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Fanfare ly DICK JtWETT Mail Tribune Sports Hit or Ballots have bcerw placed in the mail for tfc? annual selection 9k the Medford Mail Tri'oune's All-Southern Oregon conference football team. It hoped to have the ballM in and the r55ults tabulated in aoout 10 days. Mcd forff, Ashland, fjrants Par', fclamath Fam and Crater made up the circuit this year, the lat ter 0rin9 a participant in the big Sthool football loop and Dis trict 6 for the. first time. Sportscastrs, s p o r tswriters and coaches in the cities of the member sctvmls 3 participate in the poll. Since there is no radio station nor daily paper at Cen tral Point where Crater is lo cated, two residents of the com munity, 'who have "seen ..the Comets in action agamst confer ence ims,( have been chosen to east ballots. cause his coolness under fire and his long eet shot ability. But he's facing stiff competi tion on the squad this season. IPdDMTTS SPECIAL OFFENSE Coach Al N'egratti of Port lands Pilots reportedly has sought to mold his club around special offense he devised dur ing the summer. He has begun scrimmage sessions behind locked doors and has been un communicative about the exact nature of the new patterns. He has said that the new scoring thrust of the Pilots would be as modern on the basketball floor as "rork and roll' is on the dance floor. MASTERPIECE Following is the Comment ef Gege tis. sportswriter of the Grants Pass Daily Courier, concerning the 1956 Medford HighSschool football team. "Coach Fred Sptcgelberg and his assistants. Paul (Tiay) Erensen, coaching the line andS Bob Newland coaching the backs, hare turned out consistently good teams since Spiegelberg became head coach in 1952, but this one is ir masterpiece." PFAISE FROM MEL We've also heard rounc?abu4 that Ch Mel Ingram of the Grants Pass Cavemen voiced praise of the Medford high line for its terrific game against the Cavemen ls t Fndav, stating that the Tornado wall km one of the best he'd seen and that his club had no alibis for losing. AT U OF P Laral Meunier and John Walsh. 1956 graduates of St. Mary's "high of Medford are en the University of Portland's junfr rars it y basketball squad. Frank Rector. ex-Med-ford high (1953) is a member the IS man U of P squad. A sophomore, he cracked the Pilot varsity as a, freshman last year, breaking into the starting line-up. He was brought up to the varsity be- CRATER IN JAMBOREE At a league meeting last Saturday at Grants Pass. Crater was included in the Southern Oregon conference basketball jamboree, expand ing it possibly into a five learn event. The Crater floor at Central Point could be the scene of the Dec- 1 jamboree. Medford's Hedrick Junior high court is the scheduled site but. if Medford's football team is in the slate finals that same week end, the jam will shift to Central Point. Reason is obvious. Medford in the grid finals will mean that Tornado fans will be in Portland for the game or will have their ears glued to their radios. Jamboree attendance would suffer. In past seasons with four teams, in the jamboree, each club played each other one an eight minute quarter, the equivalent of three quarters of a game. Five sthool participation would complicate the plan 'of play. If each other team would play each other a full eight-minute period, it would be the same as a full game and likely would count as one of the 22 allotted to each school for the season by the Oregon School Activities as sociation. For the jam the per iods then, may be shortened or two or thre; of the schools could see less action than the others. Personally, we hope that Black Tornado football success will uncomplicate the jamboree. CALL UNINGER'S WHEN YOU NEED .READY-MIX CONCRETE ALL TRlCKS .EQUIPPED WITH 2-WAY RADIO fcr FAST, EFFICIENT SERVICE! Phone 2-5336 -or 2-5897 Ashland 8121 1957 MODEL University of San Francisco's owo-time na tional championship basketball team has lost some stars but have acquired new and promising material. Left to right: Art Day, Hal Payne, AJ Dunbar, Bill Mallen and Charles Russell. Dav and Dunbai transferred from Hanni bal, Mo. Junior College. Russell, brother of USF's Ail American Bill Russell, is ust out of the armed services. Payne was reserve last year and Mal'en withdrew from the squad early last season The Don's are riding a 55 con secutive game victory string. i Wednesday, November 7, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Tom Prothro Chosen Coach of the Week By HOWARD APPLEGATE Corvallis, Ore. vU.R) He played in the Rose Bowl game once but the Rose Bowl itself was more than 3,000 miles away. This time he'd like to get his boys at least close enough to smell the flowers, and the way they axe going that fragrance could be theirs to enjoy on New Year's day. He's the United Press coach of the week, Tommy Prothro of those rising, surprising Oregon State Beavers. Just a year ago when Prothro took over as head coach, he in herited the remnants of the worst football team in Oregon State history. He guided the Beavers to a 6-3 won and lost record and this season he has Italian Archeologists Map Life of Pre-Historic Man Rome lu.R) Italian archae ologists are pushing back the frontiers of the- pre-historic era and gradually rounding out a remarkably detailed picture of what human life and culture in Europe was like tens of thous ands of years before Christ. - Recent findings by leading scientists such as Profs. A. C. Blanc and A. M. Radmilli of Rome University's Institute of Geology and Paleontology indi cate a relatively well-developed culture on the Italian peninsula dating back approximately - to 20.000. B.C. It is speculated in these scien tific circles that Neanderthal man a pre-modern species of man, now extinct may have roamed the area that is now Italy as far back as 100.000 B.C. Blanc is carrying out excava tions at Tor in Pielra on the outskirts of Rome. Here he un earthed tools and bones show ing that early man was a skilled and resourceful hunter who man aged to survive under conditions that would have wiped out pres ent day humans. Radmilli has made many important discov eries, especially in southern Italy. Dfgging and finds at the Grim aldi caves, near Ventimiglia, on the French border, on the island of Palisiiria, Po.: La Spezia, at Monte Circeo. Gaeta. Positano. Ansedonia, Cape Palinurus and elsewhere hae helped r,ound out the picture for scientists. Colder Climate This is what Cro-Magnon man (of the same species homo sapiens as modern man) and his environment probably were like, according to the evidence found: He first appeared in the Ital ian area about 20.000 B.C., or roughly about the time the Fourth Ice Age began to recede northward. The weather was considerably colder then than it is now. Cro-Magnon man was a hunt er with spears tipped with flints he had chiseled himself with tools of quarzite and volcanic rock. He lived a, tribal life, settling throughout most of what is now western Europe. He organized great roundups of wild horses, driving herds of them with bon fires and blazing torches along carefully laki-out routes to a precipice, where the terrified animals leaped to their death. At the bottom of the cliff, other members of the tribe skin ned the animals and cut them up for food. Cro-Magnon man may have been a cannibal. At least he sac- Special Classes Assist Backward Washington U.R Special classes have been organized in District of Columbia schools to help the slow-learning student who has been unable to keep pace with his classmates. Some 450 students from 11 years of age and the third grade on up are enrolled in 18 of these classes. Their objective is "edu cational rehabilitation," or a re turn to classes on their own ma turity level. 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He hunted the now extinct mammoth, which wandered over the continent, and other animals equipped with thick hides and skin coverings out of which he made clothing adapted to the icy climate. How he managed to kill such a ponderous monster as the mamoth remains a mystery. But it is believed that teams of hunters may have ambushed the slow-moving, small - brained beasts as they fed and rushed in individually to plungs spears into their sides, then darted away again. Then, as is done by some primitive hunters to this day, they stalked their game, some times for days, until the striken animal died of infection or ex haustion or both. The temperature of "sunny Italy" was nothing like what it is today an added factor in the remarkable accomplishment of prehistoric man in surviving at all. The weather, judging from geological studies of the extent and duration of the Ice Age, was about that of the present Arctic Circle. GULt-IBLE - Saginaw, Mich. V.K Mrs. John Crowley went fishing at Houghton Lake and caught a sea gull. Mrs. Crowley was cast ing with artificial bait and the gull swooped in and grabbed it. She reeled in the bird and her husband released it. '4.65 '3.00 PINT JIM BEAM 56 PROOF JIM BEAM BOTTLED m BOND 100 PROOFj KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKIES JAMES B. BEAM DISTILLING CO.. CLERMONT, Daily's U-Drivs Medford Airport steered them to the top in the tough Pacific Coast conference. Desire To Win If they can get by Stanford Saturday, they should make it to Pasadena, because only Idaho and Oregon, both comparative weaklings remain after that. State's 28-20 victory over Washington's Huskies last week wasn't a surprise. In fact the Beavers had been favored to win. But it was just another workmanlike demonstration of Prothro's single wing efficiency. "This team goes places be cause it has a great desire to win," declared Prothro, who was a standout football player him self at Duke. He played in the 1942 Rose Bowl game against Oregon State and the Beavers won that thriller, 20-16, in Dur ham, N.C. It was transplanted from Pasadena because it was only a few weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and there was fear of bombing at tacks on the Pacific coast. Prothro grew up in an atmos phere of defeat. His dad was Doc Prothro, the frustrated dentist who managed the Philadelphia Phillies to three eighth place finishes in a row from 1939 through 1941. Early in his life, young Tommy got the idea that life could be happier in a house hold where the team involved was a winner. Prothro, senior, has become his son's most ar dent rooter, following the Bea vers week after week. "It is good to have a winner in the family at last," he quips. Spirit High The campus spirit right now is higher than at any time since the 1941 championship campaign. Prothro is a little concerned about it. "This team is much better than last year s but maybe peo ple are getting too high on us too quickly," he said. "The spirit may be a little ahead of the team. Don't forget we have a lot of sophomores." Prothro learned his single wing magic when he was an as sistant to Rqd Sanders at UCLA. He still thinks Sanders is "the greatest." "I'm pleased to be honored as coach of the week," he said. "But I thought Sanders would get it for beating Stanford. I hope we'll do as well Saturday." There was one election note on the campus after last week's victory over Washington and it didn't involve Ike or Adlai. There was a bold poster which said: "Prothro for president." flip DAY 1 NOV. 9 1 Dead Una Sue flay ClaKiried It at noon Saturday; 10 ajn Monday (or Monday- other day a S:3C reviotu day. 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