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.
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Although road ttnks Agmsa
and Powers, motorloggers trav
eled ap Rogue on mail boat.
Tbe map show route followed.
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'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."
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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.
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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.
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