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Motorloggers Tote Geiger Counter Up Rogue River on Mail Boat Trip Scenic WonUers More Plentiful Than Uranium The following u a eaadeaaatioB f a motorloj appearing June 19 la The Sunday Oreconiaa Martb wct roto magazine. J la one of aa annual srries sponsored Joint ly by the Oregon State Motor association and The Oref-oalaa. BY RICHAKD NOKES CUr Editor. The OrttoOm Time was, in the memory of rot-so-old inhabitants, that the only way to reach Agness, up river on the Rogue 32 miles from Gold Beach and Wedder burn, was by sailing and poling flat-bottomed boats. Then 35-odd years ago the outboard motor replaced the sails on boats going up the rag- ' ing river Progress took another step 20 years ago. That was the year the first motor vehicle a trac tor reached Agness overland. A CCC crew worked three days . to push that tractor the last 31 miles through mountain and for est. Then the forest service in 1937 drove the first road through to Agness from Powers and motorists began driving into America's last frontier. Next spring a new mode of transportation wiH reach Ag - Bess the airplane. Just about everything that has come to this wild country has come by boat. Even the first automobile. That happened shortly before The Oregonian and the Oregon ; State Motor association began ; co-operating in motorlogging the ' West a quarter of a century ago. Edward M. Miller, now as sistant managing editor, learned in 1928 that there existed a man in Oregon who had never teen a real car. He was the postmaster at Agness, the late George W. Rilea. i PORTLAND S t Albany (Junction Gtfc VE Although road ttnks Agmsa and Powers, motorloggers trav eled ap Rogue on mail boat. Tbe map show route followed. Jcoos Baf J rl JRoseburtf Myrtle PoJrit fL it I Power l-' jjGold Beach '1 ain't So, Danny Claims; Denies HRH Called 'Honey' London U.R) Danny Kay today denied reports ha had called Princess Margaret "Honey." The allegation was made by Sunday Pictorial columnist Rex North who headlined his outraged dispatch "H. R. H. Honey." Even xhe princess' best REINFORCED PLASTIC GARDEN HOSE GARDEN, HOSE VISIBLE TIRE-CORD REINFORCEMENT That's why SUPPLEX can softly bs shut off at ths nozzl and Uft undsr protwr in tha hottMt sun for days. Ali-plaitic SUPPLEX is light, coils otiry, and is oquippod with Rtartach oel Couplings. 5of.$6.49 Free Parking I Free Delivery! SPECIALISTS IN CENTRAL POINT HOMEWARES MEDFORD hi Bftl Xokea (right) tests rocks for f Rogue river near Agness while Miller persuaded a Chevrolet dealer to put a new roadster aboard one of the flat-bottomed boats that ran the Rogue. There was a considerable hullabaloo among the dozen residents of Agness when the boat 1 carrying the automobile pick-a-back mastered the last riffle and put onto the beach. We felt sort of like pioneers one recent day as we stood with our fishing tackle, luggage and Geiger counter in the boat house at Wedderburn waiting to ride up to Agness. We had thought our Geiger counter (rented in Portland at $3.50 a day) might be the first to investigate the possibilities of pitchblende or other hot rocks up the Rogue gorge. Uranium Claims Filed In that we were disappointed. Old-timer Hickford Meservy and some others gathered around our Geiger counter at the boat dock, and I talked knowingly of what I had read the night before in an atomic energy commission handbook on how to hunt uranium. I felt taken aback when Meservy said he and 12 others were in terested in a claim at the Lest Soldier mine some 16 miles up Tom East creek north of the Rogue. And later I learned from Mrs. Olcta A.'- Walker,. Curry county clerk at Gold Beach, that "the woods are full" of uranium hunters. She said Harris state park nearby had been pretty well staked, but she thought none of the samples that had been tested had turned up any uranium. The mail boats (one or more friends call her "Your Royal Highness" or "Ma'am" in cluding her male escorts. But columnist North said comedian Kaye greeted her backstage at the Palladium with "Hello, Honey. I didn't expect to see vou back here." The Pictorial added: "H.R.H. Honey . . . taken aback . . . swallowed once or twice and countered, if a little limply, with " 'Hello Danny.' " Not so, K ayes said today. He said it was untrue that he greeted his royal admirer with such a familiar word as honey "I know better than that. I call the princess Ma'am.' " "Why they drag things up like that I don't know." he said. "It's not funny." Not only that, he said, but "these silly rumors annoy me." Strong Quake Recorded Near Aleutian Islands Weston, Mass. (U.R) A "strong" earthquake probably on the ocean floor off the Aleutian Islands, was recorded today on instruments at the Boston Col lege seismograph station here. Weston officials said the quake was recorded at 6:18.25 PST and was some 4765 miles northwest of Boston. FOE Auxiliary Holds Initiation Mrs. Pearl Hannaford was in itiated into the Fraternal Order of Eagles auxiliary at a meet ing last Thursday. Following the meeting, members of the auxili ary joined the men for square dancing and refreshments. Tuesday evening, June 21, a meeting of auxiliary officers is scheduled, and all committee chairmen are asked to meet with the officers at 7:30 p.m. No meet ing is scheduled- for June 23, as the state convention opens that day in Roseburg. The next meeting will be June 30. Middlebury, Conn. (U.R) Mrs. Raymond Grant's diamond engagement ring is back on her hand after 23 years. A relative found it while digging in bis back yard. possible nraninm on banks brother Greg baits fish line. depending on the demand) leave Wedderburn, which is on the north side of the Rogue across from Gold Beach, daily at 8:30 a. m. and return about 3 p.m. Passengers may make the round trip at 54 a head. Reservations should be made in advance. In the shallow water season the 32-mile trip upstream is a three-hour battle against riffles and gravel bars where the boatman has to spit over the side to get water to float his boat. The scenery, mile after mile of mountain and virgin for est, is incomparable. The mail boat lands at the Singing Springs ranch dock and on a gravel beach just below Lucas hotel. The passengers not interested in fishing or uranium hunting may remain at Singing Springs for a truly delightful chicken dinner ($2 for a plenti ful serving). Most of the 25 to 35 persons who come upriver in each mail boat will return when the boat shoves off from Agness at 1:15 P- : , For those who want to stay, as we did, there is the Lucas hotel at the end of Cougar lane. And to our way of thinking this is the real Agness. It was shortly before dinner our first night that we took our Geiger counter out. We searched diligently along the banks of the Rogue and a short distance up the Illinois river, beautiful green water that loses itself in the Rogue at Agness. The only valuable rocks we found were a couple of agates that we have added to our un polished collection contained in buckets in a dark corner of our basement. Heppner Man President of ONPA Roseburg U.R) Robert Pen land of the Heppner Gazette Times Saturday was elected pres ident of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association at the group's annual convention here. Penland replaces Lucien P. Arant of the Baker Democrat Herald. Other officers include: M. J. Frey of The Oregonian, first vice-president; C. L. McKinley of the Junction City Times, treas urer, and Carl Webb, who was re-elected secretary-manager. Arthur Lowe of the Corvallis Gazette-Times was elected 'as a director to replace McKinley. Other directors, who were re elected, include Philip Bladine of the McMinnville News-Register; Ed Comas of the Woodburn Independent; Hal Schlitz of the Myrtle Creek Mail; Fred Wey bret of the LaGrande Evening Observer,- and Charles T. Dun can; acting dean of the journal ism school at the University of Oregon. Degree of Honor To Meet Tuesday - Degree of Honor Protective association will meet Tuesday, June 21, at 6:30 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tarr; 1620 Prune street. A cover ed dish dinner will be served, and members are to take table service. NOTICE TimberP HtFOD Will Be Cutting 12 INCH FIR SLABWOOD Last Week of Jun Giant Siz Aq ajp Medford Load pOX9 Pries DONT DELAY - ORDER TODAY! CALL 2-8086 Witness Declares UCLA Coeds Posed For Nude Photos Los Angeles (U.R) A blonde divorcee has told the Senate Sub-committee on Juvenile De linquency that many of the mod els used in a million-dollar a year nude film and photography business here were UCLA co-eds. The witness, Mary Dorothy Tager, 44, of Balboa, Calif.,' testi fied Saturday before the com mittee headed by Sen. Estes Ke fauver (D-Tenn.) On Probation Mrs. Tager said she and her former husband and a third part ner made $3000 to $4000 daily from nude pictures and films from 1948 through 1951. She is on probation on a conviction of sending obscene literature through the mails in Rhode Island. "Most of the models we used came from UCLA," Mrs. Tager testified. She said 60 per cent of the customers on the firm's mailing list were doctors and profession al men and "some of them claim ed they were artists." Mrs. Tager, mother of two teen-agers, said the coeds posed in exchange for freep hotographs of themselves in street clothes. "You didn't have to go to them," she said. "They came to you. The girls would pose for practically nothing." The Senate committee con ducted its four-day hearing into an alleged $300,000,000 nation wide business in "smut." Cause of Crime Increase Kefauver said he believed that pornography was the cause cf a recent 100 per cent rise in juvenile sex crimes. He said his group would rec ommended to Congress that pro duction of sexy films be cut down and also would suggest several changes in the motion pitcure advertising code. Geoffrey Sherlock, director of the Motion Picture Produc tion Code, said he believed the Senate investigation "has done the industry much good in call ing attention to mistakes which have been made." Colorado Publisher Elected by NEA Banff, Alta. (U.R) Don Hardy, publisher of the Canon City, Colo., Record, was elected president of the National Edi torial Association at the group's 70th annual meeting yesterday. Hardy succeeded Ed M. An derson of Forest City, N. C, who presided over the three-day con vention attended by some 300 editors and publishers of U.S. daily and weekly newspapers and their wives. Anderson was named chairman of the board. A. W, Epperson of Morgan, Utah, was named vice-president, succeeding Hardy. E. W. Briles of Stafford, Kan., was reelected treasurer. Flowers Gifts 26- SOUTH CENTRAL Company I if !n Th I iwJ Solem Hours W FLOWERS tyfrnm ere mere Comforting IIf than words. I Fa 'J No tribute can be IfI more eloquent or U more sincere. In the I Itr beauty of flowers is tf an affirmation of the yjf , faith which sustains JQk ell who have suffered til '0SS- 11 Sympathy-flowers can Iw be sent anywhere by f 1! our FTD Flowers by v Wire Service. 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