Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 08, 1959, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextMedfobiwKTbibuwi Jim Brown Selected Pro Gridiron Player of Year By EARL WRIGHT. New York-fUPD-Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns, pos sibly the most powerful run ner in National Football league history, today was named the professional cir cuit's "Player of the Year" for 1958 in the annual United Press Internationzl poll. Brown, a 230-pounder who runs through the line with , a fullback's power and in the BOWLING LADY ELKS NO. 2 . The Aston won the first half of Lady Elks Bowling league No. 2 which was new ly organized this season. An invitation has been issued for Lady Elks who are interested In bowling since more partici pants have been needed for both the Monday afternoon and Tuesday night circuits. LADY ELKS NO. t standfast: Astors , Antler Pic' : Cusain'a ... Pnoneye Stags K110 . Jolly S Terrible Trio . VI Ma Ru'a W . SI . 43'4 , 38 i 381 i 38 36 . 34 'i . 28',i . 27 Va , 34 L 21 28'4 33,i 33 ';j 84 36 3714 43 Va 44 K 48 Karaite Antlera 4 fThelmi Iasaea 472) 1292; Jolly 8-0 (Either Miller 325) 1127. Phoneya S (Mabla Clark 363) 1428; HiLo 1 (Ted die Tarrar 439) 1359. Pir'a 9 firm Schroeder 498) 1459: Cusain 3-1 (Melvlna Little 474 1 1386. Astora 2 (Vivian Bate man 498 Dorothy Snedden 458) 1341; Vi Ma Kil l 2 (trma wnney o-f woo. Stn 3 Vivian Knox 499) 1236: Terrible Trio X (Roaella Fhipps S85) 1210. , . High Game: 3v- Vivian Knox. Split Conversions. oiny mum ley, 4-5-7; Irene Schroe0 S-7- LADT ELKS NO. fctandinga: Maudlin Mamaa . Three Spare Late Comera ,, ..... Wapiti Waned oa No. 8 Stumble Bun Demi Lassies W. - 314 - 3 3 . 3 1 1 1 - L. M 1 1 1 3 3 3 314 mi llta? Maudlin Mamaa 34 (3- Keealer 839) 1341; Demi-Laaaiea Vi (F. Hogue 496) 1249. , Three Snares 3 (T. Bittle 394) 1054: Stumble Bum 1 (E. Straus 408) 1052. Late Comera 3 (I Jantzer 429) 1199: No. 8 1 (L. Turner 394) 1036. Wapiti 3 (B. Hazlett 509) 1232; Wanedos 1 (W. Booth 383) 1198. High games B. Hazlett 189. Wanda Booth picked up a 5-10 split. , Standings: Clave Const. Co. Cove Motor W 23 ion ?6 Powder Puff Beauty Salon Cove Variety 13 Vanderlip Logging Co. 13 Lady Lion .... 11 emits Clave Const. 1 (Linda Zeeleston 809) 1773; Cove Variety 2 (Suzi Chubb 217V 1223. Cove Motors 3 (Joey Hume 245) 1218; Vanderlip Logging Co. 0 (France Huffman 200) 1124 Powder Puff Salon 0 (Delberta Spain 267) 1093; Lady Lions 3 (Mary Ann Zlrod 208) 1384. High Game: Linda Eceleaton, 171. High Series: Zeeleston. 309. COMMERCIAL LEAGUE Standings: Cubby's Drive In Al Sodaro Agency . Mail Tnoune Morning Fresh Bread Alex. Sc Brown Ins. Bates Candy Co. Quality Market Meaiora faint store Davis Transfer & Storage Kim's Restaurant . Patterson's Bakery Clave Construction Co. .. , L .- 4 6 7 7 8 9 11 11 11 12 .16 18 Kesnlts: . Medford Paint 0 (Travis Mitchell 823) 2477; M F Bread 4 (Jim Farrar 642 ) 2681. Batea Candy 0 (Charles MeWhor ter 546) 2438; A&B 4 (Bob Champ loin 515) 2-191. Davis Trans. 4 (Herb Vallee 559) 2519; Clave Const. 0 (Vera Allen 520) 2396. Cubby's J (Bill Howell 608) 3717; Tribune 1 (Andy Anderson 579) 2647., Kim's 1 (Jim Knapp 563) 2578; Sodaro Agcy. 3 (Jim Hennebeck 376) 2655. Patterson's 3 (Herb Vessey, Jr. 536) 2466; Quality 2 (Ray Wise 562) 2518. Oregon Staters On South Trip Corvallis (DPI) - Oregon State's 12-man varsity basket ball squad left today for a two game series against Southern California and UCLA in Los Angeles Friday and Saturday. The Beavers, now 1-1 in the PCC, play the league leading Trojans Friday night and the Bruins Saturday night. Southern California is now 2-0. . ' ... " The Beavers were to ar rive in Los Angeles in time for an afternoon workout today. BELL HAS SON Corvallis -(BPD- Sam Bell, Oregon State track coach, is the father of a 7 pound ounce boy born to his wife, Fran, Wednesday. The Bells have three daughters, aged 5, 3 and 2. WEBFOOTS GRAPPLE Eugene fflJPB Oregon's wrestling team opens its 1959 season Friday night against Washington at Seattle. The Webfoots wrestle College of 'Puget Sound in Tacoma Satur day afternoon. COACH TO VISIT Portland -DPD- Ben Martin, coach of the unbeaten Air Force football team, will visit here Jan. 15 and 16 to attend the two functions at the local air base. open with a halfback's speed, set an all-time NFL rushing record of 1,527 yards in 1959. He led the league in scoring with 108 points. His 18 touch downs including scorings runs of 65, 60, 59, 58, 52, 41 and 38 yards. 21 Votes This performance against football's smartest and tough est defenses earned him 21 of the 29 votes cast by sports writers who covered the cam paign in the 11 league cities. John Unitas, quarterback for the champion Baltimore Colts, was second in the vot ing with five votes. Bobby Layne, Pittsburgh S t e e 1 e r quarterback, was third with two. The other vote went to Del Shofner, speedy offensive end for the Los Angeles Rams During the past season Brown shattered the oldNFL rushing mark of 1,146 yards set by Steve Van Buren jf the Philadelphia Eagles in 1949 by 391 yards. Brown carried the ball 257 times in J958, averaging 127 yards per game and 5.9 per carry. His 18 touchdowns tied the season record set by Van Buren in 1945. Forest Service Man Will Talk To Waltonians Howard G. Hopkins, Rogue River National forest timber management staff assistant, will be speaker on Monday, Jan. 12, at the meeting of the Jackson County chapter of the Izaak Walton league. Hopkins, giving an illus trated talk, will discuss the importance of the forest to Oregon, current management and the future outlook. The meeting will be at 8 pxtt. at Girls Community club Fishing regulations will be discussed by Waltonians with a view toward making rec ommendations to the Oregon state game commission. Matters include the opening date of trout season in the Rogue River and its; tributar ies and the possibility of changing from six to eight inches the size of trout caught from Rogue River that anglers may legally keep. Limit in the coast zone already is eight inches. Aim is to protect young steelhead trout which migrate to the ocean when they are-about 7Vi inches long. - Information from the Army Engineers on the Rogue Ba sin study will be available. It will show the effects of amendments of the Coordin ation Act that were made in to law by the last Congress. The legislation has been pro claimed the most important for conservation in 25 years. The public is invited to the Monday meeting. There will be refreshments. Seas Subsiding Along East Coast By United Press International Seas slowly subsided along the Atlantic Seaboard today, marking the expiring gasp of a week-long weather on slaught that flailed the nation from coast to coast- Mild seasonal weather re placed the wintry extremes that saw heavy rams along the West Coast, sub-zero tem peratures throughout the Plains and Midwest, and an icy gale off the New England coast. At the gale's peak at least four ships had been disabled in the Atlantic. But reports from the Boston Coast Guard today said the only vessel still in trouble was the 110-foot fishing trawler Lillian B., 140 miles off Cape Cod. Across the border in Can ada, hundreds of travelers and families were stranded by mammoth snows swept into huge drifts by , freezing winds. ' Weather blamed deaths, of which at least 68 were caused by fires, came to at least 96 in the past week. Delegates Divided On Proposed Bill Gearhart -flJPD- Delegates to the 65th annual meeting of the Oregon Dairymen's as sociation today appeared di vided on a proposed bill to change the method of appoint ing the state agriculture direc tor. The bill, by Sen. Walter Leth (R-Salem), would give authority for appointment of the agriculture director to the State Board of Agriculture. The governor now holds the authority. Also discussed at the open ing meeting Wednesday was a bill which would put meat inspection under a veterinar ian and separate it from the animal industry division. A bounty of $3 is paid for a fox killed in New Jersey. Waterborne Traffic Falls to Low Point Portland -UPD- Waterborne traffic fell to its lowest point in 20 years at Willamette Falls locks during 1958. But at the same time water borne traffic through Bonne ville and The Dalles dams reached new highs. Willamette Falls locks had a total of 961,254 tons last year, compared to 1,178,000 BOOK FOR SMUGGLERS London-UPD-The Longmans Publishing company printed this notation next to the book "Contraband Cargoes" on its spring listing: "Of special ap peal to smugglers." tons in 1957. The 1958 total for The Dalles dam was 1,358,512 tons. Bonneville dam's total was 1,750,528 tons last year. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Thursday, January 8, 139 11 GRADUATE MISSILEMEN Huntsville, Ala. (DPD The Army Ordnance Guided Mis sile school at Redstone Arsenal will graduate about 7,500 stu dents this year, the school'an nounced Wednesday. Last year, 161 Americans over 100 years of age were receiving social security checks. Bayonne, N.J.-(tJPl)-A general-alarm fire raged out of control for almost four hours Wednesday night in the heart of the business district. Mere than 150 firemen battled the fire before it was brought un der control and scores of resi dents were forced to leave their apartments. Six stores were damaged and two fire men injured. . . , Musser Elevated To Commissioner Salem-fllPD-V. Dean Musser, 43, was elevated to insurance commissioner today by Gov. elect Mark Hatfield. He has been chief deputy insurance commissioner for four years. Musser succeeds Hugh Earle who resigned orally this week. . He will take office Jan. 11. Formerly, Musser was ath letic coach in Idaho and a graduate of Idaho State. He had seven years experience in the insurance business be fore joining the State Insur ance Department. The insurance commission er is also state fire marshal by law. "Dean Musser's famifiarity with the department, its budget, and the need to con' tinue a sound program of reg ulation and education in the public interest have caused me to choose a man who has chosen government as a career," Hatfield said. Sears Employees May Be Organized San Francisco-flJPlHOfficials of the Western Conference of Teamsters will meet here next Tuesday to formulate plans tor organizing nonunion em ployees of Sears Roebuck and company stores. The conference said those attending will include Mur ray W.. Miller, Dallas, inter national vice president and coordinator of the organizing drive. - Teamster President James Hoffa has estimated that Sears stores in 21 states and Canada have a potential of 70,000 ad ditional union members. The fourth largest of the 48 states, New Mexico, has only 155 square miles of surface water. Experimentation On Salmon Starts Portland-fUPD-The' Bureau of Commercial Fisheries said Wednesday it was launching a new phase of experimenta tion in rearing salmon under controlled but natural condi tions. The bureau today is releas ing 25,000 spring chinook fry into the Happy Valley reser voir north of Madras in the Warm Springs Indian reser vation. Later, it will dump an equal number of silver sal mon in the same waters. A bureau biologist said the purpose of the experiment is to compare productivity re sults under hatchery condi tions with those in a natural habitat. The biologist said the proj ect is the first fishery man agement effort to rear salmon under hatchery conditions with no control over water temperatures, flow or feeding. Initial results are expected in about a year, he said. Morgan Named Defendant in Suit Salem-tCPD-West Coast Tele phone company Wednesday named Public Utility Commis sioner Howard Morgan as. de fendant in a Marion county Circuit Court complaint at tacking a Dee. 12 PUC order which limited exchange-rate increases to less than half the figure requested by the utility. West Coast said that the $250,543 increase granted de nied the company a reason able return on its Oregon investment. The company said lack of the full increase deprived it of its property "without due process of law, contrary to the 14th amendment of the constitution of the United States." . ( The complaint said that 23 findings in Morgan's order were not supported by evi dence. Lengthy proceedings were conducted on the rate hike at North Bend, Milwaukie, La Grande and Salem. Escape Artist on Most Wanted List Portland (CPD Youthful escape artist, David Lynn Thurston, Portland, has been placed on the FBI's list of 10 most wanted fugitives. Thurston last April escaped from the Multnomah county courthouse while being escort ed on a cham by police. He used a homemade key to un lock a handcuff. The FBI said Thurston "may be armed and should be con sidered extremely dangerous." Thurston was arrested last February on a charge of par ticipating in the armed rob bery of a grocery in Portland He is described as about 5 feet 8V2 inches tall weighing 135 to 145 pounds with brown hair, hazel eyes and a fair complexion. He has a IVi-inch scar under his left eyebrow. The FBI said he may be working on a ranch in Idaho or Montana. Thurston had ex pressed such an intention be fore his escape. Cattle Rancher Named To Soil Committee Salem -(UP&- Merritt Parks, Lake county cattle rancher, was appointed to the State Soil Conservation Committee by Gov. Robert D. Holmes Wednesday. Parks, of Fort Rock, suc ceeds Leroy Geinger, Chilo quin, who resigned because of the press of private business. Also announced was the appointment of Dr. S. E. Mc Gough, partner in the Pen dleton veterinary clinic, to the State Board of Livestock Auction Markets. McGough succeeds Dr. R. L. Lewis, Redmond. 3. DRESS SHIRTS REGULAR 5.00 3 19 SWEATER SHIRTS Including wools, orlona and Banlow, many colors. REGULAR TO 8.95 498 JACKETS Dress Cruisers Ona Group. Colors tan and grey. Sizes 38 to 44. REGULAR TO 19.95 1L-1 a t Leisure REGULAR TO 35.00 WOOL SHIRTS Many Colors & Styles REGULAR TO 12.95 798 SPORT SHIRTS REGULAR TO 6.95 3 98 PRICES FURTHER REDUCED FOR QUICK CLEARANCE IN OUR . . . 9 Sport Coats On group all wool coats. Good election of pattern and colors. REGULAR TO 35.00 SALE PRICE 19.88 REGULAR TO 39.50 PRICE 24.88 Top Coats All wools, newest patterns and colors. . REGULAR TO 49.50 price 29.88 Our sale has been tremendous! BUT we are forced to reduce our stock another $10,000 . . . all merchandise has' been re grouped and prices reduced further to clear! The VALUES are TERRIFIC! TERMS OF THIS EVENT: All Sales Cash All Sales Final No Refunds No Exchanges . Corduroys Famous Brand A QQ Regular 6.95 4.70 POLISHED COTTON Flap Backs 3.98 Charcoal, black, tan, earaboul and grey. REGULAR TO 5.95 T ROCK and ROLL Coats All Wool 4 4 HO Reg. to 17.95 I iMQ SUEDE Sport Coats ats in their field. 29.88 The finest coats in their field, REGULAR 45.00 Robes 798 Washable wool blends, Terry, ate. REGULAR TO 12.95 Hats FAMOUS BRAND REG. TO 12.95 8.98 Slacks Regular to 21.95 Regular to 18.95 . 15.88 13.88 UDT Kuppenheimer Clothes FOR MEN - ONE OF THE NATION'S FINEST REGULAR TO $100.00 SALE PRICE 74 One group all wool flannels, worsteds and tweeds REGULAR TO 59.50 Q)88 SALE PRICE Extra fine clothing, newest patterns, colors and fabrics REGULAR TO 69.50 SALE nLSB PRICE 46 5s Sweaters 898 Bulky knits, pull-overs, cardigans. All colors t styles. REGULAR TO 15.95 Shoes SW0CLS Pajamas large Selection of Styles Regular to 6.95 Regular to 13.95 Regular to 2.95 7.98 1.49 '3.98.- 0) 229 EAST MAIN STREET JVI raw t7 MEDFORD, OREGON : 5 oV5;sri')7,ia. ) i ) ,.'n'' t li it ij i) ) Jl 1 1 )