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ToossDes 'Tonight -Will Open MCflA (EasCteftbaDD Tourney Bt C1RV V T r United Pxets International The NCAA opened its 1960 basketball tournament vith two games Monday and hoped to fill the remaining . two berths before the majority of regional contests got under way Tuesday night. Utah, Skyline conference winner and 1944 NCAA cham pion, meets at-large member Southern California in a Far west regional game at Provo, Utah, in one first-rounder while DePaul and the Air 1 Force, play a Midwest region 1 contest at Chicaeo. Key -battles in the Big fiignt and West Coast confer- - ences may complete the 25 team field. Kansas needed a victory over Nebraska to tie Kansas State for the Big Eight title while Santa Clara and xioyoia oi (jauiornia met in a piayou game for the right to enter the Far West region al. A Kansas triumph ordinar ily would call for a com toss to break the deadlock under conference rules. However, this can be changed by a vote of faculty representatives in favor of a playoff contest. Tuesday First Rounders Defending champion Cal ifornia highlights a flock of Tuesday first rounders with a Far West regional game against Idaho State at San Francisco. The remaining sec tional contest will find Ore gon pitted against New Mex ico State, Border Conference champion, at Corvallis, Ore., Wednesday night. In a triple-header at New York Tuesday night, Duke, Atlantic Coast conference king, meets the Ivy League's Princeton; West Virginia, which won the Southern Con ference, tournament, faces Navy: and New York Univer sity takes on Connecticut, Yankee Conference cham pion. A Mideast regional double header at Lexington, Ky., has Ohio University of the Mid American Conference pitted against Notre Dame ana Western Kentucky of the Ohio Valley Conference bat tling Miami of Florida. Second Round Friday Second round matches will be held on Friday, March 11. In the East, St. Joseph's of the Mid-Atlantic conference x l i.1 : n M 4-V. n Duke-Princeton contest in a doubleheader at Charlotte, N.C. The. other - two first round winners meet in a sec ond game. At Louisville, Ky., the Big Ta rVW; Ctota mutl Vo winner of the Western Kentucky-Miami (Fla.) in a Mid east game, and Georgia Tech of the Southeastern Confer ence faces the Ohio U.-Notre Dame winner. Midwest contests at Man hattan, Kan., will have Texas, Southwestern Conference thampion, facing the Big Eight titleholder and Cin cinnati of the Missouri Valley Conference playing the De- Paul-Air Force survivor; In the Far West, the West Coast conference king meets the victor of the Idaho State- California game at Seattle, Wash., with the other winners playing in a second game, NIT Tournev Set Quarter-final games will be taeed in the same cities, Sat urday, March 12 while the umt-finals March 18 and championship contest March 19 will be held in San Fran cisco. Training Sessions Slated for Umpires -ttlPD- Help want- a. iact 9(1 men with reasonably good eyesight to train this spring lor umpi"" jobs in a variety of Oregon baseball leagues. Commissioner Ken West- tho rirpfon Baseball Umpires association issued the onnoai savins rookies will be WW, 0 trained indoors starting about March 15. "With stepped up schedules in college, high scnooi, Ameri can Legion, semi-pro, Connie Mack, Babe Ruth, and Little League play, we need all the new manpower we can ac quire," Westover said. DAWKINS MAY TOUR Oxford, England -(WD- Pete Dawkins, former West Point All - American football star and now a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, may tour the United . States soon with an English rugby team. The 21-year-old native of Royal Oak, Mich., will be chosen to play for the combined Oxford Cambridge rugby team which will meet U.S. East Coast rugby teams early next month, it was reported today. PIRATES BUY PITCHER Fort Myers, Fla. - (UPD - The Pittsburgh Pirates have con ditionally purchased pitcher Diomedes Olivo from Pozo Rica of the Double A Mexican league. Olivo is a 35-year-old lefthander. Bradley, battling Cincin nati down to the wire for the Missouri Valley crown, round ed out the NITs 12-team, field on Sunday. The Braves were seeded first in the nation's oldest post-season tournament ahead of Utah State, St. Louis and defending champion St. John's. Rounding out the field for the start of Thursday night's play at Madison Square Gar den are Villanova, Detroit, Providence, Memphis State, Holy Cross, St Bonaventure, Dayton and Temple. Villanova meets Detroit and Providence faces Mem phis State Thursday. Utah State takes on the Villanova Detroit survivor and St. Louis plays the Providence-Memphis State winner on Satur day. Other Saturday games will have Holy Cross playing St. Bonaventure and Dayton meeting Temple. - Ducks Win Big One For Regional Spot Eugene (UPD - Oregon won the big one. The Ducks turned back Oregon State when they had to Saturday night and now await a Wednesday night tilt with New Mexico State at Corvallis for a berth in the NCAA regionals at Seattle this week end. Oregon" made good use of free throws Saturday night to beat the pesky Beavers 67-63 and thereby ended the regu lar season with a 17-9 record. The Ducks hit 33 of 45 free throws in the victory with Chuck Rask's 18 of 19 leading the way. That was a new mark for an Oregon player. Rask wound up with 26 points for the night to take individ ual scoring honors. Oregon State led at half time 29-28 but Oregon quick ly tied the count at the start of the second helf and took the lead for good with 13:41 left at 38-36. Only Second Win Oregon State remained within four points or so the rest of the way but Oregon's hot shooting at the free throw line kept the Beavers from catching up. It was only the second win for Oregon over the Beavers in five meetings this season. Oregon State kept the Chan cellor's trophy-emblematic of basketball supremacy in Ore-gon-for the seventh straight year. Oregon never has won the trophy since it was inau gurated. Glenn Moore and Denny Strickland each scored 16 points for Oregon. Jim Wood land had 15 for Oregon State and Jay Carty 14. Oregon State Nabs Coast Mat Diadem San Luis Obispo, Calif .-flJPD- Oregon State college wrestlers amassed 74 points Saturday to win the 11th annual Pacific Coast Intercollegiate champ ionship. Autrey Ehler, 157-pounder from Portland State college, scored the only pin-victory in the finals of the two-day meet and was judged its outstand ing competitor. Order of finish and - team scores were as follows: Longview Club May Join Group Portland-OJPD - The Oregon Golf association has changed its constitution to permit properly ogranized golf clubs in state of Washington coun ties bordering the Columbia river into membership. The ruling will allow the Longview, Wash., club into membership. The association also voted membership to the Springfield, Ore., golf club. Ralph Swan of Royal Oaks Country club, Vancouver, Wash., was elected president of the Association. Prosser Clark of Columbia-Edgewater, Portland, was named vice president and Charles Reyn olds, La Grande, was reelect ed secretary-treasurer. The association announced it would combine its medal and match play champion ships in Portland late this spring. A 54-hole tournament will be held which will in clude 18 holes June 19 and then a 36-hole qualifying round for places in the match play championship. CUTHBERT SHINES Hobart, Tasmania (UPD Betty Cuthbert, Australia's Olympic sprint star, smashed the world record for the 220- yard dash today with a 23.2 seconds clocking at the Aus tralian women's track cham pionships. Betty bettered the official mark of 23.4 set by Marlene Matthews of Aus tralia at Sydney March 22, 1958. , Mamie Eisenhower Arrives in Phoenix Phoenix. Ariz. (UPD Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower arrived Sunday for a two-week vaca tion at an exclusive health and beauty resort in sunny Phoenix. The President's wife was met by Gov. and Mrs. Paul Fannin, , several dignitaries and about 100 spectators when she stepped from her private railway car at Union Station. Those accomoanvin the First Lady included her sister, Mrs. George Gordon Moore; Mrs. John McCone, wife of the chairman of the Atomic En ergy Commission; Mrs. Arthur bummerfield, wife of the post master general of the U.S. and Mrs. John Foster Dulles, wid ow of the secretary of state. Oregon State, 74; Washing ton State, 58; Portland State, 38; Oregon College of Educa tion, 30; Cal Poly, 26; Univ. Oregon, 23; Arizona State and Long Beach State tied at 22; Los Angeles State, 19; San Diego State, 17; Univ. Wash ington, 11; S;n Jose State, 10; Lewis and Clark, 9; Univ. Cal ifornia, 8; Pacific Univ., 7; Stanford, 6; Southern Oregon College, 4; UCLA, 2, and San Francisco State, 1. $45,000 Salary For Kuenn By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press International Singles hitters can so make big money, Harvey Kuenn in sists and the American league batting champion proved his point today by agreeing to a $45,000 salary for 1960 -the highest Detroit Tiger salary in nine years. Kuenn, who led the league with a .353 batting mark last year that included only nine homers, ended his six-day holdout Sunday when he and Tiger General Manager Rick Ferrell came to terms by long distance telephone. The pact, said Ferrell, was a "compromise" between the $47,500 Kuenn was asking and the $40,000 the Tigers were offering. It makes Kuenn the highest paid Ben gal since Prince Hal New houser, who drew down $48, 000 in 1951. It also keeps tobacco-chew ing Harvey the top salary man on the current Detroit roster, ahead of Al Kaline's $42,000. Valley Residents Give to University Eugene-Several Rogue val ley residents are listed among the 1,428 alumni on the hon or roll of alumni of the Uni versity of Oregon who gave more than $42,000 to the Uni versity of Oregon Develop ment fund in 1959. Contributing to the fund which is used for scholar ships, fellowships, research projects and other vital needs for which state funds are lim ited or not available were Norman Burke, Olive Curry, Otto J. Frohnmayer, Robert D. Heffernan Jr., Jack S. In gram, Phillip B. Lowry, Pa tricia A. Mounts, Dorothy M. Peirce, and Hazel A. Prin gle. Also Harold W. Foley of Gold Hill. Women's Golf Rogue Valley Country club lady golfers opened their 1960 golfing season at a breakfast meeting with 135 in attend ance last Thursday. Play for the day was nine hole medal and the winners were: A-B group, Mrs, Noble Vincent and Mrs. L. R. Smith (tied); C-D group, Mrs. Wm. J. Williams, and , nine-hole group, Mrs. Glen Branlund. Mrs. Frank B e n e s h was winner of the "Winter Play." Mrs. Thomas Teutsch took second and Mrs. Richard Finch third. - . . November-December ringer tournament winners were: A group, Mrs. T. A. Culbertson; B group, Mrs.. Frank Benesh; C group, Mrs. R. B. Knight; D group, Mrs. Dick House, and nine-hole group, Mrs. Galen Sanner. January-February ringer tournament winners. were: A group, Mrs. Richard Finch; B group, Mrs. L. R. Smith; C group, Mrs. Ken McHugh; D group, Mrs. Dick House, and nine-hole . group, Mrs. Galen Sanner. Play for Thursday, March 10, will be for "putts." MARCH 10 PAIRINGS: (Ladies are to contact others in their threesome.) Mesdames Frank Benesh, E. W. Sickels, Jack Eidswick; Noble Vin cent. Ed Milne, Russ Atchison; T. A. Culbertson jr., Thomas Teutsch, Mahr Reymers; Kenneth Teeter, Richard Finch, Ray Frisbie; Wm. Schei, L. R. Smith, R. J. Lockwood; Jerry Olson, Paul Walker, Keith Bates. , . Mesdames Ed Simmons, Ralph Barclay, R. Ren Taylor; John Jensen, Ed C- Nave. Richard Rem enteria; Al Williams. R. E. Heysell, Robert Morris; Robert DeLorme, Myles Doran. Floyd Somers; Rob ert Hart, Earl Nelson, Richard Swan; Geo. Pearson, Reese Alex ander, Ira Smith; Wm. Cowning, C. H. Barrell, Dick House; L. T. An derson. R. B. Knight; Alton Hart, Jack Six, Harvey Woods; W. L. Stark. Max Mullhollin, Lloyd Brooks: R. M. Sorenson, Charles Williamson, Wayne Safely. 9-Hole Play Mesdames Royal Bebb, Wm. Brooks; Jerry Laus mann; A. E. Piazza, Paul Haviland, Robert Van Duker; David Lowry, Russell Hogue, Thomas McFadden; Dick Whiting, John Nuich, Ralph O'Dell; R. R. Parsons, Randall Gif ford, Glen Branlund; Tom Tubbs, Warren Bayliss. John Raapke; Rob ert Mclntyre. Dan H. Adams, Rich ard Alley; Jim Finegan, Galen San ner, Howard Scroggins. (Other members who wish to be paired for Thursday are advised to phone Mrs. Ren Taylor.) HOCKEY United Press International Jack McCartan, a cool cook ie on the ice, is playing it cool with the New York Rangers. The 24-year-old goalie from St. Paul, Minn., who helped the United States win its first gold medal in ice hockey at the recent Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, Calif., made an eye-popping debut in the National Hockey league Sun day night at Madison Square Garden. Cheered on a by a near- capacity crowd of 14,028, Mc Cartan shut out the Detroit Red Wings for almost two periods in sparking the Rang ers to a 3-1 victory. ' However, the dark - haired Minnesota Irishman still isn't sure whether he wants to turn professional with the Rangers. "It all depends on how things go in my next couple of games," said McCartan, who can play five games in the NHL without endangering his amateur status. "I didn't work too hard against the Red Wings," he added in the Rangers' steamy dressing room. "I got wonder ful protection up front." Registration Rally Scheduled Tuesday A pre-primary registration meeting for residents of the Ruch and Applegate area will be held at the Ruch Grade school Tuesday, March 8, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The meeting is one of sev eral planned by the Demo cratic Central committee at various parts of the county. Registrars will be present with a complete set of regis tration lists to check on regis trations for the area residents, it was announced. During a four hour regis tration period in Medford Saturday at a supermarket 29 registrations were obtained. Registration . figures for Jackson county, with an esti mated population of 71,300, indicate that 37 per cent of the residents of voting age are unregistered. 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The following 10-man all star squad was chosen: Dick Jolley, Bill Chronis, ' Chuck Taylor, Wally Panel, and Har vey Jones, "all of Portland; Ted Schadewitz and Paul Goddard, Condon; Don Porter and Jack Viskov, Clatskanie; and Dave Hughes. Medford. General Sales led Clats kanie 33-23 at half time. Wally Panel scored 18 for the Port land, quintet, while Don- Por ter of Clatskanie . was high for the game with 21. Washington Nat Champ -Eugene -(DPD- Washington's strong Huskies won the North ern division swimming meet here Saturday scoring 168 points. The meet was the first held in Oregon's new Leigh ton pool. Oregon came in a surprising second with 86Vz points fol lowed by Washington State with 72, Oregon State with 46 and Idaho 15. r .;. Double winners included J. D. Brown and Mike Devine, Washington; Gary and Del Chase, Washington State, and Rich Griffith, also of Wash ington. ' ' . . '. , POSTPONED . Portland (UPD The annual tournament and meeting of the Oregon branch of the Pro fessional Golfers association have . been 'postponed, for a week because of bad weather. The events now will be held at the Salem Golf club March 14. ,.,". :. .. Dave Hughes led the Med-, ford offensive with 14 points, while Paul Goddard scored 20 for Condon. Medford led at halftime 46-39. Dave D'O livo and Dale Bates each had 13 points for the Tiremen. Sales Beats Treaders General Sales beat Hawkin son's 92 to 56 on Saturday and Clatskanie topped Condon in semifinals. Wally Panel put in 19 points and Bill Chronis 18 for Portland and Hughes 14 for Medford in the Saturday game. Halftime score was tied at 32-all after Hawkinson's had led most of the half. Sales took a seven-point lead in the second half, held it for sev eral minutes then romped away.. . . .-.v. Hawkinson's compiled a 15-3 record for the season, winning the Southern Oregon Independent league and AAU district titles. ; ' Saturday game Portland, Bloedel 9, Jolley 14, Chronis 18, Panel 19, Jones 11, Scrivens 4, Taylor 12, Ross 4; Medford, D'Olivo 6, Jarmin 8, Hughes 14, Bates 4, McAbee 7, Parent 2, Hol lingsworth 10, Newton, Stew ard, Johnson 7. Sunday game - . ' Medford, D'Olivo 13, Hugh es 14 Newton, Bates 13, Mc Abee 10, Parent 7, Hollings worth 9, Vannice 4, Johnson 4, Steward 6; Condon, Schade witz 10, Hawes 4, Delany 6, Coleman 6, Goddard 20, Neal 8, Koeke 14. if.-.; - ROOKS VICTORS "' Eugene - (UPD - The Oregon State College Rooks came from behind . in the second half Saturday night to defeat the Oregon Frosh 62-44, with the ex-Jefferson of Portland flash Terry Baker scoring 21. Tom . Tuttle paced the Frosh with 15' points. ' The win left the Rooks with a 15-1 second record compared to 7-6 for the Frosh ' Major Offenses Reported Up in City Last Month Major offenses reported to the Medford city police de partment were up sharply last month compared to one and two years ago, according to the department's monthly report. A total , of 110 major of fenses were reported last month compared to 69 for the same month in 1959 and 68 for February 1958. The larg est single increases being in burglary, 18, and larceny un der $50, 74. Counting miscellaneous of fenses and reports the total number of cases handled by city police during February was 2,224 compared to only 1,657 in 1959. City police closed 30 of the 110 major offenses for an av erage of 27.3 and 2,224 of all cases for an average of 93.9. There were 5 assaults and 8 sex offenses included among the cases handled by police last month. There were no murder, manslaughter or rape cases reported. Some 54 traffic accidents were reported last month which is up from February 1959's total of 48. Included in these were no fatalities and six injuries compared to 18 injuries and no fatalities in the same month a year ago. City police issued 491 traf fic citations during February compared to last year's monthly total of 510. Of these the largest number, 77, was issued for violation of the basic rule and the second larg est, 68, for no stop at a sign or signaL Parking meter tickets is sued last month totaled 2,985 compared to February 1959's number of 3,357. GAS PIONEER ' Fred'onia, N.Y. - While this New York community was lighted with natural gas June 5, 1825, gas did not come into general use until about the 1880s. New York - (UPD - Marvin Kalb, 29, a Russian affairs specialist, has been assigned to reopen the Columbia Broadcasting System's Mos cow bureau and has applied for a Soviet visa following denial of a visa to CBS news correspondent Larry Lesueur, who was first selected to re open the bureau. The bureau has been closed since October, 1958. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, March 7, 1960 A Tokyo -(UPD- An American Navy FJ4 "Fury" jet fighter on a routine training flight crashed and burned today 'near Tachikawa Air Force Base on the outskirts of Tok yo. A N a v y announcement said pilot Lt. Aivin Tomlin son, Detroit, Mich., ejected from the plane and parachut ed uninjured. NOW... i I II ! I! I (1 . 1 f! I If 11,1 - I 1 more people can enjoy BIHHBSlMliiliH NOTHING HAS CHANGED... EXCEPT THE PRICE! 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