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Duck's Great Stand Renews Enthusiasm For Rose Br HAL WOOD Los Angeles W A renew ed enthusiasm for the Rose Bowl pact with the Big 10 flared along the West Coast today following "little" Ore gon's magnificent stand against the champion Ohio State Buckeyes. j From Seattle in the north I to Los Angeles in the south in the disentegrating Pacific Coast conference there now seems to be some belief that there is a chance for West Coast football after all. Oregon was supposed to be the greatest mismatch in bowl history against the Ohio State team that was voted by the United Press board of coaches as the greatest in the nation. "But if Oregon, which lost two conference games, can come that close to whipping - the nation's No. 1 team," said ' one PCC man, "then our PCC football can't be so bad at that Critics Stilled In Los Angeles, which is the major center of insurrec tion as far as the conference is concerned, the critics were stilled. Some of the dissension in the loop was brought about, not by rules and regulations, but by the fact that that many thought California, USC, Stanford and UCLA had out grown the Northwest schools. The Oregon, Washington and Idaho representatives in the conference, with the excep tion of the Huskies, have tiny stadia, with small income at the gate, compared with the stadia in California that seat from 80,000 to 100,000. However, the Rose Bowl records show that the teams from the Northwest seem to fare just as Well or better in the post-season classic than California outfits. The Record For instance, last year Oregon State lost to Iowa 19-35. This time Oregon was edged by Ohio State, 10-7. On the other hand, Southern California was trounced by Ohio State, 20-7, in the last appearance of the Buckeyes in the Rose Bowl. Or to go back a few years, Illinois whipped Stanford 40-7; Michi gan trounced Southern Cali fornia, 49-0; and Illinois walk ed over UCLA, 45-14. It has been the habit of many Californians to look down their collective noses at Oregon and Washington teams. They didn't take any pride in whipping the team from the Northwest. When California clubs lost it was regarded as an upset or that the California teams were be low pan Oregon s performance in Neuberger Asks Columbia Hearing Portland TJT Sen. Richard Neuberger (D - Ore.) today asked for hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on what he called "the stalemated development of the upper reaches of the Columbia river basin. , The Senator said he had three reasons for requesting the hearings from Sen. Theo dore F. Green (D-R.I.). "First," he said, "we must try to prevent Canada from diverting the upper Columbia, which could imperil not only future development of the Northwest but also endanger friendly relations between the two great North American allies." Other reasons he listed were the need for Mica Creek and Libby dams and the need for a North Pacific Water ways project modeled after the successful St. Lawrence seaway. Grange To File Power Petition Portland HP Elmer Mc Clure. state Grange master, said a preliminary initiative petition calling for an act to promote state sale of electric power to industrial users would be filed in the secre tary of state's office in Sa lem today. McClure said official spon sor of the initiative is the Ore gon Electric Consumers Coun cil, made up of the Grange, Farmers Union, AFL-CIO and People's Utility District and Rural Electrification Admin istration groups. The Grange chief said that if the people approved the bill would make Oregon a prefer ence customer of Bonneville Power Administration and would set up a commission to handle the resale of power to industrial customers. "I be lieve it would help to promote industry in the state," he said. More Negroes live in the 13 southern states than in the other 35 states. Bowl Pact the Rose Bowl, however, may put a stop to all this. The local boys know now that when thev whiD a team coach ed by Len Casanova, they have licked one of the. best Three CP Cave Fives Post Wins Central Point Three Cen tral Point school hoop fives won games here yesterday. Crater high freshmen laced the St. Mary's of Medford junior varsity 51 to 18. Cen tral Point eighth grade won 31 to 20 and the seventh grade took a 27 to 25 nood in tussles with Ashland teams. The Comet Frosh had 10 to 7, 25 to 11 and 40 to 13 quarterly spreads. Loyal Hig inbotham ran up 22 points for the CP team while Bry- son LaCasse got 15 points and grabbed 16 rebounds. Eighth graders were on top 5 to 2, 11 to 8 and 25 to 13 at the intermissions. Central Point seventh lagged 6 to 8 at the quarter and 7 to 14 at the half but rallied for 15 points to go in front 22 to 20 in the third period. LINE-CPS: 51 Crater SM Jayvee 18 F 4 Foote Evans 8 F Edwards ringgan 2 C 15 LaCasse Shasky 3 G 2 Romine Hout 1 G 22 Higinbotham ..McPherson 2 Substitutions For Crater. J Allen. White. 4, Martin, Nelson 4, Hogue, Fisher. Mattson: for S.M. Kirsch 2. Daley. Ralph, Snider, Mete, Marsh, Kurts. 31 CP 8th 5 Kimball 3 Kropp Ash. 8th 20 ..Robinson 4 ..Kerscher 1 9 Champ Everett 3 3 Je. Anhorn -Callahan 9 G 9 Burns Sturtz 2 Substitutions For CP. Caster 2, Debrick.f Frink. Martin; for Ash land, King 1. Lininger, Lewis. 27 CP 7th 12 Wald 3 Davis 7 H Allen 3 Pepper .. Ash. 7th 25 Hess , Cohon ..G. Tepper 15 Johnson 5 bwanson ..D. Tepper 5 Substitutions For CP. McAlvey 2, Jones, Henny. Schayes Sinks 50th Straight Gifter Heave By UNITED PRESS Adolph Schayes, high-scoring forward of the Syracuse Nationals, today is within five throws of the all-time Nation al Basketball association rec ord for consecutive foul con versions. The six-foot, eight-inch vet eran connected on all five of his foul attempts Thursday night to extend his string to 50. Boston's Bill Sharman set the mark of 55 in 1956. The New York Knicker bockers, however, spoiled the evening for Schayes and his teammates with a 131-98 vic tory, moving them to a game- and-a-haif of the second-place Nats in the Eastern division, In the second game of the double - header at Philadel phia, the Warriors edged St. Louis, 95-93. Portland To Add One-Way Streets Portland (IP) Grand and Union avenues in east Portland will be converted into one-way streets for 28 blocks Sunday, the city traf fic engineer's office said to day. Southbound traffic will take Union ave. and north bound traffic, Grand ave. be tween S.E. Market and N.E. Hassalo sts. The couplet is part of a longer stretch of 37 blocks on Union and Grand avenues which will be made one-way ter the Banfield freeway is opened from N.E. 37th ave. to the Willamette river. This longer couplet will be be tween S.E. Stephens and N.E. Hancock sts. 4 Training School Escapees Captured Aberdeen, Wash. (IP) Four of the seven youths who walked away from the State Training School for Boys at Chehalis Wednesday were ap prehended here Thursday aft er " an early morning chase and auto crash near the east city limits. The boys, between 15 and 18 years of age, were operat ing a car they had stolen at Morton. One escapee was caught when he jumped from the car just before the crash. The three others escaped in the brush but were picked up a few hours later by city police. SPORTS Van Hangs Togs After 9 Seasons Los Angeles (IP) Fabu lous passing star Norman Van Brocklin of the Los Angeles Rams today officially went into retirement after nine seasons as one of the National Football league's top quarter backs. The "Flying Dutchman," as Van Brocklin became known in pro football, declared that he still felt he had "a season or two" left in him but decid ed to quit while at the top of his game. "It began to be a mental strain each season,". Van Brocklin told a hastily-called press conference late Thurs day. "I'm about the last of the guys I came up with and I decided it was time to retire "I began thinking of retir ing in mid-season for no par ticular reason other than I decided that this was my last season and the Baltimore Colt game was my last game." Home in Portland Van Brocklin said he had no desire to coach and planned to continue to act as a sales and public relations representative for a pipeline company in Portland, Ore., where he will make his home "I don't feel I'm leaving the Rams in a lurch," Van Brocklin said. "They've got two or three quarterbacks coming up." General Manager Pete Ro- zelle of the Rams disclosed the club agreed to let Van Brocklin retire even though he still had a year to go on his current contract because the quarterback has made up his mind. Van Brocklin was drafted by the Rams in January, 1949, while he was still a junior at Oregon. He joined the Rams that summer, for saking his final season of col lege football, and for the next three years alternated at the quarterback spot with the equally famous Bob Water field. Starter in 1952 In 1952 he became the Rams starting quarterback. He finished first among the National Football league pass ers for the 1950, 1952 and 1954 seasons and second in 1951 and 1954. In setting his personal, and the Rams record, of 20 touch down passes in a single sea son, he completed four scor ing aerials in each of his last two NFL. games, against Green Bay and Baltimore. His nine years totals tallied like a bank clearing with 1,001 completions out of 1,897 attempted passes for a pro life time average of .534 per cent. He amassed 16,114 yards and scored a total of 118 touchdowns. 'SKINS SIGN ANDERSON Washington (IP) Bill An derson, co-captain of the Uni versity of Tennessee football team, has been signed to a National Football league con tract by the Washington Red skins, who picked him as their third draft choice. Anderson, a 190-pound halfback, will be tried out as a defensive end or back by th 'Skins. Judy Garland's Pad Cancelled Las Vegas (IP) Laryngitis and not pique was blamed to day for concellation of a con tract between singer Judy Garland and the swank Fla mingo hotel. The temperamental song stress was reported to have stalked off the stage in mid performance New Year's eve at the hotel after arguing with noisy ringsiders. Jack Cathcart, producer of the Flamingo shows, said Thyrsday night, however, it was laryngitis and not tem perament which brought the mutual agreement to cancel the rest of Miss Garland's engagement which was to have run until Jan. 15. "Her voice is just gone," Cathcart said. "Her voice just petered out and she was un able to go on." The producer explained that Miss Garland had just return ed from an engagement in London and was tired before she opened at the Flamingo Dec. 26. Stale Hospital Escapee Captured Oswego, Ore. HP) State police Thursday apprehended Wesley Vern Street, 38, who escaped from the Oregon State hospital in Salem earlier this week. , Street, along with James Johnson, 22, escaped early Monday. They lowered them selves to the ground with a rope made of bed clothing after cutting a steel bar. John son was captured later that day after he was shot in the back and leg in a field near Salem. Use Tribune Want Ads Four Games To! PC Conference Hoop Slate By UNITED PRESS Determined groups of tall, thin creatures bouncing Sputnik-like objects will invade the Northwest tonight, but there's no cause for alarm they're just college basket ball players making their first bid for the Pacific Coast conference title. They've all been under fire and had their share of wins and losses, but tonight they start playing for keeps. Four conference games are scheduled and all of them will be played in the Northwest. The California Bears play Oregon State, Stanford meets Idaho, Southern California tangles with Washington State and UCLA goes against Oregon. Washington is idle. Beavers, Bruins Favored Oregon State and UCLA are tabbed as the ones to beat Sibby Sisti Sac Pilot Sacramento, Calif. (IP) Sibby Sisti, a former major league baseball player with the then Boston Braves, has been named manager of the Sacramento Solons of the Pa cific Coast league. The Sacramento club an n o u n c e d the appointment Thursday night, confirming an ill-kept secret that the manager of Austin in the Texas league would move to the revamped PCL. Sisti, 37, replaces Tommy Heath as manager of the Solons. Heath resigned to ac cept a combination field and general manager job with the Portland Beavers. CD Quints Vie Phoenix Phoenix high hoopmen go back into com petition this . evening after a rest during the holidays. They play Eagle Point here tonight and vie at Eagle Point' on Sat urday. The teams are Rogue league members but this week's series doesn't count in the race. The Pirates laid off all of Christmas week but have been on the nractice floor three times this week. Coach Jack Woodward indicated that Don Wallace might break into the Phoenix starting line up. The five likely will be chosen from among Wallace, Garry Simmonds, Lester Schleigh, Doug Witte, Jim Stout and Jim Heath. Prelims both nights will be at 6:45 p.. with the varsity frays about 8:15 p.m. DOW WINS AWARDS Chicago (IP) Dow Finster wald, who played the most consistent golf on the pro cir cuit during 1957, has been named winner of the Golf Di gest magazine's performance award. Finsterwald finished with a .643 average in the magazine's ratings, while Doug Ford wound up second with .631 mark. Bill Caspar was third at .434, Arnold Pal mer fourth at .431 and Art Wall fifth at .407. UP Coach Board To Rate Small College Quintets New York (IP) A group of 45 coaches, from as many states in the Union will start rating the nation's small col lege basketball teams for the United Press starting next week. On coach was chosen from each of the 45 states which have college teams eligible for the rankings. Only Utah, Wy oming and Rhode Island do not have a coach on the board. None of these states has any eligible teams. As in the case of the United Press major college basket ball ratings, each will select his top 10 teams weekly. These individual selections will be used to form a con sensus only, with 10 points being awarded for a first place vote, 9 for a second and so on down to 1 for a tenth. The small college ratings will encompass approximate ly 720 schools. Some are members of the National Col legiate Athletic association, some of the National associa tion of Intercollegiate Athlet ics, some are members of both groups while others are mem bers of neither one of the na FRESH SALMON EGGS SAM'S SPORTING GOODS . 32 South Central in the PCC, but most of the other teams have proved that they will be in the race. The Beavers have lost only one of nine games this season, and that was to Iowa, which is awfully heard to beat on its home ground. They scored Orioles Might Even Make 1st Division EDITORS: This is the 13th of 16 dispatches on Ihe off-season outlook of each major league learn for 1958, written by the man agers of each club. By PAUL RICHARDS Manager of Baltimore Or ioles Written for the UP Waxahachie, Tex. (IP) The Orioles should finish somewhere around the mid dle in the standings, near, the first division, next season. And, who knows, we might even make it this time after coming so close last time. It all depends on who comes through for us and who does not come through for some of the other clubs. We've got some boys who should improve Gus Tri andos, Billy Gardner, Al Pil arcik and Brooks Robinson. Better Balance And, the addition of Larry Doby from the White Sox gives us a little more author ity with the bat and a little better balance in the batting order. Right now, I'm planning on keeping Doby' despite the trade rumors to the contrary although the broad expanses of Memorial Stadium may not be quite to Larry's liking. We had fairly good pitch ing last year and I hope to be a little stronger next season with lefty Don Ferraresse and right-hander Charlie Beaman coming up after good showings with Vancouver. Also, our bonus boy Jerry Walker looked pretty good in the 10 to 12 games he worked last season. Especial ly, that 10-inning 1-0 job against Washington. I really think the boy is going to help us. O'Dell Should Improve Too, I look for Billy O'Dell to be improved and we should get some good pitching out of standbys like Billy Loes, Connie Johnson and Harold Brown, along with the reliev ers, George Zuverink and Kenny Lehman. Big Y Sponsor Of Ml BL Team Medford Independent Bas ketball league's leading team will be able to continue in the circuit thanks to the Big Y market. It was thought that the club, which was playing un der the Mutual of Omaha banne:, would have to drop out of play because it lost its sponsor. However, the Big Y has taken over sponsor ship. Big Y is unbeaten in the league. The quint was city loop champ last year under the Mutual standard. tion - wide sports regulative bodies. Any four-year, degree-granting institution is eligible for the small college division rat ings provided it is not in cluded in the major statistical basketball list of the NCAA and it does not hold member ship in one of the allied NCAA conferences whose champion ship team automatically qual ifies for the NCAA Basketball university division tourna ment. The first small college bas ketball ratings will be re leased for Thursday morning papers, Jan. 9. The ratings will be released alternately for Wednesday afternoon pa pers and Thursday morning newspapers. At the end of the season, the 45 coaches will select a Small College All-America basketball team for United Press clients. Roy Helser, Linfield col lege, is the Oregon coach' on the rating board. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport slight Launch wins over tough Seattle and Utah. The Bruins have a unim pressive 5-4 record in pre season play, but they have plenty of veterans and they're plenty tough in conference play. We got by to a great ex tent on defense last season, even running up a new lea gue record in number of er rorless ball games. That de fense should be as good or better this season with addi tional seasoning for Bob Boyd at first and Robinson at third. And, our batting punch could very well be beefed up if Bob Nieman could bounce back to the form he showed in 1956 when he hit .320. His 44-point drop hurt at the plate last year, especially with Willy Miranda hitting below .200. Foil Honors Y. A. Tittle New York (IP) Y. A. Tti tle, the bald-headed quarter back who sparked six success ful San Francisco Forty-Niner rallies in the final minutes of the 1957 season, today was named National Football league "player of the year" in the annual United Press poll. Tittle received 11 of 31 votes cast by sports writers who covered the NFL cam paign in the 11 league cities. John U n i t a s, Baltimore Colts quarterback, and Jim Brown, Cleveland Browns rookie fullback, tied for sec ond in the balloting with seven votes each. Tommy O'Connell, Cleveland quarter back, received three. Gene Brito, defensive end for the Washington Redskins, receiv ed two. The other vote went to Hugh McElhenny, San Francisco offensive halfback and end. GRIDDERS IN ARMY Los Angeles (IP) Jon Ar nett, Del Shofner, John Hous er and George Strugar, all of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League, will enter the Army on Jan. 26 for a six month hitch, according to a Rams official. o) Ltq ( Rambler American ) OS Lnl The The Rambler American, newest entry in the U. S. automobile market, combines the economy and handling ease of the small European cars with the performance, comfort and roominess of the large American cars: Built on a 100-inch wheelbase, the five-passenger, two-door American is offered in a deluxe or super sedan, and has the lowest advertised-delivered price of any U. S.-built car. The Rambler American is the only small car available with an automatic transmission, as well as standard syncromesh and optional overdrive. The new car is powered by a six-cylinder L-head engine developing 90 horsepower. LEA 5th at Bartlett Friday, January 3, 1958 Wilt Gets Back Lead In Scoring New York (IPI Wilt Chamberlain's 106-point bar rage in three Big Eight tour nament games last week en abled him to regain the ma jor college basketball scor ing lead. The Kansas junior, who was sidelined by an infection for Thursday night's game with Oklahoma State, has tallied 322 points in 10 games for a 32.2 average, according to of ficial NCAA statistics re leased today. Don Hennon of Pittsburgh, last week's leader, fell to fourth place as he was held to 67 points in New York's Holiday Festival. The power charged guard, who is more than a foot shorter than Chamberlain, has a 27.9 av erage with 223 points in eight games. Players Move Up Oscar Robertson of Cincin nati and Leo Byrd of Marsh all each moved up a notch to second and third, respective ly. Robertson canned 52 points in two contests last week for 237 points and a 29.6 average while Byrd scored 33 in a single game for 205 total points and a 29.3 average. Rounding out the top 10 scorers are Bailey Howell of Mississippi State 26.9, Kelly Coleman of Kentucky Wesle- yan 26.3, Elgin Baylor of Se attle 25.9, Dom Flora of Washington & Lee 25.7, Wayne Embry of Miami, Ohio Drake 25.3. TREATED WATERS GET FISH Portland Some 261,000 fingerling trout were released by the game commission in December as the final step in the rehabilitation of Ochoco reservoir near Prineville, Ana reservoir near Summer lake. South Twin lake near Bend, and Crooked creek near Jordan Valley, all of which were treated with ro- tenone last summer. The ro tenone treatment was given to remove large populations of roach, suckers, and other undesirable species. TRAINER BUTTERS DIES Newmarket, England (IPI Frank Butters, generally re garded as one oft he greatest horse trainers in the world, died here Wednsdry at the age of 79. Butters, who won 15 English classics, reached the peak of his career as trainer for the late Aga Khan, one of the world's leading horsemen. LruD Price of Delivered 1 MOTORS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Stilt Out; Kansans Bow to Aggie Five By TIM MORIARTY United Press Sports Writer It took an inspired Okla homa State basketball team" to prove that without" Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain, Kansas is good but hardly great. While Chamberlain was under a doctor's care with a glandular infection, the de f ensive-m i n d e d, on e-time Aggies handed top-ranked Kansas a 52-50 setback Thurs day night on the Jayhawks' home court. It was the Jayhawks' first setback since the final of the NCAA tournament last spring when they bowed to North Carolina, 54-53, on Joe Quigg's two free throws in the third overtime period. Kansas had won 10 straight Bow Meet On Sunday Rogue Archers of Medford will hold a tourney Sunday at their indoor range over Paulsen's Thrift market in Central Point. Bowmen from Rogue River, Grants Pass, Crescent City, Calif., Brookings and other Southern Oregon points will compete in men's, women's and juniors divisions. This is one of the six win ter tourneys of the Southern Oregon league of Archers. About 60 bowmen will be entered. CARDS SIGN PITCHER Wilmington, Calif. (IPI Howard Hughie, 18-year-old pitcher from Harbor Junior College, has signed with the St. Louis Cardinals organiza tion and will report to the Stockton club in the Califor nia league. Hughie compiled a 10-2 won-lost record in 1957 with Washington High School of Los Angeles. EXTRA PANTS Regardless of Price With Purchase of a Suit HURRY! ENDS JAN. A Terrific Buy! SLACKS 20 Chris the Tailor ITS5 r r; the Year at in Medford games this season, including an earlier 63-57 triumph over Oklahoma State when Cham berlain, the nation's leading scorer, led the way with a 30 point effort. Although ranked 14th in his week's United Press rat ings, State now boasts an im pressive 6-1 won and lost rec ord. Meanwhile, fourth-ranked West Virginia remained unde feated by knocking - off Ca nisius, 86-66. It was the ninth straight victory for the Moun taineers. Boston College, one of New England's best teams, whip ped Brown, 88-78, for its sevenths straight victory. The Citadel won the Senior Bowl tournament by swamp ing Spring Hill, 67-55, while Tennessee State whipped Hamline, 106-57, and Western Illinois downed William Jewell, 72-58, in the semi finals of the NAIA Midwest Tip-Off tournament. SCREENS DIVERT FISH Salmon and steelhead ang lers in northeast Oregon have at least 100,745 more chances of creeling a tackle buster four years hence as a result of the game commission's fish screening program in the area. This is the number of downstream migrant salmon and steelhead youngsters di verted during the year from irrigation canals and almost certain death by the fish sav ing screens. Bob Sayre, fish ery biologist for the north east region, said the figure was probably much higher since only those fish caught at screens equipped with by pass traps could be tallied. Many screens have no traps and the fish are merely di verted back to the main riv er channel. or Sport Coat and Pants 31st FREE Skirt or Slacks With each ladies suit purchased! Off 36 N. BARTLETT Ph. SP 2-8473 0) Hill Phone SP 2-6135
