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o 0 US'" rzr-r -.it's v. - - ,7.y.' V- tfVvv 1 ( IK 4 i TRYING TO STRETCH outfield fly into triple after Hank Sauer dropped it, (Eddie Mathews, Milwaukee Braves is tagged out by Giants' pitcher Rgben Gomez in fourth in ning of game at Cn grancisco. (UPI Telephoto) G Summer 8ccU, Tennis Programo of CiSy School System To Op an June 23 Plans for tne summer base-, balls ana otner special equip- ball and tennis prfiferams have been announced by the city schools office. -' . Baseball classc Monday through Thursday each week will be held from Ane 23 through Aifg) 7 ce senior high school field. Tennis class es, Monday through Friday, are set to start on tjne 23 and will endon July 18. Boys livinjrin the Medford school district Jvhoo have reached their ninm birthdays and who have not graduated from high school are eligible for baseball classes. Both boys and girls living) in the Med ford district may attend the tennis instruction. Lee Ragsdale, Alex McDon ald, Frank Roelan and John Kovenz, handing the baseball classes from 8:30 a.m. until noon areperienced players and teachers. Ragsdale is su pervr and Kovenz rector charge, q Voluntary Attendance A registration fee of $1 is required fo) each boy ho renters. This is to defray part of the s$ of supplie used. Boys may registerany morning duQpg tiie TSaseJjpll program andQ-an check with any of the instructors, ffit tendaace isoluntary. But, to get the most out of the pro gram, boys are advised to at tend regularly. Boys are expected to fur nish, their own gloves but school officials pointed out that no boy should stay awajQ because heJbas ndMmiit. Base ball shoG)re optional. Bats, ment will bt furnished by the district. ' . P Sach boy will be given a chance to play on a team. PlayAs will be chosen to play with other teams in the area. Warren Brenner will be tennis instructor and classes will be conducted from 7 a.m. until noon Mickey Wright Ptt Women 1ft tints Fray Pittsburgh (UPI) Mickey Wright, a fifty-year pro from San Diego, Calif., carried a two-stroke Jead into the second round of the Ladies Professional Golf association championship today after, shooting what she termed "my finest round." Tieg in the runner-up spot with 71's were Mrs. Kathy Gfcrnelius, of Lakeland, Fla., and Marilyn Smith, of-Wichita. Kansas. Defending LPGA champion Louise Suggs, of Sea Island, Ga., was bsck in the pack with a 7 acfter encountering .put ter troubles. . S 1 e 23-y e'-a r-o 1 d Miss fright, whose best previous finish in the LPGA event was fourth back in 1956, needed only 3 putts to card a one under men's par 69 for the first M holes Thursday. One-half the world's people lye in tastern Asia. Central Point Stud, Medford Legion Nines Vie on Saturday Either Bob Johnson or Alan McKinnis will open on the hill for the Central Point American Legion junior base ball team - Saturday night when it hosts Medford in the first' game of the season for both clubs. SPORTS Will Mays, Cepeda Set Giant Pace San Francisco (UPI) - The hot bats of Orlando Ce peda ahd Willie Mays had the San Francisco Giants back in business again even if they have not entirely come out of their private recession. Cepeda collected four singles Wednesday, as did Mays, and drove home the winning run in the 12th in ning by hitting a one-bagger to right which brought Jim Finigan ' loping in from sec ond base for a 5-4 triumph over Milwaukee. However, the Braves re mained on top of the Na tional league and led Manager Bill Rigney's second place club by 10 percentage points Tonight Ramon Monzant (4-3) is scheduled to start against Cincinnati's Harvey Haddix (3-3) as the Redlegs move in for a four game series. JAMBOREE OFF The Ashand YMCA Soft ball league jamboree planned for this evening has been called off because of wet weather. Bill War ren of the Ashland Y said this morning. PARATROOP MOTIF Turin, Italy (UPI) Once a paratrooper always a para trooper. In announcing plans today for his June 24 mar riage, former Italian para trooper Alberto de Cristo faro said he, the bride and former paratrooper chaplain Father Lino Basso, who will officiate, will jump from sev eral thousand feet over an airfield the morning of the wedding. When they land, they will proceed with the for mal ceremony. The bride, Bianca Cappone, will wear slacks and paratrooper jump- boots. KAh MMM DEERE' Utactor Power Are profits and comjfletion dats flip ping away from you because you must wait for outsideQielp and oqu'Pment' o. , For a surprisingly low outlay you can own your own power equipment, do your own trenching and backfilling, and get your total job done on time, using your own help. John Deere mobifl power rigs crawlr end wheel-type are simple, easy to un derstand. They are sure-footed and stable, Inexpensive to buy and maintain. Both tractors have a world of power for their size (approximately 30 engine h.p.). Best of all, they are light enough to work over septic tanks and new foundations where larger, heavier tractors would be apt to cause cave-ins. Because they are so com pact in size, these units will work inside buildings and down in excavations mighty important features to you. See us or phone for further information. 25 South Riverside Ave. Medford Dennis Barr is the likely starting choice for Medford but Coach John Kovenz re ported that all members of his pitching staff may see service during two week end games with the Cheney Stud crew of CP. The others are Tom Laurance, Pat McLaughlin, Jerry Anderson and Herb Wheeler. The two clubs play at Cheney field at 8 p.m. Satur day and at 2 p.m. Sunday. Central Point will be host for the fray tomorrow night. It will be "Kids' Night" with all boys and girls 16 years of age and under admitted free if ac companied by an adult. Med ford will have the role of home team on Sunday. For Medford on Saturday the line-up may be Bob Pond, catcher; Ray Konopasek, sec ond base; Ken Durkee or Dick Ragsdale, shortstop; Mike Par sons or Durkee, third base; Frank Peterson or Tom Tur- pin, center field; Ken Jensen or Booth Deakins, left field and Dick Barlow or Bob Quinney, right field. Central Point may have Jerry Korbol, first base; Har ley Dickerson, second base; Loyal Higinbotham, shortstop; Dennis Johnson, third base; and among Pete Stemple, Dave Brown, Dennis Pfaff and John Anhorn in the outfield. Ashland and Crater high players on the Cheney Studs squad and Medford high ath letes make up the majority on the local crew. Camp White Eyeing RV League Starter; KF Fray Cancelled Camp White Wet grounds and threat of more rain today has forced cancellation of the baseball tussle the semi-pro Camp White nine had sched uled with the Klamath Falls Kubs this evening. The Whiters, sponsored by the Veterans Administration domiciliary, are now holding out hope that rainy weather will not . prevent start of the Rogue Valley league on sched ule Sunday afternoon. Camp White will be host to. Cave Junction for the 2 p.m. tussle. Butte Falls goes to Riddle. Jim Smith, top chucker for Grants Pass high's twice in a row District 6 A-l champions, may be the hurler for Camp White. He wrapped up his Caveman career this spring. Others who may be in the McElroy Testifies On Military Funds Washington (UPI) De fense Secretary Neil H. Mc Elroy said today Congress has a right to give the military more money than it asks but that the administration doesn't have to spend it. McElroy testified before the Senate Military Appropria tions subcommittee on the $38,409,561,000 defense money bill passed Thursday by the House. The House added $99 mil lion to the bill in the hope of preventing a scheduled cut in Army manpower. It also put in additional millions earmarked for submarines and missiles. McElroy said the House had a right to vote more money for such things as missiles than President Eisen hower had asked. But he said the administration would not consider that as a mandate' requiring that the money be spent. As for rescinding the Army manpower cut, the chances are, McElroy said, that this branch of the military will get even smaller in the years ahead. ; line-up for Camp White on Sunday are Manager Pete Hale, catcher; Clyde Smith, first base; Chuck Mairchant, second base; Vern Parent, shortstop; Wayne Allen, third base, and among Dick Nix, Don Wendt, Guy Gillaspey, Roby Isaacs, Bob Smith and Jack Burns in the outfield. Shrine Hospital Day To Be Observed Portland Shriners from all parts of the Northwest and Canda will take part in an observance here Sunday of National Shrink Hospital day. The public is invited. Presiding over the ceremon ies at the Portland Shrine hospital will be Marianne Pausz, 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Pausz, Portland. German-born, this little girl can attest to the hospital's magic, since two operations corrected a club foot condition. More than 8,500 children from the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada have been treated as bed patients since the Portland hospital was founded in 1924. R. Earl Riley, chairman of the .hos pital board, reported. More than 20,000 children have been given out-patient treat ment. Riley said the 17 Shrine hospitals in North America and Hawaii have treated more than 250,000 children, in the past 34 years. Indians Agree To Flood Control Talks Pendleton (UPI) Of ficials of the Umatilla Indians said here Thursday that the tribe would agree to a special meeting with the Umatilla river flood control groups on a dam other than one pro posed at Mission. The Indians are opposed to a dam at the Mission site. After a special meeting Thurs day they urged a compromise site at Thorn Hollow, provid ed Indian board members and the flood control commjttee can get going immediately. AMERICANS TO COMPETE New York (UPI) The Amateur Athletic union has announced that a United States track and field team will engage ' rivals - in four countries this summer. The U. S. squad of 44 men and 22 women meet a Russian team in Moscow, July 27-28, take on Poland at Warsaw, Aug. 1-2, the Hungarians in Buda pest, Aug. 4-5, and a Greek team in Athens, Aug. 8-9. Rooney Headed For Divorce Court Hollywood (UPI) Mickey Rooney's fourth marriage ap parently is headed for the divorce courts. His wife of six years, actress Elaine Mahnken, admitted today she had spoken to attorney Jerry Giesler about a separation. "I think both Mickey and I may be happier if we get a divorce but nothing definite has been done yet," she said. Rooney previously was wed to Ava Gardner, Betty Jane Ase and Martha Vickers. Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Frank Junior Petric, no oper ator's license, So. Al C. Offord, improper left turn, $5. Harry Basnijian, expired driver's license, $5. Mary Fleine Beatty, failure to yield right of way, S10. Billy Lee Weddle, no Oregon op erator's license, $5. Ralph Rolland Johnson, failed to yield right of way, S10. John Gunn, disobeyed traffic sign, S5. Wendall Ray Sipes, disobeyed stop sign, S5. Charles McVay 'Donald, no op erator's license, $5. John Burton Hamacher, disobey ed traffic sign. So. Albert Emil Johnson, disobeyed stop sign, S5. Robert Lee Lawson, disobeyed traffic signal, S5. Ivan Lee Cramer, violation basic rule, S10. Richard Lester Moyer, wrong way one one way street, $10. DISTRICT COURT Harry L. Jewett, no motor ve hicle license, S10. Leo G. Corrigan, 58, of 4887 South Pacific highway, drunk on public highway, 30. CIRCUIT COURT Lois'M. Stephenson vs. Homer B. Stephenson, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Thomas Michael Walsh 'III, Du luth, Minn., and Phyllis Jean Cor liss. 938 South Holly st. Richard John, Clearwater, 851 Humphrey st., and Nancy Adeline Morgan, 904 Wabash st. Jack Vance McNerney and Lillia Jean Misenhimer, both Ashland. Carroll Gene Zachary, route I, box 284, Talent, and Matilda May Raramin, Ashland. DON'T FORGET June 7 Saturday at DESERT SERVICE See Ad on Page 8, Section 1 Television Used To Watch Killers In Colorado Jail Golden, Colo. (UPI) Closed-circuit television, an inno vation in the mountain-town Jefferson county jail, was in stalled Thursday." to watch murderes and escape artists Albert Kostal and Arthur Watson. But Sheriff Arthur Wer muth, Medal of Honor win ner and Marine "one-man army" on Bataan in World War II, admits the duo still has him scared. In addition to the TV, Wer muth has: A special guard watching the two cells on the TV moni tor 24 hours a day. Floodlights trained on both cells day and night. New locks and new three inch chains on the cell doors. Windows Welded Welded - shut cell win dows and ' bunks welded to the walls. One daily 30-minute exer cise period during which the two are shackled together. The pair broke from ,the same jail last year using a key fashioned from a tooth brush and Kostal got to New York before the FBI gunned him down in Times Square. He is still "crippled from a leg wound. Watson, until the TV was installed, wore a 15-pound weight on his leg. As he watched the televi sion being installed to guard him until he goes to death row and ultimately" the gas chamber, Watson commented: "We're gonna check our ratings Friday to see if we can stay on top of the enter tainment world." MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Friday, June 6, 1958 11 Technology Program To Put U.S. on Keel With Russians Urged Copenhagen Forgets Olsens in Directory Copenhagen (UPI) The Danish Telephone company announced today it was revis ing its new telephone direc tory because it had forgotten the Olsens. Olsen. as popular a name here as Smith is in the United States, normally takes up 60 columns in the Copenhagen directory. New Zealand ranks fourth among the world's wool pro ducing countries. Los Angeles (UPI) Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin, former Deputy Chief of Staff, has called for a program of tech nological and psychological advancement to put the Unit ed States on a more competi tive basis with the Soviet Union. Gavin, in addressing an au dience of California's leading scientists and industrialists, declared that the Russians "are five years ahead of us in psychological warfare." We're Doing Nothing "The Soviets are leading us is the field of psychology and we are doing nothing to com bat them. The Russians preach peace, a peace they believe in because they be lieve they can conquer us through peaceful means and enter our cities unopposed. "Militarily and technologi cally they are far in front of us. Perhaps five years is not an exaggeration. Gavin; who retired from the army after a hassle with the Pentagon over the nation's space program, said: "The Russians are ahead in the cold war now.1 With the launching of their Sput niks they proved they have the capability of reaching the moon. I believe the reason they have not launched a rocket to the moon is because Body Believed To Be Bridge Painter Kalama, Wash. (UPI) A body found floating in the Columbia river near Kalama Thursday was presumed that of J.ames E. Cooper, Vancou ver, Wash., painter who fell 63 feet from scaffolding on the new Interstate bridge April 30. The body was clad in paint er's clothing marked with blotches of orange paint simi lar to that being used at the time on the new span between Portland and Vancouver. Earlier dragging operations had failed to locate the body. Cooper, 30, was the "second man to lose his life on the new bridge. psychology is their goal. They have the makings of lan inter continental missile orbiting our earth as a psychological weapon." Asks Combined Forces The former science chief of the Army Research and De velopment Service called for the formation of combined forces of science and indus try, a "war team" to explore the technological advances of modern warfare and go be yond into space problems. "The future of mankind is in space, the dark space of the outer world," Gavin said. Cancer Society Quits United Fund Portland (UPI) Decision of the American Cancer So ciety to withdraw from com bined fund drives such as the Portland United Fund today led to predictions of the death of tl United Fund locally. Charles R. Holloway Jr., president of the Portland UF, sa$i "If an agency finds it can withdraw and still main tain its standing, all will withdraw. If the Cancer So ciety drive has good results, the stampede will be on." The Oregon Cancer Society has decided to withdraw from the UF immediately following a vote at the recent national society convention ordering all local divisions out of UF by 1960. American Legion JR. BASEBALL Sunday June 8 1:30 p.m. Crater Lake Motors Hosts the Cheney Studs CHENEY STUD FIELD "Tickets on Sale at LAMPORT'S and WEEK'S & ORR FURNITURE Your Automot ive Senice Dealers CORDIALLY, invite you to a PUBLIC SHOWING THRILLS SPILLS SPEED PRODUCTS, INC., WXnilER, CALIFORNIA TRIPLE FEATURE RACE FILM 1957 Indianapolis "500 1957 Monza Invitational "500 1957 Italian Mille Miglia Road Ract MEDFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Tuesday, June 10, 1958 ; 8:00 p.m. Due to the limited seating capac charge, from any of the dealers, :ty, admission will be by Invitation only, garages or service stations listed below: ' SPONSORING DEALERS- Roy's Chevron Service Eagle Point, Oregon Blews Oil City 1880' North Riverside Medford, Oregon Brewold's Chevron West Main & Lozier Lane Medford, Oregon - Harley's Texaco Service 6th and Grape Medford, Oregon Bill & Woody's Richfield 835 So. Riverside -Medford, Oregon Kaye's Texaco Service 1207 Court St? Medford, Oregon -. Dale Carr Mobil Gas Station 600 East Main . Medford Oregon Joe's Union , -201 North Riverside . Medford, Oregon Big Y Signal Service 2054 North Pacific Highway Medford, Oregon Richfield Truck. & Auto Service 2390 North Pacific Highway Medford, Oregon Weter & Olson Shell Service . 2158 South Riverside Medford, Oregon . Midway Shell Service 15 W. Vilas Road . Central Point, Oregon Desert Service 6779 Crater Lake Highway Medford, Oregon Ty's Shell Service Talent, Oregon Tickets may be obtained, without Hamilton's Union Service P.O. Box 426: Talent, Oregon . Johnny's Garage 124 South Main St. ' Phoenix, Oregon , Riverview. Market & Service Applegate, Oregon Stage Road Grocery North Stage Road Central Point, Oregon Legg's Shell Station Jacksonville, Oregon Panter's Richfield Central Point, Oregon ,. Elk City Motors 3460 North Pacific Highway Medford, Oregon Jackson County Co-Op Box 1266 Medford, Oregon
