Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1958)
Pro Football Drops Bonus Choice Plan Philadelphia W The National Football league's bonus plan which gave each team a free pick of the best college talent once during the past 12 years was a thing of the past today following its abolishment at the league's annual meeting. The bonus pick was kicked out of the window Wednesday night in a drastic move after the owners could not agree on a substitute for the draw-from-the-hat plan which Con gress intimated was a lottery at Washington hearings last spring. It had been a happy spread-the-talent plan. Instituted in 1947 on the premise that the top teams never had a chance at the standout stars because they selected last in the play er draft. The originator was Curly Lambeau, then coach of the Green Bay Packers. A team was eliminated from future draws ohce it drew the lucky number from the hat. The 12-team span was completed last Sept. 2 at the league's early draft when the Chicago Cardinals, the only non-winner to that point, chose quarterback King Hill of Rice. hunting & Fishing Southern Oregon By MEL REES The official opening for the 1958 trout season on the coast has been set for May 24 de spite the vigorous protests by a number of coastal organiza tions. This follows the usual procedure by most game com missions in adopting the rec ommendations of their biolo gists and disregarding the wishes and arguments of the sportsmen. what the biologist said and 10 per cent on the opinions and finding of the sports men. He further stated that as far as he was concerned he would make it 100 per cent for the biologist. This is the same as to say that if he were running a large business, he would de pend entirely on education and none on experience. MedfordWTribum; SFffiTT Crater Lions Sports Fair Scheduled for April 12-13 The 1958 Crater Lions Sports Fair is scheduled April 12 and 13 at the Medford Na tional Guard Armory- About 17 sports clubs will have exhibitions or demon strations at the fair, accord ing to club officials. The event will be the largest of its kind EP, Phoenix In Crucial Rogue Tilts Eagle Point apd Phoenix highs, just a game back of the ' leaders, will attempt to fight to the front of the pack in games this week end but one can spoil the hopes of the other. On Friday Eagle Point is host to Brookings and Phoe nix meets Illinois Valley at Cave Junction. Then on Sat urday Eagle Point goes to Phoenix. Glendale is at Rogue River for a Friday scrap and other Saturday games are Brook ings at Glendale and Illinois Valley at Rogue River. Phoenix is favored over IV, having downed that club three times, twice outside the circuit. Eaigle Point, previous 10-point loser at Brookings, is expected to make it tougher on the Bruin on the EP floor. The up and coming . Eagles have a league triumph over the Phoenix after dropping two pre-conference frays to the Pirates.' Glendale is the choice to whip Rogue River and faces a real crucial when it meets Brokings since it is tied for the lead with the Bruins. Brookings handed Glendale a trouncing last time out but the Douglas county team is expected to provide stiffer opposition Saturday. in southern Oregon, accord ing to Frank Wilson, pres dent of Crater Lions. He said Crater Lions are sponsoring the event to pro mote- sportsmanship and sports attractions in southern Oregon. The recreational value of sports also will be stressed, he added Boats of all sizes, outboard and inboard motors, camping trailers and sports cars will be on exhibit, Wilson said About 30 booths are planned. he said Door prizes of an outboard motor, boat and rifle will be offered. All proceeds from ad mission fees will be put to wards the Crater Lions club sight and blind funds, offic lals said Pilots Eye Cage Upset By UNITED PRESS The University of Portland Pilots hope to pick up tonight where they left off last week against Bradley when they meet Elgin Baylor and comp any at. Seattle. The Pilots scored a stun ning upset when they drop ped the Braves, lOth-ranked nationally at that time, on their barnstorming tour of the Midwest after barely losing an overtime decision to strong Depaul. Although Portland has al ready been battered twice this season by Seattle with Baylor pouring through 48 points in one contest coach Al Negratti figures his Pilots have finally "jelled" and are ready to give anyone a tussle. Whether they have jelled enough to stop the Baylor-led Chieftains is another question. But the Pilots' defeat of Bradley on the Braves' home ground and the fact that Portland and Seattle are "tra ditional" rivals would seem to indicate that this one won't be another march to the slaughter house. Company A Gains MIBL Third Place Company A of the Nation al Guard wrapped up third place in the final standings of the .Medford Independent Basketball league last night by edging Eagle Point 52 to 50. Ted Yarnell's two free tosses in the closing seconds were the margin of triumph after nip and tuckfinal min utes. The contest wound up regu lar season play in the loop except for possible make-up action between Big Y market and Eagle Point and possible replay between EP and Hawk- inson Tire Tread. Whether these games will be staged depends on AAU district play off plans which are yet to be learned from Carl Beng- ston, Grants Pass, district commissioner. Spots in Question Fouth and fifth places in the MIBL are still in doubt between Eagle Point and Hawkinson's. If four teams from the MIBL will be in the play-offs, no deciding action within the loop will be re quired since second spot My ron Root company had de clined to participate. How ever, if three teams are to be entered in district run-offs, the question between the Eagles and Tiremen must be settled. Scorebooks differed after the completion of the Eagle Point and Hawkinson mix on Monday. Yarnell paced the Company A decision last night with 21 markers. The Guardsmen led at the half 24 to 21. x ivp.i'PS' 52 Compagy A Eagle Point F 10 Weddle Moore F 8 Parent Irwin C 7 Nolan Nelson a. R Burns ClarK G 21 Yarnell Schoppert FOUR MISTAKES Augusta, Me. (IP) The "deer kill" during Maine's 1957 hunting season included two cows, a prize bull and a bull calf, all mistaken by hunters for deer. 50 n 10 7 2 4 Eagle Point substitutions Dan iels 3. Van Etten 8, Austin 2. Sim mons, Copeland 3. Junior High Fives Scrap Three 'McLoughlin Junior high basketball teams vie at Grants Pass on Friday after noon. Ninth and seventh grader games are at 3:30 p.m. and Eighth grade clubs meet at 4:30 p.m. Hedrick ninth will be host to Klamath Falls on Satur day with game time set for 1:30 p.m. It would seem that the onen mpptines hpforp the tentative NUMBER TOO SMALL reeulations are set. are Home- There are no doubt expert- what of a farce because in enced biologists in the field most instances these hearings Dut tneir number is too small are only opportunities for the to Prevent the many mistakes sportsman to blow off made fey the trial and error steam then be ignored. ADMITTED WRONG Two years ago a Califor nia biologist who was born, reared and educated in the East, recommended a eixher- sex deer season in the northern counties at a time when the resident sports men knew and pointed out, that he deer would all be down from the high country and therefore very vulner able. No amount of pleading veered the commission from accepting the recommenda tion of this man who may have known the habits of eastern deer but decidedly knew very little of our Pa cific coast. Thousands of gunners hauled them out by the fender load does. fawns and some old bucks who had survived many normal hunting seasons. With a decimated deer herd, this biologist finally admits that he was wrong, but this admission can't correct the damage that has been done. boys, Final proof of the mis management of game in our state is its dwindling supply and this is not due entirely to hunting pressure Pennsyl vania brought theirs back after they had lost it by good management. A game commisison re gional director was attempt ing to point out to me about two years ago that we had more game now than ever be fore. He said that our deer herds east of the mountains were at an all time high. I disagreed with him and asked him if he had been over there "No," he replied, "but that's what I hear!" I advised him that he would have a difficult time feeding that line to the sportsmen who hunt there each year or to ihe men who own the land. I don't know too much about why our coastal cousins didn't want a late trout open ing but I'll lay odds that if they took the trouble and time to go to Portland to com plain about it they had some basis for their contention CLAIMED OUT OF KILTER Two or three years ago a biologist in the Steen moun tain area recommended a doe season after his survey of the ratio of bucks to does in the fields adjacent to the rough country convinced him that this ratio was out of balance. Residents of that area and veteran hunters tried to point out to him that at the time when he was making his er- ronius deductions, most of the bucks were back in the high country and offered to -pack him back to these places so he could see for himself he re fused to go! They managed to forestall a doe season for that year but they had one the next! SEEMS STRANGE Very recently biologists recommended an extended pheasant season and raised bag limit when all reports from the major pheasant hunting sections of the state indicated that due to a very wet spring there had been a poor hatch and consequently many less birds than normal.' When I pointed out this fact to one of these men I was told that the "winter kill" takes more birds than do the hunters so n o t wanting the birds to go to waste they extended the season and raised, the limit to compensate. This seems strange indeed when one considers that the first pheasants in America were released in our own Willamette valley and that they survived the winter well enough to increase to such an extent that within a few decades the state of South Dakota could boast a pheasant take for one sea son of over a million birds. RAIN PLAGUES Rain and more rain con tinues to plague the late steelhead season. The rivers just about get in shape and "here she comes again!" In between times the Apple gate has produced fairly well, the Rogue just so and so and the Illinois hasn't had a real good day yet. according to reports. The Chetco hasn't been loo good and Oregon angl ers fishing the Smith haven't broken any springs hauling home fish to dale. It is true thai there have been a good number of fish hooked in the Smith but the landing ratio is about the same as this writer's of last Sunday one for fivel As for predictions it all depends on which happens first old Jupiter Pluvius running out of water or Feb. 281 Cousy Rolls Up 39 for Celtics By UNITED PRESS The' opposition still hasn't found a way to stop "little" Bob Cousy and as a result, the Boston Celtics are shoo-in favorites to win their second straight Eastern division title in the National Basketball association. The six-one Cousy, one of only four players ever to score more than 10,000 points in the NBA, tossed in 39 Wednesday night as the Cel tics rolled to a 111-101 win over the St. Louis Hawks, whom they'll probably meet in the play-offs at the end of the season. The win widened Boston's lead over second place Syracuse to six and one- half games. 5 ,-; mfcEfl ike ntal LAMPOK TO 226 I 1 U Easl Main QUESTIONS PREMISE I lived in this Willamette valley, spent my boyhood and youth there. I saw it rain from September to May, snow two feet on the level and the birds survived. I hunted pheasants in the Walla Walla country where the thermome ter dropped to 20" below zero and the pheasants were thick. I have heard of the low temperatures in the Dakotas but they have the finest pheasant shooting in the world. I don't know what the book says but every veteran hunt er knows that the above pre mise is wrong. LET US GIVE YOUR ENGINE A Green ,!IesL. EXPERIENCE HELPS It is of general knowl-' edge that when a person finishes college, it lakes some lime for him lo gather enough experience to prop erly correlate his "book knowledge." Now if this is true in the ordinary walks of life such as business and science why doesn't this also hold true for game management. It seems that a biologist would welcome the advant age he could have by utiliz ing the experience of the thousands of sportsmen who are happy lo help pre servale fish and game. Just a few years back, in a committee meeting in Sa lem, a game management official staled thai the de partment depended for its decisions on 90 pet cent of WITH OUR NEW... sun y 4i fXSw. If V This Electronic Marvel locates en gine ignition troubles Fast Ac curately with an actual perform ance picture. We're proud to be one of the first to offer this new foolproof testing. Stop in today and let us tell you about it See it operate on your own car! MEDFORD MOTORS LINCOLN - MERCURY - WILLYS 225 S. Riverside Ph. SP 2-6157 2 Welters To Ignore Ring Draw New York (IP) A split in the welterweight title was threatened todav as the Na tional Boxing association and contenders Isaac Loeart and Vince Martinez prepared to ignore next Monday's draw. ordered by the world cham- pionsnip committee. Virgil Akins, the other sur viving contender in the world committee's tournament for the vacant welterweieht crown, said he would abide by Monday's draw and fight ei ther Loeart or Martinez, "or both." for the title. Thus, Akins, of St. Louis the top-ranked contender might claim the 147-pound title, at least, as the final sur vivor in the world commit tee's tourney. Meanwhile, Lo gart of Cuba and Martinez of Patterson, N.J., are negotiat ing for a "world title fight," Muddy Water In Rogue River Hurts Fishing Portland Iff) The weekly report on fishing conditions prepared by the State Game Commission: Southwest: Steelheading in North Umpqua . only fair; main Umpqua below Cleve land rapids fair to good; Umpqua system streams high and muddy due to recent rains; striped bass fishing fair to good for boat anglers in Isthmus slough. Rogue, Applegate and Illi nois rivers high and muddy. sanctioned by the NBA. Julius Helfand. nresident of the world committee and chairman of the New York state athletic commission, or dered the draw "Wednesday to be staged at New York offices of the Ring magazine at noon ivionaay. Thursday, January 30, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN B Schools Vie Friday Jacksonville challenges the unblemished status of Talent high and St. Mary's attempts to gain ground on second place Butte Falls in Jackson County B Basketball league games on Today night. Scenes of action will be at Talent and Butte Falls. St. Mary's on Saturdav will make its second jaunt of the week to Prospect. Talent has won two carries from Jacksonville, trimming the Redskins 44 to 31 and 26 to 23. Butte Falls on its home court edged the Crusaders 44 to 40 but SM later downed the Loggers 55 to 39 in Medford. As the loop stands now Tal ent needs only three more vic tories in six remaining games to cinch the toga. It has a four game lead over Butte Falls? FEWER DEPUTIES Auburn, N.Y. (IP) Cayuga County Sheriff Willard Wil cox said there were just too many "special deputies" and ordered the county clerk's of fice to chop 3 00 from the list. PRIDE OF GERMANY-Jusf arrived! Come in for a demonstration ride ... soon! IP0KIL See H today at... SKINNER - BUICK - CADILLAC 143 So. Riverside o o DOORS OPEN TOMORROW 9 A.M. o o Vje love 'em but we cant beep 'em Check These All Sales Final! When you buy any of this mer chandiseit's YOURS! Wa don't want to see it again. You wouldn't have them at regular reductions -SO 11017 we practically GIVE them to you! Come early while your sizes are still here. Please Come In Early And Take These Off Our Hands! FAMOUS NAME SUITS What a buy! Don't miss seeing these DOGSI If you're not too fussy, there is a suit hers for you! . VALUES TO $55.00 OT5 SLACKS Here they are! All the latest colors nobody wants. They'H keep your legs warm, so how can you go wrong at these prices. VALUES TO $16.95 SLHi&DES These shoes are perfect for wet weather. Just get a good coat of mud on both shoes and nobody can see them. Oh yeah, they'll keep your feet dry, but probably not your socks. VALUES TO $12.95 $g99 TERRIFIC BUYS on our ODDS & ENDS TABLE! Top Coats Only a few left at this price, so hurry! These coats are top quality, and we can't figure out why they didn't sell. Come in and see if we have your size. 95 VALUES TO $42.50 $11 Sport Shirts Here is the loudest and gaudiest bunch of shirts in town. If you need some material for a patch work quilt, these are for you. At the price we're asking for them you can afford to use them as rugs. . VALUES TO $4.95 $Jj99 Sweaters What big' values! These are also guaran teed not to have even one moth hole in them. Choose from all the ickiest colors. VALUES TO $12.95 $3" Wool Shirts These shirts are just right for the warm weather that is just around the corner (that is if you are cold-blooded). This is really a good buy! VALUES TO $14.95 S199 HEAVY Wool Jackets These jackets are the cafs meow! In fact, our basement cat was very unhappy when we tore up his bed and brought these up stairs. Maybe your cat needs a bed, so buy one tomorrow. VALUES TO $18.95 599 Car Coats Dig these, you Crazy Cats! Ease your frame into one of these cool coats and you'll be a real hot rodder. VALUES TO $24.95 S" Many, Many More "Outstanding" Values Not Listed! Ml TOMS mm PARKING FREE In the parking lot direct ly behind our store. En ter from Front street. . re Next to Pick's Apparel THE BUDS FOR QUALITY DUDS OPEN EVERY MONDAY EVENING UNTIL 9 P.M. Medford, Oregorff
