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EIGHT MEDFORD fOREGON) Unbeaten Clubs Face Tough Foes TACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE t W L T PF r ' frrenn 4 0 0 63 23 : ' A'hmrton St. 3 1 0 n 51 Stanford 2 1 0 59 41 ! ?'r-eon St. 2 2 0 53 45 ITU 2 2 0 . 51 43 ashirpton 1 I 0 33 46 '. faiiforrus 1 2 0 25 37 "Haho 0 2 0 6 21 fc-uthrn Cal 0 3 0 12 43 i 1HG 10 W L T PF PA Tnvia 3 0 0 74 14 . Chio St 3 0 0 93 20 !ich!an St. 3 1 0 121 40 Michigan 2 1 0 64 56 '.Tinnesota 2 2 0 82 81 Hisconsin 1 2 0 43 51 Illinois 1 2 0 55 53 Purrtue 1 2 0 51 57 Indians 0 3 0 7 137 Northwestern . 0 3 0 20 81 BY FRED DOWN United Presi Sports Writer Four of the nation's six re gaining unbeaten and untied major powers will face tough, once-beaten o p p o n ents next Saturday when the final push ior lucrative bowl bids begins, in earnest. Oklahoma, its national crown dropping a bit to the port side after Saturday's 14-13 squeaker with Colorado, should have re latively easy pickings with Kan sas State 2-3-1 and Auburn, 43-7 victor over Houston Saturday right, will be a solid choice over Flordia. But the other four, second ranked Iowa, third-ranked Tex as A&M, fifth-ranked Notre Dame and unranked but also unbeaten and untied Dartmouth could easily be knocked out of the elite group. In Texas A&M's case, a defeat could mean no telephone call from the Cotton Bowl committee. Iowa Wins In Rain Iowas, which beat Northwest ern, 6-0, on a rain-and-snow soaked field thanks to a fluke play, goes against Michigan, which is 4-1 overall and wallop ed Minnesota, 24-7, on Satur day. Ohio State, Big Ten co leader and the league's likely Rose Bowl nominee, takes on Northwestern, 1 11 i n o i s plays Purdue, Minnesota meets Ind iana and Michigan State plays Wisconsin in other games. Texas A&M. 6-0 after Satur day's 14-0 triumph over Baylor draws a real "toughie" in the Arkansas Razorbacks. The Raz orbacks k n o c k ed Mississippi from the perfect-record list, 12-6, and have outscored six oppon ents, 105-61, in running up a 5-1 overall record. Notre Dame, making a great comeback under Terry Brennan, places its 4-0 record on the line against a Navy team that has won five games, lost by a touch down to North Carolina and romped over Pennsylvania, 35-7, Saturday. Always a colorful game, this one ranks as one of the top intersectional clashes of the entire season. Dartmouth, 3-0 in the Ivy league and 5-0 overall, is pitted against Yale which lost its only game by one point to Brown. Princeton, tied with Dartmouth for the league lead, plays Brown so both leaders are in jeopardy. Dartmouth whipped Harvard, 26-0, Saturday while Princeton routed Cornell, 47-14, with a four-touchdown spree in the fourth period. The bowl picture, following the weekend action, is roughly this: Oregon and Ohio State look like the Rose Bowl opponents; it looks like Oklahoma vs. Duke in the Orange Bowl and Texas A&M vs. Mississippi in the Cot ton Bowl. Army, still rated the East's best despite a surprisingly close one, 20-12, against Virginia, will not play in the Sugar Bowl be cause of Louisiana segregation laws but might be receptive to a Cotton Bowl invitation. Other attractive games on Saturday's schedule include Baylor vs. TCU and Texas vs. SMU in the Southwest; North Carolina State vs. Wake Forest and Georgia vs. Alabama in the South; Oregon vs. Stanford and UCLA vs. California in the Far West and Army vs. Colgate and Pittsburgh vs. Syracuse in the East. HOCKEY By UNITED PRESS NATIONAL LEAGUE The upstart Chicago Black Hawks are making their pres ence felt in the National Hockey league much to the displeasure of the so-called contenders. The Hawks, NHL doormats in recent seasons, whipped the De troit Red Wings, perennial regular-season champions, 3-0, Sun day night to chalk up their first win over the wings in Detroit's Olympia in two years. It boosted the Black Hawks into fourth place, one point in back of the New York Rangers and one point ahead of Detroit. The Rangers upended the high flying Montreal Canadiens, 4-1. AMERICAN LEAGUE The Hershey Bears kept right on rolling in the American Hock ey league race during the week end, gaining a pair of wins to widen their first place lead to j five points. I The Bears, who edged Buffa-i lo. 3-2 Saturday night, rallied to i beat the Springfield Indians, 1 5-4. Sunday. The second-place Rochester Americans, who dropped a 5-3 decision to Springfield on Satur- j day, bounced back to defeat the i Providence Reds, 4-3. Buff alo . edged the Cleveland j Barons, 2-1, in Sunday's other action. ' MAIL TRIBUNE Saturday Pro Links Prize Taken By Maxwell Hesperia, Calif. rtPi Former National Amateur champion Bil ly Maxwell of Odessa, Tex., turned his sights on the $20,000 San Diego Open today after grabbing top money in the $15, 000 Hespiera Open in a dramat ic last minute duel with veteran Dow Finsterwald. Maxwell watched a comfort able six-stroke margin dwindle away Sunday as he shot his first over par round of the tourney on the opening nine while Fin sterwald was turning in a three-under-par 33. But Maxwell ral lied on the home stretch to win by two strokes with a 67-67-67-74 275 that was worth S2.000. Finsterwald turned in a 63-63-72-69277 for $1,500. Tie for Third Doug Ford of Mahopac, N.Y., Arnold Palmer of Latrobe, Pa., and Ken Venturi of San Fran cisco ended in a three-way tie for third place, each collecting $1,033.33 for cards of 279. Babe Lichardus of Hillside, N.J., tied with Maxwell at the halfway mark in the tournament turned in a final round 73 for a total of 281 and sixth place money of $800. Ed (Porky) Oliver of Canton, Mass., turned in the best final round score, a 36-32 68, but ended in a tie for seventh with Mike Souchak of Grossingers, N.Y., and Don Fairfield of Ca sey, 111. Hornets Trip KF 9th Club Hedrick Junior high ninth grade joined its McLoughlin counterpart in the week end winners' circle with a Saturday verdict and the two aggregations now have their eyes on their intra-city season finale Thurs day afternoon on the Hedrick field. The Hornets' 26 to 0 decision over Klamath Falls followed a 31 to 0 win by McLoughlin Fri day over Ashland. Quarter scores for Hedrick were 12 to 0, 19 to 0 and 26 to 0. Dan Sieg tallied the first Hornet touchdown with a five yard punch and he ran two conver sions. Ken Morse scored on a re verse from 15 yards out, Bob Mclntyre went up the middle for 10 yards and a TD and Mike Monroe rolled out, picked up fine blocking and ran 50 yards to the goal. Mostly second and third string players were in the line-up for the Hornets at the end of the game. Klamath got down to the two. Hedrick held for three downs and Klamath fumbled on the fourth. Regular Dan Sieg then broke away for a 60-yard run to put the ball out of danger. Gang Tackling Good downfield blocking and gang tackling were Hornet as sets in the contest. Larry Brown and Warren Parks were line standouts and all the backs ran well. Linebacker Joe Parton was left overnight at a Klamath Falls hospital. He suffered a blow on the head during the game. On the trip home Parton got sick around Keno and the bus turned back. A doctor indi cated that there was no injury from the blow on the head but the player was kept at the hos- pial for observation. The game between Hedrick and McLaughlin was moved up to Thursday at 3:30 pm. be cause of junior high band prac tice set for Friday in connection with the Ashland-Medford Sen ior high game. Wilson Forced To Halt Pin Fray Portland IP) Bus Eaton of Roseburg still held his bowling endurance mark today. Eaton rolled 280 straight games over a period of 49 hours and 15 minutes a week ago for a national mark. Les Wilson, local auto sales man, tried to break the record but gave it up at 3:20 a.m. Sun day after 171 games bowled in 28 hours and 2 minutes. Wilson suffered a pulled tendon and a sore finger. SPORTS WE'RE MOVING! SALES CYCLE SHOP formerly at 36 South BarHett OPENING NOVEMBER 1 ot 3330 NORTH PACIFIC HI WAY Monday, October 28. 1957 Football Scores SATURDAY COLLEGE SCORES Auburn 48. Houston 7 Texas 19. Rice 14 Middle Tenn. 18. Moorehead St. 6 Georgia Tech 20. Tulane 13 West Texas St. 39. Hdn.-Simmons 19 Louisville 40, Central Michigan 0 Lamar Tech 18. Howard Payne 13 Arizona St. 66. San Diego St 0 Bowling Green St. 13, Kent St. 7 North Carolina St. 14. Duke 14 St. Joseph's vs. Valparaiso (cane.) Tennessee 14, Maryland 0 West Virgina 19. William & Mary 0 San Francisco St. 40. Cal Aggies 0 Cal Poiy 24. Cal Tech 7 Pomona-Claremont 13. Redlands 12 Los Angeles St. 14. Chico St. 13 Whit worth 54. UBC 6 North Texas St. 12. San Jose St. 8 Colorado Western 52. Nevada 14 Idaho St. 34, Colorado College 7 Portland St. 13. EOC 0 Oregon Tech 25. Dixie JC 12 Willamette 33. College of Idaho 21 Linfield 35. Whitman 21 Abilene Chris. 47. Southwest Tex. 0 Tulsa 12. Air Force 7 McMurrv 7, McNeese 6 Tex. West 42. New Mex. A&M 12 W. Chester St. 34. E. Strousbury 0 Rose Bowl Talk Shunned By UO Ducks Eugene W Oregon re serves were being touted today as the key to the Webfoot's foot ball success following a 24-6 win over tough California here Sat urday. Oregon was picked by many to finish far down in the Coast conference this season for lack of depth. But trie Ducks are now riding high with five wins in six games and a perfect 4-0 PCC mark, thanks largely to the play of the second unit. Reserves teamed up with Jim Shanley, Jack Morris and com pany Saturday to pace the Web foot win over the Bears and def initely establish Oregon as the team to beat for the Rose Bowl. But any talk of a Pasadena trip was met with an icy stare from Duck players who meet contending Stanford at Palo Al to next Saturday and then face Washington, USC and Oregon State in that order. Cal Committee Resumes Probe Of Coast Circuit BY SCOTT BAILLIE San Francisco, Oct. 26 OP) Assemblyman Frank Bonelli, charging that the Pacific Coast conference "is all messed up" will resume a probe of the strife-ridden group here today. But some of the star witnesses may not show up. Bonelli, chairman of a leg islature subcommittee which opened an invesigation of the conference last month in Los Angeles, comes from that region where agitation has been strong for UCLA and USC to secede from the PCC. Those two schools were the hardest 'penalized of four univer sities that got racket up in an explosive conference cleanup during the spring of 1956. Both have been stripped of their sen ior players this year and re main banned from the Rose Bowl as a result of disclosures Washington was the third team to be barred from the Bowl while California got off with a lighter sentence and now is eligible. Not As Warm Bonelli said in a prepared statement that the Los Angeles quiz 'pointed up the fact that California, UCLA and USC are not going with the round-robbin schedule next year and there fore 1 the PCC probably is dead and 2) commissioner Victor O. Schmidt probably is on his way out." 'T think the subcommittee will learn enough at the con clusion of the hearings to be able to recommend some remedial legislation which would help straighten out the PCC mess," Bonelli said in his statement. He also declared he did not expect "such a warm reception from the Bay area press as re received from the Southern California sportswriters," when he launch ed tfte investigation. Wilbur Johns, UCLA's athlet ic director, said at the Los Ang eles hearings that some PCC delegates had offered to ease penalties against his school if coach Red Sanders were fired. Schmidt and Sanders were those others who testified there. BOWLING ELKS LEAGUE Standings Lively Five Gvpos PER'S W. 23' 21 19 19 18 L. 12 i 14 h 17 17 18 20 22 23 Cementers Medics Miss-Fitts 16 GO-Boys 14 Wallflowers 13 Results: Miss-Fitts 1 fKessler 545) 2323; Ce menters 3 iSnedden 532) 2355. Wallflowers 3 (Neal 493 1 2412; Lively Five 1 (Milnes 477 1 2198. Gvpos 4 (Offord 541) 2258; Go-Boys 0 iS. Forbes 448) 22193. PER's 0 (Gardiner 491) 2106; Medics 4 (Stevenson 459) 2224. 9 SERVICE Grants Pass high looms a big ger obstacle to Medford Black Tornado ambitions for fourth straight District 6 A-l football championship after its 40 to 0 pasting of Klamath Falls last Friday. Until the week end just past Medford stood out as favor ite for Nov. 8 encounter here with the Cavemen. Now, the fracas rates as at least a toss up. Medford clipped the Pelican of KF by the lesser margin of 33 to 14 but the Tornado has thumped Crater 40 to 14 while GP eleven was held to 20 to 13 by the Comets. The GP-Medford fuss in all probability will determine the district and Southern Oregon conference championship. At the moment, however, the Black Tornado can't afford to look past its game with Ashland here this Friday evening. Medford will be favored in the conflict with the Grizzlies but must be wary of the new life shown by Ashland in its rally for victory over Crat er by 19 to 12 on Friday. Medford pass defense cer tainly will have to be at its best for the meeting here with Grants Pass. And the part icular eye. of course, will be on the Cavemen's Jim Smith lo Mike Sparlin combination. Information how many passes have connected between the two and for how many yards isn't at hand but Smith has thrown 13 touchdown passes, 12 of them to Sparlin. Betters Record Jim Benson's time of 79.85 miles per hour in the recent Southern Oregon timing associa tion drag races with his 1950 Ford bettered the old Camp White strip record of 73.17 mph for E stock class. It was also better than the national record of around 76 mph but reported ly cannot be considered for of ficial honors since the race program was not a sanctioned event under the National Hot Rod association. RILEY. HOOPER SHINE Gary Riley, ex-Medf ord high halfback, and Norman Hooper, former Eagle Point high fullback are doing well in Oregon Technical institute football this fall, according to reports from the school. Riley has been performing at fullback. An ankle injury has hampered Gary and flu sidelined him for one week but the coaching staff has pointed to his fine promise and expects Riley to become one of the lop players the school had produced. Hooper has played end and fullback. Predictions for him are similar lo those made for Riley. Norm is registered in the school of engineering and expects to specialize in struct ural design. Ivy Loop On Coast Dick Strite, sports editor of the Eugene Register-Guard, had this comment in a recent "High- Tony Demarco In Bout With New York (IP Frankie Ippolito of New York is fav ored at 2-1 to beat Tommy Tibbs, New England light weight champion, tonight in their TV 10-rounder at St. Nicholas arena. New York (IPi Tony De Marco is favored at 3-1 to beat Virgil Akins at the Boston Gar den Tuesday night in a 15 round welterweight contenders' bout, which stands out as the most attractive scrap on the week's slate. The clash between ex-champion Demarco of Boston, top-rated and Akins, of St. Louis, number six, will not be televised. The Massachusetts commission has approved it as "a fight for the vacant welterweight crown," but no other boxing organization seconds the approval. Another good non-televised bout brings together heavy weight contender Roy Harris and Willie Besmanoff of Ger many for a 10-rounder at Hou ston, Tex., Tuesday night. Har ris of Cut-and-Shoot, Tex., is ranked fifth; Besmanoff no long er is ranked. Spider Webb of Chicago, num Time tested service assures best money service r -J' OUSEHOLD FINANCE 128 E. Main PHONE: By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor climber" column: "A Pacific Coast Ivy League would be a wonderful exper ence, although Oregon's athlet ic teams would probably hav to travel by Toonerville Trol ly instead of using United'! Red Carpel service and Ore gon would be playing against Willamette, Whilworlh and Whitman if the other major higher education institutions on the Pacific Coast declined to go along with the Ivy lo go along wilh the Ivy League program .... Then Oregon could train more geo physicisls for Ihe development of salellites and the profs would be among the few in the Hayward Field stands for football games." HALFTIME TALK QUIET That Southern Oregon college truly has a football team for the whole area to be proud of was demonstrated by the Red Raid ers second half comeback for a 21 to 19 triumph over Oregon college on Saturday afternoon. What was the secret of the rousing rallv from an 0 to 19 deficit? "Actually, I v don't re member whaI said," Coach Al Akins reported this morning when queried concerning re marks in the dressing room at halftime. He stated that the sit uation wasn't one for hysterics and that what was said was nut forth in a "quiet vein." The first half was very quietly talked over. It was pointed out who had been a little lax and the club got up the determination to go out and play football, according to the head mentor. Akins said that he was "very proud" of his Red Raiders. He stated that it is very easy for a club when it is 19 points behind to quit and just play out the game, hoping to make up for it the following week. SCARE SHOULD HELP Southern Oregon meets Eastern Oregon al LaGrande this Saturday and will have the Oregon Collegiate confer ence crown all to itself if it beats ihe Mountainers. Coach Akins mentioned lhat the "scare" suffered by the Raid ers in gaining their third OCC win without a loss could help prevent them from being "upset material" at LaGrande. He remarked, "I do think the scare was good for us and that we'll be ready to play a real good game." ROMINE'S LEG BROKEN Chuck Romine, Raider tackle, from Medford, saw his hopes for all-conference honors hurt when he suffered a broken leg on Sat urday. Akins said that both bones in Romine's lower left leg were broken about five inches above the ankle. Romine was having a fine year. End Cy Perkins' arm became paralyzed in the OCE fracas but the seriousness of the ailment was yet to be determ ined. 3-1 Favorite Virgi! Akins ber seve.n middleweight contend er, is favored at 14-5 to beat un ranked Willie Vaughn of Los An geles in their TV-radio 10-rounder at Madison Square Garden Friday night. Webb's 24-2-0 record includes 13 knockouts; Vaughn's 33-16-5-1 no decision list includes only eight kayoes. Lightweight contenders Ken ney Lane, No. 2, and Orlando Zulueta, No. 6, will tangle at the Chicago Stadium Wednesday night in a TV 10-rounder. Lane of Muskegon, Mich., is favored at 3-1 over Zulueta of Cuba, who lost three of his last four starts. The week's boxing schedule includes: Monday New York, St. Nick's Frank Ippolito vs. Tommy Tibbs: New Orleans Charley Joseph vs. Frankie Anslem; Providence, R.I. Joe Wal cott; Las Vegas, Nev. L. C. Morgan vs. Jimmy Feaster. Tuesday Boston Garden Tony Demarco vs. Virgil Akins; Miami Beach Bob Baker vs. Neal Walsh; Houston, Tex. Roy Harris vs. Willi Besmanoff. Wednesday Chicago Stadium Kennv Lane vs. Orlando Zulueta. Thursday Vancouver, B.C. Archie Moore vs. Bobby Mitchell, non-title; Revere, Mass. Pat McCarthy vs. Bobby Soares; San Francisco Bud Smith vs. Bobby Scanlon. Friday New York, Garden Spider Webb vs. Willie Vaughn. Saturday Hollywood. Calif. Al fredo Escobar vs. Vince Delgado. When yoe need up to $1500, bring your money problems to HFC, Amer ica's oldest and most ex perienced consumer finance company. You re ceive money service backed by 79 years' ex perienceprompt atten tion, a wide choice of re payment plans, and your money in one day. Visit or phone HFC today. St., 2nd Floor SP 3-5301 Prep Scores SATURDAY FOOTBALL South Eugene 9. Mashfield 0 Cottage Grove 19. Douglas 0 Lakeview 33, Alturas, Calif. 38 Nehalem 54. Star of the Sea 6 Sisters 47, Culver 21 Malin 34. Sacred Heart 0 Corbett 32. Gaston 7 Nadir Triumphs In Garden Stake Camden, N.J. OP) Nadir, the winner of the Garden State Stakes, was on the way back to his old Kentucky home today leaving the battle for the juve nile championship a wide open affair. Nadir left Garden State park by train Sunday night for the Paris, Ky., farm of his owner A. B. Hancock, who announced the colt will be rested for a winter champaign in Flordia. The final major test for East ern two-year-olds is the Pimlico Futurity, Nov. 23. With Nadu retired for the season, the Mary land classic may afford Jewel's Reward a chance to clinch the juvenile crown. Week End Grid Heroes Listed BY UNITED PRESS Jack Douglas, Stanford: Com pleted 10 of 12 passes and threw for two touchdowns as Indians upset UCLA, 20-6. Jim Jones, Washington: Hus kies' fullback" played tremend ous game on defense then raced 53 yards for a touchdown while his underdog team was stunning Oregon State, 19-6. Don Ellingsen, Washington State: Raced 89 yards for a touchdown to give Cougars margin they needed for 13-12 win over Southern California. Jim Shanley, Oregon: Scored twice for Ducks while Oregon downed California, 24-6, to edge closer to Rose Bowl. Howard Willis, Idaho: Plundged for one touchdown and lanuched 63-yard pass run play for another to lead Vandals to 20-6 victory over Fresno State, Tornado Jayvees ' Vie at Ashland Medford high school's junior varsity football club plays this evening at Ashland. Game time will be 7 p.m. The Tornado jay vees, coached by Frank Roelandt and John Kovenz, reportedly will be without the sideline services of Roelandt this evening because of illness. KUTS WINS MEET London (IPI Radio Moscow reported Sunday that Olympic champion Vladimir Kuts won the all-Soviet union cross-country championship when he cov ered an eight-kilometer course in Sokolniki park in 23 minutes, 36.4 seconds. WANTS TO TEACH San Francisco, (IP) Bobby Scanlon would rather coach kids than bash beaks and so he re gards next Thursday night's fight here with Wallace (Bud Smith as another big step to ward teaching physical educa tion. BLUES, WHITES VICTORS The Hedrick Blues beat the Hedrick Reds 25 to 6 and the McLoughlin Blacks defeated the McLoughlin Whites 26 to 6 Fri day in seventh grade intramural football games. Want American big room and Come in and see the new 1958 Rambler ... 6 or V-8. See glamorous new jet stream styling, new pushbutton driving, new 4-beam headlights. Get the lowest-cost, most economical, easiest-driving car in America! i 5th at Bartlett Is That Ever wondered how efficient your body is? If Detroit ever evolved an automobile which could com pare, it could grind its own valves, grow its oftm tires, weld cracks in its carburetor, patch its paint skin, scour its slipcov ers,, adjust automatically to desert heat or mountain height and put a couple of million miles on the speedometer without ever stopping. Imagine, as our power plant keeps working it reconstructs itself continuously. From eye- lashes to liver, each of us is in a constant state of tearing down and building up; and this ma chine keeps on running for 70 years and more until the tear ing down occurs faster than the building up. And blessed sleep helps balance that state between decomposition and regeneration. Ever wondered why some peo ple like a thin pillow, others a fat one? Easy enough. A narrow shouldered, large-skulled adult, particularly if he sleeps on his stomach, requires a rather thin pillow or none at all. A broad shouldered side-sleeper needs the fattest pillow made, because his shoulders keep his head such a distance from the mattress. As for an infant, it needs no pillow at all. Not as you might suppose because of the threat of suffo cation that danger exists only until the baby attains enough control to move his head at will. No, the real reason is in the baby's physical proportions: he is born with a head almost as, large as his shoulder span; hence it does not require support to keep the head from dropping. For what its worth: Dr. Wil liam Dement of Chicago recent ly discovered that up-and-down eye movements during sleep in dicate that the subject is having a dream which is concerned with climbing; while side - to - side movements have to do with hor izontal activities. Speaking of sleeping, re searchers now state that it is impossible for a person to catch up on sleep that is missed: once it's gone, it's gone forever. No Physiological Damage Worried about insomnia? Then listen to what Phyllis Rosentaur has to say in Morpheus and Me (Funk & Wagnalls): "Mother na ture lulls us to sleep long before insomnia can do any appreciable damage. The most comprehen sive tests prove that no physi ological damage results from go ing as many as 72 hours without sleep. In pushing toward the outer limits, soldier-volunteers have undergone enforced wake fulness for 112 hours almost five days without suffering any physical or biochemical change. However, the lack of sleep did affect personality traits; all were cranky and apathetic and regis tered a certain amount of mem ory loss; some talked glibly and foolishly and many laughed ir relevantly. However, one good night's rest returned them to normal with no after-effects ap parent to trained observers." Couldn't a mother with sleepy, tired children have told the ex perimenters much the same story the little folk alternating be- tween crankiness,, undue hilarity - car comfort? Want European small-car economy and handling ease? ISAftfliSBJSISg ONLY RAMBLER GIVES YOU THE BEST OF BOTH: O American European Small-Big-Car Room Car Economy and and Comfort Handling Ease. Phone By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist and being downright silly. And it so often happens in front of guests you'd like to impress because the children have been overstimulated and kept up be yond their normal hours. Want to weigh less? That's easy: hop on the scales the first thing in the morning. That's when the body weighs least. (Copyright. 1957, by Eugene Burns Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30 volume set of this world famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Rocket Progress Report Encouraging Washington OP) The Army issued an encouraging progress report today on its efforts to de velop a rocket that can inter cept and destroy enemy mis siles. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chief of staff said early work on the Nike Zeus, the Army's "anti missile missile," so far has been "crowned with success." The Zeus, equipped with a nuclear warhead, is being de signed to zoom more than 100 miles into space to explode an oncoming intercontinental bal listic missile (ICBM) at 75,000 feet above the earth. Taylor discussed the anti-missile project in a speech before the U.S. Army association as the U.S. stepped up its barrage of announcements on successful missile developments. The Air Force announced Sun day that it had tested success fully its new bomber-launched Rascal missile against a long distance target and the Navy disclosed it soon will fire its Polaris intermediate range bal listic missile from a submerged atomic submarine. Taylor rejected complaints that the cost of an effective ati mfssile missile would be "astro nomical." He told the Army as sociation that "I can assure you that the studies which I have seen lead me to a different con clusion." UP Manager's Mother Dies at The Dalles The Dalles, Ore. (OT Mrs. Alberta K. Litfin, mother of Richard A. Litfin, United Press Pacific division manager, died here Sunday after a long illness. She was 63. Mrs. Litfin was the widow of Ben R. Litfin, publisher of The Dalles Chronicle for more than 20 years. She was born at Bruns wick, Mo. Besides her son, Mrs. Litfin is survived by a sister, Mrs. James Hunt of Birmingham, Ala.; and a brother, Ralph Knapenberger of Chicago. 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