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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.
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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."
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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
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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
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