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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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. Roth and Man-
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and guinea pigs. The animals
were placed in special cages
where we could trap any radio-
active carbon they excreted, in
cluding the carbon dioxide they
exhaled.' .should the chemicl
processes. of thir body fereak
the. drug down into this gas. Up
on administering Isoniazid, 1iie
drug spread widely trough the
animals' organs and Qtissues.'
Most of the ti5ue soon lost the
drug. 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
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scar tissue in which the micrcjed
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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. By-means of tagged ajoms
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