Russia Rated
Nordic Event
Ski Pfcwer
Spout Springs, Ore. (U.R)
Russia, a new power on the
Olympic ski front, was tabbed
as the team to beat in Nordic
events at the winter games at
Cortini-'d'Ampezzo, Italy.
The man who did the tabbing
should know. Allison Merrill,
cetfch of this year's U. S. Nordic
squad, saw the Russians in their
first Olympic snow effort ' in
decades aMhe FIS games in 1954
at Falun, Sweden.
Scandinavian countries have
normally laid claim to owning
International competition in Nor
dic events cross-country and
jumping, "As usual," Merrill
pre'dicted, "the Scandinavians
will present the strongest claim
to the Nordic title. But the Rus
sians did a tremendous job in
1954.
1 Op'Qiistic
Merrill is not so outspoken In
rating his own squad, but can't
suppress a note of optimism,
Mostdomestic ski observers are
tabbing this year's U. S. entry
the strongest Nordic team the
country has ever gathered.
Helping Mesrill support his
claims is a team of 22 candidates
for the six berths on the U. S
Nordic team.
Headlining the nopeiuis are
two youths who have already
seen international competition.
Merv Crawford, with Merrill
$ghen he coached the 1954 U. S.
entry at FITS competition in
Falun, placed 16th and 24th in
Nordic events.
Ted Farwell, a member of the
1952 Olympic squad, earned an
11th in Nordic combined. Sup
porting &ese two is a represent
ative group of snow men from
all parts of the nation.
Snead Sets
Links Record
. Sanford, Fla. U.R) The tour
ing golf pros found themselves
in the familiar spot of trailing
Sam Snead today with a new
course record to shoot at the
second round of the $15,000 May-
fair Open.
The 42-year-old West Virginia
golf king went to the front by
.two strokes in Thursday's open
ing roundOwith a six-under-par
64 that gave Snead his second
ubourse record in four days.
En route to victory in last
week's Miami Open, "Slammin'
Sammy" set a record of 29
stroke on the back nine, and
Thursday he added the Seminole
course record for 18 holes.
Finsterwald Next
TrailfiJg Snead into the second
round came Dow Finsterwald of
Bedford Heights, Ohio, and Ted
Kroll of Bethesda, Md., at 66.
Afternem, the field of 112 pros
bunched ur with seven tied at
67, including big money-winner
Miie Souchak of Grossinger,
N.Y.
Bread's victim in the playoff
for the Miami Open title, Tommy
Bolt of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
opened with a 68 that tied him
with nine others. 0
On .top of the list f 20 ama
teurs was Florida state champion
Don Bisplinghoff of Orlando
with a 69.
Dupas Fights
New York (U.R) Ralph Dupas
and 'Lightnin Luddie Light
burn, the worlds two fastest
lightweights, will have a 10
round speed test tonight at Madi
son Square Garden.
And if the odds-makers are
correct, this TV-radio tilt be
tween the whiz kids of Cauli
flower Canyon certainly will
scramble the ratings among con
tenders for the 135-pound crown.
Twenty - one - year old Light
burnsf British Honduras is not
even ranked among the top 10
contenders; but he is favored at
T5-10 to beat 20-year-old Dupas
of New Orleans, the number
three aspirant who is unbeaten
in nine straight bouts.
Only Duilio Loi of'ltaly, top
man and ex-champion Jimmy
Carter are rated above raDid
Ralph as possible challengers,for
Wallace Bud Smith's crown. And
Ralph is willing to wait for the
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LIMBERING UP Rose Bowl bound Bruins start their practice for the New Year's Day
tilt with Michigan State at Pasadena, Cal. Left to right: End Ronnie Loudd, tackle Gil
Moreno, guard Jim Brown, center Steve Palmer, guard Hardiman Cureton, tackle Roger
White and end John Smith.
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Coach Fears Terraps Will
Take Bloom Off Sooners
(This is another in a series
on the teams in the bowl foot
ball games.)
By JACK HEANEY
Norman, Okla. (U.R) Okla
homa is the nation's No. 1 team
in ranking, scoring, rushing and
total offense, but perennial pes
simist Bud Wilkinson fears Mary
land's defense will take the
bloom off the Sooners' Orange
Bowl football hopes.
Wilkinson, in contrast to
Maryland Coach Jim Tatum, be
lieves in conditioning his team
for victory and his fans for de
feat. He never hints he thinks
his national champions can win.
His Orange Bowl prediction fits
that F.-ttern.
"I think all of the advantages
are with Maryland," he said.
"The best defensive team will
win ir. any case, and I have a
feeling Maryland is a far superi
or defensive team than ours
and they share the feeling."
Oklahoma's jet-propelled backs
and linemen almost as fast are
riding the crest of a 29-game
winning streak, 53 Big Seven
Conference games without de
feat, and have scored in 105
straight games.
The Sooners beat Maryland,
7-0, in the 1954 Orange Bowl
and another victory this time
would all but clear the .way for
Oklahoma to break its own na
tional record of 31;straight tri
umphs. The Sooners' first two
opponents next season are North
Carolina and Kansas State.
Wilkinson tries to prepare the
Sooners for one game at a time,
emphasizing each victory as
equally important. But it's no
secret the hopped-up Sooners
want to win this one more than
any other.
Tatum's predictions of victory
and praise of his No. 3 ranked
team has irritated many of Okla
homa's high-spirited players. An
added factor is Tatum's unpopu
larity in Oklahoma while Sooner
coach in 1946 with Wilkinson
as his assistant and team lead
ers see the game as a contest
Lightburn
title shot next October, when
he's 21.
But Lightburn wants to smash
into the ratings, high up, tonight
and then hammer toward a
championship fight as soon as
possible.
Tickets to Rose Bowl
Gobbled Up Quickly
Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) The
remaining 3,500 tickets for the
Rose Bowl game Jan. 2 were
gobbled up quickly Thursday at
a. public sale. The tickets sold at
$5.99 each, but it was reported
some already are being "scalp
ed" at $25 a pair.
Fight Results
Troy.
Ohio L. C. Morgan, 136,
Ohio, outpointed Glen Flana-
Dayton.
gan- 136- St. Paul. Minn., go)
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between Wilkinson and Tatum.
They don't want Wilkinson to
come in. second-best.
The 1955 Oklahoma squad av
eraged 36.5 points per game
well below the 1952 squad's 40.7
average but many observers
think this Sooner edition is Wil
kinson's finest over-all unit.
The key this season has been
speed. In halfback Tommy Mc
Donald Oklahoma has one of the
fastest backs in the game, equal
ly dangerous running or passing.
If the defense spreads to stop
McDonald as did Colorado
right halfback Robert Burris and
fullback Billy P r i c e r churn
through the middle.
Guard Bo Bolinger, an All
America, leads a Sooner line
strongest from tackle to tackle.
Center Jerry Tubbs, who may
be crippled with a knee injury,
made the All-America third team
and has stood out as a linebacker.
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Much of Nation Hit
By Bitter Cold Wave
By UNITED PRESS
The bitterest cold of the sea
son chilled the nation from the
Pacific Northwest to the Eastern
Seaboard today.
The cold wave spread out from
Union Agent Hurt
By Rifle Bullet
Hermosa Beach, Calif. U.R)
A gunman with a high-powered
rifle shot and critically wound
ed a union business agent last
night before fleeing in a late
model sedan.
Bruce Dexter Parkhurst, 43,
business agent for the Rein
forced Iron Workers union, an
AFL local, was hit in,, the back
as he stood in his open lighted
garage where he had been work
ing on a car.
Police said they would ful
ly investigate Mrs. Parkhurst's
statement that "gangsters are
trying to horn in on the union."
She said her husband had been
threatened.
The assailant, carrying a. gun,'
was seen' by two boys as he
leaped a fence and dashed
down the street. He escaped
with another man in a late mod
el sedan.
It was the second such shoot
ing here in recent years. Two
years ago another business
agent, Samuel D. Dysert, 65,
was wounded in the face.
Doctors at Harbor General
hospital said Parkhurst was hit
by a "game load" bullet, one
which mushrooms when it pene
trates. Parkhurst was unable to
give any clue to the identity of
the gunman. .
JOCKEYS HURT
. Miami, Fla. U.R) Three
jockeys were hospitalized Thurs
day with minor injuries suffered
in a spill at Tropical park. Ap
prentice Bennie Sorenson suf
fered a wrenched neck, Chris
Rogers injured his right knee
and Don Wagner complained of
a sore back. -
PILOTS FACE FRESNO
Portland U.R) Portland's
Pilots tangle tonight with Fres
no State's unbeaten basketball
team here in the first of a three
game road trip series for the
California club. Fresno State
meets Willamette Saturday
night and Eastern Washington
Monday night.
DON'T MISS THE PHOENIX GUN CLUB
Turkey Shoot
RIFLE - SHOTGUN AND NON-SHOOTERS
SUNDAY, Dec. 18
10 a.m. Till Dark At Phoenix Gun Club
Range in Fern Valley
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'y r ,
OLYMPIC FORM Chris
tian Pravda, former Olympic
skier and now ski instructor
at Sun Valley, takes off down
the mountain with a grace
ful gelandesprung. The cham
pionship courses at Sun Val
ley draw skiers from all over
the country.
a killer blizzard that lashed
Canada and the snow and ice
were blamed for at least nine
deaths in the two countries.
Icy Roads Kill Two
Near blizzards were blamed
for deaths in South Dakota and
Indiana and icy roads killed two
persons in Pennsylvania and
one in Wisconsin.
In Canada, the prairie prov
inces were digging out from one
of the worst blizzards in their
history. There were four persons
known dead and hope dwindled
for a farmer and laborer missing
since Monday.
Search crews bucked 20-foot
drifts hunting for the missing
men, but without success. "Else
where, many Saskatchewan
roads were still blocked by 10
and 12-foot drifts and snowplow
crews and communication line
repairmen worked around the
clock.
Southeast States Hit
The massive freeze hit all the
way to the southeast coastal
states . and parts of the Gulf
Coast early today. The below
freezing line stretched westward
across the country, including
most of Oregon, Washington,
and Nevada.
Sub-zero readings which in
cluded an icy 48 below in Mon
tana yesterday, eased slightly in
the nation's north today. Only
the Upper Mississippi Valley
shivered in below-zero tempera
tures, but in other parts of the
country it was still the coldest
weather of the season.
KF Paper Observes
'Good News Week'
Klamath Falls (U.R) T h e
Klamath Falls Herald and News
announced today that it would
repeat its "good news week" this
year for the five days preceding
Christmas.
From Dec. 19 to 24, The Her
ald and News will publish no
stories of crime, tragedy, war,
death or any news termed "un
pleasant" on its front page.
Managing Editor Bill Jenkins,
originator of the good news idea
for Christmas week, said the
plan proved so successful last
year that he had decided to re
peat it.
Germany leads in the number
of youth hotels, with more than
700 in Bavaria alone.
Net Farm Income Due
To Decline in 1956,
Benson Telis Newsmen
Washington (U.R) If Secre
tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Ben
son's prediction is correct, net
farm income in 1956 will be
about $10,200,000 down $400,
000,000 from 1955 and $1,600,
000,000 from 1954.
A net farm income of $10,200,
000,000 next year would mean
a drop of almost 14 per cent in
two years.
Republicans Worried
This year's estimated farm in
come of $10,600,000,000, which
was 10 per cent under 1954, al
ready has Republican politicians
worried well in advance of next
year's presidential campaign.
The predicted further drop of
about four per cent - although
much smaller than last year's
decline would add to their
misery as well as hurt the farm
ers. Benson told reporters Thurs
day that he expected farm in
come next year to remain at
about the present level. But
under questioning he said that
average -farm income for 1956
as a whole would be lower than
in 1955.
Benson's remarks to reporters
squared with forecasts made by
Agriculture Department econom-
Minimum Wage Due
In Wool Industry
Washington (U.R) The gov
ernment has requested federal
court permission to put a $1.20
per hour minimum wage stand
ard into effect for certain em
ployees in the wool industry.
The Justice Department filed
a motion yesterday asking U.S.
District Court to dissolve an in
junction prohibiting Labor Sec
retary James P. Mitchell from
enforcing the $1.20 wage re
quirement. Mitchell ruled in early 1954
that wages of employees in wool
en plants working on govern
ment contracts should be raised
at least $1.20.
The district court blocked
Mitchell from putting the order
into effect on May 6, 1954, on
the grounds there was "substan
tial doubt as to the validity of
his determination."
Friday, December 18, 1955
ists in the publication, "The
Farm Income Situation." The
publication stated net farm in
come in 1956 "will probably
show some decline."
Benson Optimisiic
Benson was optimistic in a
carefully-worded 1956 outlook
statement made Thursday.
He said "this abnormal condi
tion" of declining farm income
in the face of a rising national
economy "has about run . its
course."
"Some improvement in prices
of a number of farm commod
ities can be expectedt in the year
ahead," he said. He did not spe
cify any commodities which he
said would improve. He has said
earlier that the live hog mar
ket will improve shortly. Hogs
now are at a 14-year low.
Benson also said on the tele
vision sound track that "condi
tions in agriculture must im
prove if we are to maintain a
healthy balance in our econ
omy." ,
Ten Mile Lake Poison
Hearing Under Way
Portland (U.R) A hearing
was to be held here today on an
Oregon Game Commission pro
posal" to poison trash fish in Ten
Mile Lake.
The hearing was scheduled at
the request of the State Fish
Commission, which contends the
poisoning would destroy silver
salmon fingerlings in the lake.
George Y. Harry, research di
rector for the fish commission,
said 7000 spawning silvers had
been spotted in the lake, which
has the largest surviving runs of
that type of salmon in the state.
Other groups interested in the
controversy wanted catfish and
perch populations to remain in
the lake, while others still want
ed rainbows, which the game
commission proposed to plant
after mudcats, catfish and perch
had been cleaned out.
Soil compaction resulting from
traffic by heavy equipment or
livestock can indirectly limit the
emergence of wheat seedlings
on Great Plains soils.
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