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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oreeen, Friday, January M, 19S9 j- lliilblS T!i AUTORAMA ENTRY-Considered a top con . tender for the "local" car trophy in the Southern Oregon Autorama Is the vehicle, above, entered by Monty Wray, Ashland. The auto lias a 1927 Model T body on a . 1932 chassis, has a titan red lacquer paint job and is powered by an Oldsmobile en gine. With it Wray has Won 19 trophies in IN WEEK END SHOW HERE The 1955 custom built Thunderbird sports car of Stan Jones, Portland, is among those entered in the Autorama this week end at Medford Armory. It won first in its class in a Novem- outhern Eta on Vehicles representing a bring the best in cars to Med combined investment of close ford for the Autorama.' It is to $250,000 will be on display hoped to stimulate interest to here Saturday and Sunday in the Southern Oregon Auto rama. , The event is scheduled for 1 to 11 p.m. each day at the Medford Armory. Southern Oregon Timing association is local sponsor. Cars will be entered from various communities in Ore gon and California. Some of the entries have won honors in other recent shows in these states. Mpre than 40 autos had been entered at last re port. . Designers and body men have put forth their best ef forts on these cars, aiming for the 33-inch grand sweep stakes trophy which repre sents the best of the show class. Another of the numer ous trophies, this one 24 in ches tall, will go to the best "local car. Entertainment included in the price of admission to the Armory will be movies of the 1952 through 1957 " Indian apolis big car races. Efforts have been made to Salem Baseball Plans Reported . Salem - (DPD Plans were announced today for Salem to remain in the Northwest league in the . 1959 baseball season. League President Jim Fleishman made the an nouncement after a meeting with members of the Salem Senators Inc. and . Dwight Jordan, Yakima insurance man. who was president of the Yakima team last season. Jordan was given the go ahead to run the team in 1959 and . said the Senators would operate on a profit sharing basis. Plans call for a 20-man board of directors. A field manager and a business manager still are to be named. Fleishman said Salem's de cision left only one team -Wenatchee uncertain about 1959. He said he was "con cerned, but not worried' by the situation. Wenatchee of ficials said they needed more financial help. Lightweights Mix in Garden Hollywood -(DPD- Two of the leading young lightweight prospects in the country Len Matthews of Philadelphia and Paulis Armstead of Los Angeles - meet tonight in a 10-round nationally televised bout at Hollywood - Legion Stadium. ' Matthews, unbeaten in 16 pro bouts, was favored by odds of nearly 2-1 to take an other step towards an event Hal title bout. drag races and shows. The car was featured in the January issue of Rod and Custom magazine and was judged outstanding car in the Klamath Falls show in October. The local autorama is Saturday and Sunday aft ernoons and evenings at the Medford Armory. ber show in Portland. Painted candied apple red and having smoked pearl and champagne white interior, the car is re garded as one of the most attractive in its class in Oregon. Oregon Autorama Saturday, make the event an annual one. Medford Entrants Medford entrants include Tucker Sno-Cat, Bob Walker, Cliff Pedersen, Don Cranston, Mike Myers, the Swiftans and the Wheelers. Awards will be based on originality, construction and beauty. Local entries are those from within a 75-mile radius of Medford. Divisions com petition include best hot rod, best upholstery job, best en gineering and the "people's choice." Entries are to include cus tom, speedway, drag race and antique, autos. . Trophies are to be present ed at 10 p.m. Sunday. SOTA members will have TV Blackouts Sought by Bill Washington-(DPD-A biparti san group of congressmen in troduced legislation today to "save baseball's minor leagues" by legalizing a black out of major league game tele casts into minor league cities when their teams are playing at homp. The legislation would achieve this by exempting from the anti-trust laws agree ments protecting teams from major league game telecasts originating within 75 miles of minor league cities on home game days. Otherwise TV i agreements would be subject i to antitrust laws. j It also would leave the ra- ; dio broadcasts of professional baseball, basketball, football and hockey games subject to antitrust laws. " j NW Conference j Leaders Clash I .United Press International $ A . battle between Willam-! ette and Lewis and Clark highlights Northwest Confer ence basketball action to night. Willamette is 3-0 and Lewis and Clark 2-0 in the young league race. The two teams play in Portland tonight and then meet in Salem Satur day night. Linfield. 2-1, has a pair with Pacific, tonight at Mc-Minnville- and. Saturday night at Forest Grove. Whitman and College of Idaho play a pair at Caldwell. In the Oregon Collegiate Conference, Oregon College of Education makes its initial start, meeting Southern Ore gon, 2-0. at Ashland Friday and Saturday., Eastern Ore gon and Oregon Tech, each seeking a first league win, play two games at La Grande. Portland State, the co-leader with SOC, is idle. Sunday a safety and information booth and a concessions stand. They will assist with presen tation of the show. Mike Batinich, Grants Pass, Autorama manager, praised the SOTA as one of the finest groups with which he has worked. He said he hoped residents of the valley would support their efforts this week end. Grade Jayyees Open Schedule Hoover, St. Mary's, Wash ington and Jefferson won op ening games yesterday in city grade School basketball loops. Hoover defeated Oak Grove 23 to 16 and St. Mary's i won from West Side 25 to 13 in the American league while Roos evelt beat Washington 22 to 16 and Jefferson downed Jackson 21 to 5 in the Na tional. In another tangle Lincoln of the National whipped Wil son of the American 31 to 8. St. Mary's games do not count toward the title. GRAHAM COACHES Miami - (DPD - Former Cleveland Browns quarter back Otto Graham will coach the University of Miami sig nal callers in spring football practice. . ' JOIN THE MARCH of DIMES Delivered SP 2-5271 South Eugene High Suspension Lifted Portland -4TJPD- The Ore gon School Activities asso ciation lo day placed South Eugene high school back in good standing, clearing the way for it to open its league basketball schedule against Cottage Grove Saturday night. The action came at a meet of the OSAA board, the governing body of Ore gon prep athletes.1 The board voted to lift the suspension which went into effect Dec. 20. Albany high school had filed an of SIPdDrKTTS Webfoots, Slate Washington United Press International The Pacific Coast and West Coast conference basketball races have hardly begun, yet several of tonight's contests in both loops can justly be Harris Pick Of Red Sox Boston-(DPD-The Boston Red Sox announced that Stanley (Bucky) Harris will become the new Red Sox general manager when Joe Cronin is formally installed as the new president of the American league. Red Sox owner Tom Yaw key phoned Cronin in Chica go and authorized him to make the announcement. Cro nin has notified Harris at Boston. Harris now is a special as sistant to Cronin. His last team was the Detroit Tigers which he managed in 1955 and 1956. He managed the Red Sox for one season in 1934 and was succeeded by Cronin. Quinn Assumes Job With Phils New York-(DPD-John Quinn did it with Braves and they're all betting today he'll do it again with the Phillies - us ing the identical methods he did in Milwaukee, t - Quinn, who helped lead the Braves to a world champion ship in 1957 and the National League pennant last year, of ficially took over his new job as general manager of the last-place Phils today. ' He has been given "com plete free reign" by owner Bob Carpenter plus a five year contract, which repre sents the first one he actually ever has worked under. His "contracts" always were oral ones in the past. Quinn's first twomoves will deal with "expansion." he will expand the Phils' mi nor league organization and the club's scouting staff ex actly as he did with eminent ly successful results while he worked for the Braves. The world's largest trade union is the British Transport and General Workers union with more "than 1,300,000 members. . i TOWARD BREMER VICTORIES W1I COKCRETEC9 248 E. McANDREWS RD. ficial protest to the OSAA after two of its school buses had been painted during a basketball game Dec. 16 at Eugene. South Eugene school of ficials today presented let ter to the OSAA board from the school board, the let termen's club and Eugene police saying steps had been taken to prevent repeti tion. Restitution was guaran teed to Albany high school for repainting of the buses. Beavers rated in the crucial category. PC C co-leader California (3-1) invades the Stanford Pa vilion for the opener of a two game series with the second place Indians (3-2). The games pit the nation's two top de fensive quintets. The Bears have yielded 49.4 points per contest and the Cards 52.3. The situation is about the same in Los Angeles where co-leader Southern California (3-1) tris its hand with UCLA (3-2). Oregon (1-1) meets Wash ington (1-3) and Washington State (1-3) faces Idaho (1-3) in other battles tonight. Oregon State will play Washington on Saturday. San Jose State is at College of Pacific in another WCAC clash tonight. Delegates Vote Rodeo Combine Denver (DPD Representa tives of 91 rodeos in the Unit ed States and Canada voted unanimously this week to form the Rodeo foundation for organizing and setting pol icy of the cowboy sport in both countries. It would bring together all three segments of rodeo oper ations for the first time in the sports 75-year history. A 12 man board would have mem bers representing sponsoring committees, the livestock owners and producers and the contestants. The vote was cast during the annual rodeo convention of the Rodeo Cowboys associ ation here. It must be ratified by a mail vote of all 475 rc does approved by the RCA. The balloting probably will be completed within 0 days, of ficials said. The new organization would take over the job of raising funds from rodeos to continue the sports' national programs. 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Cus D'Amato, manager of heavyweight champion Pat terson, assured the committee meeting Thursday that Floyd would make not only one, but two defenses in 1959 the first to be signed "within a reasonable time." Robinson; middleweight rul er, promised a defense be fore June. Ex-champion Car men Basilio was mentioned most prominently among the contenders. The committee . issued a warning that Halimi of France must defend his bantamweight title withm three months or the NBA would withdraw its championship recognition. Almost simultaneously with that warning, came an an nouncement from Milan, It aly, that Halimi had agreed to defend between March 30 and April 5 at Los Angeles or San Francisco for promoter George Parnassus, against the winner of a Joe Becerra-Mar-io D'Agata bout at the Los Angeles Olympic Arena, Feb. 5. Eagles Host Rogue River Basketball picture in the A-2 Rogue league will be clearer this week end. Two games are on tap to night and . two on Saturday evening. Rogue River will play at Eagle Point high and Illinois Valley at Glendale tonight. Saturday competition ' takes Phoenix against IV at Cave Junction and Glendale to Rogue ' River. Eagle Point steps outside the loop to vie at Yreka, Calif., on Saturday. Glendale makes its league debut on Friday. ; Eagle Point downed Phoe nix and Illinois Valley beat Rogue River in the only games in the circuit last week end. Conlin's Spurt Helps Syracuse United Press International Ed Conlin neded just nine minutes Thursday night to give Syracuse its seventh win in eight starts. Conlin scored 15 points in a second period spree to give the Nationals'an 111-105 vic tory over Minneapolis and move Syracuse to within two games of New York in the Eastern division race. Philadel phia edged the Knickerbockers, 95-91, in the opener of a National Basket ball association doubleheader at Syracuse. AT FIR m ink 1-15-59 WHO MADE THE. LONGEST HOME RUN ? Ken Si lvestri of the New York Yankees clouted the ball 538 feet by official measure ment in a spring-tra'ming exhibition game atTampa Fla. in 1941.- TOP THIS! To any reader submitting contrary proof, Tip Brady will send a signed, wallet-sized diploma. Write to: BEAT THIS, co this paper. Box 6T5, Sausalito, Calif. Enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope. a Ikdm Hrrtpft (r4MM ttttrf Free Shot Lead Held By Beavers Los Angeles -Four schools share top honors in Pacific Coast conference basketball team statistics after two weekends of play, according to figures released today by the office of PCC acting com missioner Bernard Hammer beck. UCLA is first-ranked in total scoring and rebounding, Southern California in field goal shooting and field goal defense, Oregon State in free throw shooting and Stanford in total defense. UCLA, stepping up its point production which also led the conference last week has scored 320 points in five games through January 10 for an average of 64 per game to 66 for Southern California. Defensively, Stanford has per mitted but 45.8 points per outing to 46.2 for California. Oregon State's leading free throw percentage stands at 70 per cent, the Beavers hav ing made 70 of 100 attempts, while Washington is shooting at 67.5 per cent. Southern California gained its top percentage of 39.5 per cent in field goal shooting by scoring on 88 of 222 attempts from the. floor. California is shooting 37.9 per cent. De fensively Southern . Cal has permitted foes but 83 field goals in 259 shots for 32 per cent, followed by California 32.3 per cent. . UCLA- has recovered 256 rebounds to its foes 222 for 53.7 per cent, and the lead over California which is re bounding 52.2 per cent. - The Republic of Indonesia is rich in natural resources including tin, oil,' coal, gold, silver, copper and other min erals. SP 3-4547 BASKETBALL THURSDAY GAMES United Press International Geo. Washington 79. VMI 63 Villanova 101. Brandeis 75 Virginia 86. Duke 67 Forida 85. Miami (Fla.) 70 Denver 66. Montana 61 Utah 76. New Mexico 50 N.W. Nazarene 70. Whitman 59 St. Mary's To Travel It's the top against the bot tom in Jackson County B league basketball this eve ning. St. Mary's of Medford goes to Prospect. The Medford team is undefeated leader of the prep conference. Prospect has yet to taste triumph in the league. Talent plays at Jacksonville in this evening's other game. NEWSMEN TOO BUSY Tallahassee, . Fla. - (UPD -Florida Gov. Leroy Collins cancelled his weekly news conference Thursday - at the request of newsmen who said they were too busy to attend. 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