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Cal Head Opposed to PCC Professionalism Berkeley, Calif. (U.Ri Dr Robert Gordon Sproul. president of the University of California, today said he would oppose any move to professionalize the Pa cific Coast conference athletic program by giving athletes "free rides." Dr. Sproul, in a statement couched in educational phrase ology, inferred that contrary to interpretations by the press in the new PCC athletic "grant in aid program" no professionalism would be allowed, at least on his part. The new program, originally drafted by the President's coun cil Dec. 2, was adopted "in prin- Kansas Gets No. 1 Rating; UCLA Sixth New York (U.R) The United Press college basketball ratings with first-place votes and won lost records through Jan. . 5 in parentheses: Team Points 1. Kansas (28 10-0) 338 2. North Carolina (3 11-0) ....288 3. Kentucky (3 9-2) ..253 4. Southern Methodist (11-1) 236 5. Louisville (1 8-2) 138 6 UCLA (11-1) 136 7. Iowa State (8-1) 102 8. Oklahoma A&M (7-1) 73 9. Vanderbilt (8-1) 69 10. Illinois (6-2) 54 Second 10: 11, Canisius, 47; 12, Seattle, 30; 13, Minnesota. 26; 14, Wake Forest, 19; 15 tie, St. Louis and Manhattan, 18 each; 17, Brigham Young. 12; 18, Duke. 11; 19 tie, San Francisco, Oklahoma City U., and Cali fornia, 9 each. Others: Purdue, 7; Colorado, 6; Ohio State 4; Bradley and Tennessee, 2 each; Oregon State, Dayton, Arkansas, Washington, Syracuse, Indiana, Duquesne, Nebraska and LaSalle, 1 each. Bob Satterfield Picked Over Hall Portland (U.R) Bob Sat terfield, the nation's ninth rated heavyweight contender, is a fa vorite to add another victim to his string tonight when he meets Dale Hall in a scheduled 10 rounder at the Public audit orium. Both camps today predicted the bout won't go the full dis tance. Satterfield is noted for his heavy punch which has net ted him several kayoes. Hall, from Los Angeles, packs a solid right hand which could give Satterfield plenty of trou ble. ' NAZARENE WINS Nampa. Idaho U.R) North west Nazarene brought its sea son's basketball record to 11 wins against only two defeats last night by handing College of Idaho an 81-69, beating in a non conference game here. Duane Peppley hit 27 points for the winners. SIX BIG WINNERS Chicago U.R) The total of six 20-game winners in the American League last season equalled the highest number for any campaign in that circuit dur ing the post-1920 lively-ball era. The six 20-game winners were Early WynnBob Lemon, Herb Score, Billy Pierce, Frank Lary and Billy Hoest. GUGLIELMI OUTSTANDING Washington (U.R) Lt. Ralph Guglelmi, former Notre Dame star who played last season with the Boiling Air Force base team, was named the armed forces outstanding player of the year today by the Washington Touch down Club. He will be honored at a dinner Saturday night. FUNK HOLDS OPTION Portland (U.R) A spokes man for William P. Kyne, owner of Portland Meadows, has re ported that David Funk opera tor of dog race facilities in Ariz ona and Mexico, holds an option to purchase the Portland racing plant from Kyne. H. O. Mund henk. attorney for Kyne, said that no lease with the Multno mah Kennel club, which spon sors dog racing in Portland, could be signed until the option is either expired or was exer cised. CHAIRMAN NAMED New York 0J.PJ Thomas E. Rohan, a former municipal court judge, has been named chairman of the New York chap ter Knights of Columbus' ath letic committee and director of the annual K of C track and field meet to be held at Madison Square Garden. March 9. Ro han, succeeds Thomas F. Harri gan.. Peru Jo Distribute American Foodstuffs Lima, Peru (U.R) The gov ernment prepared today to dis tribute 137.000 tons of Ameri can foodstuffs amohg thousands of drought-stricken families in southern Peru. The United States donated 47. 000 tons of food, including wheat, barley, corn, whole wheat flour and dried milk, and Peru bought another 90.000 tons of wheat, barley and corn. ciple" by the PCC faculty rep resentatives here Friday. Actual details of the new program, which calls for setting up an outside agency to gauge each individual need, are to be com pleted at the faculty representa tives next meeting, slated for Spokane in May. Oppose Formula Dr. Sproul said he would "op pose" any "formula developed by the PCC" at the Spokane meeting "which differs in phi losophy or substance, or how ever you want to say it, from the principles approved by the presidents." He said he concurred in a statement released to the press Saturday by Dr. Glenn Sea'oorg, California faculty representa tive, Seaborg, a Nobel prize win ning scientist, said he would fight any move to give athletes a "free ride" or not require them to work a full schedule at the time they are not participat ing in a sport. Chancellor Clark Kerr of Cali fornia has said such a move would lead to "professional ism." Sproul. in adding his name to fighting such a move, again in ferred that this was not the in tention of the presidents. MO Defeats NG Hoopmen i Fin mn npfriTC Mliil. STANDINGS Company AfNat'lGdi .. Mutual or umana a Hawkinson Tire Tread .... 4 Lea Motors 3 Prospect 3 Butte Kails 2 Head'qtrs Co (Nat'I Gdl 1 Awhland Nat l Go 0 5 SPT L. Prt- 1 .8.13 1 .K33 1 .8(10 2 .H00 3 .500 3 .400 5 .167 7 OOU Mutual of Omaha gave Com pany A of the Medford National Guard' their first setback of the season last night while at the same time tying them for the lead in the Medford Independent Basketball league. Mutual of Omaha stopped Company A 51-33. High scorers for the winners were Keith Johnson and Alex Peterson, both with 12. Ted Yarnell with 7 and Joe Owen with 6 led the scoring for Company -A. Halftime score favored Mutual of Omaha 25-14. Two games tonight and two on Wednesday complete this week's slate and also the first half of the Medford Independent Basketball league regular sea son. Second half play will open next Monday with seven teams contending. Ashland National Guard, which began as the eighth member of the circuit, has been dropped and a num ber of its first half games were forfeited. Hawkinson Tire Tread and Lea Motors meet at 7 p.m. today at the McLoughlin Junior high gym and Prospect and Head guarters Company of the Na tional Guard clash at 8:30 p.m On Wednesday, also at Mc Loughlin, the Hawkinson five plays Company A of the Nation al Guard in the early game and Butte Falls meets Mutual of Omaha in the nightcap. Bonneville Power To Serve 50 Per Cent Portland U.R) Bonneville Power administration said today it will be able to serve 50 per cent of the industrial interrupt -ible power load through the re mainder of this month. Administrator William A. Pearl said improvement in re gional power resources since Jan. 1 and lighter loads on the federal system will permit the service. . Precipitation surveys in the upper Columbia basin indicate refilling of the Hungry Horse reservoir is assured, Pearl said. Generally favorable water con ditions for Northwest power pool utilities are reducing antici pated demands on the federal system, he said'. BPA cut back its service to interruptible loads of 12 electro process industries to 25 per cent Jan. 1. pending weekly surveys of power resources. MedfopjvvTrtbuns Wheal Exports To Japan Suspended Pendleton U.R) Richard K Baum, executive secretary of the Oregon Wheat Growers league, said here yesterday that an an nounced Japanese intention to curtail imports of American wheat would be more in the form of a suspension rather than a cessation. Baum took exception with the announced plan of Japan's new leadership that imports of Unit ed States wheat could be cut off. "The Japanese people need to continue large imports of wheat and I am confident we are going to get our share," Baum said. He said that the announce ment indicating that Japan would shift its wheat buying to Australia was based on the fact that two bumper rice crops have been harvested, lessening the need for wheat imports, and also a move by the Japanese to gain favored nation trade status with Australia. Tatum Needs New Coach Chapel Hill, N.C. :U.R) Jim Tatum looked around today for a new assistant to replace Eddie Teague, who resigned at the University of North Carolina to become head coach at The Citadel. Teague, third Tatum assistant to become a head coach in the past year, signed a five-year con tract Monday at the South Caro lina school. Teague had been an assistant to Tatum at Maryland before the former Terrapin coach moved here last year and he came here with his boss. Tatum said Teague "will make The Citadel a fine head coach. Tatum said Teague's resigna tion will leave a "big vacancy" on the Tar Heel coaching staff and "his place will be hard to fill." He said that he will name Teague's successor from among the part-time coaches who work ed with the Tar Heels during the 1956 football season. Elliott Offered Huskies Grid Job San Francisco (U.R) Pete El liott, head football coach at Uni versity of Nebraska, has been of fered the coaching job at Univer sity of Washington, the San Francisco Chronicle said today. If he takes the job, he would replace Darrell Royal, who quit to coach at Texas University. The Chronicle said Elliott met with George Briggs. athletic di rector at Washincton last week end in the San Francisco Bay Area. Elliott receives S14.000 at Ne braska. His record last season was 4 6. BOWL RECEIPTS New Orleans (U.R! Paul De Blanc, president of the Mid Winter Sports Association which sponsors the Suger Bowl game, released a report Monday that indicated Tennessee and Baylor will each receive about $155, 090 for their ramo last Jan. 1. Baylor won. 13 7. Columbia is the only South American country with ports on the Atlantic and Pacific. I - A. 1 W v" -.--: V:S fTi . '.'-.. 14. & jit Tuesday, January 8, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE A OFF BASEBALL Eddie Joost, former major league infield star who had an un happy season and a half as a manager, has sworn off baseball for the New Year and intends to make it per manent. Mere he flashes his famous smile on his iob'as an auto salesman in San Francisco. He plans to stay in business where there is more security. Kidnaping Suspect Held at Walla Walla Walla Walla (U.R) Lyman Dix, 35, of Walla Walla, was brought here from the Umatilla county jail in Pendleton yester day to face arraignment on a kidnaping charge. The charge against Dix stems from an al leged abduction of a cab driver Saturday night. Police said Dix allegedly had forced Henry William Patton, 43, to drive him toward Port land under pretext that he had a gun and a knife. When Patton reached Arlington on Highway 30 in Oregon, he was forced to stop for coffee. While there he managed to flee and alert state police. Officers arrested Dix a short .time later on an Arlington street. They said at the time of his ap prehension he was not armed and had only a pen knfie on his person. TAKING NO CHANCES Jersey City, N.J. (U.R) De tectives Michael Vincitore and John. Gillen rummaged through more than 300 bags of laundry Monday in quest of three dia mond rings which had been caught up in the wash by mis take. They finally found the rings, valued at $3,000, attached to a brassiere. Stewardesses Deliver Infant Aboard Plane , Honolulu (U.R) Two stew ardesses, aided by a doctor more than 1,000 miles away, deliver ed a baby boy Monday night on a Trans-Ocean Airliner en route from San Francisco to Hawaii. The mother, Mrs. Lillian Tal en )f Honolulu, and the baby, her fifth, were reported doing very well. Mrs. Talen, one of 54 passen gers to board the DC-4 at Oak land, Calif., began having labor pains 15 miles past the point of no return high over the Pacific. Dr. Robert Ho was summon ed to the Honolulu airport, where he gave radio instructions to plane Capt. Walker J. Law ton, of Alamo, Calif. Lawton relayed the medical hints to stewardesses Alice Mar tinez of Oakland and Lorraine Mikosh of San Francisco, who performed the successful delivery. Klamath Victims Off Critical List Klamath Falls (U.R) Two Klamath County Welfare com mission members, wounded when a disgruntled pensioner opened fire with a pistol last Friday, were reported off the critical list at a local hospital Jerry Rajnus, Klamath county commissioner, and Mrs. Altha Urquhart, county welfare direc tor, were reported making satis factory progress. Guy E. (Bill) Cramer, 76-year-old Bonanza pensioner was be ing held in the Klamath county jail without bail after being bound over to the grand jury on a first degree murder charge. Fred Peterson, 75, commission chairman, was killed in the shooting. Wasco County Under Control of Democrats The Dalles (U.R) The Democrats took over control of Wasco county government for the first time yesterday when James Hunt, Dufur area ranch er, was sworn in as county judge and O. W. Kortze was sworn in as commissioner. They will select another Democrat to serve with them at their first session Wednesday. Harry Hogan, who has serv ed as Oregon state educational director for the Democratic party, was sworn in as the new district attorney. WOULD MAKE RAIN Washington (U.R) ' Sen. Francis Case (R-SD) introduced a bill Monday to authorize a five-year experimental program in rain-making by the Air Force. , . .. .... t;:tv.V::;:::::.rt:-, . . : .'.- . ;? ., A. " 1 - , F- f PH gm ; ' Sl fSi i . . ...".lL-""'m!iiii- (m. - -. .. . v...;: - MBi&tz , ,.nn fi imiTrlBggwaaftSS WMititiiiii Th 9-passenger Country Squire prom.1t,i.Vil jiun j.im)'. i.iew"-w"I " , .t -w - "',' i-.p'.nwti.KT'r JT-r - .iiW(pillllPWlIWlRMI9llll !, jtr1 1 w 1 r'' n-iiiBrwig- gag -..717. 1 IXl" f , The 6-passenger Country Sedan The 9-passenger Country Sedan U ; 4 3 ' ' ;" " ' Till The Del Rio Ranch Wagon The Ranch Wagon D glamour wagons long, low and loaded with Go! Leave it to the station wagon leader to make the big station wagon news for '57! And what news! 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