hunting s Fishing
Southern Oregon
By MEL REES
Any hopes of a good winter
teelhead seam on the Rogue
went by the boards last -week
when the river reached
near-flood stage. If we do get
any more heavy rains or if
the weather turns cold and
stops the runoff we could still
fish the last week of the cur
rent season which closes Feb
ruary 15 but the "if" is
pretty large.
By the first of the week th
Illinois was still in the
"brown" stage; one fork was
clear, another was chalky but
Deer creek was red-brown
The Illinois season extends to
the end of the month so it
will no doubt furnish some
good fishing.
The Applegate was lower
Ing and clearing and with any
luck trail, should fish this
week end.
SMITH TOO HIGH
Tha Smith was still high
and chalky by Monday of
lhis week. Some fish were
taken on Sunday using
cluster eggs and fishing the
pockets and eddies. The
color wasn't too bad but the
- river was about l'i feet
too high. In the case of the
Smith, high water stops the
fishing for it lacks the long,
still holes of our other
rivers and when it is high
. it is almost impossible to
get the bait to work along
the bottom generally it
Just whistles by. If enough
, lead is used to "sock" it
down where the fish lie
it is one continual hang
up. Last reports from the
Winchuck add the Chetco
were that both streams were
loo high to fish at all and
raining some in the coast
inasmuch as it was still
raining some in the coast
mountains by Sunday night,
it is anybody's guess when
they will clear.
HUMOR RUNS WILD
It has always been a mys
tery how rumors of fishing
get started and more of a
mystery how they snowball
into the most fantastic pro
portions. Take the Applegate
about a week ago for instance.
On Monday morning a fish
erman dropped into a small
aportehop in the Grants Pass
zra and was greeted with the
information that the fishing
on the Applegate the day be
fore was nothing short of ter
rific. The rumors at this point,
tumbled over each other with
a tale of a man making two
casts and landing two fish, of
motorists stopping to watch
one man land his fish then
being blessed with nine fish
altogether which he caught
for the assembled watchers
(some with no licenses!). Then
there was the hole where
eight people limited this
means 16 fish!
Bv this time in the telling
our fisherman was in a dither
to get to no place but the
Applegate and quick. He
didn't catch his two fish in
two casts or twenty-two in
fact he didn't catch any. He
decided that maybe the run
was gone so went up and
down the river seeking fish-
fc-men and information. Many
said that they had fished the
Bream the day before but
hadn't caught any fish and
hadn't seen any caught this
in spite of the fact that they
had fished the very holes
where all this action was sup
posed to have taken place.
After many stops up and
down the river, he ran across
a fish and game biologist. He
learned that this man had
checked the fishermen up and
down the river on the previous
day and had seen only one
fish!
SATANIC DELIGHT
Now the original teller
hadn't actually seen the fish
or the fishermen he had
been told. The question is
who takes satanic delight in
starting a story like this or
is it not started at all but
just sort of grows begin
ning with just a wee bit of
a '"stretch" until it is all
out of proportion.
I have known fishermen
who thought it was a dis
grace to let anyone think
that they hadn't caught the
limit so they always
caught the limit, that is they
said they did whether or
not. I have also known in
dividuals who never caught
any sieelhead less than 10
pounds period.
I recall a day several
years ago when I asked a
certain good steelheader
how his luck was the day
previous. He told me a glow
ing tale of six fish over ten
pounds each! He even in
vited me to come over to
cold locker in his store to
see them. I saw them and
there wasn't a fish that
would weigh 8 pounds, let
alone 10, and four of the six
fish wouldn't have made the
5 pound mark. This man
was a veteran and he knew
fish and fish weights why
if he was going to try to
kid somebody did he invite
me to see them?
Chuck Franklin
Rewriting Book
University of Oregon, Eu
gene Charlie Franklin, a tal
ented magician on and off the
basketball court, has practi
cally rewritten the Oregon
career scoring records with
eight games left to play in his
third season of competition
with the Webfoots.
Franklin, who dabbles with
; magic tricks as a hobby, plus
doing some tricks with a bas
ketball his opposition find
tough to follow, has already
'rolled up 647 points in two
and a half years. This is bet
ter than the 644 points Roger
Wiley rolled up in four sea
sons and also broke the three
year mark of 565 points Wi
ley set in 1947-48-49.
The talented Webfoot for
ward has also broken two
other Oregon career marks in
conference play with 209
field goals and 229 free
throws. The old marks of 190
and 185 were also held by
Wiley.
The fifth Wiley record
Franklin has erased is the
number of free throws in all
games. Wiley had collected
268 in three seasons and
Franklin has already sunk
305 with eight games to go.
Franklin now ranks tenth
in the all-time PCC scoring
and has an excellent chance
of passing several other stars
before the season is over. Red
Rocha ( OSC) had 634 and
Franklin passed him Monday"
night. Dean Parsons (W) is
rext with 652 and Willie
:" UCT.A) with 655 are
'. :' l tavscts and should
i ;-assd easily this week
tnd. -
SERVE A PURPOSE
There is an old saw which
asks if. all fishermen are liars
or do all liars fish, but I am
sure that this holds true in
few cases. Most anglers I
know will tell the truth about
their catches or lack of them
but there is always one or
two who like to stretch the
truth and this gives rise to
the really wild tales that get
around.
Maybe they serve a purpose
at that. When a fellow's fish
ing hopes are at low ebb and
he feels sort of dumpy about
it, along comes these glowing
rumors and immediately liv
ing seems worth while, he
grabs his rod and heads for
the stream if he doesn't
catch anything he still has
been jerked out of his dol
drums and spent a day away
from the old grind. So in the
final analysis, long live the
tall tale teller!
Globetrotters,
SF Forty Niners
To Have Series
San Jose, Calif. (IP! Don't
be confused, but the San
Francisco Forty Niners of the
National Professional Football
league open a 'four-game se
ries tonight with the Harlem
Globetrotters of basketball
fame.
However, Y. A. Tittle and
company will play the flashy
Trotters at their own game
and don't sell the pro gridders
short. They've won eight out
of nine games on the basket
ball courts.
The Forty Niner team in
cludes R. C. Owens, Billy Wil
son, Joe Arenas, Clyde Con
ner, Bob St. Clair, Hugh Mc
Elheny and Ed Henke. All ex
cept Tittle, McElhenny and
Henke lettered in basketball
at;ollege.
After tonight's game, the
two teams will play in San
Francisco Friday, Oakland on
Saturday and Sacramento on
Sunday.
SPORTS
Len Gentile Has
Close Escape
Oakland, Calif. (W Los
Angeles Dodger infielder Jim
Gentile and his family recup
erated from cuts and bruises
here today after a miraculous
escape from serious injury or
death in an auto-truck crash
on the East-shore Freeway.
ine accident occurred on
Wednesday as the 23-year-
old Dodger first baseman was
taking his wife, Carol, 22, and
their three small children for
an afternoon drive.
Police said the accident was
caused when the rear trailer
of a large truck-trailer unit
broke loose and swerved into
Gentile's car as the two veh
icles were running abreast on
the six-lane freeway.
Gentile's car was forced
over the dividing strip but the
player managed to bring it un
der control before "it could
collide with cars coming in
the opposite direction. An
investigating police officer
said Gentile's car was virtu
ally demolished.
Steelheading
Getting Better
On Rogue River
Portland (IP) The week
ly report on fishing conditions
prepared by the State Game
Commission:
Southwest: South Umpqua
fair between Milo and Jack
son creek; steelhead slow in
North Umpqua; lower Ump
qua dropping; some steelhead
taken near Bunche's bar and
lower river on eggs; Smith
river fair to good in falls area;
some steelhead being taken at
jtmtlet to Tenmiie lake; water
clear.
Coquille river only fair.
Isthmus slough producing
striped bass from boats but
poor for bank anglers.
Steelheading improving on
Rogue although water still
muddy; Applegate and Illin
ois rivers are clearing and
catches good; fresh eggs and
spin and glo lures producing
best results; stormy conditions
would hurt fishing.
Mat Meet Won
By McLoughlin
McLoughlin Junior high
won the city sevenin ana
eighth grade wrestling tour
nament early this week by a
scant 123 to 117 margin over
Hedrick. McLoughlin had six
champions and five runners
up and Hedrick five titlists
and four runners-up.
Finalists with champions
listed first and runners up sec
ond were:
88 Butch Peyton H. Mike
Higgins H; 98 Dave Guches
M, Ray Boyle H; 106 Tim
Burke M, Mike Pritchart M.
119 John de Place H, Wally
Huffman M; 123 Steve Min-
neci H. Jim Kinney M: 130
Steve Ray M, Jerry Zemlic
kee M.
136 Norm Olson H, Ron
Gandee T; 141 Rany Hale M;
148 Pat Williams H, Chuck
McNair H; 157 Tim Dexter
M; Dan Coghill M; 168 Greg
Wolfe M.
The tourney was at Hed
Miners Ponder
Resolutions
Denver (IP) The 61st
annual National Western Min
ing conference opened here
today, with eastern financial
interests and government of
ficials expected to play a
major part.
The heavy representation
of executives from the Chase
Manhattan Bank of New
York, the Battelle Memorial
Institute of Canton, Ohio, two
U. S. senators and five con
gressmen gave rise to specu
lation that a new national
mining policy might emerge.
Resolutions calling for the
sale of U.S. gold and uranium
on the world market were
under study as the meeting
opened.
Other resolutions may be
introduced calling for:
A better price for gold
or tariff protection for lead
and zinc.
Milling facilities for the
front range of the Rocky
Mountains.
Relief for tungsten min
ers.
Congressmen expected to
attend were Reps. Wayne
Aspinall (R-Colo.), Clair
Engle, (D-Calif.), A. L. Miller,
(D-Neb.), Walter Rogers (D
Tex.) and Ed Edmondson (D-
Okla.). ,
Senators George W. Ma-
lone (R-Nev.) and Albert Gore
(D-Tenn.). .
Air Line Pilots
Postpone Strike
Chicago (IP) A spokesman
for the Air Line Pilots Asso
ciation said today the threat
ened strike against Western
Airlines which had been
called for midnight tonight
has been postponed.
The ALPA said the strike
call had been changed to mid
night, Feb. 10 at the request
of the National Mediation
Board.
Meetings in an attempt to
head off the walkout will get
underway in the board's
Washington offices shortly.
The ALPA spokesman said
the strike was postponed on
the basis of a request by
board member Robert O.
Boyd who said he felt there
was a chance at an agreement.
Crusaders Stay
On Top in Poll
New York Jffl The Wheat
on (111.) Crusaders, who tackle
a major college basketball
team Saturday night when
they play Bowling Green at
Chicago, led the United Press
small college ratings today
for the fourth straight week.
But the Crusaders 16-1 were
only about the length of an
Illinois corn cob ahead of an
other Midwestern school.
Steubenville, an Ohio colleg
with a 20-1 record and a 19
game winning streak, was
only seven points behind
Wheaton.
New York (U .P.) The United
Preu small college basketball rat
ings (first-place votes and won
lost records througH Feb. 1 In pa
reninesesj:
TEAM POINTS
1. Wheaton (111). 18 (16- 333
2. Steubenville (O.) 7 (20-1) ..326
3. West. Illinois 5 (16-0) 270
4. Evansville (Ind.) 6 14-2) ..269
. s. boutnwest (Mo. St.) 5
(16-0) : 202
. W. Va. Tech (19-3) 131
7. Tenn. St. A&I (19-2) 113
8. Pac. Wash. Luth. (11-2) 103
9. Texas South. 1 (17-2) 96
10. Boston University (8-2) 59
second 10 uroup 11, st. Peter !
(N.J.), 47: 12. Brandeis (Mass.). 39
McNeese (La.), 34; 14, Louisiana
lecn, 31: 15. Belmont Abbey (N.C.)
22; 16. South Dakota. 20: 17 (tie).
Boston College and Youngstown
(unio), 17 eacn; is, Montana state,
16; 20 (tie), Arkansas State, Mis
sissippi Southern, Grambling (La.
ana Anderson una.), 15 each.
Ex-Champs Fall
At Palm Beach
Palm Beach, Fla. (IP) Mrs
Ann Casey Johnstone of Ma
son City, Iowa, only former
tourney winner still un
vanquished, teed off today in
one of the featured pairings
in the Palm Beach Women's
Amateur golf championship.
Two other former cham
pions, a co-medalist and the
star of the Florida winter tour
all bowed out Wednesday in
the first round.
However, Mrs. Johnstone
turned in one of the best
showings of the day in a 7 to
6 victory over Mrs. D. C
O'Brien of Richmond, Va.
Her opponent today was up
set-minded Marge Burns of
Greensboro, N.C, who earlier
whipped favored Mary Ann
Downey of Baltimore, 5 and 4
Gracie DeMoss of Corvallis,
Ore., one of the co-medalists
lost her match Wednesday to
Dale Fleming of Tulsa, Okla.,
in 20 holes.
ROOKS VICTORS
McMinnville (IP) The
Oregon State Rook swimming
team defeated the McMinn
ville Swim club 59-32 Wednes
day night.
Florida Counts
Freeze Damage
By UNITED PRESS
Florida farmers today
counted their heavy losses in
the wake of the season's third,
and worst, freeze. Heavy
rains, meanwhile, drenched
the nation's midsection.
Winter vegetable crops
which escaped the frosty
touch of two earlier freezes
were just about destroyed in
the cold snap that clung to
the sunshine state since Mon
day night and relaxed its grip
late Wednesday.
Unofficial lows of 18 were
reported Wednesday morning
in farmlands south of Miami,
and 24-degree lows occurred
in Miami's suburbs. About 75
per cent of 18,000 acres of to
matoes were wiped out, ac
cording to Assistant Dade
Count Agent Nolyan Durre.
A broad thunderstorm belt
extended from eastern Okla
homa into Tennessee early to
day. The weather bureau said
that as of midnight almost
three-quarters of an inch fell
during a six-hour period in
Oklahoma City, Okla., and
more than that at Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
The Northwest received
scattered showers, but in the
Rockies snow fell. Parts of
Montana got a two-inch snow
covering during a six-hour
period, and light snows
whipped across the Northern
Plains to the Great Lakes.
Tcrsi Sailer
Ski Winner
Bad Gastein, Austria OPl
With the United States
cnances lor victory in the
men's events of the world ski
championships virtually
ruined, attention today was
focused on the women's events
in which Sally Deaver of Phil
adelphia drew the favorable
No. 3 starting position for the
downhill race.
Wallace (Bud) Werner, the
22-year-old. soldier from
Steamboat Springs, Colo., who
was regarded as America's
main hope to stop the strong
Austrian pair of Toni Sailer
and Josl Reider, finished a
disappointing fifth in the
men's giant slalom Wednesday
to fall far behind in the com
petition for the title of" the
world's best skier.
Sailer, the Olympic cham
pion who said he would quit
the winter circuit to concen
trate on his movie career
after this tournament, won
the giant slalom in a spar
kling one minute, 48. seconds
with Reider second in 1:52.6.
Kimpton Paces
Frosh Hoopmen
University of Oregon, Eu
gene Butch' Kimpton, the
swift sharpshooter from
Klamath Falls, continues to
lead the Oregon Frosh scor
ing after 10 games with a
total of 135 points, 32 more
than Denny Strickland, the
ex-Bremerton prep star.
The Ducklings, who have
won eight and lost two this
season, meet Oregon State's
Rooks for the third time this
season on Friday in the pre
liminary game at Corvallis
prior to" the varsity game be
tween the Beavers and Ducks.
The Rooks eked out a 58
56 victory in the first meet
ing on the strength of a pair
of free throws after the final
gun and then the Ducklings
evened the count with a 59-48
victory at McArthur court
last Friday night.
TO TELECAST GAME
Key West, Fla. (IP) The
first annual all-star game
sponsored by the Major
League Baseball Players asso
ciation will be televised na
tionally by the Mutual Broad
casting system next Sunday,
starting at 11:40 p.m. EST.
Such famed major leaguers as
Vic Wertz, Stan Musial, Har
vey Kuenn, Bob Turley, John
ny Antonelli and Early Wynn
will take part in the nine
inning exhibition.
GIANTS INK PLAYER
San Francisco (IPI The
San Francisco Giants have an
nounced the signing of high
school star Mike Mitchell of
Jersey City, N.J., "for a size
able bonus."
PUERTO RICAN SIGNED
Kansas City, Mo. (IP) The
Kansas City Athletics an
nounced tonight the signing
of Roberto Salamo of Ponce,
Puerto Rico, a 19-year-old out
fielder.
Thursday, February 8, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THTRTEEiT
BUTTE FALLS WINS
Butte Falls Butte Falls
grade school defeated Pros
pect 28 to 13 and 20 to 9,
respectively, this week in
varsity and junior varsity
basketball gamesv Dannie
Remsen topped Butte Falls
point-makers with 14.
Washington (IP) The
House has passed a bill to
suspend for three years im
port duties on certain coarse
wools used in making rugs
and carpets.
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