Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 10, 1959, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextKen Allison Victor Over Gas Classes Expected outside competi tion failed to materilize at yesterday's drag races held at Camp White and as a result the top awards went to local and regional entrants. Ken Allison, Brookings, walked off with the top hard ware of the two-day meet when he edged all other gas class winners and copped the top class eliminator trophy plus a $25 Savings bond. Alli son has been i consistent win ner all summer, driving his 38 Plymouth to win class trophies four times and cop ping the little eliminator laurels on two occasions. Roseburg entrant Lee Hirn gunned, bis 59 Chevrolet to the fastest gas class time of the meet, 97.43 miles per hour, to garner another $25 Savings bond put up by South ern Oregon Timing associa tion. Hirn also eliminated all competition in C gas class and took home that award. With the absence of the Black-Roberts A dragster in Sundays competition coupled with the withdrawal of Zom bie, the A competition coupe from Medf ord, speeds were rather slow in the competi tion classes. Both top time of the meet and top eliminator honors went to the Roak Knights B dragster from Ashland with Lee Captures Junior Crown Stanford, Calif. - (WD - Larry Lee, 17-year-old be spectacled youth from Spo kane, Wash., is ready to fol low in the footsteps of the one-time golfing idol of the Pacific Northwest, Marvin (Bud) Ward. Lee, who will enroll at Se attle University in the fall, won the USGA National Jun ior Gold Tournament Satur day. The -well-built, six-foot youngster won the junior crown by whipping Mike Mc Mahon, Atlanta, Ga., in the finals, 2-up, on the rugged Stanford university course. Women's Golf Rogue Valley Country club lady golfers will journey to Coos Bay on Tuesday, Aug. 11, compete in the Willamette Valley-Southern Oregon tour nament. Ladies' day play at RVCC on Thursday, Aug. 13 will be "specs." Last Thursday lady golfers of the local club held their monthly luncheon and links play was medal. Mrs. William Clark and Mrs. Robert Lockwood tied in the A group and Mrs. C. Ed Gordon and Mrs. Frank Benesh knotted in B class. Mrs. C. H. Barrell won in C group and Mrs. Jack Six in D. Among nine-hole players Mrs. Warren Bayliss and Mrs. Galen Sanner tied. AUGUST IS PAIRINGS: (Ladies are to contact others In weir uireesome.) Masdames B. D. Mitchell. Husi jicneson, Kenneth Teeter: Ed W, bickeis. Jack Eidswick. W. O. Blackledge: Frank Tamney. Wil liam Aimer, Brian Douglass; Ed mune. jerry Olson, I. R. Smith William Clark, Mahr Reymers. T. A. Culbertson; C. Ed Gordon, Ber nard Nutting. Deane Lambert; War ren Lesaeg. Noble Vincent, Frank oenean; lucnara f men, H. S. El bert, Robert Templeton. Mesdames Vern Watrud. Paul Dix. Lawrence Buonocore; Tom Barnsberger. S. V. McQueen. Rob ert Morris; Richard Rementeria. W. C. Knoge, Lou McLaughlin; Jack Six. Russell Heysell, Albert Wil liams; John Jensen. W. L. Stark, Wayne Safley; Walter Shaylor, Richard Schwahn, Kenneth Mc Hugh: Earl Nelson, George Pear- ion, a. nen rayior; .Robert De Lorme, C. H Barrell, M. Donald jvicoeary; Hay Sorenson. W. H. Pyle. Reese Alexander; Richard Hocan. Tom Tubbs. rilrV Hnnw Ray Stewart, Mylei Doran, Richard Jtnigni. S Hole Players Mesdames David Lowry, Jim Nis tler. William Deatherage; Jerry Gastineau. Royal Bebb. Howard Gilmer; Warren Bayliss. John Rip- jey, uaien Banner; Dick Watson: J. A. Dickey, Jim Finegan; Robert EUiott, Sylvan Mullin. Harry Note: Vincent Nicoletti, George Lewis John . Foster; Tom Polk, Jerry Lausmann. Clyde Campbell; Wil liam Brooks. Randall Gifford, Bill (-owning: Myers Jones. RalDh Mar- Ian. Glen Branlund; Paul Haviland, Jticnara Allev. Dorothy Dowson; Robert Mclntvre. William Wil. liams, Alva Perkins; Ray Wise, Carl Kellenberger, Sam Harbison, Mel- vm McGrew. (Members who wish to be paired for Thursday play can phone Mrs. M. 1. NUltOn. Sf 2-7809.) Buffalo-Bear Feed Draws Huge Crowd Damascus, Ore. - (DPD - The Centennial parade and buffalo and bear meat feed here Sun day drew a huge crowd that went through four tons of meat, officials said. Damascus Centennial Com mittee Chairman Pete Wiley said people lined up five abreast for the feed, which started with breakfast and continued through dinner. Breakfast cost 25 cents and dinner 50 cents. Wiley said as far as he could tell, up to 100,000 were on band Sunday. Parked cars were jammed over about 40 acres.. "It was fantastic," he aid. Larry Paschke at the wheel. This club-built machine, rail ing a nearly stock Oldsmobile engme, registered a top time of 102.27 MPH for the top official time of the meet and eliminated all comers for the top eliminator laurels. Yester day marked the first time ol the season the club has been in the winners circle, and they were no doubt helped in this respect with the absence of Lou Wolff and his quick- starting Cathead powered B dragster. A California entrant. Bill Jerome from Redding came out on top in the little elimi nator competition. Jerome, driving a Corvette A sports car, raced through the timing clocks at 97.19 mph to estab lish a ne mark in the class. Hunt Breaks Mark Central Point driver George Hunt broke his own record in his B Modified roadster with a speed of 100 mph even Hunts roadster is powered with an Oldsmobile engine. .Nearly 100 .contestants were on hand to provide keen competition in many classes One class, A stock, had al most twenty entrants and when all the smoke cleared Medford's i Leroy Wallahd emerged winner. Next drag racing activity is slated for Sunday, August 23 followed by the climax meet of the season, the Northwest Gas championships, to be held on September 12-13. Fololwing are yesterdays class winners showing, class, top speed, elapsed time, win ner, and type of car in that order: (Denote! New Record) STOCK ' r. 66.02, 20.04, Ed Sander. Co- ouille. SO Ford: E. 75.31. 18.11 David Egan, Medford, 51 Olds; D 78.27. 17.88. Donald Coffman. Klam. ath ralli. 54 Olds: C. 80.04, 16.93 Jim Easlev. Klamath Falls. 55 Chev: B, 84.82. 16.24. Edward Richards, Smith River. 59 Chev: A. 89.64, 16.14, Leroy Walland, Medford, 59 Chev: SS. 96.05, 14.90, John Brown, Grants Pass, 59 Chev; SS a. '9183. 15.21. Ole Olsen, Crescent City, Calif., 59 Plymouth. MODIFIED COUPESSEDANS F, 8035, 16.72, Jim Bowman, 40 Chev. GAS I, 86.95. 16.14. G. O. Wright, Crescent City, Calif., 56 Chev; D, 89.19. 15.60. Philip Sheridan, Klam ath Falls, 55 Chev; C, 97.43. 15.24, Lee Hirn. Roseburg, 59 Chev; B, 90.90, 15.78, Ken Allison. Brook ings. 58 Plymouth; A, 92.02. 15.32, Gary Waller, Grants Pass, 55 Chev. SPORTS D. 70.31. 20.48. Joe Fritz. Grants Pass. 57 MG-A: C, 78.94, 17.27, Rob ert Ferns, Medford. 57 Porsche; B, 97.29, 14.47. George Kirkpatrick, Klamath Falls. HealyChev; A, 97.19. 14.44, BUI Jerome, Redding, Calif.. Corvette; AA, '91.00, 15.68, Jim Holmes, Klamath alls, T-iJird. ALTERED B. 96.15. 14.62. Phil Miles, Med ford, 34 FordChrys. COMPETITION B. 92.59. 14.81. Fleming-Miller, Medford, 27 Ford. ROADSTERS BMod. 100.00. 14.38. George Hunt, Central Point, FordOlds. CYCLES B. 101.69. 13.25. Chuck Strawn, Medford. DRAGSTERS B. 102.27. 13.32, Larry Paschhe, Asruana, vuas. SPECIAL AWARDS Top gas class time Lee Hirn, Roseburg. Tod gas class eliminator Ken Allison, Brookings. Litue eliminator Bill Jerome, Redding, Calif. Top time of meet Larry Paschhe, Road Knights club dragster, Ash land. Top eliminator Larry Paschhe, Ashland. Hard luck Garold Hackley, Medford. wmmmmmmmmmm PUT IT TO THE TEST! Come in for a demonstration and discover 'Jeep' 4-wheel drive vehicles go 'more places do more jobs cost less to own! FIRST IN 4-WHEEL DRIVE liOOTJTN VEHICLES BY WILLYS MOTORS... WORLD'S LARGEST JVVJU MANUFACTURER OF 4-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES rriin) ...one of the growing KAISER Industries Kmnurm HIIIW Com In for a demonstration Tune-In HAVE RICK Saturday afternoons, 5 P.M. MEDFORD MOTORS, INC. 225 South Riverside - Medford SPORTS Medfordites Win Over Glendale Medford Bowline lanes re corded its first victory of the Rogue Valley league second half Sunday by rallying 17 to 14 over Glendale at Glen dale. Grants Pass pulled into a first place tie with Ashland on the basis of a default win from Butte Falls. GP and Ash land are unbeaten. Camp White had a bye in the league and Riddle and Ashland were participants in the Oregon tournament of the National Baseball congress over the week end. , Butte Falls forfeited when it failed to field a team at GP. A number of the BF play ers reportedly were fighting fire. Trailing 9 to 11 after seven innings of the wild contest, Medford scored six runs in the eighth frame, to go on top to stay. Bob Serak homer ed in the inning. Dave Hughes, Ray Anderson and Dick Du rante singled. There was one error, two walks and a field er's option. The Bowling lanes got five runs in the first inning with a double by lion Jfeery, a single by Anderson and four walks helping out. Glendale put over six in the second in ning on triples by Tom Presti anni and Dan Densley and singles by Cliff Worley, Jack Berime and Wes Young, There were two miscues in the inning. Serak, Anderson and Du rante each had three hits in the mix. Peery knocked two safeties for Medford. Jack Snelling homered for Glen d a 1 e. Prestianni collected three hits and Bud Smart, Worley and Densley each two, LINESCORE: Medford 522 000 062 17 13 10 Glendale 063 000 203 14 13 3 Barr. Serak (6) and Anderson; ncrune, aneiung IV) ana smart. League Leaders United Press International . NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Club G AB R H Pet. Aaron, Milw. .. 107 434 81 159 .366 Cunghm, St. L. 105 332 43 113 .340 Temple, Cin. 109 437 74 140 .320 Cepeda, S.F 108 429 72 136 .317 Pinson, Cin 109 458 89 144 .314 AMERICAN LEAGUE Kuenn. Det 97 382 67 132 .346 Woodling, Bait. 104 333 50 110 .330 Kallne, Det. 94 362 63 118 .326 Fox. Chicago. 110 452 59 146 .323 Runnels, Bos. 116 412 67 129 .313 Runs Batted In National league Banks, Cubs 102; Robinson, Reds 90; Aaron, Braves 83; Bell, Reds 76; Cepeda, uiants 7b. American league Killebrew, Senators 86: Colavito. Indians 83: Jensen, Red Sox 81; Malzone, Red box 73; Maxwell, Tigers 71. Home Runs National league Banks, Cubs 32: Mathews. Braves 31: Aaron. Braves 29; Robinson, Reds 24; Ce peda. Giants 23. American league Killebrew, Senators 35: Colavito. Indians 32 Allison. Senators 27; Lemon, Sena tors 26; Jensen, Red Sox 24. . Pitching National league Face. Pirates 15-0; Antonelli, Giants 16-6; Drys daye, Dodgers 15-6; Law, Pirates 12-7; Newcombe, Reds 106. American league Shaw, White Sox 11-3; Mcliisn, Indians 13-5 Pappas, Orioles 12-5; Mossi, Ti gers 11-5; Wynn, White Sox 15-7. ANALYIST DIES Boston - (UPD - Dr. Hsien Wu, 65, co-developer of the Fohn-Wu system of blood an alysis, died Saturday. Great Britain's coal indus try employs about 722,000. Vp Utility Wag Archers Awaiting Broadhead Hunting conditions will be simulated Saturday- and Sun day, August 15 and 16, in a state archery tournament in the Union Creek area. The Oregon Bow Hunters Broadhead champ ionships will be determined in the meet at the Mill Creek camp ground in the Rogue River National forest. This site is off Highway 62 about six miles south of Union Creek. Rogue Archers club of Med ford is host and President Herb Gifford is chairman for the event. Rogue Archers have work ed for several weeks con structing the 100 target rov- American Nat Trials Continue East Lansing, ' Mich. (UPD - Finals in . women's platform diving, men's 220-yard butter fly and women's 110-yard backstroke were scheduled to day , in the Pan-American swimming trials at Michigan State university's Olympic size outdoor pool. The trials to 'determine the U. S. team which will face 21 other nations at the Pan- American games at Chicago Aug. 27-Sept. 7 will wind up luesday. In week end action, Chris Van Saltza, a 15-year-old from banta Clara, Calif., captured two freestyle titles and set two American records in the process. Miss Von Saltza won the 220-yard freestyle in 2:20.2 to break the old American rec ord of 2:30.5 set in 1955 by Marley Shriver, and set a new 110-yard freestyle record of 1:03.4, to better the mark of 1:03.9 which she established last month at the National AAU meet in California. MeKinney Winner In other events during the week end, Frank MeKinney, Indiana university star, broke the American 110-yard back stroke record by going the distance in 1:03.9. Becky Collins, Indianapolis, took an upset victory over Nancy Ramey, Seattle, by winning the women's 110 but terfly in 1:10.0. Miss Ramey faded to third behind Molly Kotkin, Los Angeles. Another upset saw George Harrison, former Stanford university star, break the American record in the men's 440-yard freestyle which was set by Eugene Lenz, Santa Maria, Calif., in preliminaries, Larrison went the distance in 4:33.4. Diving finals for men saw Sam Hall, Ohio State univer sity; Bob Webster, Santa Ana, Calif., and Gary Tobian, Los Angeles Athletic club, emerge the victors. They will repre sent the U. S. at the games at Chicago. WARDS M O N T G O M s ii i i i ii i .urrajM IMA v Tourney ing course. Facilities include a refreshment stand, a run ning deer target and a broad head flight range. Men and women archers from throughout Oregon with their bow hunting gear will take part. Many actually will camp at the Mill creek site about two miles fronv,the highway. The broadhead flight con test on Saturday at 9 a.m. will open the tourney. Grid Kids Put Aside Their Books United Press International School's out this week for the National "ootball league's rookies and they'll get the chance right away to prove how well they've learned their lessons. After three weeks of high-i ly concentrated drills in the pro circuit';; training camps, the "kids" toss aside their books and try to remember all the various offensive and defensive maneuvers that have been crammed into their heads under game conditions. Starting on Tuesday night at Pittsburgh with the Steel ers playing host to the Cleve land Browns, nine of the NFL's 12 teams will see ac tion in the first full week of exhibition play. On Friday, the year's top college draft choices will draw their first pro pay checks after skirmishing with the champion Baltimore Colts in the 26th annual All-Star game in Chicago. The action will be televised nationally by ABC. . Then the Eastern Division champion New York Giants play the Philadelphia Eagles at Hershey, Pa., the Chicago Cardinals tangle with the De troit Lions at Norman, Okla., and the Chicago Bears meet the Green Bay Packers at Milwaukee in Saturday night games. Lenoir Gains Tennis Diadem Phoenix, Ariz. (UPD Bill Lenoir today credited being used to scorching desert heat for his junior singles win in the U.S. Jaycee Tennis tourna ment. The top-seeded Tucson, Ariz., netter whipped John Karabasz, 6-4, 6-0, 6-1 to take the junior singles champion ship Saturday at the Paradise Racquet club where tempera tures reached for the 110-de- gree n.ark. Rodeny Kop, Honolulu, o v e rcame top-seeded Jim Beste, Baton Rouge, La., 7-5, 3-6, 8-6, for boys' singles crown. There are about 440,000 producing oil wells in the U.S i iTTTri E R v ward II! ei 1 H tM Carling Taken By Finsterwald Cleveland (UPD Dow Fin sterwald, a transplanted Ohio an, made his second win of the year a big one by picking up $8,500 for a stirring come-from-bebind victory in the $25,000 Carling Open Sun day. Finsterwald, who graduat ed from Ohio university but now calls Tequesta, Fla., his home was three down with 208 at -the end of 54 holes, but he shot a 3-under-par 68 for the 276 winning total. Mike Souchak, Grossinger, N.Y., who carded a 70 for a 277 total, had to be content and share runner-up money with Littler, of Singing Hills, Calif., who fired a 1-over-par 72. They each received $2, 050. Paul Harney, from Worces ter, Mass., Doug Sanders, LMiami Beach, Fla., and Dick Knight, San Diego, Calif., ended in a three-way tie at 278 and each received $1,333. Portland Youth Rescued Off Cliif Oceanside, Ore.-(UPD-Phillip Fogg, 14,' Portland, was res cued Sunday by firemen after becoming stranded on a steep cliff above Oceanside beach. The youth told his rescuers that he climbed up but couldn't make his way down the 60-foot-drop to the beach. He was stranded on the cliff for about two hours while firemen obtained a long extension ladder from Tilla mook. The boy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fogg and his sister Lee Ann, watched the rescue. They were vacation ing here. About 99 per cent of Con necticut's farm are electrified "Ms Visitors I 1 1 a a i x u vwuuvj " Bomb Scare Delays Three Airliners Shannon, Ireland-flJPD-Three New York-bound Pan-American airliners were delayed four hours today following a call to the airport that one of them carried a bomb. The call proved to be a hoax. Police said they had no idea who the caller was. ahaiJ&uai-uf-$gta-rfmJh Negro Cult Cancels Meeting Indianapolis, Ind.- (UPD- A planned rally by an extrem ist Negro religious cult was cancelled Sunday when a Methodist church locked the group' out of the church sanc tuary. About 50 followers of Eli jah Muhammad, self styled "messenger of Allah," milled around outside the Gprham Methodist church after the church's board of trustees de cided at the last minute to deny them use of the sanc tuary. The meeting was switched to a Baptist church but then was cancelled entirely because of the large number of police and newspaper reporters present. Police Inspector Carl C. Schmidt read the cult mem bers Indiana's laws against inciting to race hatred. The cult preaches supremacy of the black race, according to a story in a national maga zine. . Schmidt said the statute provides a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine for those who "create, advocate, spread or disseminate hatred for or against any person ... by reason of ice, color or religion." Wherever you go.. . throughout the West, whenever you enjoy light Olympia Beer, y6u will always experience the same refreshing good taste. The reason: Olympia's naturally perfect brewing water never changes. Year after year, it continues to blend in and bring out the most delicate flavors of choice hops and grains. This is your assurance that Olympia will always taste distinctively the same, and why we say . . . the Water are always welcome to the Olympia Brewing Co., Olympia, Wash. 01y o-st ri i 1 i 1 1 I I More Than 1, Believed Dead in Formosa Floods Taipei - (UPD - Police said today that more than 1,000 persons were dead or missing in Formosa's worst floods in recorded history. There were fears the death toll would rise further. v . ' Latest reports listed 498 known dead, 541 missing and 563 injured. An unconfirmed report said one U.S. Army of ficer was missing in central Formosa. Telephone and telegraph communications with the hard-hit area in central and southern Formosa were most ly destroyed and there was a strong possibility the number of dead would increase. A United Press Interna tional photographer flew over the disaster area today and reported that the floods ap peared to be receding.. He said conditions still were "horrible." . Fields Still Flooded Waters had drawn back from the' cities and larger villages but thousands and thousands of acres of rice fields and sugar cane fields were still flooded. Authorities feared there would be many more dead under the mud and debris. An express trairf carrying about 500 pasengers was stranded Friday night near Changhua in central For mosa. Taipei officials did not know today whether the train was still stranded or whether the passengers, who had been without food since Friday, had been supplied. Ontario province extends one-third Ahe width of the North American continent. Ms to? ili MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, Aug. 10, 1959 WORLDS FAIR PLANNED v New York -(UPD- Plans were disclosed Sunday for a $500 million New York City World's Fair in 1964. Plans for the fair, which would be the biggest ever held, were announced by Mayor Robert F. Wagner who said he had given the project his "whole hearted endorsement." Fewer Industrial Workers Hurt on Job New York - (Science Serv ice) - Fewer, industrial work ers are being injured on the job. Disabling industrial in juries have decreased from 45.7 per 1,000 workers in 1943, to 29.4 per 1,000 work ers in 1958, statisticians of the Metropolitan, Life Insurance company reported here. a? Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Drain Til Bricks, Flue 727 W. 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