$960,000 BOND ISSUE FOR STADIUM GIVEN APPROVAL

JAN 16 (Green Bay) - With financing for a $960,000 municipal stadium now assured, Green Bay today had five more days to wait for its answer to the next big question in the stadium story. The question: How will construction bids opened next Monday fit into the $960,000 bonding limit approved in last April’s referendum? The City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved details of the stadium bond issue “providing that when bids are opened on the stadium construction, the amounts are not in excess of the proposed bond issue.” The Council also approved an initial resolution for a $950,000 storm sewer bond issue and authorized purchase for two city projects, a Vocational School expansion and a far West Side landfill dump. The Board of Public Works Monday afternoon will open bids for the stadium general construction and secondary contracts, and a special Council session is scheduled for the following night to act on the contracts. If the bonding limits is met, the bond issue will be advertised for sale at the Feb. 5 Council meeting. Contract bids have been designed to provide a series of alternates within the bonding limit. The main alternate is for construction of either pre-cast concrete or steel. Size alternates provide for 20,736, 23,490 or 32,026 permanent seats. At the same time, the city will receive bids for between 8,000 and 12,000 bleacher seats to bring about a 32,000-seat total stated in the April referendum. The general contract includes auxiliary buildings under the stands, a team building behind the south end zone, and the press box. A total of $48,133 of the bond issue, cost of shaping the stadium bowl last fall, already has been committed…VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS: The unanimous Council vote for the bond issue reflected the approval of the April referendum in each ward. Five aldermen had voted against previous stadium action, in particular selection of the site over reconstruction at City Stadium. The $960,000 issue will run for 20 years with a $10,000 repayment scheduled for 1958 and $50,000 yearly for the next 19 years. The Packer Corp. has pledged to play half of the issue and issue on this half, and the Packers share is to be divided into equal payments over the 20 years. One aspect of the stadium project brought a minor debate from opponents of the Ridge Road-Highland Avenue site. Ald. Don Tilleman, Rhynie Dantinne and Clarence Vandermus voted against paying $67.49 as the city share of 1956 property taxes on the land purchased from Victor Vannieuwenhoven. Tilleman said there was a question in his mind over ownership status of the site, and Dantinne said the payment should have come out of the bond issue…CITY HAS DEED: Mayor Otto Rachals said there could be no question of ownership since the city has a deed and the site was annexed to the city. (A decision on paying for the site is one of the remaining stadium problems and one reason sale of Perkins Park has been proposed. The city bought the stadium site for $73,305, making a $7,500 down payment from an advance of the Packers for 1956 rent of City Stadium. The balance of $65,805 is due over the next three years in equal annual installments.)

CANADEO HEADS PACKER ALUMNI

JAN 16 (Green Bay) - Tony Canadeo has been elected president of the Packer Alumni Assn., the organization announced today. New vice-president is Charley Brock and the secretary-treasurer is John Biolo. They succeed Bernard Darling, president; Jug Earp, vice-president, and Tom Miller, secretary-treasurer. The association will meet shortly to discuss plans for backing the Pack in ’57…Packer linebacker Tom Bettis arrived in town today and end Billy Howton was due in today or Thursday. They will be interviewed for jobs here during the offseason. Leaving today was Abe Stuber, who resigned last week as a Packer assistant coach. Stuber wished everybody “the best of luck” before taking off by car for his home in Missouri…Fred Cone, Packer fullback and placekicking expert, started work in the Packer office today. He’ll assist in sales promotion…Packer coach Liz Blackbourn and defensive mentor Tom Hearden will speak and film clips of the Senior Bowl game showing Packer draftee Dalton Truax in action will be shown in the weekly Packer show on WFRV-TV at 10:15 tonight…Packer general manager Verne Lewellen will attend the funeral of Red Dunn, 55, quarterback of the Packers’ 1929-30-31 championship teams who died Tuesday, in Milwaukee St. Robert’s Church at 10 o’clock Thursday morning. Lewellen and Dunn were teammates on the title teams.

NFL MEET TO AIR OFFICIATING

JAN 17 (Green Bay) - NFL officiating – a sore point among league clubs publicly and privately during the ’56 season – likely will get an “official” airing during the annual convention of the 12 member clubs in Philadelphia Jan. 31-Feb. 1 and 2. While bouts with the officials can be expected (they make 50 to 60 judgment calls a game), unhappiness reached its peak during the middle of the ‘56 season when a number of coaches and club officials openly berated the “callers”. The Packers, and this is no secret, were quite unhappy with the slow-fast whistling of the Cleveland Brown game in Milwaukee. Commissioner Bert Bell isn’t sitting still and, in this week’s issue of Sports Illustrated, he said he intends to present a resolution at the Philly party asking each home team to furnish the league office with a game film within 48 hours after the game. “Then Mike Wilson, our chief official, will go over the movies and pick out the mistakes and take them up with the officials.” Bell also explained that “we’re trying to get ex-pros as officials, too. Then we’ll put them in the spot nearest where they played – like Don Looney, a former end, will be a field judge down where the ends go when they’re on a pass pattern. That way, the official understands the situation and so does the player.” Bert, claiming that “we have the best officials in the world,” admitted, “I think they could be better, too. It’s hard to get real good officials. A guy does not make much money the first four or five years he officiates – maybe three, five hundred dollars a year, so he quits. Only guys left are school teachers and YMCA workers, and they got the time but they aren’t suited. They’re used to placating people and handling kids, not football players.” It’s likely the 12 clubs will quickly okay Bell’s resolution to submit an extra copy of the films. In line with Bell’s thinking on “money – the first four or five years,” the clubs also may be asked to provide more money for officials. Bell, incidentally, said today in Philadelphia that he will meet informally with representatives of the newly formed Professional Football Players Assn. in Philly Jan. 28. Speaking for the players will be Kyle Rote of the New York Giants and Norm Van Brocklin of the Los Angeles Rams, and the group’s attorney, Creighton Miller….Tiny Engebretsen, former Packer guard and placekicker (1935-41), is in town to attend the funeral of Mrs. Nick Juley – his wife’s mother, who died at the Engebretsen home in Clariton, Ia. Mrs. Juley had been living with the Engebretsens since 1941, when her husband died. Engebretsen is making his first visit here since he finished his pro career in 1941. Sharing the kicking with Ernie Smith and Don Hutson, Tiny kicked 48 extra points and 16 field goals…BRIEFS: All of the Philadelphia Eagles’ four selections in the recent preliminary draft are backs – Clarence Peaks of Michigan State, Bill Barnes of Wake Forest, Tommy McDonald of Oklahoma and Bob Jurgenson of Duke. Two of the top four players picked in that draft can’t sign pro contracts because they have college non-football competition yet…The first two are signed – Packer Paul Hornung and Los Angeles Ram Jon Arnett, but No. 3, quarterback John Brodie of San Francisco, is Stanford’s big golf hope and No. 4, end Ron Kramer of the Packers, is a Michigan basketball and track star…Packer coach Liz Blackbourn will have one eye on defensive players in the forthcoming draft and both eyes on “the best players available.” In view of the chief 1956 difficulty, the Packer staff is almost sure to lean toward defensive stalwarts. Packer returnee coach, Tom Hearden, will “batch” it in his hometown until his youngsters are out of school in Madison, going back and forth over the weekends. They’ll settle together in June.

GARRETT GIVES PACK BEST OF '54 DEAL?

JAN 18 (Green Bay) - Which team got the best of the historic Parilli-Garrett trade of Aug. 6, 1954? When Packer coach Liz Blackbourn made the deal, sending Babe Parilli and Bob Fleck – both service-bound at the time – to the Cleveland Browns for Bobby Garrett, John Bauer, Jack Miller and Chester Giarola, fandom generally hailed it as a “good deal.” Garrett was the Browns’ bonus choice, Bauer was their No. 1 pick that season, and Miller and Giarola were highly rated. Bauer and Miller never made the team and Giarola never reported. Garrett displayed definite possibilities but couldn’t beat out veteran Tobin Rote. Bobby went into service after the ’54 season. The other end of the trade had to wait until ’56 when Parilli and Fleck came out of service. Fleck, who had been restrained from playing in Canada after he signed a Packer pact in ’54, finally made it – Canada, that is. Parilli was hailed highly as the successor to the retired Otto Graham early last season. But the former Kentucky ace, who played here in 1952-53, apparently had gone downhill and the Browns wound up with Tommy O’Connell, a Chicago Bear castoff, handling the quarterbacking the last four games. Now it’s the Packers’ turn to salvage something of the trade and Blackbourn set the wheels in motion today by announcing that Garrett has signed for the Packers’ 57 season. Garrett, a special service officer at Castle Air Force base at Merced, Calif., is scheduled for discharge Jan. 29. Garrett, the top collegian in the country in ’54 who stands 6-1 and weighs 197 pounds, passed 30 times as a Packers and completed 15 for an even 50 percent and 143 yards. Garrett had one pass intercepted – the first he ever hurled in a league game. It was against the Chicago Bears here in ’54. In his senior year at Stanford, righthander Garrett completed 118 of 205 pass attempts for 1,637 yards and 17 touchdowns. He also placekicks and punts – left-footed. The Packers have revealed the signing of three other players for ’57 – bonus choice Paul Hornung and tackles Dalton Truax and Carl Vereen.

PRESENT PRO FOOTBALL 'TOO FAST FOR ME,' ENGEBRETSEN

JAN 18 (Green Bay) - Maybe he's just being modest but Paul J. (Tiny) Engebretsen doesn't think he could make the pros today. "It's too fast for me, the way they block and tackle," the guard on two Packer championship teams gestured in a bull session at the Beaumont Hotel Thursday. "Oh, you probably could make those teams today the way you played," Tiny laughed as he pointed to Charley Brock, adding: "I haven't seen a live pro game since the last one I played in (the Packer-Bear playoff in '41), but I see many games on television and those kids can really move - much faster than we did." Brock and Al Rose, another one of Tiny's teammates in the title days, promptly set out to convince Tiny that he'd be able to cut it among the current cash and carry kids. "It would be easy Stubs (that's what the player called Tiny), most of the guards now just have to go straight ahead and knock out the linebacker. They pull one once in awhile to block for an end run," Charley said. But Tiny just couldn't be sold until the subject of face protectors came up. "The kids now are sissies wearing those things," Tiny snickered as he points to his sparkling bridge and at Charley and Al. The pros are now required to wear some sort of face bar or mask to prevent injuries. "We weren't men, were we, Charley? Until we got our teeth hammered out but I guess most of us lost 'em in college. A few guys wore something over their face. Stydahar (former Bear tackle) wore a mask and he was a big rough guy." Brock recalled the 1939 season - "that game with Cleveland. Remember after the game when all the reporters wanted to know how you kicked that extra point." Tiny roared, "I guess I really told 'em - just sailed it up there." The boot in the last few minutes gave the Packers a 7-6 victory and just about clinched the Western Division title for the Packers who went on to beat New York 27-0 for the title. Brock centered the ball and Joe Laws held it. "Remember how Joe would always give me the laces (of the ball). I'd always gripe but it didn't make any difference," Tiny winked. Brock and Rose tried to get Tiny to come up for the annual Packer homecoming next fall - in the new stadium. "I suppose my arm could be twisted but that's a busy season down home for me," Tiny laughed. We suggested that the extra point scene could be re-enacted since Laws is here in town. "Yeah, but who's gonna catch my leg when it flies over the crossbar," the Tiny one ripped. Engebretsen would up with 48 extra points and 16 field goals during his seven-year career starting in '35 after graduation from Northwestern. Tiny was making his first visit to Green Bay since '41. He was here to attend the funeral of his wife's mother, Mrs. Nick Juley, 79, earlier this week, who died at the Engbretsen residence in Chariton, Ia. Mrs. Juley had lived with her daughter since her husband died 13 years ago in Green Bay. Tiny operates the Engebretsen Game Farm in Chariton with his brother. They have 55 acres of pens on a 400-acre farm and now sell and ship birds including pheasants, partridge, quail and ducks throughout the United States. The Engebretsens have three children - Bery 14, Sandra 13 and Susie 10. "Bery is quite interested in sports and does pretty well but he's only 125 pounds - like his mother," the 250-pound onetime Bay star said, to which Charley added: "Give him time!"

BLACKBOURN LAUDED IN CHURCH MAGAZINE

JAN 19 (Green Bay) - In a recent edition of "Advance," the Congregational Christian Journal, a two-page feature article, Portrait of the Month, spotlighted "Green Bay's No. 1 Citizen," one of many famous Packers to worship and find fellowship at our Union Church. This citizen, of course, is Green Bay Packer coach Lisle W. Blackbourn, who the story speaks of Blackbourn as "an outstanding representative of top-flight leadership" and having "earned distinction as a brilliantly successful coach but has attained a position in the community entitling him, in our opinion, to be nominated Green Bay's No. 1 Citizen." Blackbourn, a native Wisconsinite, moved to Green Bay from Milwaukee and became a member of Union Congregational Church, pastored by the Rev. Muarice Haehlen. Mrs. Blackbourn is active in the women's organization of the church, and their son, Charles, was a leader in Pilgrim Fellowship. Another leading member of the Union Church, as cited in the magazine article, is Packer general manager Verne C. Lewellen. The article says, "Mr. Lewellen also is a dedicated member of Union Church - in his pew almost every Sunday morning and ready to put his shoulder to the wheel whenever his church needs him for a special job." the article expounds at length the virtues of the Packer team and its coaches and heroes, past and present. In conclusion, the magazine quotes Mr. Haehlen - "Liz Blackbourn strikingly represents what life required of us all if we are trained and ready for the biggest game of all - for that larger contest in these dangerous yet stirring times on behalf of truth and freedom."

KLAPSTEIN RESIGNS AS PART-TIME PACKER AIDE

JAN 21 (Green Bay) - Earl Klapstein resigned today as the Packers' part-time coach to become the director of physical education and athletics and head football coach at Cerritos Junior College in Artesia, Calif. Klapstein will work last July 1 on a seven-months' basis, serving as game and player scout and defense line coach. The 35-year old native of Lodi, Calif., closing out work at the Packer office today, said he "regretted to turn down an invitation from Coach Blackbourn to return to the Packer staff for '57." Working for the first time with the pros as a coach although he played tackle with Pittsburgh in '46, Klapstein said he "enjoyed himself with the Packer staff - more than I have any other coaching group." Klapstein has an unusual opportunity in California. Cerritos is a new junior college and will open for the first time in September. The college, 25 miles south of Los Angeles, expects an enrollment of 1,500 in 1957-58 and 5,000 in five years. Klapstein will set up the school's program for boys and girls. He will also get an opportunity to complete work toward his doctor's degree in physical education. That high a degree in phy-ed is considered a rarity. Klapstein was a star athlete at College of the Pacific. He also played center and coached at San Diego Navy and entered the college coaching field at Montica, Calif., High in '47. He was named head coach at Stockton Junior college in '49 and then moved on to the University of Idaho as line coach in 1954. The Packer staff now consists of Liz Blackbourn, head coach; Tom Hearden, defensive backfield coach; Ray McLean, offensive backfield coach; and Lou Rymkus, line coach.

PACKER SERVICE REFUNDS GIVE LIFT

JAN 22 (Green Bay) - The Packers' refunds from Uncle Sam are looking better every day. Already one of seven or eight returnees from service has been signed - Bobby Garrett, the quarterback from Stanford who received his pro baptism here in '54. Almost overlooked in the group of ex-Packers coming out of service is Gene White, the free agent from the University of Georgia who played a key cornerbacker spot with the Pack in '54 until he suffered an injury that kept him out of five games. Joining White in the returnee party are Jim Temp, end from Wisconsin; Norm Amundsen, a guard from Wisconsin; Tommy Pagna, an offensive halfback; Charley Grant, a 260-pound center; and, last but not least, guard Al Barry, a regular in the '54 offensive line. White's importance looms because coach Liz Blackbourn and his chief defensive chief, Tom Hearden, are in the market for cornerbackers. White stands 6-2 and packs 205 pounds, which makes him a giant alongside the two cornerbackers of '56, Billy Bookout and Hank Gremminger. White hasn't been inactive in service. He played two seasons of active football and won all-Army honors in Japan last fall. White was an end at Georgia and caught 13 passes for 188 yards and one touchdown despite the fact that he was playing opposite all-American Johnny Carson. A rugged operator, White was shifted to defensive back in his first and only Packer season and turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Temp and Amundsen are untested. Temp reported to camp and displayed good possibilities as a defensive end - the position he played as a Badger. Service beckoned, however, and he decided to go in immediately and postpone his pro start until '57. Amundsen never reported what with Uncle Sam breathing down his neck...COUNTING ON GROUP: Pagna and Grant both are refugees from other clubs. Tommy was picked up from the Cleveland Browns and showed exceptional speed and a great spirit toward the game in practice. He remained on a look-see basis until Uncle Sam called. Grant was a big, likeable, willing-to-learn cuss who was obtained from Philadelphia. The big guy was a center but our Uncle Sam whisked him away before the coaches had a chance to see him at another position. In arranging his plans for '57 - not to mention the draft in Philadelphia Jan. 30, Blackbourn is counting on the service group. Barry, for instance, will help fill the hole left by the departure (service) of Forrest Gregg. Garrett can step into Bart Starr's shoes if Starr departs and maybe even a bigger pair if Tobin Rote decides to retire. Blackbourn is presently awaiting words on the service status of Starr, Bob Skoronski, Jack Losch and Gremminger. Blackboun and aides Hearden, Ray McLean, Lou Rymkus and Jack Vainisi pretty well locked up this week preparing for the upcoming draft...There seems to be much fussin' and fumin' about whether or not Perry Moss, the coach hired to replace Hearden at Wisconsin last week, played with the Packers or not. A wire story stated Sunday that he never played pro ball. Moss then a star quarterback out of Illinois, was a high draft pick of the Packers in '48 - a year when the order was kept secret from the old All-America Conference. Perry played during the exhibition season and then saw brief action in the club's first two league games in '48, after which he was cut loose. Perry could throw extremely well but had difficulty controlling the snap-back from the center. During one workout at Rockwood Lodge, we recall, center Jay Rhodemyre had to slow down his pass-back to prevent Moss' fumbling.

AWAIT WORD ON STEEL FOR STADIUM

JAN 23 (Green Bay) - The City Council Tuesday night agreed to postpone action on construction contracts for the municipal stadium until a special session Jan. 29 to provide time for an answer on steel delivery. The problem posed for the Council by bids opened Monday is whether to accept a $742,039 general construction bid for 32,026 permanent seats in a plan involving use of about 224 tons of steel or a $669,810 for 23,490 permanent seats of basic concrete construction. The Council decision followed Board of Public Works action earlier Tuesday to leave the contract question open to allow seven days for an answer from a steel manufacturer. The special session Tuesday night has been scheduled by resolution Jan. 2 as part of the stadium timetable. Because of the steel question, the board decided to make it only an explanatory session of the bids for the Council. Action on contracts Jan. 29 still will make it possible to sell the $960,000 bond issue as planned Feb. 5...MAY ASSURE DELIVERIES: John Somerville, stadium architect, explained that Clayton Ewing, president of Northeastern Boiler and Welding, Inc., which would be the steel supplier for the low bidder, had tried Tuesday to get a commitment from Bethlehem Steel, Co., but was told that seven days were needed for an answer. Top steel management may be in a position to assure deliveries because of "the national aspects of the Packer stadium," Somerville said. Ewing today lauded the Council decision to wait for the answer because of the possibility of getting an all-permanent seat stadium. "I think we should try to get 32,000 permanent seats out there. We are working very hard to try to get the material that will permit that," he said. George Hougard and Son, Inc., was the only bidder to make possible all permanent seats within the bonding limit. Hougard told the public works board meeting he could a Sept. 15 contract deadline if he got steel. He said, however, that steel firms "won't give you a thing in writing." "If I can get a delivery of steel like they promised me, I can assure you I'll have that stadium ready by Sept. 15," Hougard said. While most of the Council session was limited to questions on bids, Ald. Roman Denissen urged alderman not to lose sight of an objective. "I certainly am pleased to learn that 32,000 seats are possible. Even if we had to wait and play a few games in the old stadium it would be worthwhile. The 32,000 seats is ideal, and that is what all of us aldermen were hoping for. It would be worthwhile for the city and the Packers to wait if we can get an all permanent seat stadium," Denissen said. Mayor Otto Rachals placed weight on the completion date at both the Council and earlier meeting. The stadium was presented as a possible 20,000 permanent seat structure with 12,000 bleacher seats during last April's referendum campaign, he noted...OLD VERSUS NEW: "The part of it is whether the Packers play their games in the new stadium or in the old one. That's the one thing to consider here," he told the Council. "I do not feel that you are letting the public down in anyway if you put in bleacher seats because that was the understanding at the time (of the referendum)," Rachals said at the board of public works session earlier. In response to a question from Rachals at the board meeting, Fred Leicht, member of the Packer executive committee, said it would be "very disastrous if we didn't have that stadium in September." "We hope to sell 20,000 season tickets (starting in March) and we have got to have seats to sell," Leicht said. Cecil Isbell, salesman for one of the two firms which bid for bleachers needed if the 24,000-seat plan is used, also was present for the board meeting. Somerville explained to the Council that using the 32,000-seat Hougard bid would make possible construction of the stadium for $938,583. Using the $669,810 concrete bid of Selmer Co., would make cost of a 32,000-seat stadium for either $948,020 or $936,277 depending on which of the two bleacher proposals was accepted. The bid by Hougard would provided sideline stands with 25 rows of poured concrete on the bowl slopes and 35 rows built on steel framework atop the bowl. Twenty-one rows of poured concrete seats would be behind each end zone. The plan bid by the Selmer Co. would have permanent seats on the sidelines only with 25 poured concrete rows on the slopes and the upper 35 rows of pre-cast concrete supports. Both general construction bids also included auxiliary buildings under the sideline stands, a team building behind the south end zone, and the press box.

PRO DRAFT BATTLE OF SLEEPERS; 49 ACES SNAPPED UP

JAN 24 (Green Bay) - The NFL's annual January draft of college talent - opening in Philadelphia a week from today - might well be tabbed the Battle of the Sleepers. The 1956 college crop, in the opinion of the scouts, was slightly on the terrific side with availables like Hornung, Arnett, Kramer, Glass, Brodie, Dawson, Peaks, Parker, Shofner, Pardee - to mention a few. But the second annual early start on the draft - held last November, removed most of the cream and some of the skim. Forty-nine hot shots were picked in the four rounds, including four to each club and the bonus. The 12 NFL clubs are digging deep for talent now and at the same time keeping an eye on Canadian scouts who have been extra busy this winter. Since each team, including the Packers came up with solid player help in November, the emphasis next week will be on the darkhorses from the small schools and the subs from the big schools. All teams will be in hopes that their picks will be genuine sleepers come next fall. There also will be considerable drafting of eligible juniors, a maneuver that can be dangerous because on many occasions these juniors come up with a "bad" senior year and as a result aren't interested in pro football. Two of the 49 previous picks are juniors but both are highly-touted, back George Walker of Arkansas picked by the Cleveland Browns in the third round and back Bobby Cox of Minnesota who was named by the Los Angeles Rams on the fourth round. The Packers are on the spot as regards juniors - at least for the early rounds next week. Coach Liz Blackbourn salvaged five players out of the 1956 draft and he stands a chance to lose all five of 'em to service. Thus, Liz figures he'll have to stress material available for almost immediate delivery. His thinking on the draft at the moment is "the best players available, with an eye toward helping our defense." The Packers won't get the break they received in November when Liz won the bonus and then captured a coin flip to share the fourth-highest pick, producing Paul Hornung and Ron Kramer...NO FIFTH PICK: Due to previous trades, the Packers won't receive any fifth choice since that pick was given to Cleveland in exchange for Don King. The Packers' sixth choice also goes to Cleveland in exchange for John Sandusky, but the Bays will receive the Chicago Cardinals' sixth pick in the Tom Dahms deal. Sandusky made the Packers. King was released in mid-season. Since the Packers will draft higher than the Cardinals, Green Bay will have to wait until 20 players are named before they get a choice - the Cardinals' sixth round pick. Green Bay will flip with Los Angeles (each posted 4-8 last year) for the second plan draw. The Cards draw ninth. The Packers will pick up a choice in the 15th round, getting the New York Giants' selection in exchange for Jack Spinks. Since they won the bonus, Green Bay won't get a 30th choice. In all, the Packers will get 25 players out of the draft next Thursday. The Los Angeles Rams, as usual, will come out with their usual 35 to 40 players as payments on trades. They came out of the November business with seven stars - three over par four, and the only consolation is that they did same a year ago and finished in a tie with the Packers in the Western Division cellar. The Rams, for instance, received Jon Arnett (their own pick) and Del Shofner from the Giants on the first round; John Pardee (their own) on the second; Billy Ray Smith (their own) and George Strugar from San Francisco on the third; and Bobby Cox (their own) and Lamar Lundy from New York on the fourth. They'll get a few extras in the later round. Since this has been going on for four or five years, it's no wonder the Rams are generally called "talent loaded." And it's fortunate that (1) only 11 players can work on the field at the same time and (2) the league has a player limit.

BREWERY OFFERS CONTRIBUTION FOR STADIUM

JAN 25 (Green Bay) - A contribution toward Green Bay's new municipal stadium of one cent for every bottle and can of Pabst beer sold in Brown County during the three-month period beginning Feb. 1, was proposed today by the Pabst Brewing Co. though its local distributors, Joe and Bob Bur. The offer was made by the large Milwaukee brewing firm on the heels of bids which showed that current appropriations for the project would cover bare construction cost and would leave little extra funds for other stadium requirements. Marshall S. Lachner, Pabst Brewing Co. president, said that the offer, of course, was contingent upon its acceptance by the stadium building committee and Green Bay city officials...DESERVING OF SUPPORT: In announcing the offer, Lachner said: "It has been long our feeling that any community which can muster the great civic interest which Green Bay has organized for the stadium project and the Green Bay Packer team, is deserving of any support we can give it." Mayor Otto Rachals, who expressed immediate interest in the plan, said the proposal would be submitted to the committee for action at its next meeting. According to Lachner, there is a strong possibility that the offer might be extended for an additional three months this summer. This would depend, he explained, on the interest generated in the community during the initial three-month trial period. Summer sales for the company's product, he pointed out, naturally would run heavier than the three months beginning Feb. 1. Lachner said the brewery has taken no position on how it would specifically want its contribution spent, but that it was not unlikely that the committee might wish to have the money go toward some specific stadium item, such as a scoreboard, tarpaulin or bandshell. Green Bay city officials and civic leaders professed interest in the brewing firm's offer. There was some feeling that other industries in the Green Bay area might pick up the cue for a similar drive to assist the stadium project...RECORDS ARE AVAILABLE: The Burs announced that the amount of the donation would be computed from records of the Bur Blue Ribbon Co., Inc., the distributing firm. They said they were prepared to make the records available to any qualified accountant named by stadium project leaders here as a means of doubly verifying the correct sales totals upon which the stadium donation would be based.