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u i ) U n u o I ) ( ) J o o n a r 1 (.J G O 01 0 Q G O 0 o o u O G 0 i ) EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MH Football Tickets Now Being Sold Season reserve seat tickets (went on sale today for the 1955 Medford senior high school foot Jill slate. "Principal Lester Harris said (that persons who had season tickets last year will have (3 through August 29 to purchase the same seats they had. Those ) anting reserve tickets, who did O hiva thorn last vm. ran huv 0- . . . - (hours. The school office will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8 a.m. ot noon on Saturday. The office will be open during the noon Jour. Students can also pick up their tickets and Harris advised that they should have them by Satur day September 10 in order to be admitted to the season opener on that date. Fiist Game September 10 - Medford is host to Cleveland (f Portland in its starter. There ! ; wille six home games during j lhe regular season. Others are O Grasham D on September 16, Crater on October 7, Eureka on October 21, Ashland on October 28 and Grants Pass on November 4. Games away are at Roseburg on September 23, at Milwaukie on September 30 and at Klamath Jjrans on ucioDer it. The Black Tornado will be de- c.-r) fending district and Southern Oregon Conference champion. tSome 20 lettermen are expected C"? hack. Practice will start on Mon y day, .August 29. Prospective ' - i t ii : ; I gnaaers win receive cmiipiueni. non August 25, 26 and 27. Physi cal examinations are set for q August 26 at the Doctor's Clinic on West -Main st. 0 ROCKY LOSES SLEEP - urusaiuger. N. Y. (U.R) Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano is losing sleep as long as the Boston Red Sox keep nplayinff night baseball 'games. Rocky? a rabid Boston rooter, has been staying up listening to Recounts of the team's games on the radio and his manager, Al QWeill, is worried. "As long as othey play at night, Rocky won i 1 1 J. Woill vn xo DCQ U11L11 IIS uvcii rimoaned. ; Standings (OPACIFIC COAST LEAGUE O W. L. Pet. GB .567 .539 4 .538 4 .514 7',i .504 9 .458 15 ' i .441 18 .441 18 Seattle 80 fTl Hollywood 78 i San Dieiw 77 i; 3 Portland 71 C- Los Angeles 71 61 65 66 67 70 77 80 80 w Sacramento 65 P) Oakland 63 JSan Francisco 63 Wednesday's Results d) San Francisc 4. Oakland S San Diego 4, Sacramento 3 (10 in- fnings Portland 5. Seattle 4 0 (Only games scheduled.) Bow Series Stand Hollywood 1. Los Angeles l Oakland 1. San Francisco 1 San Diego 2. Sacramento 0 ' Seattle 1. Portland 1 MERICAN LEAGUE Cew York 72 (-CfaicaRO 68 Cleveland 70 L. 47 45 48 50 55 70 74 77 Pet. .605 .602 .593 .576 .530 GB 1 l'i 3 ',2 (Boston ..68 ..62 -.47 ..41 .37 s (7i Detroit 9 o Kansas City Washington Baltimore .407 23 '.i .357 29 .325 32' 2 nesday's Results Detroit 9. Cleveland S Boston 7. New York 1 (night) i:,1 Baltimore at Washington: (2 games, two-niaht. DDd.. rain I. " lOnlv names scheduled). Kansas City at Cleveland (night) Detroit at Chicago (night) Baltimore at New York (night) Boston at Washington (night) K NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Brooklyn 77 39 .664 (Milwaukee 65 55 .542 14 Nw York 63 55 .534 15 Philadelphia 60 61 .496 19 2 Chicago 59 64 .480 21 '2 Cincinnati 57 63 .475 22 St. Louis 52 64 .448 25 (Jttsburgh 44 76 .367 35 Wednesday's Results New York 5. Brooklyn 1 (night) i Pittsburgh 6. Philadelphia 4 I night) ; Chicago 3. Cincinnati 2 (night) ;: Milwaukee 11. St. Louis 4 (night) "Thursday's Probable Pitchers Milwaukee at St. Louis, night CilCrone 7-7 vs. Jackson a-iu.i Friday's Games Brooklyn at Philadelphia (night New York at Pittsburgh (night) f-. St. Louis at Cincinanti (night I CiJ Chicago at Milwaukee (night) r.KORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. pr Sugene 26 17 Wenatchee 23 18 Lfwiston 22 18 Tri-City 20 22 Salem 20 22 Spokane 19 24 Yakima 19 28 Pet. .604 .560 .550 .476 .476 .441 .404 (Yednesday's Results Spokane 6. Salem 5 Eugene 6, Lewiston 2 Yakima 3. Tri-City 2 (10 innings) League Leaders VTION'4f. ITARI'E 0lyer &. Club G AB Ashbrn.. Phila. 110 420 Campnla. Bkn. 92 345 Kluzskl. Cinci. 119 474 Burgess. Cinci. 93 332 .Snider, Bkn. 113 414 a AMERICAN LEAGUE Kaline. Det 116 460 Kuenn. Det 112 458 Power. K. City 112 458 Mantle. N.Y. 119 426 Smith. Cleve. ..118 474 R H Pet. 69 139 .331 63 112 .325 93 153 .323 57 104 .313 101 129 .312 101 161 .350 70 145 .317 70 145 .317 100 132 .310 92 145 306 Home Runs Kluszewski. Redlegs41; Banks, Cubs 39: Snider. Dodgers 38: Mays. Giants 37; Mathews. Braves 32. Runs Batted In Snider. Dodgers 110: Ennis. Phillies 98: Kluszewski, Redlegs 96; Jensen, Red Sox 94: Banks, Cubs 93. Runs Kaline. Tigers 101: Snider. Dodgers W1: Mantle. Yankees 100; Kluszewski, Redlegs 93; Smith. In dians 92. Hits Kaline. Tigers 161: Kluszew ski. Redlegs 153: Aaron, Braves 150; Kuenn. Tigers. 150; Post. Redlegs 149; Bell. Redlegs 149. Pitching Newcombe. Dodgers 18-3; Byrne. Yankees 11-3; Donovan. White Sox 13-4;- Erskine. Dodgers 10-4; tStrd .Red Sox 7-3, ---- MAIL TRIBUNE Obscurity Boys Shine As Red Sox Stop Yanks, Tigers Down Indians By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sport Writer That American league pennant race is just as dizzy as ever to day, folks, so how about "time out" to toast a few of baseball's obscurity boys, Ike Delock, Babe Birrer, Jim Bunning, Ramon Monzant, and Elroy Face. They get their names in head lines about as often as the nice, quiet fellow who runs the cor ner grocery but Wednesday was their day to shine and they made the most of it. Delock, a second-line Red Sox pitcher who hadn't won a game since June 29 and who hadn't gone the route all season, went in and stopped the red-hot Yan kees with a five-hit, 7-1 victory that ended a seven-game win ning streak. Delock himself had been batted out by the Yankees in the early stages of that win ning streak last week and with an attack that had netted 57 runs in the past five games, the odds against him looked formid able. The victory put fourth place Boston against within 3Vz games of the leading Yankees. Rookies Dump Indians Rookies Bunning and Birrer, two peach-cheeked Detroit youths worked together to per form a similar job on the In dians, the Tigers knocking them out of second place with a 9-5 triumph. The Tigers staked Bunning to seven runs in the first three in nings but when he began to coast and Cleveland cut the mar gin to 7-5, Birrer took over and pitched scoreless three- single ball the rest of the way to gain his fourth triumph. Idle Chica go took over second place from Cleveland a game behind the Yanks. In the National league, Mon zant pitched the first complete game of his major league career, retarding Brooklyn's pennant bound Dodgers with a 5-1 Giant victory in which he gave up eight hits, also striking out eight. It was almost the same sort of a night for Elroy Face of the Pirates, who went the' distance for the second time this year and gained his third victory, a six-hit 6-4 job over the Phillies in which his mates backed him with 16 hits. Second place Milwaukee, half-a-continent away from Brook lyn and just about that far be hind in the standings, cut the margin to 14 games by beating the Cardinals 11-4 on a grand slam homer by Del Crandall and two-run blasts by Andy Paf ko and Ed Mathews. It was No. 32 for Mathews. Sauer Hits Two Homers Hank Sauer, for whom life has gone a little sour, came off the bench for the first time in 11 games and cracked a pair of his old specialty home runs to give the Cubs a 3-2 victory over the Redlegs at Cincinnati and Bob Rush his 10th pitching vic tory. A two-run homer by Smoky Burgess in the first in ning deprived him of a shutout. The Baltimore - Washington doubleheader was rained out. Two other obscurity boys help ed Delock to his triumph at Bos ton. Eddie Joost moved into the lineup at second and contributed a hit. Billy Goodman moved to first for the injured Norm Zau chin and had two hits. Jack Jen sen drove in three runs with a bases loaded double after Grady Hatton and Jimmy Piersall trip led to start a five-run sixth. Detroit pounded out five runs in three innings off erstwhile Cleveland ace Bob Lemon but Cleveland countered with home runs by Larry Doby, Bobby Av ila and Gene Woodling. Frank House hit a Tiger homer. In the Giant triumph Willie Mays paced the hitters with a triple and two singles. Pitts burgh's hit parade was led by Eddie O'Brien, Jerry Lynch and Preston Ward with three apiece. LIXESCORES: AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 010 220 000 5 10 0 Detroit 023 200 20x 9 14 0 Lemon. Feller (4). Narleski (6), Houtteman (8t and Naragon. Bunning. Birrer (5) and House. Winning pitcher Birrer (4-2). Losing pitcher Lemon. (13-8). New York ...000 000 1001 5 1 Boston 000 105 Olx 7 9 0 Turley. Kucks (5). Sturdivant (7) TUCSON TRIUMPHANT Lodi, Calif. (U.R) Morgan McDermott Post of Tucson won the Region 12 Junior American Legion baseball championship last night by defeating Bill Er win Post 337 of Oakland, 9 to 3. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5 :30 previous day. DOUGLAS FIR WHITE FIR LOGS WANTED For Delivery at Eagle Point Mill MOGAN LUMBER CO. White City Phone Talbot 6-2711 Thursday, August 18. 1955 and Berra. Delock (7-5) and White. Losing pitcher Turley (13-11). NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn 000 000 100 1 8 3 New York 100 101 02x 5 9 0 Craig. Labine (7i and Campanella. Monzant (2-6) and Katt. Losing pitcher Craig (3-3). Phila 300 000 010 4 6 0 Pittsburgh 121 001 Olx 6 16 2 Simmons. Negray (6), Miller (7) and MEDFOrUHTRLBUNI siPCDLnrs f' i I lk - - " AS FAR AS YOU GO Bobby Avila is called out at second by umpire Bill Grieve as Tiger second baseman Fred Hat field makes throw to first to double Al Rosen, who had hit to third baseman Ray "Boone. Avila came closer than any other Indian to getting past first base as the Tigers blanked Cleveland, 7-0, at Detroit. Pitcher Bill Hoeft tossed a two-hitter. Fans Must Be Lured Away From TV, Radio Sets To Enable Minors (This is the second of a iwo part series on the plight of minor league baseball and what can be done to solve its problems. Presidents of minor leagues, where cities dropped out this season, discuss the sit uation.) By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer Minor league baseball can make a comeback, perhaps even a spectacular one, but something will have to be done first to lure people away from their televi sion and radio sets. Minor league presidents who had cities fold up on them this season blame not only the broad casting of major league games into their territory but the over all magnetism of that magic liv ing room screen. "We can't take baseball broad casts, either radio or TV, away from the people," said Tommy Richardson of Williamsport, Pa., president of the Class A Eastern League. "They feel they have a right to watch or listen when a big league game is on, even though it may make them less interested in going out to our parks. It is up to us to make our product so attractive the fans will come out and see us no mat ter what else is going on." Asks Press, Radio Aid Emmet Harty, president of the Cotton States League at Green ville, Miss., thinks that rebirth of interest could come through greater devotion to baseball at the local level by community press, radio, and television. "Our papers carry a small col umn on the Cotton States league and the rest of the sports page baseball is on the majors," he said. "Our announcers devote five minutes or less to our league and the rest to majors." Shelby Peace, president of the Kitty League at Hopkinsville, Ky., cited the need for making the local minor league star the hero he used -to be. "I recall that when Gabby Street, who went on to big league fame, was the catcher at Hop kinsville, kids stood outside the entrance to the ball park to carry. his glove. He was an idol and there were other players in those days who were idolized. In al most every town there were one or two outstanding kid players on the high school team. These kids would sign with pride on the home team and they would draw 200 to 300 extra fans to each game. Now they sign big league contracts and drift away." Jerry Donovan, head of the California League at San Fran cisco, also declared local pride needs to be restored, but that it will take a more spirited brand K . Seminick. Face '3-4) and Shepard. Losing pitcher Simmons (7-6). Chicago 000 100 0003 11 1 Cincinnati 200 000 000 2 8 0 Rush !10-8) and Chiti. Gross (1-2) and Burgess. Milwaukee ....203 000 042 11 14 1 St. Louis 101 020 000 4 8 2 Buhl (11-8) and Crandall. Arroyo, Mackinson (3). Lawrence (9) and Sar ni. Losing pitcher Arroyo (11-7). To Survive of baseball with fewer delays to bring back the customers. "We should make managers as sume more responsibility for keeping the game moving," he said. "Warm up pitches between in nings could be cut in half and there should be none of this business of managers and play ers going to the mound to talk with the pitcher. They don't go out and talk to the center field er, do they? Even a little thing like throwing the ball directly to the pitcher after an out is made would snap up the game, instead of throwing the ball around the infield." Chauncey Devault, head of the Appalachian league, thinks bet ter promotion and more help from sports writers would give me minors a oig snoi in xne arm, while A. O. Hadden, president of the Georgia State' league at Dublin, Ga., cited poor manage ment and poor promotion as the cause of failures in Jiis league. "Both situations that can be rem edied," he said. Majors Can Help Both Richardson and Donovan declared that the majors could help to restore lost prestige of their minor league brothers by financial aid. "It is time to ask the majors to subsidize' us," said Richardson. "And it won't take a lot of money, either. In some cases just putting in a top flight mana ger and paying his salary, then encouraging him to comb the ter ritory for good ball players would be enough to keep a town going. The major league club can save some scouting expense and they can put money to -use that is now going in big chunks to these bonus boys." Donovan recommended that the major leagues re-establish strong farm systems in different sections of the country and "sub sidize them or let the small in dependent operators sign young players in their section." "Then let the majors buy the players from baseball operators instead of giving the bonus to the player," he said. "Just think of all the bonus money paid to players in the past number of years. That money is out of base ball, never to return. If the small operators received all that money from selling players, I don't believe we would be fac ing financial difficulty." In 1954, Americans spent an unprecedented 234 billion dol lars for goods and services. You'll Always Find Reliability Uniformity . Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY Me Andrews Read ' Phone 2-5271 Fishing on Rogue Fair To Good Portland 0J.R) The weekly report on fishing conditions pre pared by the State Game Com mission: Southwest: Winchester bay good for salmon but ocean choppy; Smith river producing cutthroat; Loon lake fair to good; Tenmile lake slow except for perch; upper Umpqua area fair; Steamboat area improved for steelhead; most Cascade lakes slow; main Rogue fair to good for trout. Bird Hunting Regulations Announced Washington (U.R) Under-Secretary of the Interior Clarence A. Davis today approved hunt inging regulations which will be in effect during the 1955-56 sea son for doves, woodcock, rails, and gallinules. The regulations contain spe cific dates of the hunting seasons for the states, together with bag and possession limits. The de partment specified Sept. 1 to Jan. 10, except on woodcocks, as the outside date within which framework the states are per mitted to select 4he season dates most desirable to them. Shooting hours: Rails and gal linules generally one-half hour before sunrise to sunset; wood cock half hour before sunrise to sunset; mourning, or turtle, doves shooting hours in Arkan sas, Delaware, Florida, Ken tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mis sissippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia will be from noon until sunset. In those other states which have a dove shooting season Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylva nia, Utah, Washington, and West Virginia these birds may be taken one:half hour before sun rise to sunset. Seasons, daily bag and posses sion limits by flyways include: Pacific Flyway There is no open season on. rails, gallinules, and woodchuck in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washing ton. The season for rail and gal linules in Utah will be set later. There is no woodchuck season in Utah. Shooting of mourning, or tur tle, doves. Daily bag and possession limit of mourning doves, 10 each in: Arizona, split season: Sept. 1- Sept. 30 and Dec. 17-Dec. 31; California Sept. 3-Oct. 2; Colo rado Sept. 1-Oct. 15; Idaho Sept. 1-Sept. 10; Kansas Sept. 1-Oct. 15; Missouri Sept. 1-Oct. 15; Ne vada Sept. 1-Oct. 15;' New Mex ico Sept. 1-Oct. 15; Oklahoma Sept. 1-Oct. 15; Oregon Sept. 1- Sept. 25; Utah Sept. 1-Sept. 15; Washington Sept. 1-Sept. 30. Work Moving Along On Umpqua Fishway Portland Steelhead and sal mon will find the South Ump qua falls mighty easy this fall and winter if all goes well on the fishway now under construc tion. , According to George Kernan, chief engineer, Oregon Game Commission, low water flows have favored construction and the Teller Construction company of Portland,' contractors on the job, have been progressing well ahead of schedule. All excavation and forms for the concrete fish ladder have been completed with the .rein forcement steel now being in stalled. The first concrete will be poured within the week. Construction of the. ladder will be completed before high water this fall. South Umpqua falls has long been a stumbling block for mi grating fish. Only at certain stages of water flow were steel head, salmon, and other fish able to pass. During extreme low flows all fish were forced to remain below the falls, seri ously reducing the number which were able to spawn suc cessfully The new ladder will allow passage at all stages of water flow, enabling fish to reach the vast spawning reaches to the headwaters. AUTO PACE UP Detroit U.R) The automo bile industry, which in the record-breaking year of 1950 didn't turn out its 3,000,000th car until the last week in June, produced the 3,000,000th of 1955 on May 4. Rapp Spurs Pad Win: Beavers Bounce Suds By PETER HAYES United Press Sports Writer Earl Rapp broke out of a bat ting slump and propelled the San Diego Padres to a 10-innmg 4-3 win over Sacramento which boosted the Pads into a virtual tie for second place in the Pac ific coast league. Rapp, ' whose booming bat spearheaded the Padres during their 10-week occupancy of first place, socked a two-run homer in the sixth inning and batted in the winning run in the top of the 10th. He had another single for a total of 3-for-5. The winning run in the 10th actually was unearned. Buddy Peterson singled with one out and moved into scoring position when catcher Buddy Heslet threw the ball away in an at tempted pickoff. Rapp then singled home Peterson and Char lie Bishop shut out the Sacs in the bottom of the 10th to take the win. The victory left San Diego one percentage point behind the Hol lywood Stars, who were idle. Other Games In the only other games, Port land downed league-leading Seat tle, 5-4, with an unearned run in the ninth inning and San Fran cisco likewise edged Oakland, 4-3, with a ninth inning run forced in when reliefer Tom Borland walked Reno Cheso with the bases loaded. Seattle saw its first place mar gin trimmed to four games as the Beavers squared the series at .a game apiece. Relief pitcher Bill Kennedy's throwing error allowed Portland's ninth inning run. Relief pitcher Ed Burtschy singled with one out and was sac rificed to second. Carl Powis grounded to the pitcher and Ken nedy threw wild to first, permit ting Burtschy to score the win ning run. The Beavers also foiled Lou Carole Jo Gains Upset Florence, S.C. (U.R) West ern Junior Golf Champion Jo Ann Gunderson today moved into the favorit's role as two former semi-finalists were upset in the U.S. Golf Association's girls junior championships here. Carol Jo Kabler of Sutherlin, Ore., defeated last year's semi finalist Leona Sayre of Norris town, Pa., 2 and 1. After drop ping the first hole, Miss Kabler made the turn one up and went two up with a . birdie on the 10th. She lost the 12th but took the 15th to go two lip again only to lose the 16th to a par by Miss Sayre. Ann Quast of Everett, Wash., edged 1953 semi-finalists Judith Mintz of Great Neck, N.Y., one up. Links Meet At Roseburg Roseburg : (U.R) The 72 hole $2000 Roseburg Open golf tournament opens here tomorrow with top-flight golfers from the Pacific Northwest scheduled to compete. Al Williams, 'Rogue Valley Country club professional, George Harrington, club manag er, and Clayton Lewis are slat- j ed to be Medford entries in the Roseburg Open golf tourna- j ment. - . HVAL HEADS OREGONIANS Columbus, Ga. (U.R) Gary Hval of Portland led three Ore gonians in the first round of the Jaycee Junior Golf tournament yesterday with an even par 72, seven strokes behind the leader, Sam Carmichael of Martinsville, Ind., who had a 65. Tom Shaw of Milwaukie, Ore., shot a 73 and Ed Murphy of Portland was 13 strokes off the pace with a 78 Will Your Pickup or Truck Pass the New State Law Effective Aug. 3, 1955? Come In Today and Let Us Inspect Your Equipment! Immediate Installation! DODGE o PLYMOUTH o DODGE TRUCKS 315 E. 5th Kretlow's bid to post his 13th win without defeat, chasing him in the sixth inning when they scored three runs. Burtschy was credited with the win and Ken nedy took the defeat. A lonesome crowd of 466 in Seals stadium saw Oakland's Borland run into tough luck in the ninth inning and lose after blanking the Seals since he took over in the fourth inning. THE LIXESCORES: Oakland 100 101 0003 8 1 San Francisco 300 000 001 4 7 1 Pillette. Borland (4) and Neal; Nagy (4-11) and Ritchey. (10 Innings) San Diego -.000 002 100 14 12 2 Sacramento 100 010 001 0 3 11 2 Erautt. Bishop (9) and Bailey: Pier etti. Osenbaugh (8), R. Jones (10) and Baih. Heslet (10). Portland 000 010 301 5 9 1 Seattle 200 002 000 4 11 2 Waibel. Lint (2). Burtschy (7) and Robertson; KreUow, Kennedy (7) and Ginsberg. V. Swanson Official For Shrine Game Virgil Swanson, Medford. has been selected as one of the field officials for the annual Shrine all-star football game in Portland this Saturday night. So far as is known he is the only arbiter from outside the Portland area who will be working the conflict. . The game matches State and Metropolitan clubs made up of star players who finished their high school gridiron careers last fall. Gridders from Medford participating will be Halfback Alton Stone and Center Mike DeVore. Both received all-conference recog nition for the Black Tornado. Stone was named to the Port land Oregonian all - state team and DeVore to the Exchange Vues, insurance magazine, club. Fred Spiegelberg, Medford high head coach, is one of the ' mentors of the stale squad. There is indication that a sizeable delegation will attend from Medford. A block of tick ets for seats on the 50-yard line at Multnomah stadium have been on sale at Barker's Mens store. A number of tick ets reportedly are still avail able. Portland (U.R) Neal Schei del of South Salem and Freeman Cross of Prineville were elected to co-captain the State team in Saturday night's annual Shrin er's hospital all-star football game. Scheidel, a halfback and Cross, a tackle, were elected by their teammates. Previously chosen by the Metropolitan eleven were Ted Miller, Milwaukie quarter back, and Buzz Randall, Esta cada tackle. The annual cfash is a benefit affair for crippled children, and election of Cross had special significance since he was strick en with polio in 1951, and wore a back brace for two years. The prep squads held final rough drills yesterday. Coaches Lee Gustafson of State and Tom DeSlyvia of Metro said drills to day and tomorrow would be lim ited to kicking, pliys, and spec ial formations. i .L0eS;"WAMTED Ponderesa Pine, Sugar Pins. Doi.glas Fir. White Fir and Cedar for Delivery to the JACKSON CREEK LUMBER COMPANY MILL AT JACKSONVILLE Accurate. Grade Accurate Scale Top Prices - CONTACT - Southern Oregon Planing Mill Beall Lane Phone 2-5251 Next to Greyhound Depot Theft of Salmon Breeding Stock Hinders Program Portland Some would -b sportsman got a dandy mess of fish last week but in so doing almost dealt a death blow to the Oregon Game Commission's At lantic salmon rearing program. The theft last week of 22 of these fish from the brood ponds at the Wizard Falls hatchery, al- most one-third of the total brood stock, will seriously reduce the Atlantic salmon rearing pro gram for several years to come. curtailing the game commission's attempt to plant this fighting strain of fish in Oregon waters. State police who investigated the theft found evidence that a car or light truck had been parked across the bridge. A dir net or snagging method were used to take the fish from the holding ponds. Blood at the pool edge indicated injury to some of the fish. Average Four Pounds The large Atlantic salmon av eraging about four pounds each were brood fish from which eggs are taken and hatched at the Wizard, Falls plant. Waters judged to be most suited for suc cessful growth are then planted with the fingerling salmon. . Aside from a few at Klamath, all of the Atlantic salmon brood fish were being held at the Wiz ard Falls hatchery. . " Davis lake in 1951 was the first lake in Oregon to receive plantings of Atlantic salmon o stock. This year, Dave Fred erickson, state patrolman, talked with an angler who had landed three of these salmon weighing from three to five pounds. Fred- erickson definitely identified the fish as Atlantic salmon. The angler stated that they were the "fightingest fish" he had ever caught. o Gun Club Event Provides Bird Hunter Practice Medford Gun club will give bird hunters a chance to sharpen their shooting eyes on two Sun days, August 21 and 28. Skeet fields will be open at 10 a.m. both dates to help scatter gunners to prepare for the dove and pigeon season. Non - members are welcome to turn out for the two; Sunday events. Members have been re minded to bring along friends who are shooters. While skeet will be the main attraction, 16-yard and handicap events will be offered also. Jim Bolton To Attend NRA Directors' Session D. J. (Jimmy) Bolton,' 527. Spencer st.,-will leave tonight by plane for Camp Perry, Ohio, where he will attend a meeting of the board of directors of the National Rifle association. He is a member of the board. While there Bolton will parti cipate in a national rifle match. He will be away about 10 days. The United States Navy is the world's largest user of diesel engines. ' NEW LOCATION Moderji Plumbing & SHEET METAL CO. 613 East Jackson . Phone 3-5368 . MAI Phone 3-3687 ii . i. .i i .1. 1 1 US ., II. ,
