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Portland "Steelhead are in"
a magic phrase that galvanizes
steelhead anglers to feverish ai
tion. During the winter months,
thousands of ardent fishermen
head for favorite streams, and
the very worst weather is no de
terrent in their quest for this
huge, mysterious sea-run battler.
Mysterious indeed is this big
fish, and although much is
known of the life history, large
gaps remain in existing knowl
edge of steelhead life.
In order to fill in the gaps
in the story of the steelhead,
an extensive study is now being
conducted by the Oregon Wild
life Research unit in coopera
tion with the Oregon Game
Commission. This organization
is located at Oregon State col
lege and is supported by the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife service,
the Wildlife Management insti
tute, and the Commission.
Steelhead1 runs throughout
Oregon are being sampled and
studied by means of scale an
alysis. Scale patterns, like the
rings in a tree cross section,
show the age and periods of
growth. Such data as length of
f!sh at each winter of life, age
and length at migration to sea,
patterns of growth in fresh and
salt water, and the number of
spisbiings can be obtained by
the calculations from scale
measurements. A large number
of samples is necessary to the
success of such a study.
Alsea Selected
For more specific work, the
Alsea river has been selected as
a representative coastal stream,
and a program has been set up
to secure all possible informa
tion about its steelhead runs.
Research unit and game com
mission personnel will make a
comprehensive check of anglers
throughout the winter months
to secure scale samples of the
steelhead caught. In addition, a
program of trapping, marking,
and scale sampling of down
stream juvenile migrant steel
head will be conducted.
All steelhead fishermen who
fish the Alsea river have been
invited by the Commission and
the research unit to participate
In the study by taking scale
samples from the fish they
catch and thereby help in the ef
fort to improve their future
steelhead angling.
NORTHWESTERN AIDE
- Evanston, 111. .R) Paul
Shoults today was. named back
field coach at Northwestern Uni
versity. He served in the same
capacity at Miami (Ohio) univer
sity under Ara Parseghian, who
recently was named head coach
of the Wildcat football team.
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PCC, CBA Title Campaigns
Underway This Week End
By HAL WOOD
Los Angeles (U.R) The wide
open Pacific Coast Conference,
and the closed-door California
Basketball Association races
open this week-end as the cage
sport finally gets around to tak
ing over the spotlight from the
drawn-out football campaign.
In the PCC, it is anybody's
race. UCLA and Washington
have been voted the teams
"most likely to . succeed," but
California and Stanford are
sporting the finest records. And
Southern California is just start
ing to show good form.
But in the California Basket
ball Association race, the battle
is strictly for second place. No
one, but no one, expects to beat
out University of San Francisco.
In fact, even the PCC race
looks kind of hopeless, because
for the first time in history, the
winner must meet directly the
CBA champion for the West
Coast title in the NCAA play
offs. Previously, CBA teams
were listed as "at large" clubs.
No SRlit
This is the first year that the
PCC has campaigned as a non-
Gene Littler
LA Favorite
Los Angeles U.R) Defend
ing champion Gene Littler was
installed as the 4-1 favorite to
win his second straight $30,000
Los Angeles Open golf title as
a field of 150 of the nation's best
teed off today in the first round.
While most of the so-called
"experts'' thought that Dr. Cary
Midlecodff and Mike SouChak
should rate star billing, the
gamblers put Little at the top.
They had Middlecoff and Sou
chak at 5-1, PGA champion
Doug Ford,' Tommy Bolt and
Julius Boros at 8-1; Jerry Bar
ber and Billy Maxwell at 10-1,
and Johnny Palmer, Bo Winin
ger and Dow Finsterwald at
12-1.
But off their showing in the
pro-amateur event Thursday,
some long shots may come
sneaking in. Bolt's impressive 65
indicated he might be more dan
gerous than the pre-tourney
odds anticipated.
The veteran Ed (Porky) Oli
ver, for instance, fired an even
par 71 and looked real hot.
dividend organization. In past
years, the Northern Division was
made up of teams in the loop
from Oregon, Washington and
Idaho. The four California teams
played in the Southern Division.
The winners of each division
then met for the conference
crown.
Only one title is at stake this
year. The defending champion
is the Oregon State Beaver club,
but Coach Slats Gill doesn't ap
pear to have the talent to repeat.
UCLA, Southern Division win
ner last year, looks to be coming
along after a slow start. The
team went to the finals of the
Holiday Festival Tourney in New
York only to be slaughtered by
USF. In Willie Nulls, the Bruins
have one of the best basketball
players in the country.
Stanford is the only unbeaten
member of the PCC. The team
now has won seven in a row, in
cluding double victories over
Washington. But Coach Howie
Dallmar fears his club lacks the
height to go all the way. His
tallest man is Carlos Bea, who
is only 6 4Vfc a mere midget
these days.
Height Problem
California, after dropping its
first game to St. Mary's, has
rolled to seven straight wins. But
here again lack of height puts
limitations on the club.
Idaho, with two veteran
guard- and a flock of good sopho
mores, may develop. Oregon and
Washington State are expected
to be also-rans.
In week-end games Southern
California plays two at Califor
nia; UCLA entertains Idaho for
a pair; Stanford visits Washing
ton and Oregon State invades
Washington State. Oregon plays
Portland University in a non
conference tilt Saturday.
The unenviable task of stop
ping USF goes to Pepperdine
College as the CBA opens com
petition for the first time as an
eight-team league. Santa Clara
meets San Jose and Loyola tan
gles with Fresno State in Friday
games. On Saturday, St. Mary's
plays Pepperdine, Loyola tangles
with College of Pacific.
Riverside; Calif (U.R) T h e
Riverside campus of the Uni
versity of California is partici
pating in an extensive study to
find methods of determining ap
titudes for speaking and under
standing foreign languages.
Raiders Play
At LaGrande
By UNITED PRESS
Oregon Collegiate conference
1956 basketball play opens to
night with two games scheduled.
Portland State, defending
champion and winner of last
year's district 2 NAIA title,
meets Oregon, which finished
second last season, opens against
Southern Oregon at La Grande.
The same teams meet again
Saturday.
Oregon College of Education
meets Seattle Pacific tonight
and Saturday at Seattle, and,
opens its league play Tuesday
by hosting Portland State at
Monmouth. - -
Eduardo Lausse
Fights Savage
New York (U.R) Middle
weight contenders Eduardo
Lausse of Argentina and Milo
Savage of Salt Lake City, Utah,
will meet tonight in a fight that
may be the last at Madison
Square Garden for an indefinite
period.
Not until the "ban-rift" be
tween the Boxing Guild of New
York and the N.Y. State Athletic
Commission is settled can fans
expect for sure another fight
show at the famous punch em
porium. Lausse, the most spectacular
middleweight slugger since
Rocky Graziano, is favored at
17-5 to beat slam-bang Savage
in their TV-radio 10-rounder and
register his 32nd straight victory
as he opens his campaign for a
1956 shot at the title.
Basketball
THURSDAY COLLEGE SCORES
East
St. John's (N.Y.) 79, Providence 59.
Colgate 92, Univ. Puerto Rico 69.
Pittsburgh 72, Columbia 58.
South
St. Louis U. HO.Louisiana St. 79.
Tulane 72, Georgia 56.
Maryland 62, Geo. Wash. 48.
Newberry 81, Citadel 56.
Senior Bowl Tournament
(Championship)
Springhill 69. Memphis St. 65.
(Consolation)
. Clemson 98, Miami 96. '
Midwest
Dayton 68, Duquesne 52.
West
(Modesto Tourney)
Stockton College 75, Long Beach
City College 51.
Seattle 89, Gonzaga 72.
Whitworth 81, Central Washington
79 (overtime).
DODGERS SIGN NEAL .
Brooklyn (U.R) Second
baseman Charley Neal has sign
ed his 1956 contact with the
Brooklyn Dodgers, it was an
nounced today. The much-sought-Brooklyn
farmhand batted ,274
and hit 15 home runs last season
with Montreal in the Interna
tional league.
noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 previous dav.
The Community's Biggest Marketplace
Friday, January 8, 1936
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTIEN
FOLLOWING PLENTY OF INTERFER
ENCE, Jim Decker appears headed for touch
down until he is hauled down from behind
after intercepting Michigan .State pass on
first play after kickoff. Crowd of more than
100,000 saw Pasadena contest. ...
(International)
Angling Rules
Walton Subject
The 1956 Oregon fishing regu
lations will be a subject before
members of the Jackson county
chapter of the Izaak Walton
league at a meeting, Tuesday,
Jan. 10.
Hight's real estate office,. 221
North Central ave., will be the
meeting place. An 8 p.m. time
has been announced.
The angling regulations will
be discussed by Cole Rivers,
Grants Pass, Oregon Game com
mission fish biologist. An Alas
kan movie also will be shown.
Sports Broadcasters
Will Present Plaques
New York (U.R) Welter
weight champion Carmen Basi
lio, pro football great Otto Gra
ham and President John Reed
Kilpatrick of the New York
Rangers Hockey team were vot
ed plaques of merit today by the
Sports Broadcasters association.
President Don Dunphy said
they will be honored Feb. 2 at
the annual dinner of the radio
and television sportscasters in
New York. The dinner also will
feature presentation of Graham
McNamee Memorial awards to
Babe Didrikson Zaharias and
Manager Walter Alston of the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
Celtics, Pistons Triumph in NBA
By UNITED PRESS
The Boston Celtics closed in
on first place in the Eastern
Division of the National Basket
ball Association today but it's
still a Fort Wayne runaway in
the Western Division.
The Celtics moved to within
a game and a half of the lead
Thursday night when they de
feated the New York Knicker
bockers, 92-87, while the first
place Philadelphia Warriors
bowed . to Fort Wayne, 92-81.
Fort Wayne's victory put it four
full games ahead of second-place
Rochester.
Walker Says Again He's
Through With Football
Honolulu U.R) Doak Walk
er said today he will "talk" to
Southern Methodist university
officials who say they want him
as their backfield football coach.
But Walker, in town for the
Hula Bowl game, didn't seem en
thusiastic about the offer. He
repeated what he had said earl
ier: That after the Hula Bowl
and later the Pro Bowl game,
he is "through with football."
Taxpayers Reminded
To Secure Sfafemenfs
Portland Taxpayers are re
minded to secure withholding
tax statements from employers
before filing income tax returns,.
R. C. Granquist of the Portland
district has announced. ,
Granquist said employees
should also secure withholding
statements from former employ
ers if they have changed jobs
within the past year. Withhold
ing tax statements should be
secured prior to Jan. 31.
CHURCH GROWTH
Berrien Springs, Mich. GJ.PJ
Membership in the Seventh
Day Ad ventist Church has pass
ed the 1,000,000 mark, officials
of the church's Emmanuel Mis
sionary College here reported.
The church was founded 92
years ago at Battle Creek, Mich.
ANNOUNCEMENT POSSIBLE
Chapel Hill, N.C. (U.R) Uni
versity of North Carolina Ath
letic Director C. P. Erickson and
Jim Tatum were expected to ar
rive here today from Miami
where they have been dickering
about the vacant post of head
football coach. It had been re
ported a decision on whether
Tatum would succeed George
Barclay as Tarheel coach would
come either -Thursday or today.
Mount Singgalang in central
Sumatra gets 320 days of rain
a year with a mean relative
humidity of 93 per cent.
LEAPING HIGH IN AIR, Stanford's Barry Brown. (22), is
mite closer to ball than teammate Carl Isaacs and Stan
Stewart (20), of St. Mary's. Stanford edged out Moraga team
51-50 in 'thriller played at Palo Alto. (Internatimal)
Miami, Fla. (U.R) Bobby Us-1 pionship. Following Thursday's
sery and Willie Hartack are con
ducting an interesting duel for
the Tropical Park jockey cham-
program Ussery had 39 winners,
one more than the 1955 national
champion.
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