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Stearns For Reg SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Saturday 9 a.m.. women's tricks: 10 am. veterans tricks: 11 a m., junior boys tricks; 1 p.m.. men's tricks; 2 p.m.. Junior irls jump; 3 p.m.. junior boys jump; 4 p.m.. pee wee jump. Sunday 9 a.m.. women's jump;' 10 a.m., veterans jump; 11 a.m. and 1 pm.. men's slalom: 2 p m.. mix doubles; 230 p.m.. men's jump. Chuck steams, national overall champion from Bell flower, Calif., yesterday dem onstrated the spectacular per formances water sports fans will observe in the western regional championships of the American Water Ski associa tion at Gardener lake. Stearns jumped a tremen dous 116 feet, 10 short of the world record, and turned in the top slalom runs of the day as a host of skiers tuned up for the meet at the small pri vate lake northeast of Med ford. The tournament opened this morning and will continue through Saturday and Sunday with a full day of competition each day. Slat stars with ex pert and first class ratings are contending in men's, wom en's veterans, junior boys and girls and pee wee classes in slalom, jumping and trick riding. Top five in each event of the regional, except in the pee wee division will qualify for the national meet. Crater Lions club tourna ment committeemen said this morning that entries number ed approximately 76. These included some of the finest skiers in 11 western states. Saturday's slate opens with women's tricks and Sunday's with the ladies jumping. Start ing time for competitors both days is 9 a.m. Jump Slippery Stearns' fine leap yesterday was aided by the efforts to make the jump as slippery as possible. The board was re ported sticky two days ago but has been worked over and reoiled. Contestants now say that the jump is the slickest they've encountered at any meet this year. The national champ also zoomed through the slalom at the top allowed speed of 34 miles per hour and went through also with shortened rope. There was no official count on the number of contestants -practicing yesterday but rl 15 gallons of donated Mobilgas gasoline were burned up by tow boats during the day. Final preparations to ac commodate the huge crowds expected were made yester day. A public address system with four loud speakers has been set up and the sound is reported good all around the lake. Signs have been posted marking the way out Crater Lake highway and Antelope and Yankee Creek rds. The lake is 15 miles from Med ford. Exhibitions A concessions stand will have a variety of refresh ments and it is possible for groups to make an all-day picnic out of seeing the meet. When time permits there will be exhibitions with bare foot and speed skiing and clown acts. Sidelight activities include ASWA the Pacific Coast coun cil meeting at 8:30 p.m. at the Medford hotel and the Satur day night banquet and dance at Rogue Valley Country club. Councilman James Dunlevy, acting for Medford Mayor DEERE BALE EJECTOR LOADS BALES RUTOIMMLin Here's real automation in the hay field! The new John Deere Bale Ejector completely eliminates the need for a man or men on, the -wagon. Attached to any John Deere Twine-Tie Baler, the Bale Ejector pitches half-sized bales through the air directly into the wagon! Only one man the tractor driver is re quired. Stop in soon: let us give you full details on this revolution ary new attachment. Hubbard-Wray Go. Th Farmers' Store Since 1884' 25 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Medford, Oregon Jumps 116' in Pr ona Water Ski Co m - 3 mm ; v h Jtm 61 Mf3 SKI CONTESTANTS The Western Re gional Water. Ski championships being held at Gardener lake east of Camp White got under way today. Contestants from all over the west, some 75 entrants in all, will compete in the three-day tour ney. Above, gathered on the dock to in Dragsters Being Readied For Record Tries Sunday Barring unforseen difficul ties, local dragster entries in Southern Oregon Timing as sociation drag races Sunday arc expected to register some of the high speeds at the meet. Time trials are set for 9 a.m. with eliminations com ing up after the lunchtime break. Noel Black, Medford drag ster pilot, is reported to be ready again to make an all out assault on the present strip record of 134.24 miles per hour.. ..Bad luck and me chanical failure has caused him much trouble for the past three meets. Practice runs, made two weeks ago, indicate that his "Skylark 220" is certainly- capable of record-breaking speeds on the drag strip. Clocked at 135 The Roberts, Wiltse and Mickle dragster from Ash land is reported to be ready for its try at the record. This fuel-injected Oldsmobile pow ered machine has recorded speeds of more than 128 m.p.h. on the Camp White drag strip and was clocked at 135 m.p.h. at Redding, Calif. Its owners are waiting with their fingers crossed for the Sunday competition. The strip is in west Camp White, seven miles north of Medford. Directional signs John Snider, will present the key to the city, at the dinner, to William P. Barlow Sr., Piedmont, Calif., AWSA vice president and top ranking of ficial of the coast council. Dr. Frank Wilson, Lions club president, and Lon Skin ner, tourney chairman and president of Gardener Lake Water Ski club, will make trophy presentations at the banquet. Tickets are on sale at Bark er's Men's store, Lamport's Sporting Goods store and Purucker Piano house as well as the gate. S-7-54 WHAT IS THE LONGEST BOXING MATCH EVER HELD?.. ."The longest re corded -f ighfc yv itri glomes vsas between Andy Sbv-en and Jack. Burke, April, at New Or- learvs, La went to O rounds. Wher the f ighters re-fused to continue, -the ref eree called it "no contest' x (jhankt Ted Ham .Medlbrd.Om) TOP THIS! To any reader submitting contrary proof, Tip Brady will send a signed, wallet-sized diploma. Write to: BEAT THIS, c'o this paper. Box 575, Saasalito, Calif. Enclose self -addressed, stamped envelope. A McClar Ntwipep., fradcgt are posted at the Big Y at the north edge of town. Addi tional bleachers have been in stalled for convenience of spectators. Minor contestants are re minded that they will be re quired to have a waiver signed by their parents or guardians releasing SOTA from responsibility. Deer Question Yet Unanswered In California Sacramento (UPD Cali fornia's crucial 1958 coastal deer hunting season was one week old today but the big question which worries De partment of Fish and Game officials still was unanswered The question is this: "Are more than 15 per cent of the hunters going to bag game this year?" If they don't critics can say of the department that it gambled and lost. But if more than 15 per cent score, the department can say it has proved its point. More Deer Or Less? The gamble was over hunt ing either sex of deer in 1956. The department allowed this type of hunting and critics yelled "slaughter 'and pre dicted dire results for years to come. But this year, department scientists believe, will prove the critics were all wet. They hope hunters will do better than last year's 15 per cent bag to prove that the 1956 hunt actually was beneficial by cutting down the excess deer, which were overgrazing the feeding areas. Practice Shoot Set for Sunday Medford Gun club will have a practice shoot on Sunday with traps opening at 10 a.m. There will be no formal pro grams but 16-yard tand skeet traps will be operated. Gun ners will prep for a registered shoot Aug. 16 and . 17 at Klamath Falls. Curtis Links Hassle Begins Newton, Mass. (UPD The top women amateur golfers of Britain and the United States opened a two-day tus sle today for the Curtis Cup. The heavily favored British squad met their American counterparts in three 36-hole foursome matches at the Brae Burn Country club in West Newton. HEARING SET Chicago (UPD Chairman Frank Gilmer of the Illinois Athletic commission said to day Tony Vone, co-manager of heavyweight Wayne Bethea, has been asked to appear at a hearing Sept. 17 to explain his charges that Bethea's loss to Sonny Liston Wednesday night was dishonest. Bethea lost by a technical knockout at 1:09 of the first round when referee Bernie Weissman stopped the bout. Vone told Weisman in the ring that the outcome was "in the bag." actice ntest spect equipment bafore the meet started, were, left to right, Joe Balcao, Stockton, Calif.; Elvis Swaffer, Long Beach; Fred Amsbry, Orange, Calif.; Marvin Rothen berg, Boulder, Colo., and Martha Ann Williams, Long Beach, all contestants. Applications Due for Unit Deer Hunting Portland Oregon hunters are advised that if they want to hunt for antlerless deer during the latter part of the general deer season they should submit their applica tions immediately for the unit in which they intend to hunt. Deadline for submitting ap plications is Aug. 18, which is just a little more than one week "away. Hunters are also cautioned to follow the directions care fully when filling out their application blanks. The name and address of the applicant must be printed in the space provided, and signed with ap plicants signature directly be low. Include the hunting li cense number, and in case of elk, include the elk tag num ber. The kind of animal to be hunted deer, elk, or ante lope must be on the card, in addition to the area ap plied for. Do not fold the application cards. These cards cannot be processed if they have been folded or mutilated in any way. Roseburg Holds Swim Tourney Roseburg (UPD The South ern Oregon Invitational Swimming championships will be held here Saturday and Sunday. Director of the meet, Don J?cklin, said more than 250 entrants are expected to par ticipate in the fifty events on the swim slate. The two-day meet will be the biggest of its kind in the Northwest this year, Jacklin said. Giants Obtain Gordon Jones San Francisco (UPD The San Francisco Giants, in an effort to reinforce their bat tered mound staff, have pur chased right hander Gordon Jones from their Phoenix team of the Pacific Coast league. Jones, 28, starred in high school at Sacramento. He has a 14-7 record in the PCL, but has been rapped for an earned run average of 5.40. Tomorrow Bring the Family- Stay All Day! Relax with a picnic lunch as you watch champion skiers from 1 1 western states in action. (Food and refreshments available at the lake.) 1S53 WESTERN REGIONAL SKI TOURNAMENT Gardener Lake, Aug. 8-9-10 Children - - - - 25c Sponsored by Juniors - - - - 50c Adults - - - - - 90c 6 and under - - Free Proceeds to Deaf Children's Home 15 MedfordSlWTribune 4 Kurz Takes Wider Point Lead Into Saturday Races On Oval at Valley View Louis Kurz widened his Valley View speedway point leadership from two to 37 during the last evening on the track and will be out to extend it some more this Sat urday night in another stock car racing program on the track. With a big night last week end Kurz added 44 points to his total while Cecil James picked up only nine but held on to second position with a 132 tabulation. Lon Gay moved up from fourth and now ranks third in the standings with 126. He's a shade ahead of Jack Keck Sr. and Cliff McGilvray each of whom have 125. Powder Puff Race Others among the top 10 are Harold Silver with 109, Red McGilvray with 107, Earl Stephenson with 104, Jack Keck Jr. with 100 and Ted Sletten with 67. A powder puff derby is billed again this Saturday Ail-Stars Will Face Black Sox Rogue Valley All-Stars will meet the Drain Black Sox baseball nine this evening at Drain. The Stars are subbing for Camp White, which, however, will be host to Drain on Mon day, Aug. 11, at the Veterans Administration domiciliary. Derald Wooton, who has re turned after playing pro ball in Texas and Iowa this sum mer will pitch for the All Stars, according to Manager Ed Reinking. Dick McLaughlin is to handle the catching chores, Lowell Dean will be at first base, Larry Perkins at second, Calvin Dean at shortstop, Gor don Owsley at third base, Dennis King in' right field and Reinking center. As of yesterday afternoon, it had not been determined who would fill the left pasture. Pitcher Dennis Barr is scheduled also to make the trip. Fish Planting In Full Swing Portland It's raining fish these days in the high lakes of the Cascade mountain range. The game commission's aerial fish planting program is now in full swing, and the back country lakes are get- tin? their annual allotment. Within the next two weeks some 270 lakes will be aerial stocked with about 600,000 eastern brook and rainbow fingerlings. The aerial plants began about two weeks earlier this year because of the ex cellent growth of fish held at the hatcheries. Operation "flying fish" will be carried out from three game commis sion hatcheries. Hood River,. Klamath, and Fall River. Old Hand The fish planting plane is piloted by Sam Whitney of Newberg, an old hand at thc game, who has been flying fish into the lake basins for the game commission for the past seven years. The entire operation is under the direc tion of Monty Montgomery, fishery biologist at Bend. Approximately 20 lakes will be aerial planted in the Mt. Hood area from the Hood River hatchery. Some 50,000 eastern brook trout are sched uled for these lakes. In the Rogue and Klamath area, 40 lakes are on the plant ing schedule; About 12,000 rainbow fingerlings will be dropped and some 60,000 eastern brook fingerlings. Ankara, capital of Turkey, has grown from a primitive town to a modern city of 450,- 000 inhabitants in 30 years. and Sunday Crater Lions Club of Medford , along with the regular pro gram cf trophy dash, heat races and main event. Time trials will be at 7:30 p.m. with the first race at 8 p.m. Last Saturday Kurz took the trophy dash, a heat race and the main event and broke the 24-second barrier in the time trials. !e, CJ e in Tie Buster Issue of which team will be at the top of the regular sea son standings in the Rogue Valley Baseball league may be determined this Sunday al though another week end of contests is slated. . It will be either Riddle or Cave Junction. The two are tied now at the head of the standings with 5-1 records They meet each other at Cave Junction this Sunday, in came which will bust the deadlock.- The Outlaws knotted for the front spot last Sunday, de feating Butte Falls while Rid dle was idle. The other game this Sun day is Butte Falls at Prospect. August 17 frays, Butte Falls at Riddle and Cave Junction at Camp White, wind up the regular slate and the current rn-lparlprs are favored in those games. Riddle and Cave Junction already have sewed up berths in the two-team titular play off. Neither can have- more than three losses in the final standinas and their closest rivals, Butte Falls and Camp White, each have been beaten four times. Lithia Lumber Softball Victor Ashland Lithia Lumber was the champion at the con clusion Tuesday night of the Ashland YMCA Men's Open Softball league. The Lumbermen whipped Church of the Nazarene, 5 to 1. after defeating Lithia Mo tors, 8 to 2, in a semi-final dav-off game. Nazarene had beaten Verb's Shell Service 8 to 6. Vern's Shell won, 15 to 8 nvpr Lithia Motors in the came for third place. Mistletoe Planing Mill and City Employees tied for fifth dace in the league. Regular season ended"" last week with Vern's bheil on ton. Lithia Lumber second Church of the Nazarene third and Walt's Lithia Motors fourth. Royals Increase Loop Leadership United Press International Montreal scored six times in the fifth inning Thursday night to swamp Miami, 8-1 and increase its International league lead to three games over Toronto. Toronto lost a half-game when the Leafs split a twin bill with Havana. Toronto won the opener, 5-4, but the Sugar Kings returned in the nightcap to score four times in the 15th inning for a 7 victory. PITCHER LEAVES CLUB Boston (UPD Pitcher Willard Nixon of the Boston Red Sox, who was placed on the temporarily disabled list July 14 following a bout with shoulder miseries, has left the club for his Lindale, Ga home. PRESENTATION! of this UP Entitles Cn Complete GOOD FOR 1130 N. Riverside of bailers asne Portland -UPD Sharpen ing oflenses, improving timing, and setting up sturdy defenses will be the order of the dav today through next eek as State and Metro Shrine "All-Star" football teams prepare for the annual Shrine game Aug. 16 in Mult nomah stadium. State skipper Lee Gustaf- son indicated that his boys have got the conditioning pretty well behind them." He announced that practice sessions will be cut to one-a- av next Monday as he begins careful tune-up of his high- powered State grid machine. Power Ground Game Tom DeSvlvia, mentor 'for the Metro squad, said that he plans to use a powerful round game against State. DeSylvia continued to push is squad in mastering the art of sharp, hard line and down- ield blocking. Both teams - held lengthy scrimmages Thursday. Oppos ing coaches scheduled rugged morning and afternoon drills today to correct faults tnat showed up in the scrimmage sessions. Gustafson indicated Thurs- dav that Coos Bay's husky fullback, Hardy Spurgeon will do most of the punting and kick-off chores for State. Larrv Miller of Washington high reeled off several good runs behind sharp blocking during the Metro scrimmage. Shrine football game tickets are on sale at v-raier inu mntpl and Barker's Men's store in Medford. Wildcats 2nd In PW League Medford Wildcats finished in lone second place in the Pee Wee Southern division of the Southern Oregon Junior Baseball league by downing Central-Point 9 to 6 yester day. The 'Cats finished with an 11-3 standing. Medford Tigers were champs "with 12-2, Ash land Cubs ended with 10-4 and Central Point with 9-5 in the upper division of the cir cuit. The Cubs downed the Ash land Bears yesterday 10 to 6 and in make-up mix on Wednesday Central Point trimmed the Bears 17 to 10. Yesterday the Cubs got four runs in the extra sixth inning on two hits and five errors. Ron Edmunds doubled and tripled and Gary High land two-baggered for the 'Cats and Don and Dave Twe dell had two-basers for CP. T TVFSCORE: Wildcats 101 3049 6 2 Central Point uuz ;sui o i i Highland and Moore; L. Pepper, Summerfield and Rivenberg. 8-S-J8 WHAT 15 THE LONGEST DUfiATlOM SWIM? - John V. Sigmund, U.S., made the longest duration swim toy remaining in the water 3 days, 17 hours, 40 minutes while covering 292 miles down the Mississippi, -from Sfc.LouiS to Caruthersville, -finishing Jul( 2.9, 940.Tbbesure,0ttJ Man River cve Sgm,und an assist in tJistanccbut not in time TOP THIS! To any reader submitting contrary proof, Tip Brady will send a sifrned, wallet-sized diploma. Write to: BEAT THIS, co this paper, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope. AMcClurt Ntripopr Sffldltttt ftdtvr You to iscoynt Dual Installation Or On Muffler and Tailpipe Installation! 30 DAYS ONLY! Phone SP 3-4818 Wsii Bits! - MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Friday, August . 1938 9 Professional Basketball Club By 1960 Portland Possibility; City Now Thinking Big League BY HAL WOOD . Portland, Ore. (UPD The fast - growing Pacific North west is thinking big league, too. But the first item on the budget won't be pro football or big league baseball it'll be professional basketball. Harry Glickman, handsome young Portland promoter, al ready has his application in with the National Basketball association and the day Los Angeles and San Francisco get their NBA franchises, Port land will be in the big leagues. Glickman has been corres ponding with NBA President Maurice Podoloff and has been assured he'll be given every consideration. "We figure that the new ex position building here will be ready by June of 1960," said Glickman. "That's about the time they'll be ready in Los Angeles. And that means all three cities can go into the NBA together." Plenty of Room Glickman already has a con tract with the City of Portland for the new exposition build ing, which is being construct- Gene Tanselli Coach at Clark Portland (UPD Clark col has announced the appoint day announced the appoint ment of Gene Tanselli as new baseball coach at the junior college. Tanselli has been baseball coach at Portland's Franklin High school. Clark officials said Tan selli would replace Claude O'Connel who will become as sistant director, of admission, as well as athletic director and basketball coach. CHAMP SIDELINED St. Jean De Lux, France (UPD World bantamweight boxing champion Alphonse Halimi may be sidelined from artery in his left hand Tues ring activities for months. The Algerian-born boxer cut an day while slicing bread and lost a great deal of blood. 3 Wc can take care of ALL of your CONCRETE NEEDS! HATEVER S ru-Mix Concrete nelps you do if faster, easier, better. It's mixed to order. There's no waste, no muss, no delay. Delivered SP 2-5271 nHlr Folks in New England would rather have a bowl of chowder than a bowl of chili. But in New Mexico 'it's just the opposite. Where you live has a lot to do with what you like - In news-tastes, too. So - besides its reports of the rest of the country and the world beyond - United Press International brings you every day a heaping helping of news of this particular section of the nation. It's news that you and everybody here and hereabout specially goes for. And it appears daily in Bedford ed in a recreation area at a , cost of S8 million. The expo sition building will seat 11.000 for basketball just slightly less than the San Francisco Cow Palace and the new building in Los.Angeles. "We have a population of 750,000 within a radius of 30 miles of down-town Portland," says Glickman, "and this is a fast-growing area. The fans here are thirsting for any kind of major league sports. "I promote professional football exhibition games. We have one soon between the San Francisco Forty Niners and the Washington Redskins and we expect to pack Mult nomah Stadium with 30.000 fans. We usually draw that kind for an exhibition football game. Record Draw "In big league baseball, the San Francisco Giants recently played here and drew 26,000 which was labeled the big gest crowd to see a baseball game west of the Mississippi and north of Los Angeles. The St. Louis Cardinals are slated for an exhibition game here on Monday and they expect 30,000 for that." Glickman says he believes a pro basketball team in Port land would "easily" average better than 5,000 per game or 180,000 for the home sea son. "With a winning team, of course," he added, "I think we would do much better." THE AMERICAN DIST1LUNG CO., INC. PEKIN, ILL. SAUSALITO. CALIF. 86 Proof Straight Bourbon Whiskey THE JGB- P CONCRETE C? 248 E. McANDREWS RD. Klail Tribune 1
