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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. SUNDAY, JANUARY 1. 1961 A 9 MEBrOKD&JtWTKIBUffl SIPaDIRTS Southern Oregon Indoor Tannic TnnrnAu rnntmnac W Ashland-Play is to continue today and Monday in the sec ond annual Southern Oregon Indoor Tennis tournament in the gymnasium at Southern Oregon college. Competition is slated in men's, college men's, junior veterans and women's singles and men's and mixed doubles. Play opened Saturday morning and two rounds in the classe sof men's singles and one round of men's dou bles were billed. Play opened Saturday with action in the classes of men's singles and in men's doubles. This morning, starting at 8 o'clock, the second round of male singles action was billed. Women's singles and mixed doubles are on tap this after noon with the second round of mixed doubles in the evening. On Monday at 8 a.m. men's doubles semifinals will be played with finals following in college men's and women's singles. Men's and mixed doubles finals are scheduled for 11 a.m. Men's and junior veteran's singles title matches are planned for 1 p.m. Defending champs in the tourney are Ellis Williamson, Eureka, Calif., men's singles, SCUBA Diving Club Planned A proposal to form a SCUBA diving club for this area has been announced. The organization it to b named the Rogue Valley Bottom Busteri. A meeting U planned at Medford High school on Friday, Jan. 20, at 8 p.m. Further information can be obtained by telephoning Dale Lane at SPring 3-3757 or John Fawcett at SPring 2-4446. ' Calls also can be made to SPring 3-6060. Membership is o p e n io men and women 17 years of age or over. St.John's Tnnc I It-nh New York - UP - St. John's overcame a 34-point perform ance by Billy (The Hill) Mc Gill Saturday night to defeat Utah, 73-65, in the third place consolation game of the holi day basketball festival at Madison Square Garden. : A crowd of about 12,000 turned out for the triple-game event last night. Seton Hall beat St. Joseph's (Pa.), 91-83, in the opening game for fifth place. Tony Jackson and Kevin Loughery each held to a sin- i u.,w Murine thf first 1C uaormv half, sparked St. John's early second half rally that handed Utah its second loss of the tourney and fourth of the season. McGill, Utah's 6-foot-9 Ail American candidate, scored more than half his team's points, chiefly with his deft hook shooting. He scored 14 field goals and six free throws. But he was virtually a one man attack, while four St. John's players distributed the scoring load. During the first half, Leroy Ellis and Willie Hall each scored 18 points for the Red men to help St. John's gain a 37-35 half time advantage. At one time. St, John's led 30-21 but McGill and Joe Morton combined in a spurt that nar rowed the half time gap two points. Loueherv and Jackson com bined to score of St. John's first 27 points in the second hdlf as the Redmcn opened a 64-52 lead with five minutes left to nlav. Hall scored three field goals during the last five minutes to keeD St. John's ahead and wound up his team's high scorer with 26 points. Roque Steelhead Film Available Grants Pass - Caveman Camper, Inc., firm here has announced It has a 65-minute sound and color motion pic ture of steelhead fishing on Rogue river available for showing bv clubs and other groups of the southern Oregon area. The film depicts a five-day float trip down the fishing stream. Charles Ashpole of the Camper firm said that sound equipment was taken on the trip and sound recorded at the time of the filming rather than been dubbed in later. In that way, the movie is the first of its type made on the Rogue, he reported. Request for the film can be made by writing to the firm or by telephoning GReen wood 6-6611. W J BIiTBI and George Hunt and Mike Moore, Eureka, men's dou bles. Among other top players in the tourney are Jim Jackson, Portland, singles champ in two Rogue Valley Tennis club outdoor tourneys here; Mrs. Williamson, sixth ranked wo man in northern California; Kay O'Bryon, Redding, Calif., who has held a national senior womens mantle, and Gary Cummings, Medford, who last spring shared the state high school doubles championship. Elks Hold Free Toss Tournament Medford, St. Mary's, Cen tral Point and Eagle Point schools are to conduct their own runoff the first week in January for the annual Elks free throw contest, Chuck Jones, Medford lodge chair man for the event has an nounced. The event is sponsored statewide by the Oregon Elks association and Oregon State college athletic department. Jim Barratt, OSC athletic business manager, is state chairman. Jones said that it hoped to hold the finals for the Med ford area around' Jan. 13. Ar rangements for these elimina tions are yet to be completed. Winner from here will enter the state finals on Saturday, Jan. 21, at Oregon State col lege. The competition is for boys up through the eighth grade in school. Area winners will gather at a luncheon at Cor vallis at which Slats Gill, OSC basketball coach, will be speaker. Contestants will shoot 50 free throws in com petition the afternoon of Jan. 21. Ten extra free tosses will be used if needed to break ties. The top four in this elim ination will contend at the halftime of the Oregon Slate- Washington State game, shoot ing 25 more free throws apiece. 800,000 Might Watch Tiff on Video Screens New York-IUPII-An unprece dented 800,000 paying specta tors may watch the March 13 Floyd Patterson-Ingemar Jo hansson heavyweight title fight on theater-TV and paid-home-TV, Irving B. Kahn dis closed. Kahn, president of Telft nrnmnter corDoration - which has been awarded the TV, ra dio, movies and other ancil lary rights to the fight, said he hoped for at least 600,000 for closed-ciromt TV snow ines at thcaterVand other lo cations in the United States and Canada. He added that Telcprompter is trying to send the fight by Daid-TV to 200,000 homes through $100 systems" in vari ous parts of the country, a total of 23.800 homes in 13 systems had paid-TV for the second Patterson - jonansson bout last June 20, he explain ed. There are now 700 sys tems in the United States, he said. Bob Lilly Signs With Cowboys San Francisco - IUPI) - The fierce battle for East-West griddcrs being waged by the National and American root ball leagues seemed to be go ine the NFL's way. Three prize players joined NFL clubs last week. Bob Lilly, 250-pound All America tackle from Texas Christian, signed with the Dallas CowboV. Wyoming fullback Jerry Hill signed with Baltimore and Bernie Casev. Bowling Green half back, joined the San Fran Cisco Forty Nincrs. PLAYER OF YEAR New York - HOT - Abner Havnes. the Dallas Texans' 185-pound "one-man gang.' was chosen as the Ameri can Football League's Play- er-of-the-Year for 1960 by United Press International. The versatile halfback, one of the biggest surprises of the oast pro football campaign was elected by a panel of 24 writers. Hayncs polled 9 votes in the open balloting com pared to 6 for quarterback Jack Kemp of the Los An gcles Chargers. ''oison Oak? Try Bottle of 2EMACOI Tea muse b satisfitd or voui montv chttrfully refunded. Get e kettle today el WESTIRN THRIFT School News Eagl ej'oinf Grade '"By Mary Alice Peslka The chorus is putting on an operetta called "Tom Saw yer," directed by Keith Kram beal. Parts are being chosen at this time. It is planned io be presented at a PTA pro gram sometime in the spring Solos will be sung by the main characters. There are six students par ticipating in a small singing group who are preparing a program for the PTA in Jan uary. Pupils participating in the January play are Jennie Smail, Steve Larson, Charlet Jensen,. Marsha Wallis, Tim Pam, and Arthur Harbison, who are all members of the upper grade chorus. The upper chorus held a skating party recently. A bus was taken to Jackson County Roller rink, driven by Keith Krambeal. Thirty-six students attended the skating party, chaperoned by Mrs. Palm and Aedene Jensen. There were no hospitalizations, although there were a few scratches and bruises. The Christmas play was presented Dec. 20 for parents in the Eagle Point Grade school gym. On Monday, the play was presented for the school. Grades one through three presented the play. There were three sections: Christmas Is Fun," "Christ mas Means Gift Giving" and Christmas Means thetBirth of Christ." The directors of the play were the first grade teachers, Mrs. A. C. Copley, Mrs. Vera Selby, and Mrs. S. L. John ston, second grade teachers Mrs. Ernest Gregg, Mrs. Elsie Turner and Miss Nancy Rina- barger, third grade teachers, Miss Grace Bigham, Mrs. Richard Swinney, and Mrs. Leif Ostmo. They were accom panied on the piano by Ralph Humphrey. Mrs. Maxine Berryman's Library club held a Christ mas party at Mrs. Berryman's home. Gifts were exchanged. After the party, the group went skating at the new rink in Medford. Members of the library club made Christmas bulletin boards in the library and in the main building. The club members also decorated a Christmas tree with hook jackets for the seventh and eighth grade building. Ashland High School Edited by Karen Felter Ronald Apodaca and five of his Spanish students left for Mexico Wednesday, Dec. 21. They plan to spend 13 days in Mexico during the Christ mas vacation learning the customs and traditions of the Mexicans and trying out their Spanish-speaking abilities. Jerry Burns, Pete Kreis man, Gary Jones, Lynn Mcr riman, and Don Ross are the students on the trip. The two main destinations are Aca pulco and Mexico City, but they plan to take in all of the sights along the way. ' Flanagon Aptitude Classifi cation tests were given to all sophomores and 10 seniors. These tests show aptitude scores for 19 job tasks and each student's aptitude for 37 occupational areas. William Willett spoke about his trip to India at a national school assembly, Dec. 12. Wil lett lived in India for six years and has had many in teresting experiences. He also displayed many curios from India and gave a brief de scription of each. Wins were scored over Cra ter, Medford, and Roscburg, and a loss to Grants Pass by the Grizzly cross-country team. This was the way the team closed its second cross country season, according to Hiram Crane, cross-country coach. The Quill and Scroll, an internaional honorary society for high school journalists, held its first meeting Tuesday, Dec. 20, in Mrs. Selma Mc Alaslcr's room. Several topics were discus sed during the meeting, in cluding the date of initiation ceremonies and raising money for different worthwhile proj ects. Hockey By United Press International Montreal 3 Boston 1 Chicago 3 Detroit 0 Toronto 2 New York 1 BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Ware Stainless, Galvanised and Copper fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 I: r ii iiiMirr rTfr!9 V' FIVE PERSONS DIE-An automobile with eight people in it crashed into a beer truck on the shoulder of U.S. High- way 81 near Waco, Tex., Thursday, and five of the passen- IV Cougars Win Tourney; Cave Junction - Host Illi nois Valley high, won the Lions Club Holiday Basket ball tournament here. The Cougars fought from behind in the concluding panel Fri day evening to nudge Lake view 47 to 44 in the finale. 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