Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 6]

John was a tall,

_of yesteryear.

THE BRONZE. REPORTER

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Former Golden

Gloves Champ
To Return

The winner of three Golden
Gloves. titles is lookfig forward
to returning to the EMA as a
~spectator to the Golden. Gloves
~Tourney: (sponsored by. the Junior
~Chamber of Commerce). John

iGibson, Jr.,, who successfully de
fended his Open middle weight tiitle against the very popular Marity Vedrody, in 1941 ~(he claims
that he can: still ~hear the incensed
icrowd~s boos as the decision was
very unpopular) can be counted
ion to be in attendance. In 1941,
lean, and erafty
southpaw, who believed in brain
over brawn. He used his unorthodox boxing stance to an advantage as he collected his three
titles.

John modestly insists that he
was just plain lucky in those days
He couldn't understand why he should emerge

victoriously when there were such

scrappers as Booker Smith, Benny
McCombs, and others in his division whom he considered as superior in the manly art: of self de
fense.
~ | He-was one of the 3~ fighting|

Gibson brothers, Anderson, the
youngest, died shortly ~after leaving the service in, 1947. Herman
is now.an attorney in. the city,
and John is devoting ~his full time
as advertising manager of the

_ BRONZE REPORTER.

John is now a ~heavyweight,~
ibut claims he never toyed with

| the idea of turning professional
_in his younger days because as he

put it ~I never had the physical.
equipment to knock out a fly and
in the fight game, it is'a httle insurance when you are able to
score a KO occasionally.~

~Me ten-ton plaque which adorns
the entrance to~the Associated
Press Building at Rockefeller Center, New York City, was the first~
piece~ of heroic sculpture to be
eased in chromium-nickel stainlea~
aerl. ey

Auxiliarys Of
American Legion
Play Santa

More than 30,000 members. of
the ~Michigan American Legion
Auxiliary this week are bringing
a Christmas shopping service to
3,500 ~hospitalized veterans who
are unable to go to stores to do
their gift hunting for relatives and
friends back home:

Repeating a service started 7
years ago, the auxiliary members

have set up a shopping center in|

each of the five Veterans Administration hospitals located at Dearborh, Saginaw, Fort. Custer, Iron
Mountain and the new Ann Arbor
unit. |

The unique difference between

these shopping centers and other
stores where ~Christmas gifts are
selected is that veterans don~t pay
for the gifts they select for members of their families.~ What they
choose is ~the gift of the auxiliaries. Each veteran is entitled to
Select three gifts, with a value of

~$1.50 to.$3 each. After the sel
ections are made, volunteer auxiliary members. assigned to each
hopsital wrap them aS gifts and
then prepare é~ach package for
parcel post. Hospital orderlies
and nurses bring veterans bound
to wheel chairs and stretchers to
the shopping centers.

Under the direction of Mrs. Delmar Landon, department rehabilitation chairman, 3993 Bedford,
Detroit, state auxiliary president,
Mrs. John E. McCauley, Wyandotte, the shopping centers this
year have received gifts trom 450
auxiliary units throughout the
state which has exceeded a total
cost of $24,000. Many units began theit shopping as early as
September to insure delivery of
gifts for the December 7 opening
of the centers. The stores will
wind up operation December 15.

Within the last 25 years, hydroearbons from petroleum and natural gas have become a source of
raw materials for more than 2,500
different chemical products..Leaves and flowers may be attractively preserved by pressing
them tu a hard surface, then applying two or more thin coats of fresh,
white shellac. ~

Who Will Be Elected

~Miss Bronze

Reporter?~

The BRONZE REPORTER will give the following prizes to oe
winner of the ~MISS BRONZE~ ~ ee contest: ~,

Ist Place
*. 2nd Place

SP PERCE ooo ccbeeevatee uid

aged cota cass $100.00 War Bond

$50.00- War Bond,

seid als icaseeegs cle $25.00 War, Bond

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PLEASE NOTE!~~The church which holds the membership of;
~MISS BRONZE REPORTER~ will receive at the same time $50. 00.

cash.
QUALIFICATIONS (General).

1. Age 15-18 (At close of contest)

2. Charater: Must be good.

38. Statement from Minister declaring church membership,

4. Marital status: Single.

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REPORTER~ Contest,

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2. Submit at least one hundred - (100) votes nominating you to

run in the election.

3. Each week have your friends and relatives to submit votes
for you using nominating bianks to be published each

week in this newspaper.. The contest will last for only thirteen weeks beginning November |.
Three -weeks will be allowed to give you time to gather
The remaining ten weeks will be Jallot
21, 1953.
enough votes for nomination.

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3} luck of Central~s _Tribesmen.

Fate Again Hits
Central In Last
Minute Of Game

Falling short seems tobe the
In
sthe all important Thanksgiving
Day game, Central~s football team
lost a heartbreaker against Flint
Northern. This time Central's
basketball team, making its debut
in the 1953 Saginaw Valley.Basketball Conference, against Porntiac High, suffered a tough loss. ~

~They trailed by 17 points late
in the third quarter, before they
eaught on~ fire. Bill Lyon and
Larry Catlin, football warriors,
were sent in~ to help bridge the
gap Their accurate shooting spree
began to reflect on the score. In
the closing moments of the thriller, the score was tied. Lynn: fouled for blocking for another tribesmen, and substitute -Johnston of
Pontiac, who was his team~s high
point man, scored two shots on
what proved to the the margin
needed for victory. Catlin and
Lyon shared the honors as Central~s high-point men. with 13
tallys each.

The victory for. Pontiac gave
them~a win and a loss. They lost
their Valley opener to Flint Northern:

J.C.'s Winning
Streak Snapped

ROBERSON~S 4} POINTS!

~NOT ENOUGH ~

Benton. Harbor~Joe Roberson
was red-hot as he challenged Larry Hackett~s 55 points which were
scored in 1952. However, his individual performance~ was - not
enough to keep Flint JC Bears~
15 game winning streak intact.
They bowed to Benton Harbor
84-79. Benton Harbor Indians
have definitely established themselves as the jinx to the JC Bears.
For the last five games on the
Benton Harbor floor, the Bear
have come out on the short end
of the game.

Pressure and free thraw shoot
-|ing averages ~spelled. the a~

ence for Bentoh Harbor.

Lee Jones gave a good acouank
of himself also as he scored 6
field goals and 4 free throws for

~|a 16. points total for the game,

However, the Benton Harbor
charges averaged 13.00 - points
and the~ seventh player~s 6 point
was enough to turn the _ trick,
while Flint had a 6 player average of 12.85.) Their seventh and
eighth players added only 2
}points. Bearing in~ mind that
Roberson~s 41 ~points brought
Flint.JC~s. average up considerably, Flint JC cagers just didn~t
have eyes for
night.

shooting Friday

Conversions

Unless. ~platoon~~ football fs revived, major teams will gradually
ease away from the policy of
scheduling ~~breathers~~~ with small~er colleges. They stand to lose
too much~gate receipts and natienal prestige when upset. by
teams not so well known... AS
predicted, 1953 was a year of upsets. However, most of the nation~s
powers took the conversion to. the
~~~one-platoon~ game in stride and
will do even better in 1954... As
football makes its annual farewell
with bowl activities, basketball

takes the spotlight, for what vet-| %

eran observers believe will be a|
year of more and more new rec
ords. They say offense is so far|

ahead of defense that most schovls
will need three-digit scoreboards... Early play in the Southeastern
Conference bear out the fact. Cliff
Hagan, in Kentucky~s return to the
cage wars, set a conference record with 51 points. Two days Inter
Louisiana State~s Bob Petit broke
Hagan~s record by. dumping ir 22
field goals and 16 free tosses for
60 points as LSU toppled little
Louisiana College 128-74... At
Indiana, Branch McCraken said
IU has plans for'a fieldhouse srating 20,000 and could fill it eaaily

LEADS PENSION FIGHT...
Chicage Cub Ralph Kiner (shown
with young son), together with ~
Yankee Allie Reynolds, represents baseball players in negotiations with team owners over
players~ pension, involving use of
World Series and All-Star sames
TV-radio receipts.

if TY were taken away.

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with annual production in excess)
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