Hotter Than Toast, Melba Tallies 102
MELBA OVERCASH
Averages 40 points
CHAMP CAN'T FIGHT FOR
CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE
NEW YORK, (/P) — Ezzard
Charles, the NBA heavyweight
champion, is going to defend his
title in New York State where he
is only a ‘logical contender.”
Charles has signed to meet
Freddie Beshore of Harrisburg,
Pa., in a 15-rounder at Buffalo,
Feb. 28. It’s okay with the New
York State Athletic Commission,
(By Horace Billings)
((/l*) Newsfeatures)
' LANDIS, N. C., (/P) — Melba
Overcash, Iandis High’s six-foot
seven forward, probably estab
lished a high school record for a
regulation girls’ game recently
with 102 points.
“I just wanted to score 66 points
in a game,” she said after the
East spencer High game which
her team won, 107-35.
“I knew that a girl in South
Carolina (Miss Nan Eaddy of
Hemingway High) scored 65
points in a single game and I
wanted to better that record.”
The tall junior wh is only 16
years old, collected 79 points in
the first half.
“I didn’t want to shoot too much
but the other forwards, realizing
that I had a good chance of beat
ing the 65 scored by the South
Carolina girl, kept passing me the
ball and yelling to shoot. So I did.
But I probably won’t do that good
again.
What about the future for the
6-7 lanky lass?
“I have received several schol
arships and intend to go on to
college,” says Melba. “A couple of
the professional girls’ teams have
written me and asked if I were
interested in playing with them.
I replied that I would be when I
graduated next year.”
Melba, an excellent student,
says: “I have a lot to learn about
the sport, however.”
Yast year was her first year on
the team, Thus far this season she
is averaging 40 points per game.
but you can’t mention title.
In New York, Charles is only a
‘‘logical contender.” Across the
river in New Jersey, he’s the
champ. It’s all a little confusing.
Chairman Eddie Eagen of the
state athletic commission gave
his approval, last week insisting
that the match can not be billed
as a championship fight.
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MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
Coal Miners Say:
i#Let Taft-Hartley
Law I)i<* The Coal’’’
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they’ll stay out until they get a
contract.
Over the weekend, Lewis bowed
to the court order and directed
his 372,000 striking miners back
to work. But with telegraph of
fices closed on Sundays in many
small mining communities, sever
al locals were late in receiving the
official word.
Some idle miners said they are
not working because this is Lewis’
70th birthday. The UMW presi
dent’s anniversary actually was
yesterday.
Dave Fowler, president of UMW
District 21 in Oklahoma and Ar
kansas, looks for a continuation
of the strike despite Lewis and
the court. He said:
“Some of the miners feel the
government is trying to make con
victs out of them. The miners
fought for 50 years to get their
union. They don’t want it stolen
away from them and be reduced
to slaves.”
In Indiana, where all 8,500
UMW diggers arc idle, president
Louis Austin of UMW District 11
said:
“Apparently the miners are an
gry because they have no con
tract.”
In West Virginia, the Norfolk
and Western and the Virginian
Railways said no mines are re
ported working along their lines.
About 14,000 miners are idle in
Logan County. West Virgo-h*.
No mines are operating near
Harlan, Ky.
Comment from rank and file
diggers showed their aaitude to
be one of grim determination.
“The injunction won’t mine
coal and we knowr- it,” said a
miner at the Russcllton, Pa., Mine
No. Two of Republic Steel Corpo
ration. He added: “That Taft
Hartley business is foolish. No
contract no work.”
Miner Paul Truckley of Curtis
villc, Pa., declared:
“Truman gave the operators an
ace in the hole. They knew Lewis
cither had to order us back or
leave us wide open to an injunc
tion. In my opinion, the men are
solidly opposed to going back
without a contract.”
Another digger, at the Wheel
ing Steel Corporation's shaft at
Harmavville, said: “Let the oper
ators dig their own coal.”
Man Slicked From
Plane 8,000 Feel
Over Lone Island
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the door came open.
Capt. John T. Dolan of Hunt-,
ington, N. Y., pilot of the plane,
said he had received clearance
for landing, and was reducing al
titude when “Harris was lost
through the opening of the main!
cabin door."
"The passengers remained calm
and cooperative,” he added. “The
flight was completed without fur-,
thcr incident.” .
Twenty-two passengers arrived '
on the plane.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Walsh left
yesterday for California where
they will visit with children and
grandchildren. Enroutc they will
visit their son Kevin and family
in Fairbanks and sec a new grand-1
daughter as well as many friends
in Seattle.
Training Census
Bureau Personnel
JUNEAU, — According to Clar
ence P. Keating, Jr., Territorial
supervisor for the bureau of the
census in Alaska the Territorial
staff personnel are now being
trained in the technical and ad
ministrative phases of the seven
teenth decennial census. This
training is undei the direction of
Roger Francis a permanent em
ployee of the bureau who has
been assigned to the area staff to
give technical and administrative
assistance to the program.
In addition to Territorial su
pervisor Keating there are three
assistants or divisional supervis
ors. Mrs. Bonnie Jo Gronroos will
be in charge of the First Division,
James D. Brown will head the
Third Divisional organization and
George W. Jarris will direct the
activities of the bureau in the
Second and Fourth Divisions.
Miss Jean Lyons is the Terri
torial supervisor’s clerk. Mrs. Vir
ginia Angell will carry on the du
ties of supervisory clerk in the
First Division office; Miss Louise
Farnace will head the clerK’s de
partment in the Third Division
and Mrs. Kathryn Urie will be
supervisory clerk in the Fair
banks office. Miss Farnace left
Juneau for Anchorage Saturday,
Feb. 11, where she will instruct
Mrs. Urie in her duties.
At the conclusion of the train
ing session scheduled for Thurs
day, Feb. 16, Mr. Jarris will re
turn to Fairbanks. Mr. Brown will
fly to Anchorage and Mrs. Gron
groos will remain in Juneau to
open their respective offices Keat
ing said. Loaders will then be
hired and trained after which
they will go into the field and se
lect and train enumerators for the
actual taking of the census which
is going to commence April 1,
1050.
Enumeration of some of the iso
lated areas has been started. On
Feb. 1, nine enumerators com
menced tabulating persons in
their area who would be difficult
if not impossible to contact after
GELATIN CAPSULE MAKERS
CHARGED WITH MONOPOLY
WASHINGTON, I/P)—The jus
tice department yesterday charg
ed two leading drug making firms
with trying to monopolize the sale
of hard gelatin capsules—used
for “vitamin pills" and other med
icines.
Attorney general McGrath an
nounced the filing of a civil anti
trust action in federal court at
Detroit against Parke-Davis and
Co., Detroit, and Eli Lilly and Co.,
Indianapolis.
Hard gelatin capsules “are used
primarily as soluble containers for
drugs and medicines taken in
pill’ or ‘capsule’ form,” the de
partment explained. One chief use
is in vitamin pills, an official
added.
Both companies make and sell
hard gelatin capsules as a part of
their business of marketing phar
maceuticals and biologicals.
April 1. But the first of March an
additional twenty, or so, enumer
ators will be going into the In
terior to enable them to complete
their enumeration by the middle
of April. Many of the federal and
Territorial agencies are assisting
the bureau in this census. The
U. S. Forest Service is doing the
biggest job in the First Division
and the Alaska Native Service
will also assist. The Coast Guard
and the Army will also contribute
valuable assistance in the areas
where they have installations and
personnel. The CAA, various bush
pilots and airline companies in
Alaska are assisting in every way
possible to assure a complete tab
ulation for this biggest census
ever taken in Alaska. The Alaska
Railroad, the Alaska National
Guard and the Fish and Wildlife
Service are also contributing their
assistance.
‘It is a mighty big job ahead
of us,” Keating stated, “but with
such cooperation already in effect
and anticipating the usual all-out
attitude of all Alaskans to make
this census count one hundred
percent complete, our biggest
problems are licked before we
start.”
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