6 - SANDY (Ora l POST Thun., March 1 4 .1 9 7 4 (Soc. 1)
He predicted tourney berth
Pioneer hoop star reaps acclaim
By NANCY BARKER,
Staff Writer
The morning after can be
beautiful.
And
for
Sandy
High
basketball standout Alan
Nippert, the morning of Friday,
March, 1, definitely was.
He had just piled up a career
high 41 points the night before,
to help the Pioneers whip
Silverton 89 to 49. and to help
himself to the title of leading
scorer in the C oast-V alley
League
“It was the first time I ’ve
scored a lot—the most I ’ve ever
scored," Alan exclaimed in
somewhat astonished tones.
“ It's kind of weird, coming to
school the next day,” he added.
“A lot of people congratulated
me, and stuff like that.”
But he didn’t do it all by
himself.
“The rest of the guys on the
team gave up the ball,'' the six
foot five center said a p ­
preciatively “It was a team
effort to score those points; I
couldn't have done it without
them.”
Of cowse, it takes the right
person to get that ball in the
basket, according to Pioneer
varsity coach Jim Kitchen.
"Not just anybody could have
scored those points,” he
declared. " I wish I had at least
one like Alan every year!”
But the Sandy High senior,
recently named to the CVL all
star team for the second time,
attributes much of his success
to luck.
“I ’ve never worked that hard
at basketball,” he claimed.
“ There are guys who’ve
worked harder who sit on the
bench.”
This
may
be
because
basketball hasn’t seemed like
work to him this year.
“ I t ’s more fun this year,”
Alan enthused. “We’re winning
more, and that just makes it
fun!”
Has Sandy’s shooting star
alw ays
wanted
to
play
basketball?
Alan didn’t really play a
whole lot of basketball in grade
school,” recalled his mother,
Mrs. Pat Nippert. “ He was
interested in lots of sports in
grade school.”
Interest in sports is shared by
all members of the Nippert
household, especially by this
mother of four (The other
three are Lisa, 13, Shelly, 12,
and Bobby, 10.)
“ I love sports,” she ad­
mitted. “ I sit in front of the TV
and watch football games
"Kids have got to be oc­
c u p ie d ,” she added, “ and
sports give them an outlet. ”
Alan did not concentrate on
basketball until later. Several
reasons c o ntrib u ted to his
choosing this sport in par­
ticular.
“ He broke his thumb when he
went out for freshman football,
so that was th a t!”
“Of course, his dad played
b a s k e tb a ll,” continued Mrs.
Nippert, “ so that might have
something to do with it.”
The candid 17 year old had
another slant.
“ It (basketball) was the only
thing I could do any good at,”
confessed Alan. “ I like the
com petition of team play,
trying to be better than your
opponent. “ Besides, you can
play basketball by yourself.
You can’t play football or
baseball alone.”
While he enjoys watching
football and baseball games, he
doesn’t like the spectator role
at basketball games.
" If you play, you want to be
out there, not in the stands!”
And Alan spends a lot of time
out there on the basketball
court. A broken thumb may
have kept him from football,
but not too much keeps him off
that court! Not even illness.
“ Alan has a mild adult case
of Cystic Fibrosis,” explained
Mrs. Nippert' “ It doesn’t really
affect him too much. We don't
make an issue of it.”
The hereditary condition af­
fects the lungs in most cases, as
it does in Alan’s. This means he
has to be somewhat careful not
to catch colds.
**If I ¿ct
I Siftvs troubl®
breathing, but I get over it
fast,” he shrugged.
He doesn’t let CF interfere
w ith
b asketb all,
which
demands
g ru eling
daily
practice a fte r school, and
weekend workouts.
“ A la n ’s become a good
basketball p layer s tric tly
through determination,” said
his mother “When he makes
up his mind, he tries to do a
good job . "
Devoted as he is to basket­
ball, it is not all important to
this poised teenager
“ I ’m a little d iffe re n t,”
admitted Alan. “ I put other
things before it. My educaton,
my work and my family come
first.”
These three things have a
definite connection for him. His
Sandy
High
classes
in
agricultural mechanics from
instructor Lee Cole enhance his
skills in metal work, which he
does on weekends at Pacific
Pneumatic Services Inc., a
fam ily business owned by his
father, Harold Nippert.
“ Alan is very close to being a
professional," declared Cole,
"his work is excellent.”
“ N ip ", as his classmates
sometimes call him, plans to
eventually enter the metal
business with his father, after
college. The other fa m ily
business,
th ree
S izzler
restauran ts owned by the
senior Nippert with his brother
Roy, doesn’t hold any at­
traction.
“ I don’t think you could get
him near the re s ta u ra n t,”
laughed
M rs.
N ip p e rt,
acknow ledging
th a t
the
Gresham Sizzler is not all that
far from the fam ily’s Cottrell
home.
“ 1 don’t even come close,”
confirmed Alan, who has not
shown any interest in learning
the culinary arts. “ I don’t even
go there and eat. I just don’t
like restaurants.”
“ I don’t like the work,” he
finally admitted
On the other hand, his face
lights up when he talks about
the gas tanks he has built for
large vehicles. It is plain that
his career choice is a happy
one. To prepare for it, Alan will
take business courses in
college.
H ow ever,
his
college
preference will not depend
e n tire ly upon its business
department
“When I decide on a college,
it will be the one that has the
most to o ffe r,
both in
education and b a s k e tb a ll,”
asserted the slender hoopster,
who definitely plans to include
his favorite sport in campus
activities.
“ If I don’t like the coach, I
don’t want to go there,” he
emphasized.
In the meantime, Alan is
winding up his last season of
high school play by getting
ready for the annual state AAA
basketball tournament, to be
held at the Memorial Coliseum
next week
In fact, he started preparing
for it way before Monday’s
victory over Dallas.
“ I know we can make it—we
should make it easy,” he
predicted w ith confidence
March 1.
Not surprisingly, this is the
same Alan Nippert who told the
Post a year ago at the end of the
season, “We should have a good
team next y e a r!”
If you want to know about the
tourney games, ask him.
ALAN N IP P E R T, has been building gas tanks such as
this one in his ag-mechanics class at Sandy High. He
plans to make metal work his career.
Post Photo)
IV V |\ I
NO, IT ’S not a new ballet dance; it's the pioneer basketball team practicing
for the Sandy - Dallas game. Can you spot Alan Nippert ?
(Post Photo)
OREGON STATE GAME COMMISSION
(Continued from Page 8)
is conducting a research
project now to learn what
happens to these fish.
In the meantime, the return
of hatchery fish to anglers is
much higher when they are
planted in standing-w ater
bodies and they are caught over
a longer period of time.
For the second year in a row
there w ill be no brook trout
fingerlings to stock in Oregon’s
high lakes. The same virus
disease th a t caused the
Commission to destory its
brook trout stocks at F a ll River
Hatchery last summer has
killed the brook trout fry this
year at Wizard Falls.
Griggs says rainbow trout
fingerlings w ill be aerially
stocked in place of brook trout
in those lakes that are suitable
just as was done last summer.
This should help reduce the
impact of the brook trout losses
but some lakes that are stocked
only with brook trout w ill go
without planting for the second
year in a row.
Brook trout are used for
stocking the high alpine lakes
because they a re b e tte r
adapted for living in the cold
alpine w ate rs . F a ll R iv e r
Hatchery, near Bend, is one of
the best suited in the state for
raising brook trout. It has both
cold water,which keeps the fish
from growing too rapidly for
aerial
stocking
in
the
spring,and a nearby airstrip.
This was where the state’s
entire stocks were held last
year After the I.P .N . problem
the hatchery was d rained,
disinfected, and is now sup­
porting
an
exp e rim e n ta l
population of fish until it is
determined for sure that the
hatchery is free of disease
In the meantime, Wizard
Falls Hatchery, west of Sisters,
was being used as a substitute
for rearing brook trout
Although infectious pan-
D w indling fa rm supplies,
difficulties in obtaining fuel and
finding feed are among the
problems faced by farmers
Even fertilizers are in short
supply.
Seven of the nine members of
the State Board of Agriculture
expressed concern over ap­
parent shortage of fertilizers
and
other
a g ric u ltu re
chemicals during the two-day
session in Salem d uring
February
“ It is becom ing not a
r
creatic necrosis (I.P .N .) was
not discovered in the brood
trout from which the brook *■
trout eggs were taken last fall,
the newly developed fry
developed the disease and
began dying a few weeks ago.
Pathologists
believe
the
disease was no doubt present at
a very low level in some of the
brood fish.
Fish pathologists are still
looking for the source of the
I.P .N . Last fall 1,000 East Lake
female fish were examined for
the virus but none was found.
There are still suspicions,
however, that East Lake may
be the source Brown trout eggs
also taken at East Lake last fall
produced fry which also suc­
cumbed recently to I.P .N . at
Klamath Falls Hatchery.
The hatchery ponds and
equipment are being disin­
fected and fish cul twists will be
looking for a disease-free egg
source for futw e brook and
brown trout operations
Although some wild fish
apparently have I.P .N ., wild
populations are in no particular
danger from the virus Fish can
apparently harbor the disease
in the wild with relatively
minimal losses. However, the
problem
re a lly
becomes
devastating in the artificial
confines of the hatchery where
epidemics can sweep through a
fish population like wildfire.
Anglers need not worry about
eating fish that may have
I.P .N . The disease is absolutely
harmless to humans and has no
effect on the eating qualities of
fish that have it. In fact,
anglers won't have any way of
knowing if a fish they have
caught harbors I.P .N . or not.
This is difficult to determine
evey by laboratory methods
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roperty values in Las Vegas
e risen from «671,000 in 1966
learly «3 billion today.
CVL ALL-LEAG UE center Alan Nippert
(middle) credits rest of team for suc­
cessful record this year. These five
seniors including from left, Steve Konell,
BOBBY N IP P E R T , 10. has his own method
of -stuffing it," which he demonstrates in
the Cottrell Grade School gym. His sisters.
Gary Bount, Dan Turin, and Larry
Dahrens, have been together since fresh­
man year.
(Post Photo)
Shelly, 12, and Lisa, 13, who play on the
girls basketball team there, look to see If
anyone is watching his non regulation shot.
(Post Photo)
Energy crisis hits farmers
question of farming if you want
to, but one of farming if you
can," said Edwin W Gebhard.
board member from Central
Point
J. Fremont Sprowls, M ult­
nomah County agent, shares
with readers a 10-point check­
list to
save energy
in
agriculture
With the list is a reminder
from the D epartm en t of
A gricultire that “ every gallon
of fuel you save is another
gallon for agriculture.”
This is the energy-saving lis t:
Tune up engines to save fuel
and increase power
Reduce tillage to save up to
two gallons of fuel per acre
Connect implements to cut
out trips and save fuel.
Shift up and throttle down to
save more fuel
Shut off engines; idling
wastes fuel.
Use wheel weights for heavy
jobs, remove for light work
Keep plowshares and cutting
tools sharp and correctly ad-
justed.
Keep proper air pressure in
tires for maximum efficiency.
Check
with
any
US.
D epartm en t of A gricu ltu re
county office for more in­
fo rm atio n
on
energy
management
Soil testing is high on the list
of suggested practices to
conserve fertilizer Soil sam­
pling and soil test information
to determine whether or not
fertilizer is needed can be
provided by County Extension
agents
In fo rm a tio n on
feeding
alternatives for cattle also is
a v a ila b le from the County
Extension office.
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WE LISTEN MOSTLY
Seventy per cent of the
typical persons's waking hours
are spent in communication,
declares D r Paul Rankin of
Ohio State University Writing
accounts for ten per cent,
reading for 15 per cent,
speaking for 30 per cent, and
listening for 45 per cent
S H E L L Y N IP P E R T , holding papers,
proudly shows off stacks of papers
collected by sixth graders at Cottrell
Grade School to slater Lisa, in the eighth
grade, and brother Bobby, fourth grader,
Sixth grader Shelly aaya she Is going to
collect a lot more!
(Post Photo)