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Bock Stairs: fee's Stream May Dwindle
By WARREN DUFFEE
United Press Correspondent
Fraser, Colo. (U.P.i Back
stairs at the summer White
House:
'President Eisenhower's favor
ite fishing stream, St. Louis
creek high in the Rockies, may
be on its way out as an ideal lair
for the wily trout the President
loves to catch.
cl"he city of Denver, 70 miles
below to the southeast, is tap
ping the source of St. Louis
creek to build up its own water
supply. As a result, the ice-cold
stream where the Presider.1 loves
to wade with his fly rod may be
down almost to a trickle in an
other year of so.
The fast-moving creek runs
through the ranch of Aksel Kiel
sen, Denver banker and Mr. Eis
enhower's host at Fraser. The
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United P'ttf fhir Writti
ill ik Jill
Washington (U.R) It's a cou
ple of days late to observe Davy
Crockett's birthday anniversary.
But I have for
t ""5 you king ot
1 i ...,'u
tier" fans a
few anecdotes
from the jour
nals he wrote
while in Con
gress. As any wear
er of the coon-
'StlM tell you, Colo-
Harman Nichol nel Crockett,
as he was known, served his
Western Tennessee district in
Congress for three terms in the
20th, 21st and 23rd Congresses.
When Davy first went to Con
gress in 1827, he traveled by
horseback, stagecoach, and often
by river steamboat.
Toward the end of his last
term, Davy's doctor told him he
ought to travel for his health. So,
according to his writings on file
here, he left Washington by
stage on April 25, 1834. He first
went to Baltimore, which is
something like 40 miles from the
capital today and surely was
longer over the dusty coach
trails.
First Train Ride
From Baltimore, the hero of
the Alamo traveled by steam
boat to Frenchtown, Md., where
he got aboard for his first train
ride.
"This," he wrote, "was a clean
new sight to me; about a dozen
big stages hung onto one machine
. . . After a good deal of fuss, we
all got seated and moved slowly
off, the engine wheezing as if
she had the tizzick. By and by
sheQDegan to take short breaths,
and away we went with a blue
streak after us."
While he was whizzing along,
reading, Crockett suddenly burst
out laughing. A traveling com
panion wanted to know what
was so funny. He explained that
"It's no wonder the fellow's
horses run off."
He was referring, according to
his report later, to an incident
that had been reported by a Cal
ifornia waggoner who was cross
ing a railroad track when the
locomotive and train puffed into
sight.
Crockett wrote:
"It was growing dark, and the
sparks were flying in all direc
tions. His horses ran off, broke
his wagon, and smashed his
cumbustibles into items. He run
to the huse for help and when
they asked him what scared his
horses, he said he did not jist
know, but it must have been 'hell
in harness.' "
On his way to New York,
Davy hooked a ride from Borden
town, N.J., on the newly opened
Camden and Amboy Railroad.
He clacked along the 61 miles to
South Amboy, and it likely was
the fastest ride of his life.
He wrote that the steam horse
"galloped along at a frightening
25 miles an hour, and nigh
knocked us from our perch."
"We were going so fast, he
said, "that an object I projected
as an experiment out the open
window of the car came back and
hit me smack in the face."
In all, Crockett was gone on
his sight-seeing trip over 20 days.
He wrote that he was "shore glad
he did it, but he was a bit weary.
There is something about sway
ing back and forth on a saddle
that a man can't git over."
AIR CONDITIONING DEAD
Baton Rouge, La. (U.R)
Louisiana State University stu
dents were hot under the collar
today. Acting Chairman C. E.
Barham said a $750,000 legisla
tive appropriation suggested for
air-conditioning classrooms "is a
dead issue, as far as I'm concerned."
diversion project to help water
shy Denver will remove most of
the stream's normal flow about
six miles above Nielsen's ranch.
Fishermen in the Fraser area
have complained, but so far the
President has made no public
comment.
But Mayor Charles Clayton of
this town of- 450 was a little
more optimistic than some.
"I don't think they'll ruin the
fishing," he said, "but if they
take out as much water as plan
ned, it's going to make it pretty
skimpy along the creek, water
wise." Clayton was proud of one sur
prise for the Chief Executive,
however. He arranged to give
Mr. Eisenhower the first drink
of chlorinated water from the
little mountain town's newlj
finished water purification system.
Freeburger Animal
Wins Top Award
Grants Pass Brier Creek
Lucy 23rd, bred and owned by
Dr. Frank Freeburger's Lazy
F Ranch in Jackson county, was
selected as both Junior . Cham
pion and Grand Champion Aberdeen-Angus
Female at the Jo
sephine County Fair Thursday.
Kedar's Lucy and Eminent
Bandolier, also owned by the
Lazy F, received honors at the
Thursday showing. Kedar's Lucy
placed first in the Senior Heifer
class. Eminent Bandolier won
another blue ribbon in the Sen
ior Bull cage class.
Friday, August 19, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON MAIL TRIBUICE CETCIT
The President couldn't pick a
greater contrast for his summer
vacation from low-lying, steam
ing Washington to Nielsen's
Byers Peak Ranch, 8,600 feet
high. The tall blue peaks of the
Berthoud Pass country loom
above the area.
Fraser, sometimes dubbed the
"nation's coldest spot," regularly
has night time temperatures
dipped into the 30s and some
times lower at this tune of the
year. But it warms up by day.
Nielsen's ranch this year sports
a new cabin for the President's
use when he wants it. He also
has remodeled the old ranch
house and cabin where the Presi
dent has previously stayed.
The President's valet, Sgt.
John Moaney, has the same tastes
as his boss. Moaney, who has
been with Mr. Eisenhower for 12
years, fishes the same streams as
the Chief Executive here in the
mountains He is rated a good
fly fisherman.
But back east on the Eisen
hower farm at Gettysburg, Pa.,
Moaney is a farmer, by his own
choice. Reporters spotted him
recently working the vegetable
garden in a bright red cap.
CONSCIENCE BOTHERS ,
Oakland, Calif (U.R) When
asked in a questionnaire why
she was volunteering for duty in
the Ground Observer Corps.,
Mrs. Evelyn Parks of Alameda,
Calif., wrote: "Conscience."
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