Mon., Sept 30, 1963 The Newi-Review, Roieburg, Ore. 9
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HUCREST football players are busy preparing for Friday the big night for Roseburg
area grade school gridders. The Hucrest teams will participate in the annual Kiwonis
Pee Wee Jamboree at Finlay Field. Tickets are now on sale from fifth and sixth graders of
the nine competing schools. The Jamboree (s set to begin at 6:50 p.m. (Chris' Studio of
Photography)
Chargers Remain
Unbeaten In AFL
With 24-10 Win
There were a few snickers
about a month ago when Sid
G i 1 1 m a n said his San Diego
Chargers were the best team in
the American Football league,
but who's laughing now?
The Chargers rode Tobin Rote's
three touchdown passes to a 24
10 victory over the defending
champion Kansas City Chiefs
Sunday to win their showdown
battle and wind up the only AFL
team with a perfect (3-0) record.
In Sunday's only other game,
the Denver Broncos scored their
first victory of the season by up
setting the Boston Patriots, 14-10.
On Saturday night, the New York
Jets edged the Oakland Raiders,
10-7, and the Houston Oilers de
feated the Buffalo Bills, 31-20.
Rote's first two touchdown pas
ses, of 19 and 35 yards, were
caught by Dave Kocourek. Keith
Lincoln caught a lS-yard scoring
toss in the second period and San
Diego led 17-3 at halftime. The
Chargers' defense held the Chiefs
to only 27 rushing yards and 137
by passing, intercepting three of
Len Dawson's passes and recov
ering one fumble before a crowd
of 22,654 at San Diego.
John McCormick, a National
Football League castoff, rallied
the Broncos from a 10-0 halftime
deficit and knocked Boston out of
first place in the Eastern Divis
ion.
McCormick, who took over
when rookie quarterback Mickey
Slaughter was unable to move
the club, threw a 72-yara pass to
Lionel Taylor for the winning TD
in the final period before 18,636
fans at Denver.
A recovered fumble by Chuck
Gavin had set up Denver's first
touchdown in the third period,
Don Stone carrying over from the
four. Denver intercepted three
Boston passes and recovered two
fumbles.
Gino Cappclletti scored all Bos
ton's points, on an 18-yard field
goal, a 31-yard pass from Babe
Parilli and a conversion kick.
WON LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE
RUESSELHEIM, Germany UPI
Dark-haired Conny Rudhof of
West Germany, 29, won the va
cant European lightweight title
Sunday night by outpointing Gior
dano Campari of Italy . . Rudhof
weighed 134 pounds; Cmapari,
134'A.
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STAN MUSIAL lashes a single during Sunday's game os
he bats for the last time of his professional career with
the St. Louis Cardinals. Musial is retiring from the
game that has brought him fame, and he went out in a
blaze of glory with two hits in the final outing of the
season which saw the Cords nips the Cincinnati Red
legs, 3-2, in 14 innings. (UPI Telephoto)
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Willamette Trips Thurston
In Conference Battle, 12-7
MIDWESTERN LEAGUE
(District 5-A-l)
W L T Pet. PF PA
Roseburg 3 0 0 1.000 65 13
Cottage Grove 3 0 0 1.000 82 27
Marshfield 2 1 0 .667 53 40
North Bend 2 1 0 .667 19 34
Sheldon 111 .500 33 27
South Eugene 1 2 0 .333 7 26
North Eugene 1 2 0 .333 15 38
Willamette 1 2 0 .333 24 28
Springfield 0 2 1 .000 21 45
Thurston 0 3 0 .000 14 55
Saturday result:
Willamette 12, Thurston 7
Willamette's Wolverines broke
into the win column Saturday night
in Midwestern League football com-
PRO STANDINGS
By United Press International
National Leegue
Eastern Division
W L T Pet. PF PA
3 0 0 1.000 98 44
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Washington
New York
Philadelphia
Dallas
2 0 1 1.000 75 31
2 1 0 .667 72 54
2 1 0 .667 72 68
2 1 0 .667 74 73
0 2 1 .000 59 86
0 3 0 .000 48 96
Western Division
W L T Pet. PF PA
Chicago
Green Bay
Minnesota
Baltimore
Detroit
San Francisco
3 0 0 1.000 75 31
2 1 0 .667 65 40
2 10 .667 76 62
1 2 0 .333 68 82
12 0 .333 54 70
0 3 0 .000 48 89
0 3 0 .000 22 80
Los Angeles
Sunday's Results
Green Bay 31 Baltimore 20
Chicago 37 Detroit 21
Cleveland 20 Los Angeles 6
Washington 21 Dallas 17
Minnesota 45 San Francisco 14
New York 37 Philadelphia 14
Pittsburgh 23 St. Louis 10
American League
Eastern Division '
W L T Pet. PF PA
New York 2 1 0 .667 48 62
Boston 2 2 0 .500 81 59
Houston 2 2 0 .500 81 82
Buffalo 0 3 1 .000 74 107
Western Division
W L T Pet. PF PA
San Diego 3 0 0 1.000 55 33
Oakland 2 2 0 .500 80 60
Kansas City 111 .500 96 58
Denver 1 2 0 .333 35 89
Sunday's Results
Denver 14 Boston 10
San Diego 24 Kansas City 10
(Only games scheduled)
Saturday's Results
New York 10 Oakland 7
Houston 31 Buffalo 20
(Only gamc3 scheduled)
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petition, and in so doing jumped
to a tie with North and South Eu
gene for sixth place in the current
standings.
The Wolverines handed the Thurs
ton Colts a 12-7 setback, leaving
the colts all alone at the bottom
of the heap.
Willamette enjoyed a 6-0 halftime
advantage after Phil Petersen scor
ed on a 7-yard gallop. The Colts
came roaring back in the final
quarter when Bob Shields broke
loose and raced 92 yards for a
Thurston TD. Shields booted the
PAT to put the Colts in the lead.
A bad pass from center to Thurs
ton punter Jim Sagel bounced all
the way back to the Colts' 20 and
set up the winning TD for the
wolverines. Five Dlavs later Steve
Cox sliced his way off left tackle
for the final six yards.
This week's Midwestern League
schedule finds Cottage Grove at
worm Bend. Marshfield Dlavinff
Thurston at Springfield's Silke
Field, Sheldon at Willamette and
Springfield at South Eugene in Fri
day night games. Saturday the
Roseburg Indians will be in Eu
gene to clash with the North Eu
gene Highlanders.
Score by Quarters:
Willamette 0 6 0 612
Thurston 0 0 0 77
Will; Petersen 7 run (run failed).
Thur; Shields 92 run (Shields kick).
Will; Cox 6 run (run failed).
Linfield Tops 0CE;
S0C Rolls, 47-7
By United Press Internet
Linfield was primed today to go
after its third straight Northwest
Conference football championship
and fifth in eight years.
The powerful Wildcats rolled
over Oregon College of Education
52 - 7 at McMinnville Saturday
night for their second straight
noncomerence victory.
Linfield opens its conference
scheduled against College of Ida
ho at Caldwell next weekend.
Lewis and Clark, rated as a
threat to the Wildcats' title as
pirations, edged Chico State 16-14
at Chico, Calif., on a 28-yard field
goal by Ken Byers.
Improved Portland State scored
in every period to defeat Pacific
27-7 at Forest Grove.
Weber of Utah crushed Oregon
Texh 29-7 at Klamath Falls and
Southern Oregon rambled past
George Fox 47-7 at Ashland.
Whitman shut out Eastern Ore
gon 27-0 at Walla Walla, Wash.,
and Nevada topped Willamette
29-6 at Reno.
Two other Northwest Conference
openers, Lewis and Clark at Wil
lamette and Pacific at Whitman,
are scheduled next weekend.
Eastern Oregon plays at Portland
State and Oregon College is at
Southern Oregon in Oregon Col
legiate Conference openers.
No WSU Protest Filed
Over Missing 4th Down j
SPOKANE (UPI) Washineton
State University football Coach
Jim Sutherland said Sunday he
win not me an official protest
over a "missing fourth down"
which may have cost his Cougars
a win over Iowa Saturday.
rums of the game show the
Cougars were given only three
downs at the end of the game,
and they gave the bail up in Iowa
territory with but three seconds
left to play. Had they been given
the fourth down, a field goal try
would probably have been made.
The game ended in a 14-14 tie.
"In the Athletic Association of
Western Universities (Big Six),
coaches do not protest against of
ficials," he said.
COMEBACK DISPELLED
LONDON (UPI) Reports that
auto ace Stirling Moss would
stage a comeback were dispelled
Sunday. His father, Alfred Moss,
said "I don't think Stirling has
any intention of racing again. I
should not think he is fit enough
to do it.
Moss has not driven in a race
since Easter Monday, 1962, when
he crashed his Formula One Lo
tus and received severe head injuries.
Slash Burners Put Torch
Logged Tracts
To Make Way
By DICK KERRUISH
. News-Review Staff Writer
For most of the year, the man
who works in fire control on the
i Umpqua National Forest is a
! meek, easy-going fellow.
I He goes around helping elderly
. ladies cross the street and promot-
ing worthwhile causes like fire
prevention.
i But comes fall . , . and watch
lout!
j This innocent-looking gent em
barks on an incendiary spree that
makes Nero s burning of Rome
look like a backyard marshmal
low roast.
However, don't be alarmed. It's
not a case of split personality, ar
son or pyromania. Setting off fires
is just part of the job for fire
control people on the ranger dis-
i tnct staffs and for a larger num
i ber of loggers on National Forest
, timber sales.
I In rnnnPPtinn with timber sales.
slash on the logged-over units must
tk. k. inic
be replanted with marketable t
and perpetuated under tne sustain-1
ed yield concept.
College Scores
By United Press International
EAST
Delaware 30 Lehigh 0
Pittsburgh 13 Washington 6
Yale 3 Connecticut 0
Penn St. 17 UCLA 14
Army 22 Cincinnati 0
Navy 28 Wm. b Mary 0
Penn 47 Lafayette 0
Harvard 0 Mass. 0
Delaware 30 Lehigh 0
Holy Cross 6 Buffalo 6
W. Virginia 34 Boston U. 0
Boston Coll. 22 Wichita 16
Colgate 21 Cornell 17
Dartmouth 20 Bucknell 18
SOUTH
Tex. Christian 13 Fla. St. 0
S. Car. 21 Maryland 13
Mississippi 31 Kentucky 7
Alabama 28 Tulane 0
S.W. Tenn. 35 Cen. Meth. 13
Furman 29 Geo. Wash. 14
Duke 30 Virginia 8
Auburn 23 Tennessee 19
Fla. A&M 44 Lincoln (Mo.) 6
Georgia 20 Vandcrbilt 0
Wash. & Lee 28 Rand. Macon 0
Georgia Tech 27 Clemson Q
Va. Tech 27 Wake Forest 0
Florida 9 Miss. St. 9
Maryville (Tenn.) 20 Centre 7
Tenn. Tech 7 Chattanooga 5
Elon 28 Guilford 7
Middle Tenn. 21 Martin Tenn. 14
Southern U. 22 Grambling 21
McNeese 27 La. Tech 6
S.W. La. 18 Hard-Sim. 6
Carson-New. 3 Em Henry 0
Alabama A&M 44 Lane 14
Jackson (Miss.) 18 Miss. Voc. 13
Murray St. 14 Austin Peay 0
Lenoir Rhyne 7 Presb. 0
MIDWEST
Bowling Green 31 S. 111. 6
S.W. Mo. St. 13 Drake 6
Ottawa 41 Bethel (Kan.) 0
Depauw 19 Evansville 7
Bluffton 23 Defiance 7
St. Thomas 54 MacAlester 21
E. Mich. 13 Kalamazoo 12
Ohio St. 17 Tex. A&M 0
Illinois 10 California 0
Wisconsin 14 Notre Dame t
Northwestern 34 Indiana 21
Mich. St. 31 N. Carolina 0
Anderson 13 Manchester 7
Miami (Ohio) 14 Marshall 14
Butler (Ind.) 13 Ball St. 0
Augustana (111.) 16 N. Cen. 13
Kansas 10 Syracuse 0
Iowa 14 Wash. St. 14
Michigan 27 S. Methodist 16
Ind. (Ind.) St. 20 111. St. 7
Grinnell 35 Knox 14
Wooster 22 Kcnyon 15
Nebraska 14 Minnesota 7
Lake Forest 0 Concordia (111.) 0
Ohio U. 13 Dayton 6
Villanova 18 Toledo 14
Xavier (Ohio) 7 Kent St. 7
Omaha 19 Idaho St. 6
Bald. Wallace 14 Akron 10
St. Jos. (Ind.) 14 Valparaiso 7
S. W. Kansas 28 Friends 7
N. Dakota 19 Montana 13
Blackhills 0 Southern (S.D.) 0
Bemidji 35 St. Cloud 0
Colo. Western 42 Ft. Hays 0
S.E. Mo. St. 22 Augustana 13
111. Wesleyan 49 Lakeland 13
Mo. Valley 46 Graceland 0
! No. Dak. St. 33 Morningsidc 8
State Coll. Iowa 33 S. Dak. 6
'Macomb (111.) St. 14 Bradley 0
SOUTHWEST
Baylor 27 Houston 0
Rice 21 LSU 12
N. Tex. St. 26 Louisville 6
Bishop 38 Miss. Ind. 6
Missouri 7 Arkansas 6
Texas 49 Tox. Tech 7
Fisk 8 Philander Smith 0
Arizona 33 Brigham Young 7
W. Tex. St. 32 Pacific U. 8
Ariz. St. 14 N. Mex. St. 13
Wiley 10 Alcorn A&M 7
E. New Mex. 23 Adams St. 14
Tex. A&I 45 C. Christi 22
Ark. St. 14 Florence St. 12
WEST
Sacramento SL 20 S. Clara 14
Cen. Wash. 20 Puget Sound 7
Montana St. 29 Fresno St. 7
Air Force 69 Colorado St. 0
Oklahoma 17 Southern Calif. 12
Idaho 10 Utah 9
Whitworth 41 W. Wash. St. 0
San Fran. St. 20 L. Beach St. 16
Orpenn 36 Stanford 7
Colo. Coll. 27 Ft. Lewis A&M 7
San Jose St. 16 Kansas St. 0
Calif. Western 28 Mexico U. 8
Colo. Mines 48 N.M. Highlands 7
Humboldt St. 30 Hawaii 13
N. Dakota 13 Montana 13
Wyoming 21 Utah St. 14
Oregon State 41 Colorado 8
Linfield 52 OCE 7
Lewis and Clark 16 Chico State 14
Portland State 27 Pacific 7
Southern Oregon 47 George Fox 7
Nevada 29 Willamette 8
Whitman 27 Eastern Oregon 0
Weber 23 Oregon Tech 7
Are Burned
For New Trees
Actually, the reasons for burning
the debris from logging operations
are three-fold, as Umpqua fire staff
man Homer Oft explains:
"A primary objective is to re
duce the fire hazard. Slash as it
dries out becomes a highly in
flammable material. It must be
burned under controlled conditions,
so that it can't bum again in the
event of an uncontrolled fire."
Secondly, the Douglas fir forest
is a fire-born forest. That means
the young Douglas fir tree grows
best in clear or burned-over areas
where it has room to develop.
Third, eliminating slash clears
the logged area so that it can be
re-planted with a new plantation of
trees, wanting is difficult for tree
planting crews where there is a
heavy accumulation, of slash ma
terial. The fire control man on the Ump-
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Crucial Judgment
All of these tools are important
to the slash fire planner. He is re
sponsible for making a crucial sci
entific judmcnt whore an error
could be disastrous. Using the
tools he has available, he must
determine the best method of burn
ing the material in relation to the
terrain and weather conditions and
he must also determine a time for
setting the fire which will result
in the least possible hazard to the
surrounding timberland.
The Umpqua National Forest
burns from 5,500 to 6,000 acres of
slash on cut-over timberland an
nually. A sale tract normally con
tains from 40 to 50 acres. This
year, however, there are consider
ably more units of smaller size due
to a multitude of smaller sales con
tracted under the Freida salvage
program.
A slash burning operation last
week on Unit 6 of the Monte Rico
Ridgel Sale about 61 miles east of
Roseburg was a typical controlled
burn. This was a unit of the Nordic
Veneer contract, logged this sum
mer by Coning Corp. of Rose
burg. The unit was of average size and
steepness, but without as much
material to burn.
"It's a hot slope, but there's good
moisture underneath," said
Charles (Chuck) Timberman, for
ester supervising the burning of
this unit, who had determined that
everything was A-OK for touching
off the blaze.
Dry, Yet Wet
Slash sites must be dry enough
to burn, but wet enough under
the material and in the "shade"
around the burn to deter a conflag
eration. The slash burner's plans
must take into account such fac
tors as slope, humidity, wind con
ditions and moisture content of the
soil. Slash burning usually gets
under way each fall after the for
est has received a good rain.
Even with all of the careful prep
aration, the slash burner's plans
are subject to change.
"They can be ehanged by weath
er or wind currents," said Timber
man. "If humidity or other factors
change, we might not be able to go
ahead with the burn. We prepare
the plans on what we think the con
ditions will be, but they must be
flexible enough so that they can
be changed right away."
Slash burning operations on tim
ber sales are handled by men of
the timber operator's logging crew
who work in cooperation with the
Forest Service fire control men.
Before the burning task is start
ed, the loggers are briefed by the
Forest Service personnel on the
strategy mapped for handling the
fire.
The activity of slash burning is
a combined responsibility of the
timber purchaser and Forest Serv
ice within the framework of the
appraisal and timber sale contract.
The operator's preparations for
the burn include building a fire
line around the cut-over area to
contain the fire within the unit.
dragging some debris back into the
unit and felling snags for a dis
tance of 200 feet around the out
side perimeter of the unit.
Dangers Cited
What are the dangers to partici
pants? "Rolling rocks and logs, mainly,"
said Timberman. "The men have
to keep their heads up all the time.
Fire burns the support out from
under rocks and logs, and they
can roll down on a man if he s not
careful.
"Another danger is for a man to
forget where his partner is, and
unknowingly start fire all around
him. A burner also has to watch
out for odd wind currents."
Occasionally a slash fire, in spite
of the precautions, will jump out
of the unit and cause some trou
ble. But 95 per cent of the time
the fire lines will contain the fire,
said Timberman.
Gene Carlson, North Umpqua dis
trict ranger, says the man who
heads a slash burning operation is
usually a man of considerable tal
ent. "He's a man who doesn't fear
fire, but has a healthy respect for
it. It usually holds true that a
man who has good administrative
ability is also a good burner," he
said.
The burning operations leave the
timber sale area black and barren.
But not for long. New tree planta
tions will be started in the ashes,
and in two or three years the
denuded unit will be green again.
In five years, a good growth of
timber will be in evidence.
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FORESTER CHARLES (CHUCK) TIMBERMAN, left, studies rhe terrain ot a logged-over
unit on Monte Rico Ridge os logger collects "drip torch" he'll use to ignite the slash
material. The- drip torch contains o mixture composed of three parts diesel oil to one
part gasoline. After igniting the wick of the torch, the burner ignites the slash mater
ials by tilting the device so that the flaming liquid drips down upon the materiol to
be burned. "Hard hats" ore a standard safety precaution.
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that conditions are satisfactory for startinT a f.'ro willioi'.1- endcr.ce.-.'ng surrounding
timberland. Last-minute checks are made 01 r.umlditv. wind vsloclty end moisture con
tent of the soil both inside and outside of t e v.n,:, !Jhoto provides a v.e.v of tie slash
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THE BURNING BEGINS. The slash plans for his particular unit called for starting the
fire along the unit's upper edge and working down. The burners moved down the
mountain, starting new rows of fire a strip at a time until t'ne hillside was totally ignited.
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IF YOU'VE SMELLED SMOKE in the oir lately, or noted that the horizon is hazy, picture
above tells why. Slash burning operations have been under way on logged-over timber
sale units throughout the Umpqua Notional Forest. Slosh fire above is o typical fire
control burn. The course of the smoke illustrates an important principle in slash fire
plonning. Notice how heat convection draws the heat inwardly into central columns
ond away from the green timber just outside the fire line. This is a different unit
from the one illustrated in other pictures above. (News-Review Photos)
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