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o c. D O O o o o o o O O O o o Co O o o. c All-America John Witte lyes Future Be BER ' WHEELER o Corvallit, Ore. VJ.P.) Sit- tir.g in the pres box of the Lot Ar.gele coliseum last Septem pcr, one reporter commented, cthat g.iy ct like he'i looking for buir.e;." The man he had his eye on Qlown on the field was Oregon SSate . All-Ar.erican John Witte. 3 The qui? was m reference to the big tackle's ambition to be came a mortician. Coach Tommy Prothro, who took Oregon State from the P cifie Cast Conference cellar to q the championship in . the two snori years ne nas Deen at tne football helm, describes Witte q iwiiipiy as uie greatest I've ever seen." Another Undertaker The jump from All-American Rose Bowl performer to mor tician may not be a common one kut it's not without precedent at Oregon State. Don Durdan, c standout back on the 1941 Ore Ron Slate team, the only other Rose Bowl team in the school's Mstory, X now a mortician in Corvallis, the home city of Ore gon State. J Durdan's Oregon State team pulJed a major upset in beating Duke, 20-16, in the 1942 bowl game, .transplanted to Durham, , If. C, when war hit the Pacific. Witte hopes his 1956 edition of the Beaver varsity does equally as wfc!l. c - Between the Rose Bowl and the role of ra mortician there q may be & whirl at professional football and almost certainly a try at the pro: wrestling ranks by this 232-pound lineman for Oregon State. Drafted By Rams The large-size tackle has al ready been drafted by tbe Los gkngoies Raons.' He first enrolled a, Oregon State in 1951, then spent a 0 two-year hitch in the O Army between his .second and third years of school. The pro ffioial team was quick to pick up draft rights on 'him when his Oclass graduated back in 1954. But Witte isn't sure about the py-fsr-pay game. Right now it (pomes second to his ambition as a professional grunt and groan er. 0 If i3 can ork it out he would liie fodo both, in the pattern o set by. the San Francisco Forty jNiners1 Leo Nomellini. How doe Witte himself feel about all tie mention accorded hi this season? "I jusf hope that I deserve haf tfit stuff tbst is coming my waybills year,"-the overly-modest atckle savs.o". Passu Oti Acclaim Thee 23-year-old native of 3 KiamathoFalls, Ore., is quick to nO pass gff5 anic acclaim, accorded o him.o "When you have a couple of fettows working beside you like I Save," he said, "They can sure' make you lck good." 0 The six-foot two-inch lineman ctt also quick to credit his ability 0 on the c$achiag of the Oregon Oo 0 State. "If I'm ny good it's because ofothe things Tomruy Prothro, CIsry Stapleton and Bob Zelinka the latter two assistant coaches, hajy taeghrt me," Witte says. O ghrugginff talk that he natur ally wSs Sreat football player. O c U& Tribune Want Ads The Com muni ty't Big Rest Marketplace 0 fo P-. WILL BE. Ac(j' . MOM DAY j c g VsS DECEMBER 24th PM&UY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! o So o , ci, o Co G SINKING FOUL SHOT, Med Park (left), helps make scoring record in National Basket ball Association. This point brought St. Louis Hawks' score to 137 against New York Knickerbockers' 128. Grand total of 265 is highest recorded in NBA garne.f International) MEDFORDTRIBUTre SIP Chet Forte Shining for Columbians By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer Chet Forte, a 5-9 shrimp in an era of seven-foot court giants, had even a trio of skeptical NBA scouts convinced today that there's still room for a good lit tle man in basketball. A full 15 inches shorter than Kansas' amazing Wilt Chamber lain, the 145-pound Forte show ed he can be just as upsetting an influence on a game Wednes day night when he led unbeat en Columbia to a 78-68 victory over Dartmouth. The pro scouts, who included Fuzzy Levane of the New York Knickerbockers, saw Forte hit on six of 11 field goals and seven of eight free throws for' 19 points in addi tion to being credited with sev en assists. Dartmouth's taller Indians "ganged up" on the little guy. but he then acted as a decoy and helped pass off to Rudy Milkey, who tallied 24 points. It was the sixth straight victory for Columbia. Forte's performance raised his season point total to 171, an av erage of 28.5 per game which ranks second only to Chamber lain's 36.2 average. The mere appearance of the pro scouts was a personal tri umph for Forte. If he's signed at the completion of his college career. Forte would become the smallest National Basketball as sociation player in hjstory. Western Kentucky, meanwhile demonstrated that the honey moon is really over for San Francisco when it rallied to beat the Dons, 61-57, at Louis ville, Ky. The 17th-ranked Hill toppers were outscored from the field. 24-23, but had the edge at the foul line, 15-9. It was the second straight "official loss" for the Dons, who less than a week ago were riding high with their record 60-game winning streak. Guard Eric Beck tallied 17 points for Western Kentucky but San Francisco's Art Day was the game's outstanding play er with 23 tallies. DECEMBER 24th So That Employees May Enjoy A Three-day Christmas Vacation! MEDFORD RETAIL Rickey Observes 75th Birthday Pittsburgh (U.R) Branch Rickey, who is 75 today, looked back upon his 55 years in base ball as a rich, rewarding expe rience that began by accident. The retired general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who created baseball empires in St. Louis and Brooklyn, paused from a game of chess at his suburban Fox Chapel home to reflect on the past. "I had not intended to go into sports permanently or as an ath letic director," he said. "I had intended to follow the "law but got sidetracked. It seemed the sidetrack became the main line for me, but not regretfully so . . . it's been an interesting 55 years." Hawkeyes Have Serious Work Pasadena (U.R) University of Iowa's Rose Bowl football team got down to serious work today after taking an afternoon off to visit Disneyland. Coach Forest Evashevski put his hawkeyes through a morning and an afternoon drill. He said the squad would work out twice daily and the rest of the week. The Hawkeyes held a secret workout Wednesday morning and then joined their Rose Bowl opponents, Oregon State, for a tour of Disneyland in nearby Anaheim. BIKE TOUR OPENS New York U.R) A six-day bicycle tour, sponsored by Amer ican and European promoters, opens at the Cleveland arena, Jan. 22. In addition to American riders the contestants will in clude many Europeans. The tour will include stops in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, San Fran cisco, Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Houston. MORRIS SCOREKEEPER McMinnville Howard Morris, Medford, ex-Crater high athlete, was official scorekeeper last week end for the Linfield col lege Old Grads basketball tour nament. Mitchell was winner of the tourney sponsored by the Cardinal L, lettermen's club. LUMBER DEALERS Australian Tennis Snub Ires Yanks By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor Adelaide, Australia (U.R) United States Davis Cup players are incensed today over an Aus tralian snub but even their best friend "Down Under" says it won't do 'em any good. The bad feeling developed when Australia violated an un written rule by not inviting the U. S. players to remain there for the national championships at Melbourne next month. The Aussies wouldn't have been more blunt if they had said, "go home, Yanks, you're so bad nobody wants to see you play." Billy Talbert, non-playing captain of the U.S. "unwanteds," protested vehemently because he wants youngsters Mike Green of Miami Beach, Fla., and Myron Franks of Santa Monica, Calif., to gain added experience in the nationals and a meeting wa s scheduled to settle the dispute later this week. Miracle Some experts thought the snub might Inspire the U.S. players to "show up" the Australians by beating them in the challenge round, Dec. 26-27-28 but Dinny Pails, who qualifies as the Yanks' best friend "Down Un der," says that "would take a tennis miracle." "I'm not going to say this is the worst U. S. Davis Cup team ever to visit Australia, but on paper it figures to lose in five straight matches," said the for mer Aussie net ace who has helped coach the last five U. S teams. "None of the American players measures up to Lew Hoad or Ken Rosewall. Pails, who Talbert says ' an invaluable aid to us," did give Vic Seixas, the 33-year-old star of the U.S. team, "a chance to beat Hoad under certain con ditions" but he added, "don't count on it. DEAN ELIGIBLE Portland (U.R) Jay Dean, former Oregon State baseball and basketball star, has been declared eligible to play for Ore gon Dental school for the rest of the season in the Metropoli tan Basketball conference here. Dean played two years at Ore gon State and a third at North west Nazarene. For Action, De Mall Trlbunr Want Adi The Low Cost Way to Sell Husband and Wife Turn Home Info Bow-Arrow Factory Albany, N.Y. !U.R) A state office worker and a bacteriolo gist have gone into the bow and arrow business for fun. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brown have turned one room of their home into an "arsenal" for mak ing their own archery equip ment. He's the state worker, she is the bacteriologist. Long interested in hunting, fishing and camping with a special love for the sound of a whistling arrow they belong to a field archers club, an organ ization of hunters and target shooters. Archery isn't an expensive sport, especially if you "do it yourself," Brown said. The workshop is filled with supplies of lemon wood, specially ordered for the bows, and cedar for the arrows, along with an array of home-made gadgets to make the work easier. Vapors of the various lacquers are more pleasing than French perfumes, according to Mrs. Brown. Many Bows Brown usually makes a dozen arrows at a time, on an assembly line basis. He first cuts round sticks, or shafts, into proper length, then dips them twice in lacquer. A modified pencil sharpener shapes the ends which next are fitted with arrow heads and nocks for the bow string to fit in. Then, Brown begins the crest ing, or decorative painting, to personalize the arrows. For the final step of fletching putting the feathers on the arrow he has a special clamp which holds the selected turkey feathers in place while the glue sets, and a homemade electric device trims them into shape. While the paint is drying, Mrs. Brown finds time to stitch up a new quiver or armguard. Building a bow is more in volved than arrow-making, but Brown has a closet full of them. His newest model is made of lam inated wood and fibreglass. Read and Use Classined Ads The Low Cost Way to Sell INSIDE is in all ever tasted... AMERICA'S BEST RECOMMENDED WHKY? o c Early Times is so good that. ..of all the fine whiskies made inoKentucky. and these are the world's best, Kentuckians themselves over- whelmingly choose Early Times You know you'll enjoy a bourbon Thursday, Decamker; 20, 1154 New Insight Gained Into o Drugs To Fight Tuberculosis New York, N.Y. (U.R) New insight ? into the curative properties of certain chemicals which combat tuberculosis is being gained through the tech nique of tagging drugs with ra-.' dioactive atoms, it was stated by Drs. L. J. Roth and R. W. Mn thei, of the University of Chi cago and Jefferson Medical col lege in Philadelphia, respective ly. "The major aim of this work," said the scientists, "is not merely that of following the travels of the drugs in the body but of discovering what happens chemically and how the sub stances act against the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis. "In the past decade some pro gress against tuberculosis has been made through the use of three new drugs streptomycin, para- aminosalicylic acid (PAS) and Isoniazid. While none of the three is completedly effective in eradicating the microbe, they give good control over the dis ease and have provided investi gators with an opening wedge for determining how the tubercle bacillus can be attacked and fi nally conquered. Investigation of the way in which these drugs act against the microbe has now begun. Successfully Labeled "The first objective was to find how a drug reached the tubercle bacilli. Very soon after Isoniazid was introduced as a TB drug, Drs. Arthur Murray and Wright H. Langham of the Los Alamos Scientific laboratory succeeded in labeling it with ra dioactive carbon 14 for tracer work." Isoniazid, the investigators ex plained, is an organic chemical containing six or more atoms of carbon arranged in the form of a hexagon, to one corner of which another carbon atom is attached. In its normal state, Izoniazid contains no radioactive carbon. The scientists at Los Al amos learned how to replace all or any desired normal atom with an atom of radioactive carbon. The presence of the latter can be detected and measured by means of Geiger counters as well as by photographic plates. Tracer Experiments "To follow Isoniazid in the body," said Drs. 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But in others,, such as the lungs, it p'ersisted for as Jong as 24 hours at a level sufficient to kill tubercle" baciyi.0 Within a short time the oTrug appeared inside the tubereles, those walled off pockets of dead cells asd scar tissue in which the micrcjed collect as potential centers of further infection. "The next object was Jo studyo the products into which Isonia zid is transformed, by the body, learn whether one or some com bination of them may beoendow ed with greater curative rtp erties than the parent drug.So far, we Have analyzed seven of these products excreted in the urine. None is nearly0 as effective as the initial compound. Hence it appears that the therapeutic effect lies either in the whole molecule of Isoniazid or ia a conversion product which under goes some further change before it is excreted.- Action Investigated , "A number of laboratories are now investigating the action of, this and other antitubeTculac drugs. 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