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WSC Cougars iasketbaBl OutBooEc To Qive Editor'! note: Tnii 1 one of a se rles on the outlook of West Coast basketball teams for the coming season. By RUSS NIELSEN Pullman. Wash. (IP) Wash ington State's basketball team probably won't be a contender for the Pacific Coast Conference title this year, but Coach Jack Freil is shaping a well-balanced club which could be trouble some to the favorites. Friel says the Cougars will have more speed, improved height inside and more experi ence than last year but might be a bit shorter on power. All-Coast forward Larry Beck Is gone and with him went the Cougar scoring punch of the last three seasons. But six lettermen and some highly-regarded sopho mores will provide a scoring threat from almost any place on the floor. Lettermen Mert Kennedy, Jim Ross and Dick Rask will fill the guard positions. Kennedy and Ross, who figure in the first unit of a two-platoon system which Friel apparently plans to use, are expected to be consistent scorers. However, neither shot for a very high percentage last year. They will be backed by transfer Jim Milnes and three sopho mores. Bill Galbraith 6-6) and Dick Axelson (6-3) figure as the for wards in Friel's starting unit with sophomore John Maras, who stands 6-6 and tips the beam at 210 pounds, at center. Maras is a fine prospect and deadly with he hook shot. He will be backed by John Nielsen 6-10), another sophomore. Washington State opens Dec. 3 at home to Montana. The Cou gars lift the lid on the confer ence cmpaign Jan. 3 when they host Southern California. Pullman, Wash. HP) A 30-63-4 career as Washington State Col lege head basketball coach will end at the close of this season for Jack Friel who announced today he intends to retire from active coaching. Friel, 59, began as head coach of the Cougars in 1928 and has been recognized as one of the na tion's finest teachers of the game. His teams have won 490 games in the 29-year-span, a rec ord unmatched by any other Pa cific Coast Conference coach. In his retirement announce ment, Friel said he thought 30 years' coaching was enough and that it was about time for a younger man to take over. Friel said he would remain at WSC as a teacher in the physical education department in which he holds an assistant professor ship. By UNITED PRESS Bob Pettit has regained the National Basketball Association scoring lead, but four other players are within easy striking distance of the St. Louis ace. ' Pettit dunked in 51 points in two games last week for a sea son total of 327. George Yardley of Detroit and Dolph Schayes of Syracuse are tied for second with 318 points, while Philadel phia's Neil Johnson has 312 and Bill Sharman of Boston has 310. Prep Playoff Sites Picked Portland (IP) Sites were picked Monday for the class A-2 and the class B state high school football championship games this week end. Vale will play host to Seaside Saturday at 1:30 p.m. for the A-2 title. Powers will travel to Hermiston to meet Stanfield for the class B crown, also on Sat urday afternoon. Jefferson and South Salem play at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Multnomah stadium here for the A-l title. Sisters has won the six-man championship. Portland TCPi Fred E. Ames, 77, former assistant regional U.S. forester in charge of timber sales here, died Sunday night. Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in Finley's Rose chapel. HFC will make 6,400 loans today! More people coast to coast . . . . :. V :. ? IS years' experience. Phone or visit HFC today. OUSEHOLD FINANCE 128 E. Main St., 2nd Floor PHONE: SP 3-5301 Trouble Bold Ruler Selected as Year Horse New York Bold Ruler was hailed as "horse of the "year" today by the Morning Telegraph and Daily Racing form in the annual poll of staff mem bers conducted by the racing papers. Thus the husky son of Nas rulah, owned by the Wheatley Stable and trained by veteran James Fitzsimmons, failed to get a majority of the 33 votes cast. But the 16 in his favor was enough to give him the title as five other horses divided the remaining 17 votes. Nine of the others went to Ralph Lowe's Gallant Man, who was nosed out of the three-year-old championship by Bold Rul er by an even closed margin; four to Mrs. Jan Burke's Dedi cate; two to Mrs. Charles Ul rich Bay's Idun, and one each to Kerr Stable's Round Table and E. Gay Drake's Swoon's Son. Profhro Says He Is Proud Of Oregon 11 Portland (tP) Coach Tom my Prothro of Oregon State told an enthusiastic meeting of Beaver football supporters Mon day that he was proud of both Oregon and Oregon State for the game they played last Saturday at Eugene. He said he believed Oregon is the kind of team that will rep resent the PCC well in the Rose Bowl. "They have a lot of pride." The 10-7 victory over Oregon capped Prothro's best season in his three years at Oregon State. He pointed out that as de fending champion other teams were pointing for the Beavers, but added, "that's something we will meet forever if it's forced on us." Prothro said there were two ways to judge a football season, on conference results and on the over-all season. "We tied Ore gon for the PCC title and tied UCLA for' the best season rec ord. I guess that gives us half and UCLA and Oregon each a quarter," he added. HOCKEY By UNITED PRESS Willie Marshall's scoring reign in the American Hockey league appears to be slowly nearing its end. The Hershey center, who held a monoDolv on all three offen sive departments for five weeks, has lost his hold on one and is being seriously threatened. Henri Richard of the Montreal Canadiens, taking over where his big brother Maurice left off, has opened up a four-point lead in the National Hockey league scoring race. He now leads the league in all three maior scoring departments most goals, most assists and most points. BEDNARK OUT OF ACTION Philadelphia (IP) Chuck Bednark, veteran Philadelphia linebacker, suffered a rib sep aration in his left side against Washington last Sunday and will be lost to the Eagles when they meet Pittsburgh here next Sun day. JONES MEETS VAUGHN New York (IP) Tiger Jones of Yonkers, N.Y., will meet Wil lie Vaughn of Los Angeles at Madison Square garden next Fri day night in a substitute bout for the originally scheduled one be tween Paolo Rosi and Johnny Busso. borrow money from HFC than from any other con--i- sumer finance company. They like our friendly, one jv day service. They know they " may borrow up to $1500 and N take up to 24 months to re pay. If you need cash for any good purpose, use the service that's backed by 79 to TOO ENOUGH OF THIS Middleweight Bobby Boyd, stunned by Rory Calhoun's hard punches, lies on the canvas as referee Al Berl leans down to tell him it's all over. Rory stands indifferently in the neutral corner. He knocked Boyd down twice in the second round of their scheduled 10-rounder in New York to win by a TKO Moore Wants Chance For Heavyweight Title Portland (IF) Archie Moore says he wants to fight Floyd Patterson again for the world heavyweight championship. Moore is here to work out for a 10-round fight Friday night Dodgers to Take Pay Cut for 1958 Los Angeles OP) Catcher Roy Campanella and outfielder Duke Snider took pay cuts in signing their 1958 baseball con tracts with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The two became the second and third players to sign up since the club made Los Angeles its new home. Dodger Vice President E. J. (Buzzie) Bavasi said Campan ella took a cut because of a "per sonally disappointing" season last year and that Snider re ceived a "token cut." Exact terms of the new con tracts were not revealed, but Bavasi indicated Snider would receive around $42,000 a year as the highest paid played with the Dodgers, while Campanella would receive in the neighbor hood of $36,000. I1 2-Pound Slug Can Be Fired at Moon Pasadena, Calif. (IF) Dr. Fritz Zwicky, Cal Tech scientist who originated the idea of firing the first man-made meteors into space, estimated today that a IV2 pound slug could be fired at the moon in three months. Zwicky, who said Saturday such an experiment would have particular value, made his esti mate on the basis of $100,000 and a crew being available for the project. No such undertaking was re ported in the making at this time. He added that eventually the technique could be used to rico chet fragments of a slug back to the earth from the moon. The astrophysicist said the slug together with a high explo sive charge would be fired aloft by an Aerobee rocket. At the peak of the flight, the charge would be detonated, shooting the slug on a pre-determined course to the moon. Speeds of 40,000 miles an hour were achieved by fragments scattered by shaped charges rocketed up 54 miles last Oct. 16, he said. Some of those par ticles escaped the earth's gravity and are moving around the sun, Zwicky said. "With the kind of speed we can achieve, the slug would ei ther create an explosion on im pact with the moon or would generate flashes of light as it bounced from crag to crag," he said. The scientist said such colli sions could be observed by tele scope. Chenoweth Substation Goes Into Operation The Dalles OPi Bonneville ' Power Administrator William A. Pearl threw a switch at the ! new Chenoweth substation here! today, allowing power to flow from The Dalles dam directly into lines of the Northern' Wasco county PUD. Erik Johnson, director of the PUD, said the new facilities will improve reliability of service by providing several alternative transmission routes. Powers '" ' against Roger Rischer. The light heavyweight champ said he plan ned to meet Chuck Speiser in Detroit and then would like to fight Eddie Machen. "Then," he said, "there'll be so much public demand that they'll have to let me fight Pat terson." Moore began workouts today for a scheduled 10-round non title fight next Friday night against Roger Rischer of Oak land, Calif., here. Moore said that he planned to go to Miami, Fla., from here where a stablemate, Frankie Daniels, has a bout lined up sometime in December in Bra zil. He said he planned only one fight in South America. Reports May Mean Rocket Falling Portland (IPI Robert Board well of the Grout school moon watch said here today that re ports of a fireball from several points in western Oregon could mean that the rocket of Russia's Sputnik I is nearing earth and passed over Oregon in a blaze of oxygen-fired flame. Descriptions of a fireball reached moonwatch headquart ers from several points and most of them were similar in detail. Several calls came from Cor vallis and the mid-Willamette valley area where sightings gen erally were pinpinted about 5:30 a.m. Boardwell said the Sputnik rocket had been over the North west about 6 p.m. Monday and that it could have passed this region again early 'this morn ing. Most persons who saw the fireball said it had a tail and was brighter than any meteor. A Portlander said he saw the object give off hundreds of sparks in a celestial display that lasted 7 or 8 seconds. 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White put possible foes on notice by saying he intends to be "very active" in prosecuting for Negro voting rights. White, a 51-year-old native of Philadelphia, is a former law partner of Rep. Hugh Scott (R Pa.), one of the leaders of the bipartisan civil rights bloc in the House. The Senate Judiciary commit tee, which must pass on the nomination, is headed by James O. Eastland, (D-Miss.), a lead ing opponent of the civil rights law passed by Congress this year. White, an assistant attorney general, helped draft the orders, proclamations and other memor anda issued by President Eisen hower when he ordered federal troops to enforce school integra tion in Little Rock, Ark., in Sep tember. The White House announced his recess appointment Monday. The nomination will be submit ted for senate confirmation when Congress reconvenes in Janu ary. In his new post, White will take over the prosecution of all civil rights cases, including the Negro right-to-vote guarantees included in the new civil rights bill. The law also set up the new division. Neuberger Speaks at Milwaukie Meeting Milwaukie, Ore. (IP) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) told a dinner meeting of the Mil waukie Lions club Monday night that "the present hard-money policy has added nearly 20 per cent to the burden of taxpayers in meeting costs of the federal debt, and also underlies the eco nomic adversity suffered by Ore gon's leading industry." The decline of Oregon's lum ber industry and Tiigher interest costs on the national debt were cited by Neuberger as "two of the major costs of attempting to control inflation through manipu lation of credit." Small business, he said, bears the brunt of hard money because it results in "con traction of their credit pipe lines." Neuberger declared interest rates are the highest since the "bank holiday of 1933," and that the cost of living is the "highest in our history." A NECESSARY HAZARD New York (IP) Patrolman Carmine Azzato, enforcing New York's new anti-jaywalker cam paign, said one jaywalker told him: "I've got to. The only time my feet don't hurt is when I'm walking." It's Cool, Man, Cool . . . But You Can Still Pour . . . READY MIX (Si For Yourself) It's Scientifically Batched By Phone: MUrdock 5-8121 SPring 2-5336 SPring 2-5897 Tuesday, November 26, 1957 Mitchell Said on Top For Grid Coach Race Lawrence, Kan. (IP) Cau tious athletic director A. C. Dutch) Lonborg conceded today he's asked "Jack Mitchell here for an interview," but denied that the Arkansas mentor and native Kansan had an inside track on the vacated Jayhawk coaching job. Lonborg said Mitchell would probably arrive here Wednes day for "one of several such planned interviews. I've talked with a lot of coaches in the past few days, many of them in con fidence. We have no target date on hiring a new coach, but I per sonally would like it to be as soon as possible." From Fayetteville, Ark., Mon day night, it was reported Mitch ell would meet with Lonborg in Kansas City, Mo., either today or Wednesday. A Kansas spokes man, extremely close to the ath- Webfoot's Center Has Ankle Cast Removed for Look Eugene (IP) The cast was taken off Norm Chapman's broken ankle Monday for x-rays but Dr. George Guldager, Ore gon team physician, said he could not say whether the regu lar Webfoot center would be able to play against Ohio State in the Rose bowl. Chapman suffered the injury in the Washington State game last month. A "walking" cast was put on the injured ankle, which should allow Chapman to abandon his crutches. Cancellations to Help Centennial Salem Cancellations on outgoing mail from the govern or's office will help advertise Oregon's 1959 centennial cele bration, Gov. Robert D. Holmes announced today. The postmark, depicting a cov ered wagon, snowcapped moun tain and tall fir tree, carries the words: "Coming, Oregon Centennial, 1859-1959." An exposition in Portland is scheduled for 1959 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ore gon's admission as a state. Plans for the celebration are now un der way. NO INCREASE UN PROCE Tastes so rich ...swallows . . . swallows ' StigmK.') pp I j I nluRICHT keu lib so smooth $080 $l35 The Finest Hosts and Hostesses Serve KENTUCKY BOURBON AT ITS BEST ...TRULY AMERICAN WHISKEY : ): HIM A H LL CO.. LOU itiomi nicTiiirDC nftllUIWk UIOIIU-I-IW m letic department, said Mitchell's hiring was merely a matter of time. The source, unidentified on request, said "the deal appar ently has been cut and dried for weeks." ' Mitchell, a former Oklahoma quarterback great, denied an in terest in the Kansas job shortly after the resignation of coach Charles Mather and five assist ants, Oct. 31. Lonborg said despite rampant rumors that Mitchell was the school's "only choice", several other coaches were under con sideration. Lonborg declined to name others, but reliable sources have cited North Carolina State Coach Earle Edwards, Arizona (Tempe) State mentor Dan De vine, and Wade Walker of Mis sissippi State. YOU NEED IT! JENNINGS HAS IT! V QQSSGEBGB GQQ 0133 FIBK "TWICE AS STRONO AS ORDINARY TIRES. Only DOUBLE-STRENGTH NYLON tire m.d.l 31 foster slopplngl EASY TERMS SAM JENNINGS TIRE CO. 229 North Riverside QT, SV LLE. KY.. D SIKIBUItU BT DonnnTC rn KrwTMPlfV STBaiRUT RftMRRftN WHISK FY fifi PRnflF IIIUUUUI vv., lu-niuuni ww.. - MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINB Gals To Vie At Vassar Today in Hockey Tourney Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 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