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NWC,OCCSet Full Slate Of Counters By UNITED PRESS Both the Northwest and Ore Ron collegiate conferences have full counting schedules billed for the week end with only two non-conference games in the two leagues. College of Idaho and Willam ette tangle at Salem and Linfield travels to Whitman in the Northwest league's two count ing contests while Oregon col lege and Portland State square away in Portland and Southern Oregon entertains Oregon Tech In the Oregon Collegiate confer ence schedule. Eastern Oregon of the OCC, and Pacific of the Northwest loop, meet in an inter - league tusscl while Lewis and Clark steps outside both leagues for a Saturday opponent in Chico State. Little league action was on last week end's Northwest league menu with unbeaten Lew is and Clark's 21-0 win over the Bearcats of Willamette the only game that counted toward a flag. Linfield Wins Linfield dropped Oregon Col lege, 27-13, and Pacific took the measure of the independent Se attle Ramblers, 27-7, In other games that saw loop members win. College of Idaho and Whitman both bowed in their Saturday games. (Whitman by a 27-8 count to Eastern Washington and Col lege of Idaho dropping a 13-7 game to Eastern New Mexico. Oregon Collegiate Conference counters saw Southern Oregon down Portland State 13-6, while Eastern Oregon eked out a 25-18 win over Oregon Tech. Lewis and Clark, with a week off from counting play, sits high atop the Northwest league standings with a perfect 3-0 record while the best any other team can do in matching it is a 1-1 record. Eastern Oregon leads the young OCC race with a 2-0 mark but Southern Oregon's record is unspotted at 1-0. J. Harman Keeps Title Salem (U.R) Janet Har man, Vancouver, Wash., physi cal education teacher, edged out another teachcer, Ellen Forslund of Beaverton, to retain her Ore gon women's match game bowl ing title yesterday. Although Miss Forslund had a 192 average to a 190 for Miss Harman, the latter won out in the point total by defeating her chief rival in all three games of a match yesterday. Gertie Riggs. Medford. was among finalists in the Oregon women's match game bowling tourney at Salem. Her score was not available this morning. Color-Blindness Said Hunting Accident Cause From 6 to 8 per cent of all men are color-blind, according to the Oregon Optometric asso ciation, which cites this as a common cause of hunting acci dents. "About a million hunters are unable to distinguish the tradi tional red cap or jacket worn by sportsmen m the field." Dr. T. M. Pace, president of the associ ation, declared. "Even for hunt ers with normal color vision, it is sometimes hard to spot a red garment against the reddish brown fall landscape." Tlie association has recom mended the use of bold patterns in contrasting colors for safe hunting. Large black and white checks are suggested as the best example of distinctively visible sportswear Golf Toqa Taken Bv Wiffi Smith Pebble Beach. Calif. (U.R) Wiffie Smith, a long-hitting lass from Texas, hardly had to ex ert herself Sunday as she swept to an 8 and 6 victory in the fi nal round of the 26th annual Trans-Mississippi Women's Am ateur Golf tournament. Miss Smith concluded her fi nal match with Mrs. James Fer ric, of Gardena, Calif., on the 30th hole when she shot a par and went' eight up on her op ponent. The 19-year-old golfer from Orange. Tex., won the first hole of the 36-hoIe match on the Mon terey Peninsula Country Club course and was in front the rest of the way. For Best Results Use Tribune Want Ad JOHNSON TRUCK LINES PHONE 2-6022 has available Lumber Trucks and Trailers Vans and Flat-Beds Heavy Hauling Equipment Irregular Service Oregon and Interstate Authority Lions, Cardinals Leaders In Pro Grid Divisions By EARL WRIGHT United Press Sports Writer The Detroit Lions and Chica go Cardinals topped the Nation al Football league's division rac es today with 3-0 records while the champion Cleveland Browns languished in the worst scoring slump of their 11-year history. The Lions, the Western divis ion's only perfect record team, fought off a rip-snorting rally to edge the Los Angeles Rams Sunday. 24-21. The Cardinals, with Ollie Matson racing 105 yards with a kickoff, remained the Eastern race's only undefeat ed, untied club by thumping the Washington Redskins, 71-3. Washington was the only team without a victory at the one quarter mark in' the campaign, but Coach Paul Brown's defend ing league champions were in al MEDFORDiSWrRIBimB SIPdDIffiTrS Is That So? Beloved sleep! Yet what curi ous turns it takes among the creatures of the wild. A seal has been observed sleeping underwater, breachin; the surface every six minutes or so to breathe deeply a half dozen times and then sink below the surface again. Narrow - winged swift-flying swifts have been seen asleep "on the wing" high above the earth. And elephants, as well as horses, may sleep standing up not lying down for five or more hours at a stretch! With animals, sleep is essen- t i a 1 : sleeplessness sometimes killing even more quickly than starvation. Should a dog. not sleep for five days, it will die. Enforced wakefulness can be fa tal to other mammals. Several animals cluster for sleep. Some snakes gather in great masses to sleep until the sunny days come and weather moderates. Eastern bob-whites customarily roost in a close packed circle, heads facing out ward. In fact this instinct is so strongly ingrained, that newly hatched bob-whites will assume this circular arrangement upon the first day. Other birds gather in great "dormitories." Among these are some of the swifts, who may cling together in a great ball like swarming bees. Crows and star lings gather in flocks ranging froij) hundreds to thousands and our once- common passenger pigeon foregathered by the half million or more. Curious, too, are the sleeping hours. Ringed snakes have been known to sleep 22-hour shifts, from 2 p.m. to 12-noon, the fol lowing day. A rabbit, however, is a notoriously short sleeper it naps frequently, perhaps as many as 20 - regularly - spaced naps during every 24 hours. An elephant usually sleeps but two three hours at a time. May Limit Waking Hours During winter darkness, over wintering birds may limit their waking hours to sun-shiny hours sleeping perhaps 18 hours at a stretch, all fluffed up to retain their body heat with heads pointing into the wind to protect their feathers; while in summer, these same birds will rise and be about their business by 3 a.m. and keep awake with short naps until 9 p.m., again, an 18-hour interval. The majority of animals ob serve regular sleeping hours. Most, like the mouse, sleep by day and work by night. In labo ratory experiments, a mouse when subjected to artificial lights and a 16-hour day of eight hours light and eight hours dark ness, soon adapted itself to this foreshortened day: but when re turned to the 24-hour day, it slipped back into its old 24-hour a day rhythm quickly. By nature butterflies retire earlyr even on a hot long sum mer day, most will go to sleep amid the grass by 6 o'clock. With wings folded, the dull undercov ering which closely resembles most as much trouble. The Browns suffered their second loss in three starts when they took a 21-9 whipping from the New York Giants. Only 30 points In 1954 Cleveland had a 1-2 record at the start and went on to sweep the Eastern division and league titles. But the Browns scored 69 points in their first .three games that season, while this year they have made only 30, an all-time low for Brown's fabulous club at this stage in a campaign. The Chicago Bears crushed" the San Francisco Forty-Niners, 31-7 and the Green Bay Packers defeated the Baltimore Colts. 38 33; while the Philadelphia Eag les downed the Pittsburgh Steel ers, 35 to 21 in Sunday's oth- ler contests. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist the surrounding foliage protects them. Many animals besides seals may sleep in er on the water The hippopotamus dozes in the sun on the surface of his great African rivers often with his huge head pillowed on an oblig ing neighbor's back. Nap on Waves While floating on the waves gulls take naps. Sooty terns, too. But by the very nature ol their feathers, they are limited to brief surface-riding naps their feathers becoming water logged quite quickly and they are then unable to rise. Ducks and swans often nap overnight on the water but, alas, during sudden cold snaps may be found inextricably frozen in and, with out help, they may perish. In heavy snow ' country, the ruffed grouse plunges into snow drifts on the wing, overnighting in his snug homemade igloo. Other birds, in more hospitable climes, may sleep below ground in burrows as does the New Zealand kiwi, only it sleeps dur ing the day; and how some of the puffins find their way through dismal fogs from far out at sea to their hidden burrows after dusk remains, to me at least, an everlasting mystery. Like humans, many of the higher mammals snore and quite likely dream. Sleeping apes, dogs, cats, elephants and horses to name but a few utter sounds and make disturbed movements which in man, cer tainly would indicate dreaming and nightmares. Blessed sleep, too, overtakes an animal which is sick. When it can find a hideaway it will sleep until it regains its strength or it does not waken thus dying without pain, in the quitest and best way possible. ' (Copyright. 1356. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors .of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges vill award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions willbe considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Hawaii Kai III Cops Sahara Cup Las Vegas, Nev. U.P.) Edgar F. Kaiser's Hawaii Kai III today held the championship of the in augural running of the Sahara Cup race on nearby Lake Mead. Jack Regas piloted the power ful hydroplane around the 15 mile, six-lap course back of Hoover dam Sunday in 9:08.42 to win the Gold cup and $1,500 in prize money offered by the sponsoring Sahara hotel. Hawaii Kai got an assist to ward the championship on the third lap of the final heat when W. T. Waggoner Jr.'s Shanty I developed engine trouble and dropped out of the race. Ferguson Hurt In UO Game Seattle (U.R) AI Fergu son, University of Washington quarterback, suffered a dislo cated shoulder in the second per iod of Saturday's game with Oregon and Husky officials said he would be sidelined for three or four weeks. SENATORS SELL GROB Washington UJ?) Connie Grob, the 23-year-old pitcher who was the Washington Sena tors' first draft choice last year, has been sold to the Montreal Royals of the International league. Grob had a 4-5 won-lost Bill Dellinger Shatters Own 5,000 Meter Record Berkeley, Calif. !U.R) The finest of all U.S. Olympic games teams, following a somewhat disappointing track meet here Saturday, today moved on to Los Angeles to begin concen trated training for the 1956 Melbourne Games in November. "It was about what we ex pected after a three months lay off," said Coach Jim Kelly. "We've got the time to work with the team and we'll do alright in Australia." However, it was obvious that some of the team's star perform ers would have to really knuc kle down at the little Olympic village in Los Angeles, or else fall victim to Kelly's pre-Satur-day edict of "report to the camp in condition" or else stand the chance of being bumped by an alternate who is in shape. Most of Team Showed Just about all the team mem bers assembled here Saturday for the competitive type meet. There were some no-shows, for varying reasons. But of those who did show, it was in the most part the guys who finished third, or as the alternate in the final trials at Los Angeles last June, who showed the best. Typical was the 100-meter dash where alternate sprinter lithe Leamon King of California won going away over Ira Mur chison, second at Los Angeles, and Bobby Murrow, the current claimant to the fastest human ) Cs "4K i f 9 r x n sb m i - mm role, in 10.3. Morrow, who said he was "all out" in trying to win, finished three strides back. Another case in point was in the pole vault where alter nate Bob Gutowski wbn easily at 14 feet, .8 inches. There were some good marki but primarily in the distances and the weight events. Don Bowden of California, a third finisher in the 1500 meters at Los Angeles, defeated the trials' winner Jerome Walters by 10 yards in 3:46.6 Bowden's all time best and better than Walters' winning time at Los Angeles. Bill Dellinger of Oregon, America's hope in the long dis tances, broke his own American record of 14:26 in the 5,000 me ters with an easy 14:25.5 win. Parry O'Brien, although two feet short of his own world record, bettered the Olympic record by three feet in taking the shot put with a heave of 60 feet, 6 inches. Al Certer's toss of 182 feet 5 inches in the discuss was near ly two feet better than the Olym pic standard. Probably the most exciting event of the day was the blanket finish in the 800 meter run won by Arnie Sowell of Pittsburgh in 1:48.8, with Lang Stanley and Lon Spurrier finishing a yard back in 1:49. All three bettered the existing Olympic mark of 1:49.2 set by Mai Whit field in 1948. - V iJJiyE the Jmto Back the Published in cooperation with the United Medford Crusade Committee by . . . SNIDER DAIRY & PRODUCE COMPANY Monday. Oclober 15. 1956 Linksmen Playing Of Tie in Western Open San Francisco (U.R) The 53rd annual Western Open Golf tournament is supposed to be over but six men tee off to day still trying to decide the best professionals and amateurs in the field of 162 that teed off five days ago. When the smoke cleared away from a torrid last round Sunday, four men still were deadlocked for the S5.000 first prize. These were Doug Ford of Mahopec, Football Linfield 27. OCE 3 E. New Mexico 13. College of Idaho 7 Pacific 27. Seattle Ramblers 7 Chico State 6. Nevada 6 EWCE 27. Whitman S Puget Sound 19. Whitworth 0 A. F. Academy 48. W. Colo. St. 13 Utah State 27, Montana 13 Stand ford 40, San Jos St. 20 Humbolt State 34, San Francisco State 10 Arizona (Flagstaff) State 27, La verne 6 Cal Aggies 33. Sacramento State 26 San Die so State 7. Cal Poly 6 Chico State 6, Nevada 6 (tie) HOCKEY SUNDAY GAMES National Legaue Detroit 2, New York 1 Boston 3. Montreal 1 Toronto 1. Chicago 0 Amertran Lea cue Providence 7. Springfield 2 Hershey 2. Buffalo 2 Cleveland 2, Rochester 2 Use 7ribune Want Ads 1 United Medford Crusade MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEW N.Y., Don January, Lampassas, Tex., Mike Ketchick, Mahopec, N.Y., and Jay Hebert, Sanford, Fla. Amateurs Knot And two more men, Ed Cast agnetto, San Francisco, and young John McMullin, Alameda, Calif., were tied for the low am Oranites, J BARN HARTtol T Lt ja'j.A.EiL&sUSAS M. fe','u Cj OVER STOCKED! Regular $235.00 October Spedd $219.00 Lettered and Set Oregon Gvznife Co. Fourth and Front Yes these boys are ashamed as they hear the officer report their mis deeds to the judge. But all of us share in their shame. Juvenile delin quency is everyone's problem today. It is everyone's shame. You can fight juvenile delinquency. Support the youth services and recreation agencies that help combat this shameful problem. ateur scores. The four men who tied for th title each came in with a 284 total four under par for the 72 holes. Al Williams, Rogue Valley County club pro, bowed out of Western Open golf contention af ter Friday. He had an 83-76 ' 159 score. A medal of 150 quali fied for Saturday and Sunday play. Ed Oldfield, ex-Medford high star and now pro at Rose; burg, had a 298 card for the' tourney. 1 record with the Senators.
