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52 PAGES Section A
"He Said For Me To
PUG Head Dismisses
Complaints Against
Southern Pacific
Salem - Public Utility Com
missioner Jonel C. Hill Satur
day dismissed complaints
against the Southern Pacific
Railroad company, in the five-year-old
"Rogue River Rock
et" case.
At the same time he order
ed Pacific Motor trucking, a
subsidiary of SP, to pay $160,
000 or more in highway use
taxes accumulated since 1955
while trucks have been haul
ing mail formerly carried by
the train over the Siskiyou
line. "
Hill said the money would
be turned over to the state
highway department.
Hill said 'he made his de
cision on the controversial
case after 18 months of study.
Filed By Senators
The complaint had been
filed against the railroad by
three former state senators -Paul
Geddes of Roseburg,
Philip R. Lowry of Medford
and Gene L. Brown of Grants
Pass.
Hill said testimony and ex
hibits show that the contract
secured by SP for the mail
haul, which F:1T is perform
ing, was not obtained by com
petitive bidding, but by nego
tiations carried on between
the SP and the post office
department. As such it does
not qualify for an exemption.
Lowry, an attorney, said in
Medford yesterday he is sur
prised that any decision was
made on the case at all since
it had been postponed for so
long. The suit originally was
filed in 1955 when Charles
School Age Limit
Bill !s Tabled
Salem - (Ml - The House
Education committee late Fri
day tabled a controversial bill
that would have changed the
age that children can be ad
mitted to school.
The measure, HB 1097, stir
red up irate parents and had
a hearing here last Wednes
day. Children would have had
to be five months older before
they could be admitted to pub
lic school.
Tabling means the bill Is
dead for this session.
The committee voted out
"do pass" a bill that would
allow school districts to have
classes on Saturday. Attend
ance would not be compul
sory. The measure is HB 1079
House Fire Victim
Is Owen P. Short
Positive identification was
made Saturday afternoon of
the man who died Wednesday
night in a house fire on Car
penter Hil! rd.
Dead is Owen P. Short, 46,
who was living at the house at
the time of the fire. The vic
tim's wife identified remnants
of clothing that were found on
the body, Coroner Carlos Mor
ris reported.
An autopsy was performed
earlier at the request of Dis
trict Attorney Alan I). ttnlmes.
TALKS POSTPONED
Washington tUPU The State
department announced today
that Russia has agreed to the
American proposal for a six
week postponement in re
sumption of the Geneva nu
M
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Wait For An Answer"
Heltzell, was Oregon public
Utilities commissioner.
"This shows an urgent need
to adopt legislation to provide
public representation in any
matters coming before the
PUC," Lowry declared.
Not Angry
Lowry emphasized that he
is not angry with the decision
since it was expected. But, he
said he did seriously question
the reasoning in the 18 page
opinion completed by Hill.
The ex-state senator and
prominent Med ford lawyer
also declared that public hear
ings conducted by so-called
regulatory bodies and govern
mental agencies do not, pro
vide for safeguarding the pub
lib interest. ..
"The commission office
seems to be merely a court-
teous form for granting the
utility request," Lowry re
marked.
Lowry said he would write
the PUC commissioner giving
his opinion on the decision.
"It has been almost six years
since the complaint was filed
and there is absolutely no ex
cuse for that kind of delay
in any matter of public inter
est." 'Absolutely Incredible'
The former state senator
termed the decision's reason
ing as "absolutely incredible"
and hit the following points:
"The opinion states that
since the public did not use
what the commission describ
es as very inferior service it
did not attract public use and
since it did not attract public
use abandonment of the pas
senger service was justified.
"It also says that since the
valley was without service for
five years the question is
moot. The case was supposed
to raise, the question of wheth
er the service for' this area
is in the public interest.
"The commissioner accepts
our contention that the Land
Grant Act of 1866 requires in
terstate service from the rail
road. But the commissioner
says in effect that Oregon is
not concerned with a federal
law and we should take it up
with the federal government.
Point of Trial
"In the 1940's the federal
government did file a suit on
this ground and got up to the
point of trial. However, Fed
eral Judge James Alger Fee
dismissed the case because
federal attorneys hadn't per
fected a law suit so a hearing
could be held.
"It seems to be a situation
in which the state and U. S.
government are batting this
land grant question back and
forth.
"The Southern Pacific fail
ed to produce income records
from the state, but the com
missioner does not seem dis
turbed about that. This is the
only populous area in the
United States where complete
abandonment is upheld by the
PUC.
"T h e commissioner also
makes another peculiar find
ing: 'Since the population of
the area has continued to ex
pand during the time this suit
was pending it indicates other
forms of transportation are
sufficient and the Rogue val
ley residents-don't need rail
road passenger service.'
"But, since the area has ex
panded it really shows much
greater need than at any time
of the hearing many years
ago," Lowry concluded.
EDFORD
Nigerians Jumped
By Pro-Lumumba
Troops in Congo
272 Missionaries
Moved to Safety
Leopoldville -fUPII-The Unit
ed Nations rushed strong rein
forcements Saturday to the
scene of a fierce gunbattle be
tween some 1,500 Congolese
soldiers and three platoons of
U.N. Nigerian troops.
A U.N. spokesman said ad
ditional Nigerian troops were
being moved into the Kasai
province town of Kindu where
tneir countrymen had been
under heavy attack since Fri
day by Congolese troops loyal
to jailed ex-premier Patrice
Lumumba.
Malayan troops with armor
ed cars also were alerted to
move into the area left by the
Nigerian reinforcements, the
U.N. spokesman said.
Missionaries Removed
At the same time the U.N
announced that 272 American
missionaries and their fami
lies have been moved to safe
ty in Uganda from the Congo's
Oriental and Kivu provinces
since Jan. 30. Both provinces
are occupied by forces loyal
10 L,umumoa.
A cease-tire ordered late
Friday at Kindu has been
maintained "except fori few
random shots," the U.N
spokesman said, adding it
should have cleared the way
for reinforcements to get into
tne area.
One Nigerian officer was
known to have been killed in
the battle and four enlisted
men were missing. At least six
Congolese were reported kill
ed. But complete Congolese
casualties were not reported.
Plane Attacked
A U.N. plane trying to land
supplies at Kindu airport Fri
day niglit was shot up by Con
golese troops, but ma'naged.to
get away, the U.N. spokesman
said.
The spokesman said the Kin
du fighting was sparked by
an incident in which a drunk
en Congolese soldier fired at
a group of Nigerians of the
U.N. force. He said. a, brawl
developed in which the Ni
gerians fought back and killed
six Congolese.
A large force of the pro-
Lumumba Congolese ambush
ed the Nigerian troops near
the airport early Friday. The
Nigerians withdrew under
heavy fire and were besieged
in the downtown building
they have been using as head
quarters.
Wood Thieves Can
Turn Woodcutters
Ashland - Two men now in
the Ashland city jail will be
released as soon as they cut
a cord of wood.
The two were arrested by
city police Thursday night.
Clarence Duane Comstock, 19,
of 455 South Mountain ave..
Ashland, and Bruce Quinton
Hall, 18, of 3048 Madrona
lane, Medford, pleaded guilty
in municipal court to charges
of petty theft.
The two were charged with
stealing wood from the Leon
ard Rude home, 425 Liberty
St., Ashland. Friday Judge
Richard Cottle sentenced
them to 10 days in jail. How
ever, he stipulated that if they
contacted the forest service
and obtained a permit to cut
a cord of wood to be returned
to Rude, they would be allow
ed to leave the jail during
daylight hours.
As soon as they get the
wood cut the sentence will be
suspended.
They hadn t finished Satur
day.
Local Pea r
A delegation of pear grow
ers from Jackson county and
County Assessor Ray Schu
macher attended a House Tax
committee hearing in Salem
Friday on a bill which would
remove the property tax ex
emption on deciduous trees.
Schumacher did not testify
but was t h e r e in case he
should be called on. Jackson
county fruit growers attend
ing the hearing included Ward
Spatz, Paul Culbertson, Dave
Lowry, and State Sen. Lyndel
Newbry.
. Approximately 200 persons
appeared before the commit
tee, most of them from the
Willamette valley.
Rep. George Annala (D-
Hood River), and Ken Kirby,
Hood River county assessor,
testified in favor of the bill.
Hood River and Jackson coun
ties are considered the two
main pear producing areas in
Oregon
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nowstorm Paralyz
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WINTER IN NEW YORK More than 17 inches of snow
fell on Now York City Saturday with drifts as high as 12
feet in some areas. With ihe snow sull coming down
Siskiyou County
Matron Killed
In Auto Accident
Yreka - Two cars collided
on U.S. highway 99 19 miles
south of here Friday night,
killing both drivers and injur
ing two passengers. '
The California highway pa
trol identified the dead
Mrs. Frances E., Mazzoni, 37,
Weed; a matron in the Siski
you1 county sheriff's .office,
and Floyd Holeton, 61, Brem
erton, Wash.--
Karen Gonzalez, 22, Weed,
was critically injured and
Donald Freeze, 20, Weed, a
jailor in the sheriff's office,
sustained back injuries. Both
were passengers in the car
driven by Mrs. Mazzoni.
Patrolman William B. Dun
can said Mrs. Mazzoni was
traveling south and Holeton
north on the two-lane high
way when Holeton let his car
drift across the center line as
he rounded a sweeping curve.
He realized his danger, Dun
can said, and tried to pull
back into his lane. Mrs. Maz
zoni swerved to her left in
efforts to avoid Holeton and
the cars collided just west of
the center line the officer said.
Copco Empoyee
Burned by Wire
Robert C. Lake, 306 Gar
field st., a California Oregon
Power company lineman, was
reported in fair condition in
Rogue Valley hospital Satur
day where he is being treated
for electric shock and burns.
Lake was stringing a wire
at East Evans creek Friday
when the wire hung up and
hit a 12,000 voltage wire. He
was burned on his hands and
feet, hospital attendants said.
WEAPONS NECESSARY
Charleston, S. C. - (UPI) -
Gen. Lauris Norstad, supreme
commander of the North At
lantic Treaty Organization
said Saturday nuclear weap
ons should be used "if neces
sary" to stop any violation of
the 4,000 mile NATO frontier,
Growers Testify at Tax Committee Hearing
Annala and Kirby said or
chard valuations are being
given preferential treatment
as compared to other lands. If
deciduous trees should con
tinue to receive property tax
exemption then the sales ra
tio studies within a county
would be placed in a "cock
eyed" position, they said.
Culbertson said the pear
growing industry faces a ser
ious problem with pear de
cline and it would be aggra
vated by removal of this ex
emption. Culbertson said many pear
growers arc not able to pay
their loans in full and do not
have the ability to pay the
proposed increased tax. Re
moval of the exemption from
fruit trees would mean double
taxation, he said. Overall pro
duction the last two years
was down about a third.
While at the hearing Cul
bertson said the Jackson
5
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY,
Knife-Wielding Man
Robs Service Station
A man with a paper sack
over his head robbed the Med
ford Cash and Save Oil com
pany, 3602 North Pacific high
way, at knife point last night
and got away with $159 in
cash. It was the second serv
ice station robbery here in a
week. - ' . .,
At Mail Tribune press time,
Medford city police- and- sher
iff's deputies were combing a
field in back of the station in
an effort to find the man who
had escaped on foot..
Delnricre Hackworth,. w h o
was just closing the station at
thd time of the robbery, at
9:20 p.m., said the man forced
him to open the cash register
at knife point. Hackworth's
wife, Lcona, was also at the
station at the time of the rob
bery. Hackworth told police that
he had just locked up the sta
tion s garage doors when the
man stepped out from behind
a parts rack, stuck a knife in
his ribs and said: "Don't
move."
He had Hackworth lead him
to the office, where he then
tried to open the cash register.
Failing to do so, he then made
Hackworth open it for him. ;
Before he left, the man tore
the station's telephone off the
wall and warned Hackworth
not to call police.
Hackworth said the man
went around behind the sta
tion and disappeared into a
field. He then went to a near-
WEATHER
FORECAST: Variable rlnufllnrss
and mild temperatures today.
.Mostly cloudy tniifgiit and Mon
day with possibly a feiv lislit
showers on Monday. II iqli today
near 61). Low tonight 35 to 38.
High Monday 52 to 55.
Temp.
Ilichpst Yesterday 57
Lowest This Morning '. 38
I'rcclp. to 5 p.m. Yesterday 0.
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today 5:30 p.m.
mi n rise tomorrow a.m
Moon rise tonic lit 10:34 p.m.
The planet, Mercury, Is about
33 million miles from the Earth
today. It may he seen for the
next few evenings low In the
west - southwest, a little after
sunset,
County Fruit Growers' league
will ask the 1961 Legislature
and Congress for funds to
carry on research into the
cause of pear decline.
The exemption, enacted by
the 1957 Legislature, is con
sidered ' particularly benefi
cial to fruit growers The com
mittee is considering two sim
ilar bills; one would remove
the entire exemption, and the
other would leave the exemp
tion on trees but remove it
from grazing vegetation,
shrub3, plants and crops.
Sen. Walter C. Leth (R
Salem), a prominent member
of the Oregon Slate Horticul
tural society, protested re
moval of the exemption. He
argued that farmers already
pay the greatest share of tax
es in farming areas. Removal
of the exemption, he said,
would hit an already hard hit
segment of taxpayers, loosen
up tax laws and create 'more
FEBRUARY 5, 1961
Patrolman. Mathcw Lyons stands in knee-high snowdrift as
he calls his station house during the morning hours.
' (UP! Telephoto)
by home to call police.
An estimated dozen city
policemen and sheriff's denu-
tics were involved in the
search for the robber. : : I
Last Sunday night the Re
gal Service station, 1006
South .Central ave., was rob
bed of $45, by a man who said
he had a gun in his pocket;
In that robbery (the man was
wearing a wool sock over his
face, i "... " ' ' v '
Police said last night that
It is possible the two robberies
,r. ln.ri.rf
In last night's robbery the
man made no attempt to harm
either Hackworth or his wife.
January Snowfall
Sets Park Record
Snowfall at Crater Lake Na
tional park during January set
a 30-year low, according to
Park Supt. Otto Brown.
Only 40.5 inches were re
corded compared to an aver
age snowfall for January of
136.5 inches, and a previous
low o 56 inches set in 1942.
Accumulative snowfall for
this season is also well below
tho 325.7 inch average
through Jan. 31. The 190
inches recorded so . far ap
proached a 107.5 Inches record
low noted last year.
Precipitation during De
cember, 1960, also established
a new record low. The 5.36
inches of precipitation record
ed were far below a 30-ycar
average for December of 12.08
inches. A previous record low
of 5.46 inches had been set
in 1059.
BOMBER LANDS SAFELY
Edwards AFB. Calif. - HOT -
Maj. Harold 11. Snowdon of
Ft. Worth, Tex., and two crew
men nursed their crippled $15
million B58 Hustler jet bomb
er 1,000 miles Friday and
made a successful emergency
landing on a foam - covered
runway here.
problems than It would solve
While the bill is generally
supported by fruit growers,
there are exceptions, it was
noted.
The Jackson county assessor
fought against the exemptions
on fruit trees when they were
first presented in bill form in
1957, and again in 1959 when
he worked for repeal of the
law granting exemptions.
"Generally speaking, while
other property is taxed based
on 100 per cent of its market
value, orchard properties are
taxed on a 50 per cent of
their market value," the Jack
son county assessor claims.
"If taxpayers want to give this
subsidy to the pear growers,
that's allright. If they, don't
they should write their legis
lators." Schumacher said that or
chards are in a slightly dif
ferent position than other crop
lands since trees are consider-
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State Department,
JFK Said Working
On f nnnn Cnlut
VH VAJllUv) JUlUUvMi
.. .
.Washington -lUl'll-President
rwuuneay ana siaie acpuri-
merit off icials worked Salur
day on details of a sweeping
new Congo plan .which would
set up under United Nations
supervision a coalition govern
ment representing all warring
elements in the chaotic Jungle
country. , , ', . . ,. ; :
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proved the general principles
The- President, who. has ap-
of the plan, conferred at the
White House with' U.S. Am-
bassador to the -Congo, Clare
H. Timberlake.
Secretary of State Dean
Rusk held separate confer
ences with Belgium Ambassa
dor Louis Scheyvon and Tu
nisian Ambassador Mongi
Slim.
Scheyvcn and Slim repre
sented different views on how
to handle the crisis in which
a number of countries are
withdrawing the troops they
have committed to the U.N.
police force. ...
To Announce Support
The Kennedy administra
tion was expected to announce
within the next week its sup
port of the plan to "neutra
lize" the feuding factions and
create a federation-type gov
ernment. It would include fol
lowers of imprisoned former
premier Patrice Lumumba.
The U.S. position may be
disclosed soon after the U.N.
Security Council resumes the
Congo debate Tuesday. But
officials doubted that consul
tations with interested gov
ernments could bo completed
by that lime.
Timberlake gave Kennedy
a one-hour first-hand report on
the situation in the crisis-ridden
nation. He was accom
panied to the While House by
G. Mennen Williams, assistant
secretary of state for African
affairs.
Timberlake said any state
ment would have to come
from the President.
ed to be Improvements to
land. Crops have a one year
period of production. They
can be planted after the tax
assessment date and harvested
before another assessment
dale.
"We are continually de
creasing Ihe real property tax
by granting these exemp
tions." Schumacher remark
ed. "If the fruit industry is in
a needy position then there
should be other provisions to
grant help rather than to tam
per with the value concept of
taxable property. By such ac
tion it only throws the burden
on other properties."
The orehardists contend
that if fruit trees are taxed,
all crops should be taxed.
There is no way to g;t the
true market value of orchard
land since sties or orchard
lands often include equipment
and machinery with them.
Year Price 10 Cents
Storm Claims
Traffic Is
By United Press
A savage snowstorm dump
ed 17 inches of snow on New
York City Saturday, paralyz
ing auto, rail and air trans
portation in the city's worst
winter in history.
The storm howled up the
eastern seaboard on gale force
winds and crippled scores of
cities and towns from Newark,
N.J., to Hartford, Conn.
It was the fifth major snow
storm for snow-weary New
Yorkers and the 17-inch blan
ket was the city's worst snow
fall in 13 years.
Only essential traffic as
permitted to move along snow
cloggcd arteries in the metro
polis. In populous Nassau
county, on Long Island, a state
of emergency was in force,
permitting movement of only
fuel oil trucks and other ve
hicles essential to the life of
a city.
Winds Sway Tower
Howling winds churned up
high seas along the coast and
gusts clocked at 95 miles an
hour swayed the Texas tower
off Cape Cod. The crew, un
worried, reported they were
warm and safe and "playing
darts."
The Coast Guard cutter
Acushnct, defying 15 - foot
waves and gale winds rammed
through drifting ice to rescue
a fishing vessel and its 11-man
crew off the Boston coast. '
Air traffic was at a stand-
lill. All flights were canceled
at snow-choked Idlewild and
La Guurdla. airports in New
York. Logan International
airport at Boston and airports
Pittsburgh were closed. ;
new ungianuers caueo. me
storm a noreaster. The area
was threatened with fuel .oil
shortages-and coastal ' flood
ing. . . - ,
The storm has cost the lives
of 74 persons since it was
spawned over the midwest
Thursday. The deaths resulted
from exposure, over - exertion
and auto accidents on snow-
packed or icy roads.
Illinois, counted 11 deaths;
There wore 10 in . Ohio and
Pennsylvania, 6 in Tennessee
and 5 in Massachusetts. Wy
oming and New York had 4,
Russia Launches
7-Ton Satellite;
No Life Aboard
Moscow - (UPD - Russia Sat
urday launched into , orbit a
7.1 ton Sputnik - more than
big enough to carry a man -but
there was no mention of
life aboard and a scientist
said it would burn to a space
cinder In a matter of days.
Italian and German scien
tists In the West reported
hearing sounds like Morse
code and "heavy breathing"
over usual Soviet space radio
frequencies on Thursday. But
the Soviet Tass news agency
definitely . said the Sputnik
launching was yesterday.
Western radios began pick
ing up "rapid" signals from
the new Sputnik on a radio
frequency Just below 20 meg
acycles. The Bochum, Germa
ny, observatory said the beeps
were "very loud."
Few Details
An "improved multi-stage
rocket" hurled Sputnik V into
space, Tass said. It gave re
markably few other details.
Tho usual lisling of space ra
dio frequencies was omitted
from the brief initial state
ment.
Prof. Ivan Shcvlyakov of
Moscow planetarium called
the space shot "a leap in tho
creation of rockets for. space
travel."
But Tass called It a "Sput
nik," not a "spaceship." The
latter word has been used
whenever animals have been
carried beyond earth.
Shcvlyakov said the Sput
nik was whirling so close to
earth it would hit the atmos
phere and burn like a shooting
star from friction in a few
days.
It was the heaviest man
made satellite ever put into
orbit and according to Tass
was circling the earth once
every 89.8 minutes In an egg-
shaped path. Its farthest point
from earth (apogee) was meas
ured at 203.4 miles; its closest
(perigee) was 138.9 miles.
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No. 275
74 Lives;
Stopped
International
New Jersey and Michigan 3,
Iowa, Indiana, Rhode Island
and Missouri 2 each and ons
each in Virginia, Georgia,
Kentucky and Wisconsin.
A new storm, born in the
southern plains, spread snow
from the central Rockies
through parts of Colorado,
Kansas, Oklahoma and tho
Texas Panhandle. A narrow
band of freezing rain extend
ed south of the young storm,
which was expected to swing
eastward into Arkansas and
Missouri by Sunday with
snowfall of four inches or
more.
The Midwest, which felt the
first force of the eastern
storm, began its cleanup op
erations from the worst snows
of winter to strike the na
tion's midsection.
75,000 Autos Marooned
At Chicago, covered with
an eight-inch blanket of snow
and drifts up to three or four
feet deep, temperatures eased
somewhat to give residents a
breather. Police appealed to
car owners to dig out an esti
mated 75,000 autos marooned
on city streets.
But the midwestern snows
were no match for the near-
blizzard that struck the East,
New - York state, already
reeling from its longest deep
freeze In 92 years, was stag
gered anew under the storm's
wallop. -
The New York City 24-hour
snowfall of more than 17 inch
os raised the city's total snow
fall since the blizzard of Dec.
11 to almost 60 inches. It
made the- storm the worst in
ine ciiy since Tne an-ume rcc-
ord smhvOman nf 9S inhD.
in 1947-
Stata of fimargency .
A. state ot emergency was
declared at Syracuse, N.Y.,
paralyzed by an accumulation
of 30 inches of snow. Many
upstate New York areas had
two or more feet of snow on
the ground when th storm
began, ,! ' ;. '
The storm heaped 24 Inches
of snow on Cortland county,
N.Y., 15 inches on Bingham
ton and 13 on Tannersvllle. In
northwest Connecticut, drifts
mounded 15 feet deep, and 12-
foot walls of snow clogged
suburban New York areas.
Transportation in and out
of New York City by car,
train, bus and air was either
paralyzed or hopelessly snarl
ed. Downtown Manhattan
streets were all but deserted.
Trains ran late, ship move
ments were virtually halted,
and residents of luxury apart
ments on Park Avenue wera
snowbound by five-foot drifts.
Sports Bulletins
Medford high, with a 27
to 7 first quarter start, ram
bled lo a 74 to 34 Southern
Oregon conference basket
ball victory over Ashland
hers last night. Bob Quin
ney and Jim Barry each
had 16 points for Medford
and Gale Tapper 12 for Ash
land. I .
' Klamath Falls - Klamath
Union high's Pelicans de
feated Crater 78 to 53 In a
Saturday night Southern
Oregon conference basket
ball game. Wall Palmberg
had 22 points and Kent
Hunsaker IB for Klamath
which led 44 to 30 at the
half. Loyal Hlginbotham
cored 16 for Crater
Henley - Henley High
school turned back Eagls
Point 61 to 51 last night In
Rogue league basketball
play. The Hornets had 34 lo
18 half time advantage.
Lakeview-Lakeview took
a 72 lo 66 Rogue league
hoop win from Rogue River
high here last night in over
time. Score in regular play
ing lime was 66-all. Jeff
LeRoy scored 17 points for
Rogue River and Chuck
Cosaey and Doug Maxwoll
16 each for ihe Honkers.
La Grande-Larry Apple
gate's basket with three sec
onds left gave Eastern Ore
gon college a 76 lo 74 bas
ketball nod over Southern
Oregon last night. EOC led
43 to 31 at half lima but had
to come from behind in the
last minute to win. Gordon
Carrigan put In 26 points
and John Payne 22 for
Southern Oregon. Apple
gate got 23 for Eastern.
Oregon 71, Oregon State
56
Oregon Tech 45, Portland
State 43 (OT)
clear test ban talks.
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