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r . Woods, Water, Wildlife By Hank DeVess -'I haven't heard any stories about how he game commis sion fed the fish in Diamond lake opening day this year so I. imagine there were a fair "number ca-Qht. When there aren't any snibis given as reason for not catching fish you can exct there was a fair percentage of satisfaction gained from last 5 Saturday's efforts. Some day. I ought to try it on opening day, but as yet I find other places more interesting.- -My particular brand 1 of peoplephobia still keeps me away from crowds like that. .Seven thousand people: Wow! TIME FOR SALMON ' ; The. latest report on the spring chinook salmon run Is that the peak of the run Is now above- Galice. It Seems -a lot of people got discouraged and pulled in xneir salmon boards and Bow those -who still have their boards out are doing landslide business. The word is that the run is go ing to peak out early and probably won't go much over 10.000 fish. Let's hope it doesn't happen. If you want to catch a salmon or just watch them at Savage Rapids or Gold Ray, the time is now. WHAT AND HOW MANY? Some interesting' catch re ports are coming from the Grants Pass area. The delay ed opening of trout season in the middle Rogue was for the purpose of allowing the down stream migrating steelhead a chance to escape from the the angler horde until they are more mature.- (Big, that is.) Now we find that about 81 per cent of the catch around Grants Pass consisted of wild steelhead.- The Game commission planted about 8,000 legal size rainbows there just a short time ago and 3Vi per cent of the catch this last week end were planted fish. There was a showing of 2 per cent made up of marked summer steel head. These were some , of those fish planted as an at tempt to build up the summer steelhead run. - DOES IT PAY? When' one reads of figures like these, you can't help but wonder whether or not '-ffaxchery programs are the best way to provide ' more fishing. In the face of these facts,, it wouldn't be . too risky to say that natural reproduction of. fish pro vides more fishing than the hatchery ; programs. . Th9 may be true of the Rogue, in that there Is little return of hatchery fish to the angler's creel, but if an other page is turned there is a report of a catch in the Applegaie ,of which 87 to 90 per cent were hatchery plants. If this seems con fusing, remember that one solution isn't meant to an swer all problems. We need many solutions, to our many problems. OREGON'S PROGRAM The Oregon Game commis sion program plants legal size fish in streams and fingerling sized fish in the lakes. The best reason for this is that there is a 60 to 75 per cent survival of fingerlings in lakes but only a 3 to 5 per cent survival of these fish in streams. It is estimated that the legal sized fish have a survival rate of only 35 per cent in the streams. This is pretty good because in some states the figure is closer to SCHOOL'S a"V" - foe' Children at Delivered SP 2-5271 15 per cent. It should be easy to see that hatchery fish are costly and are used primarily be cause the public demands easy-to-catch fishing. It would seem that they still aren't getting it by the simple ex pedient o more hatcheries for more ftshermen. There must be a better answer.. THE ANGLER'S LOG 1 In years past on Diamond lake there existed what was called "the chumming line." I hope the resorts of opening day weren't the re sults of such an unsports manlike method of still fishing. Diamond Lake The best catches have been on eggs or worms, still fish ing. On opening day Bill Coin of Camp Whit& and Mrs. Edna Kilburn of Central Point limited out in . three hours trolling flatfish. Fish catches are averaging 19 inches and the biggest so far weighed 6V2 pounds and stretched 24 inches long. Fish Lake Trolling a fly gava the best success with still fish ing coming in at second place. The 6 to 8 inch fish comprised about 67 per cent of the catches and the 8 to 10 inchers about 32 per cent. There was a rook trout caught and fnis means the lake still may have roach in it. So far none have been found. Willow Creek Lots of limits on woolly worm trolling when the water is roughed up or at certain times of the day. Squaw Lake ' Has. been gSbd all week. Lots of limit catches on FFfcW and FF& flatfish. Catfishing is . improving. . Lake of fSe Woods Fishing has been steadily improving. Limits have been brought in on FF&W and FF& triple teaser. RJamalh Lake Harriman's resort has had some boats comir j in with 8 og9 fish and others with -none. TFfcW, FF&flatfish and Andy Reekers are do ing the business. H. R. Stevenson of Phoenix made the hoard this week with a 5 pounder caught - on a freak. Biggest fish so far has been a 9 Vi pounder? THE OPTIMIST'S CORNER Unless the fish at Diamond a?e scared to death, the weather ; should Help keep things going . up there, I figure they'll still oe there after I've caught my salmon. The way things sound, ny place that's wet ought to pro duce fish. GOOD LUCK! Musial Shares v Doubles Mark Pittsburgh - (UPD - tan Musial of the St. Louis Card inals today stared a record with the immortal Honus Wagner, the all-time great ffchonStop of the Pittsburgh r iraies. Musial tied Wagner's Na tional league record of 651 doubles in Thursday's 9-3 loss to the Pirates. Tonight in Philadelphia, Stan . will be aiming to break that record. Wagner compiled his 651 daubles in 21 years of major league plcy while Musial now is in his 18th year. . ' About 70 per cent of Mexi co's workers are farmers but they live on only about 10 per cent of the land. OUT I) 4 V ( i Flay! COrXRETEC?! 248 E. McAndrews Condition of Jackie Leonard Still Serious Los Angeles - (CPD -Pro moter Jackie Leonard re mained in serious condition today suffering from a brain concussion and partial paralysis - while law officers doubled their efforts to catch his attackers. Leonard, 39, was attacked from behind ' Wednesday night, slugged, beaten and kicked. A promoter for Holly wood Legion Stadium, he told the California' -Athletic com mission two weeks before the attack "the underworld was trying to gain control, of welterweight champion Don Jordan. He testified he was threat ened several times when he and Jordan's manager .Don Nesseth refused to go. through a deal with the mobsters. Oakland, Calif. - (UPD -Box ing promoter Lon Chargin said today he received a tele phone threat "to stay out of Los Angeles - you. saw what happened to your buddy." Chargin is a close friend of Hollywood matchmaker Jackie Leonard who was beaten Wednesday night, pre sumably by mobsters. Chargin was to fly south to supervise the Saturday night Holly wood Legion fights. VI. Km K i - III & rx' 7 y Rd. Ill sviwr - , yy F5rsi With Most Pays Mf Bn "PCI By DON THACKERY United Press International Gen. Nathan Bedford For rest was really with it: At least his "fustest with the mostest" quote, has in trigued the skippers of the Pacific Coast league teams. Sacramento and Salt Lake City won their games last night in the first inning with big outbursts. San Diego got five runs in the third, the fustest - and the mostest -against Portland. And Spo kane had eight before Phoe nix scored. The final results - all based on the big and early scoring "were: Sacramento, with five in the first, 6, Seattle 1; Salt Lake City, with four in the first, 10, Vancouver, 4; San Diego 5, Portland 0; and Spo kane 8 against a poor two run effort by Phoenix. The best pitching of the night came from Bobby Locke Chargin said he received the call Thursday over a pay telephone outside his office at the Oakland Auditorium. He said .he could not tell whether the, call was placed locally or from long distance. Come on down to Crater Lake Motors and look over the fine array of '59 Fords. You can't miss! You'll get the, car that offers the biggest dividends' in STYLING COMFORT and SAV INGS. It's the car built for people. And it's the car built for savings. DOG-GONE GOOD USED CARS, TOO! "Your Friendly FORD Dealer" " Main and Fir Medford Highway 99 -Central Point Phone: SP 3-4547 Phone: NO 4-1 824 ! of San Diego. He blanked Portland on three hits. But again it was a big frame in the early going that made it easy. The Pads treated Vic Lombardi badly in the third and got five runs to sew up the contest. SPORTS Pruess Top Gun In Shoot Out Dave Pruess of the new Grants Pass club was top gun last Sunday in the shoot out of the Bounty Hunters Fast Draw club of this area. t Pruess put away his five opponents with no trouble at Coyote pass west of Phoenix. The Bounty Hunters hold shoot outs each month. Date of thenext one is yet to be announced. Persons interested in the club and its activities may contact, Marty Martolin, George Flanagan, Nick (Dude) Nixon, Jack Wells, Don Gray or Detle Kirkendall. You're DOG-GONE Right! We BOTH Agree...... EVERYONE 1 u ku Walton Division President To Be Speaker Here Jackson County chapter of the Izaak Walton league will combine for its meeting this month, with Ashland and Grants Pass chapters. The meeting will be Mon day, June 8, at Medford Gun club and Luhr Jensen Jr., Oregon division president of the IWL, will be speaker. Jensen is a director of the national organization and will bring information from the recent national convention. The session here is set for 8 p.m. and the public is in-' vited. Tiger Making American Debut New York - (UPD - Dick Tiger of Nigeria, British Em pire middleweight champion, makes his American debut to night at Madison Square Gar den in a TV 10-rounder with slugger Rory Calhoun of White Plains, N.Y. Calhoun is favored at 8-5 because of his aggressiveness and punch, also because of New York's traditional lack of confidence in newly ar rived foreign fighters. There are more than, 2,000 species of snakes known in the world. " Should Own A SPECIAL AUTOGRAPH PARTY 2 TO 4 P.M. on Saturday FREE BALLOONS FOR THE KIDS! RVL Ashland, Butte Falls and , the Veterans Administration domiciliary will bo the scene of Sunday afternoon games in the Rogue Valley Baseball league this week end. , Grants Pass will make its debut in 1959 league play on the VA diamond against Camp While. Ashland will entertain Glendalo on the Southern Oregon college diamond and Riddle will be at Butte Falls. A bye idles the Medford Bowling lanes team. Rifle Club Sets Big Bore Shoot VFW Rifle and Pistol club will hold a big bore qualifica tion rifle shoot on Saturday, June 13, at the National Guard's Camp White range. The indoor shooting season was closed with a potluck din ner on Wednesday at the Vet erans of Foreign Wars hall here. Shooting awards and certificates were presented with Pat Doyle,. Crater Lake VFW post commander, offi ciating. Reviews of junior and senior club activities were given by David Schulz, junior instructor, and William Bur nette, rifle club president. . About 80 persons attended and a film on big game was shown. This Sunday SWORD POWERS Camp White,-Riddle and Ashland all seek their second week end of count-, ing play - for the semi-pro clubs. Phil Sword, Ashland, and Jack Turk. Camp While, led the hitting parade last Suncfay with perfect records a at the plate. Sword socked four for four with a homer, double and two singles. With a sacrifice flyout help ing he had six runs batted in for the day. Turk swatted lhre for thre, walloping one double and bringing in two runners. ' Ashland hit .323 as a team in winning from Med ford in the loop starter. TRACK TUTOR NAMED Portland -(UPD- Washington high school's new track coach will be Walter Aldridge, who has been head wrestling coach and assistant in football. He succeeds Roger Mockford who is being transferred to Mgdi son high next fall. MOONSHINE OUTLAWED Tallahassee, Fla. (UPD The Florida Legislature has ap proved a bill making posses sion of more than one gallon of moonshine whiskey a fel ony and possession of less than one gallon a misdemeanor. SEE "BUTTOIIS" FRIDAY and SATURDAY 10 AM. JO 5 P.M. '"" 1 r I An - VJ i i -V IskA MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, June 5, 5 ''" " " OBJECTS TO 'THING' High Point, N.C.-4DPD-R. B. 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