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o o oo 00 o Q o o o o o o O' OO rP 0 u O O o TWELVE IEDFCD (0GOS) MAIL TRIBUNE O e ftice H&xf -For Qregon Cage Quint Univer CDy of Oregon, Eugene Fall t?rm iir.ut) examinations and the tainted Rice Owls oc cupffd roleof eq;l importance here as C'Och0 Steve Belko began preparations for tSe next home Hand fg the Onejon rjcks. q R.c-p,0M.50uri, Orego: State andn'jircyn will take part in the aycond &jublehe:e!er of tl f" pan ly-xt Tui-sd?g- night with the'-avers playing0the Tigefs in the openeraf 7:30 p.m. and' the Di(aks tangling with thc OwlsQ at) 9:30 p The fouj teams move o Corvallis 0he fol lowing evenigg andswitch p- ponentsOfoc the next game. rjyial examinations will examinations will oc cupy the greaB opart of the Duc.0s time until next Tuesday s,d Coach Belko has limited his tidily hnr in r,6. h,S sauad .amnle time to study The Owls, like the Texas Longiiorns the Webfoots upset last SpJurry night, are a tow ering club and carry only one man on their roster of 13 play ers u.er 6-2. Te Duel fe particularly worried about ; working out ways and means . of slowing gpwn Temple Tucker, a 6-10 center who has been named to numerous pre-season ail-American teams and iaj rated as one of the ?;nest bi men in the country. Soph Forwards O Rice also has a fine pair of sophomore forwasjis in Tom . Robitffille, a 6 gian. and W. A. : Preston, whg stands 3-6. Coach Don Suman also has four othr lettermen to go wilh Tucker 9nd the IQe team is once again co favored with outiiern Metho dist to win the Southwest Con icrence champion.-hie: ' TheOVcft'oots, who ;jrted tlie season with a shaky perform ance af.Smst Portland ,jnd then came backwith the astounding win over iexas. are still search- 0C jvf a solid erst unit and will again lijk experience and height i the gartes0with Rice anaj imsscwri. Hal Duff the &8-pound cen- ,-ter who has ome along nicely. is apparently set at center while gharlie FrankftnOBill Moore, ftli Morgan, d Egngham andHenry Ronquilio tttle for the foilvard jobs. Morgan and Franklin may have (,ined a terrorary edge off thii -formance agaigst Txas. but sPill are Sot regard- e?? as fulltmie regulars. ; Bud Kuykendall, t': set-slaot-. ing sijdhornore, h- done a fine . jo'at gSijrrfa an8 will proftaly teamDh Jfi.p flastings agafii, Siihu'ugh Jol Lundell, Dick Valentine and'JlictfcCosti are far from oi($? the picture. PhiloMc Ifygh.Qne rcguiar last year, will Hat return to he squad, until after the line potball game in S4g Fftincisco on Dec. 29. CUBS BUY WISE Chicago U.P. o- The Chicago Cubs have p'jchased farmhand K. 6) Dj. an irifielder. from theirQLos Angeles affiliate in the Pacific Coast 'ague and have sen easier0 Joe Hanneh to the Angles in exchange. Wise, the PCC all-star shortstop in 1956 with a .S7 balling Sverage. is 24-yars old.0Hafliah prayed with ti?e same team last season and batl9d 272. o COUGAR TUTOR QUITS Pullman, Wash.2-(!Jtf Leon McLaughlin, assistant football coach at Washington StSte col lege la: season has resigned. Oregon State Grid Team One That Could Not Wait By KEN WHEELER Corvallis. sJre. (U P) They started kicking the "football around back in 18PS at Oregon Stat College.Since then there has beeiOan oraifte and blafk team ch year with ut three Emissions. But in th lengthy history of grfciron to. ing, only twice has Oregon State been nan;6H as J? Rose Bow team. Tits r . 195 edition ifi the Bea- vers was a team thafcearly seasorP: SoutherS California turned out expefls dubbe as,yinother of ,fo be th only setback on their the alsoo rans. Coach Tommy 1956 conference record. Between Oprothro..igyy respected in his it and Thanksgiving day came seccSrd year at the Oregon State i sfx Pacific coast conference wins helm. simfSty idn't have the 1 before traditional rival Oregon horses to carrv Oregon State ! b;tled Jhe already Rose Bowl into title conOntioii this year. ! The Beaver team of destiny was still a year away, they said. But Prothft. bringing grouai power single wing footbaia with him when he moved rrth two years ago after a notu! cgreer as aij-ssisuint to Red Sanders at UCLA had a team this fall that couldiO: wait. At the season's ssrt. Jhough, even Prothri? admitted he thoughtOhe squad probably was still a vcar from serious Pacific Coast Conference championship j competition, lie even weilt so fara,to say that alt'ugli Ore- gon State wouldbe better this ; year than aear ago, me Dro vers might Jt win as many games. O o 0 Shaky Start Oregon ta'a fi?t off to a shaiy start. The opened with a(t-13 0in over M.Ssouri but then came iccessive setbacks0on the next 480 outu:. Southern California pinned" Black Tornado Plays Pirates Friday in Home Slate Opener; North Bend Coach Frank Roelandt still will be seeking the Medford High school basketball combination hich works best when the Black Tornado opposes Marshfield and .North Bed aggregations this week end at the Hediick maple- .court here. Games will open the home sea son for Medford. The Tornido tackles Marsh field's Pirats on Friday night and North Bend's Bulldogs on Saturday. Ashland and Medford junior varsities will vie in 6:30 p.m. peners with the varsity scraps due at 8:15 p.m. The Buc caneers, and Bulidogs are long- time non-oonference rivals of the Tornado. Medford's mentor has indi- I -"ea u!it "e " Pen lne &ame with a line-up of lctterman. The likely quint includes three reg ulars of last season's state runner-up club, Dick McLaughlin and Dick Copple, forwards, and Neil Plumley, center. Guards probanly- will be Larry Perkins and Dick Puhl. 'f wo. other problems face, the Tornado as it seeks its best corn- MedfordSSTribune IP(IDI1T , Work Progresses on Rogue Fish' Screening Boat Landing S? reens at Savage Rapids dam on Rouge river to prevent de struction of downstream migrat ing fish tn turbine intakes should be in operation by the start of the 1958 irrigation season. Cole T3ii,Atv cfafa ooma pnmmiccinn If jshers agent informed members of the Jackson county chapter of the Izaak Walton league this, week. Rivers also told Waltonians that installation of louvre type screens "ai the Ideal Cement com ry plant on Rogue river above Gold Hill has progressed so far that it is certain they will be in ipration when the fish go down stream in the spring of 1957. The Grants Pass man, speak ing at the club's monthly meet ing, "reported in addition that Chisox Crowned For Top Fielding Chicago "U.R) The Chicago White Sox officially were crooned the American league's besi defensive club for 1956 to day and placed four players on he circuit all-star fielding team. The White Sox not only had tbe highest fielding average of any team in the league, .979, but also came up with individ ual fielding leaders in first base man Walt Propo, second base man Nellie Fox. catcher Sherm Lollar and pitcher Jim Wilson. Other fielding leaders includ ed George Kell, Orioles; Harvey Kuenn Tigers!; Jim Piersall, Red Sox: Mickey Mantle, Yan I kees, and Karl Olson, Senators. State's record with a 21-13 de cision in the second week of the season. Then Iowa followed with a two-touchdown fourth period the following week that nctted the Hawkeyes a 14-13 win. The experts pointed to the basically sound football the Bea vers played in the opening con tests, and raised a chorus of "next year." The Oregon State loss to bound Beavers to a 14-14 draw. The Beavers suffered another arly scaMn loss outside the foot bail A'fcedule. Just before the Southern Cal game, Sam Wesley, veteran wngbark and key mem Der of the starting backfield, was ruled ineligible. Clutch Plyer IJut in the clutch, Oregon State came up with Earnel Dur den, a sophomore understudy for Vesley. By the season's end, when the 175-pound speedster was AIM named to the United Press Coast first team, there were few w ho doubted that he would hav been a hard man to keep on the second squad Ending with a 6-1-1 conference mark, tiie Beavers earned the Kose fkiwl invitation as a cham pion, free of any stigma of being a second-best entry from the Coast as many experts had fore cast would be the result of penal ties, meted out forbidding three teams to make the excursion to Thuriday. December 13, 1J56 Here on Saturday bination md works to get into top condition. The long football season gave a big share of the Medford cagers a late start at the winter sport and this year, with the Southern Oregon con ference league slate boosted from 12 to 16 games, they have just six rather than the seven or eight pre-new year scrapes of past sea sons in which to prime for the loop encounters. Teams can play only regular season games. Just what experimenting Roe landt will do depends on the course of the conflicts but Larry Slessler, Tom Hamlin, Jay Mul len and Steve Wisely are amon ; players who could see plenty of duty in the two night's perform ances. Slessler missed the trip to Eugene last week end be cause of illness. Another footballer joined the hoop squad this week with Mike Stearns reporting on Tuesday He suffered a sprained neck in the state gridiron quarter-finals. Conditioning is still an aim of the Tornado but the Medfordites should be in a lot better shaps than they were against Eugene. Projects; Sites Ready eight game commission boat landing facilities between Mc Leod state park and Robinson bridge on the Rogue are ready for public use. Gold Ray Tests On the Savage Rapids screen ing appropriation for which Waltonians worked hard to se cure, Rivers said that manufac ture of screens has been arrang ed. They will be ready when concrete construction is complet ed. This concrete work will be gin immediately after the 1957 irrigation season. Tests to de termine steps necessary to pro tect the dovnstream migrating fish at California Oregon Power company's Gold Ray dam will be finished in June of 1957, ac cording to the game agent. Boat landings listed by Rivers are at McLeod and Casey state parks, at the mounth of Indian creek on the east bank, at Dodge bridge, at Gold Hill at the south bank at Ben Hur Lampman state park, at the south end of the1 bridge at the city of Rogue River, near Grants Pass at a point three miles below the bridge on the south bank at Schroeder park and on the north bank immediately above Robin son bridge. Roads to the landings have been well-marked and concrete aprons, as well as parking facil ities, have been provided. Rivers stated. Gain In Chinook Run Waltonians were active in se curing the development of the landings. Rivers reported count of the spring run of chinook salmon at the Gold Ray station totalled 29.960 this year. The figure is 163 per cent of the parent run or 63 per cent gain. However, the agent predicted a poor run next year. Count of the summer run of steelhead at Gold Ray was 2.358 which is 85 per cent of the aver age for the last 10 years. Rivers said that most of this run ar- rived later than usual, account- ing for the poor showing in the upper river in the early fall fishing. The Walton meeting was held Monday at the Jackson hotel. Jackson county Waltonians. the city schools and several members of the local lumber in dustry sponsored the attendance of five Medford High school seniors at the Young Outdoor Oregon convention at Eugene last week end. Tour by Russians Not Permitted Los Angeles (UP.) Eighteen Russians homeward bound from the Olympic games left here early today by plane for their native country after substituting a hasty bus tour of Hollywood and Disneyland for their pro posed cross-country tour of the United States. The Russians had planned to make a tour from Los Angeles to New York following their ar rival here Wednesday from Honolulu aboard a Pan Ameri can Airways plane. The tour, however, was cancelled by im migration officials for "security reasons." The group spent less than 16 hours in the United States during their stopover between planes. Nine states supply 50 per cent of the nation's nurses. "Medford will meet a rugged team in the Pirates on Friday. All indications, also, are that the Bucs have taken their late turn from football to basketball in full stride. The Marshfield start ing hoop quint likely will be made up of youths who were football regulars. Probable quin tet is Hardy Spurgeon and Chuck Amsbary, forwards, Barry Bul lard, center, and Roger Johnson and Jack Shanley, forwards. North Bend on Saturday will present a team well ahead of Medford in its preparations for the season, although the Bull dogs have been on the losing end of games with Jefferson and Ben son of Portland. There are seven men back from North Bend's varsity of last season. They are Chuck Whittick, Ken Carver and Bob Jacobson, regulars, and John Blomquist, Bill Rust, Dennis Smith and Mike Thomson. Possible starters are Jacob son, Carver, Thomson, Rust and Whittick. Among the reserves is Dan Corrigan, senior transfer from Gonzaga high of Spokane. Olympic Ramblings By BILL BOWERMAN U of O Track Coach Honolulu, T.H. (En route home from Olympic games) Dec. 9 This garden spot is everything that one could ask. The blue Pa cific on one side; the towering green mountains on another; friendly people; and restful ho tels, beach to bask on. pools to bathe in and rollers that come in for a mile to either body surf or surfboard on. A person should not come here alone. This restful gem needs to be shared. I intended staying a full week but with Barbara, my bride of 20 spring times, not being able to get away from our grade school youngsters, I'm go ing to get back to Oregon as soon as I can get space. I hope the flyways are not too clogged with returning Olympians. The swimming is delightful either surf or pool. Two sets of Oregonians showed up here in the pool at the Princess Kaiulani hotel in the hour I swam this morning. From Portland, the Tompkins (I guess) and far down at Myrtle Creek, in Douglas county, Barbara and Mildred Bloom. Toured With Wray The great little track man and football quarterback of 15 years agos Tornadoes, Cato Wrav. showed me some beautiful sights on the island this afternoon. The winding road through tha moun tain road that divides the moun tain; the pass that looks over on to the rainy side of the island so green it almost hurts the eyes. We drove along a coast wnn palisades similar to' our Oregon coast but not so ruEEedlv majestic as Oregon softer, sort 01 placid majesty. We came up another winding road and were on a sort of pla teau where acres and acres of sugar cane grew on one side and miles of pineapple on the other. The whole was surrounded by a crown of green mountains. We stopped at a stand and re freshed ourselves with slices of fresh pineapple, then came through a low pass and down to Pearl Harbor. A beautiful and restful trip. At the pineapple stand I learned that the tip is cut from the fruit which can be planted to produce a new plant. I have not quite decided whether to send gift cuttings to Oregon friends or whether to be selfish and just bring a couple of cut tings. I would have the only pineapple plantation in Lane county. Moves lo Beach Sid Honoluiu, T.H., Dec. 11 I am grateful that I was able (through writing these reports) to express my appreciation to the people of Medford who made it possible tor me to have this great experi ence. In winding up my report (I'm climbing on the waiting list and may get out tomorrow night) this advice I have for those who may visit the Islands. Stay in a hotel on the beach, beach side. I was in a hotel on the main thoroughfare, mountainside and could not sleep for noise and cars. This being a free country, and having awakened at 6 a.m. from my three good hours of sleep, I packed and moved to the Reef on the beach. Here. I can watch the swim mers, the surfborders and out rigger canoeists. Best. I think is the gathering of ukelele plays that start wandering to their favorite spot about 10 a.m. I am told this happens each day. Never more than two Hawaiians, many visitors and a few locals. From two to 15 ukeleles in the beautiful Island music. It is rec ommended. I'm sorry I could not give a colorful report on my experi ences but I'm grateful if it has been of interest. I've learned much. I've enjoyed myself and I'm deeply appreciative. , Crater Vies At Phoenix, Eagle Point Central Point Crater high's Comet's graduated into A-l and Southern Oregon conference competition this year but they have two foes of their former Rogue leagile days on their pre league basketball slate. They meet each of them this week end. The Comets go to Eagle Point on Friday and to Phoenix on Saturday night. Coach Jim Nau of Crater re ported that his probable starters for Friday are George Juveland and Wayne Allen, guard. Randy Campbell and Dick Davis, for wards, and Craig Cochran cen ter. For the Eagles mentor Art Thompson may call on Wayne Christian and Jack Greb, for wards. Gary Foran. center, and Ron Veach and Dennis Boren, guards. This week the Comets have been working to smooth out the offensive flaws which showed in the Oakridge series and to tight en the defense, particularly down the middle. Against the Eagles they'll be out to halt the scoring efforts of Greb. The Phoenix line-up for Satur day night could be Jim James and Gary Simmonds, forwards. Doug Witte, center, and Jim Stout and Jim Heath, guards. Small Mallard Flocks in Valley Portland (U.P.) The weekly report on fishing and hunting conditions prepared by the State Game Commission: Southwest: Steelhead should move in Douglas county but high water may prevent angl ing: Sawyers rapids area in Ump qua reported good; south coast al streams slow. Coastal areas producing fair to good waterfowl hunting; hunting good in Gardiner area; Coos county should be fair to good for waterfowl; small flocks of mallards moved into Rogue valley along the river. OWL SELECTED Elko, Nev. (U.P) End Al Von Lewven of Oregon Tech at Klamath Falls today was named on the 1956 all-American junior college football squad picked by the National Junior College Ath letic association. MRS. HOBERECHT DIES Watonga, Okla. .U.P.; Mrs. Earnest T. Hoberecht Sr., 65, mother of Earnest Hoberecht, United Press vice president for Asia, died here Wednesday. rk'ZVl'MiM fVf4i m .y-:w; c. o rdr mmm ' . : 0 I . Ihe most elegant bourbon you can give or serve! M Qrt CIO tl Rare quality Champion Bourbon by Schenley is 8ed 8 loffg fjL o Si years. Yet it costs no more tJian bourbons aged yeare 'less. W'cJint , ;: M n m I jcheniey. D'imuw coyN.y: Charlie Silvers Sold By Yankees By MILTON RICHMAlf New York .U.P.) Charlie Sil vera, trying hard to gloss over the catch in his throat, said goodbye to his former Yankee teammates today and promised the Cubs he'll be "out there hustling every minute" to do a job he hasn't worked at in. 10 years. Few Yankee players ever were more popular than the smiling 32-year-old receiver and few ever get less of an oppor tunity for regular work. Eclipsed by Yogi Bferra, Sil vera nevertheless was conid sidered something of a Yankee institution even ihough he rare ly appeared in more than 20 games a season since joining them late in 1948. Then sudden ly on Monday he was sold to the Chicago Cubs. "I thought to myself maybe it isn't true,'' he said. "Maybe it was just a rumor . . . maybe it was a misprint . . . but the next day I went out and got the papers. The story was in all three of them. Then I knew this was it." Usually, the easy-going, sandy haired Silvera has a quip or a joke he likes to tell but now he looked like a man with all the humor drained dry. It Came Unexpected "I realized it was bound . to come some day but I wasn't ex pecting it now," he said. "You know, there's an old baseball axiom that says never worry when you see your name men tioned in the papers you're" gon na be traded. The time to start worrying is when you don't se your name mentioned. Well, mine wasn't mentioned in the papers all this winter;" Saddened as he is at leaving' the Yankees, Charlie is heart ened that he may get a chance to catch regularly next season something he hasn't done since he was with Portland of the Pa cific Coast league in 1948. "I'm not exactly a doddering old man," he said, grinning for Salinas (U.R) Leo Thomas, veteran Pacific Coast League third baseman, has bee.n named manager of the Salinas Packers of the Class C California League. Thomas replaces Eddie Lake, another PCL alumnus, who managed the , Packers to seventh place last season. PARADE THEME SET Portland U.P.) Theme of the floral parade in the 1957 Rose Festival, scheduled for June 15, will be "Melodies in Flowers." . C. STRAIGHT 60US60N WhUPtY. 84 fSOOf " ' id I To Cybs the first time. "I think I can still do the job. But whether all tlit inactivity has hurt, I won't really know until I give it a shot next spring. I'm very anxicfts for the chance, though." Kept Busy 0 Silvera didn't exactly prop iiis feet up on the dsk dtying his years with the Y'gnkees. He put in long hours in the bullpen, caught batting practice everi- day and vas always on early wnen nerrii required a da' or two of rest. Nor was he lightly regarded b Casey Stengel. "There ain't many people that know this," Casey once confid ed, "but Silvera can do a lotta things behind the plate that Berra can't." Charlie wasn't a pushover in front of the plate, either. In his last full season with Portland, he batted .301 and his lifetime mark with the Yankees was a respectabie .293. It is estimated "that Silvera picked up better than S50.0J0 in World Series shares while he was with New York but 0 he didn't think aTjotit the money alone when he larned he was no more a Yankee. "Yau make a lotta friends in eight years." lje said, "and it reajly hurts'to lose 'm." REAL EXCITING NEWS! Home Appliance Co. Your General Electric Dealer IK East Maft and PICK'S APPAREL 1112 East Main .Street o 1 1 NSC To Di$cf 0 League Finding G aieigh,N. C. U.PJ $h North Carolina State college fa uByOathletic counJfil will Jeet Saturday to discuss a findfiig by O ftg Atlantic Coast0OnferdfcclP shat the school violated0 confer- o ence rules iO the Mgreland r) cruiting caSe. o Chancellor Carey H. Bostfcn revelled Wednesday nignt that the preliminar Report of a con- Q fererjee investigation said that o the sc&OjOl had offered illegal o financial inducements to esh man feasketball player3 Jie Mtreland of Mirfilen, La. NetSrars Pian Laj-sen Benefit O O r New York (U.R'o Professional an amateur net sftrs alike banded together today for a spe cial benefit tennte competition to aid former national singles O champion Aft Larse ofQ San Leandro, Gulif.. who is blind in ne ve andcjiartially paralyzed. Don Budge, former "grand slam'' champion and chairman of the Larsen benefit committee, announced Wednesday night that a special tennis benefit will be held here Jan. 11 with all proceeds oing to Larsen, who wgs seriously injured in a high way accident Nov. 10. O SEE FRIDAY'S, M4fe TRIBUNE FQR IO I 00 cj o o 0 o 0 o j T ' ----' n - - - "m ' O o o O o
