in the preliminaries to beat the old mark of 58.1 owned by Jody Alderson of Chicago, and then lowered that figure to 56.9 in the finals. 10th National Title Miss Cone, who won her 10th national title by defend ing her 200-yard backstroke crown, hit 2:23.4 in the time trials- to beat Miss Von Saltza's old mark of 2:23.5, and then dropped it on down to 2:19.8 in the finals. Suzie Ordough. a 17-year-old Hungarian Olympic de fective who now is a student at Seattle University, came close to Mary Jane Sears record in the 250-yard breast stroke in the prelims and then turned in a 3:20 in the finals. Miss O r d o g h dethroned Ivanelle Hoe of Hawaii, who finished a bad sixth, but Miss Von Saltza had a terrific time edging defending champ Molly Botkin of Los Angeles in the freestyle sprint. The other champ to topple was Paula Jean Myers of En cino, Calif., who was beaten in the 1-meter dives by 20-year-old Barbara Gilders of Detroit, Mich. Gardener Lake To Be Ski Scene Western regional water ski championships will be held Aug. 8, a ana 10 at Garnener lake northeast of Medford. Crater Lions club, which is staging the big Sportsfair here this week end, also will sponsor the ski tournament. This summer's meet will be the climax of the season in 11 western states and will serve to determine entrants in the national tournament of the American Water Ski associa tion at Shipley, Ga. Skiers must place among the top five in regional events to be eligi ble for the national. , Success of the Oregon state tournament held last June was a factor in bringing the reg ional meet to Gardener lake. The small lake is also consider ed ideal for water ski competi tion. Central location of Med ford in the region is another reason Gardener lake was chosen. The lake, privately owned by the Victor Garden er family, is about 15 miles from Medford.. Some of the nations top ski ers will come here for the tourney. They include Chuck Stearns, 1957 national slalom and over all titlist, and Mickey Amsbury, world trick champion. MedfordTribune SIPdDIRTrS SUBSTITUTE IN BOWL Detroit (IP) Baltimore Welterweight Johnny Cun ningham will stand in for Weyman Dawson Saturday night against Michigan wel ter champion Duke Harris in the feature 10-round bout at the Motor City Arena. Daw son, whose contract is owned by former world light heavy weight champion Billy Conn, and his manager Jack Laken both were hit by influenza. CAPTURING TOP HONORS r.mong 600,000 members of Boys Clubs of America, Lindley Ruddick, 15, Seymour, Ind., is named "Boy of Year" at New York. (International) Park Vehicles Up For Auction Sealed bids for purchase and removal of government owned property have been called by the Crater Lake Na tional Park Service on motor vehicles at the county fair ground, it was announced yesterday. The bids will be received at 2 p.m. April 17 at Room 307, Post Office bldg. Prop erty for sale includes two au tomobiles and eight trucks. The Park also has issued an invitation for bids to fur nish the park headquarters with 11,250 board feet of red wood lumber. Further information is available at the park office in the post office building. Tehran, Iran (IP) Iranian Foreign Minister Aii Ardelan said today he will leave for the United States April 19 to take up his new post as am bassador to Washington. He succeeds Ali Amini. Busso Opposed By Boardman Boston (IP) Lightweight Larry Boardman of Marlboro, Conn., will be out for revenge tonight when he meets Johnny Busso of New York in a nationally-televised 10-round re turn bout at Mechanics Build ing. Boardman, a 22-year-old bomber with some experience under TV lights, will be try ing to even the score against fellow-featherweight Busso who won a lopsided, unani mous decision in their first meeting last June 28. Impressive While Busso has been in the Army and makes his first post-service outing tonight, Boardman has been giving boxing another try in an im pressive sort of way. Last month, he flattened Kid Centella in five rounds at Miami. So effective was the bombardment that it took 15 minutes to revive Centella who had previously dropped a split decision to lightweight champion Joe Brown. EZZARD CHARLES 'FIT' Cincinnati, Ohio (IP) For mer world heavyweight cham pion Ezzard Charles, who is planning a comeback, was pronounced "fit and in excel lent shape" today by Dr. Giles Decourcy. Charles, who scaled 194 pounds, is expected to make his first start against Buddy Thursman at Houston, Tex., on April 29. 'TROTTERS LEAD 9-3 Dallas, Tex. (IP) The Har lem Globetrotters will carry a 9-3 series lead against the College All-Stars when they meet the collegians tonight at Evansville, Ind., after win ning 71-59 here Thursday. The All-Stars, although leading the first half, were worn out by the steady driving of the Globetrotters. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS New York Army Secretary Wilbur Brucker, discussing the sacrifices the nation must make in waging the cold war: "The United States will never give up the defense of tho free world no matter how much it costs. What good are dollars if we come off second best in a game of this type?" New York President Charles G. Mortimer of General Foods Corp., offering his opinion on the cause of the reces sion: "Fear is playing the biggest part in this recession ... I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that recession be gins and ends in the minds of men." London The London Daily Herald, quoting Johnny Stompanato's standard reply whenever, during his recent European travel spree, plush hotels handed their bills to him: "Don't worry. Lana Turner will pay." BOTTLED MESSAGE Waterville, Me. (IP) Thurl W. Severy tossed a bottle con taining a note into the Atlan tic ocean last summer from the deck of a ship 800 miles off the Irish coast. The note asked anyone finding the bottle to contact Severy here. Matt McAllister, 17, an Irish schoolboy found the note and wrote Severy that it come to snore Jan. 26 "halfway be- LOOKING AHEAD Syracuse, N. Y. (IP) A burglar, working in zero weather broke into James L. Volan's house and trudged away in the snow with about $400 worth of clothing sum mer clothing. tween the Grants' Causeway and Portrush" on the northern coast of Ireland. SOC Instructors To Attend Meet Ashland Four biology in structors from Southern Ore gon college in Ashland will attend the annual biology colloquium at Oregon State college in Corvallis Friday and Saturday. Attending the conference j will be Miss Irene Hollen-1 Vifrlr assnriatp nrnfpssnr of1 science; James uawson, as sistant professor of science; Marvin Coffey and Frank Sturges, both instructors in science. Dr. Sturges explained the conference is an annual af fair in which the leading men in biology present a summary to work in a particular field. Fritz Went, a famous plant physiologist from California Technological institute, will lead the colloquium,' Sturges stated. The topic of the conference is photobiology, the effect of light on life. Discussions will cover the subjects of how light affects plants, and how the length of day affects both plants and animals. 'Length of day, or the increased number of minutes per day causes plants to bloom or birds to migrate, Sturges explained. The faculty members will return to campus for " "onday classes. Engineers Agree To Wage increase Portland (IP) A 4 per cent wage boost will go to mem bers of Local 87 of the Inter national Union of Operating Engineers under terms of a contract signed with Portland General Electric Company Thursday. The one-year agreement, retroactive to March 1, cov ers some 70 employees involv ed in steam operations at PGE's Station "L" on Port land's east bank of the Wil lamette river. The agreement also extends accumulative sick leave from 90 to 120 days at full pay. Under the 4 per cent wage hike, the serv iceman at the journey level advances from $2.93 an hour to S3.05. PRIDE OF GERMANY HERE NOW! Come in for a Demonstration Ride Eiucpek Most Dtt&uuAecC cc&tOfiOf Cat See H today at... SKINNER - BUICK - CADILLAC 143 South Riverside its at SiC Mann's if e II I i sportswear w n Iff i Mm Wfff ! mm in we predict a future full of 1 pleasure in these new arrow hirk for SPRING . Easy-going Arrow sport shirts easy to wash (no wring ing, shirt drip-dries from hanger) . . . easy on care, be- cause little or no ironing is needed. Easy to wear the Arafold collar worn open or closed, and full-cut tailor ing give you free 'n' easy comfort. 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