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o o o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNEMEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1960 Ik s no Ays dDMILY! LfU mm' rns : f J Mi PHOTESTS DECISION Mrs. Regina Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y., mother of Bobby Fischer, l'J-year-old national chess champion, pickets the White House in an effort to gain sup port for sending the United States chess team to the world chess Olympics in East Germany next month. The United States Chess Federation refuses to sponsor the trip. (UP! Telephoto) Plucky Little Boat Makes Weekly Trip Ud Turbulent Snake T.mvislnn. Idaho -IUPU- -lnc Idaho Queen is a dumpy lit tle boat with rust showing through her paint. But she fights the turbulent Snake river on its own terms and hasn't lost a battle yet. Neither has her captain , appropriately named R. B. (Dick) Rivers who has worked on the treacherous stream 23 of his 40 years. Rivers has the only regular boat service from Lewiston upstream to the Devil's Door way, the entrance to famed Hells Canyon. The glamour end of Rivers business is tourists giving visitors a look at the wild, rueged country where the Snake river flows between Idaho and Oregon in a can yon several thousand feet deep. But the bread and but ter is in the mail run and cargo hauling. Trip Every Week Every Wednesday, come 110-degree-hcat or the howl ing winds of winter except for times when the river is frozen over Rivers and his boat make the 90-mile trip upstream. The mail route in--i.,jc is stops for farm t iiiod nrnsDectors and -minle 'of Old fellOWS lust olain don't civilization. For many of these. Rivers who cotton to Career Positions in Agency Are Noted The Federal Aviation agen cy has announced opportuni ties for graduate civil and electronic engineers, qualified technicians, and graduate me chanical and electrical en gineers. The opportunities have been made available through the FAA's program of moderniz ing the federal airways. . Information concerning the federal career opportunities may be obtained from the chief of the airway technical district office of the FAA at the Medford airport. British Comedian Stars in Show British Comedian Peter Sellers, who takes three com pletely different roles, and Jean Seberg who starred in Columbia Pictures' "The Mouse That Roared," opening Sunday at the Llthia Drive-In theater. v Based on the novel by Leon ard Wibbcrley, "The Mouse That Roared" tells how .the world's smallest nation, the Grand Duchy of Fenwick, de clares war on America so It can enjoy the "fruits of dc feat" imposed by a generous . victor. In recent years, Sellers has come to be one of England's most praised comedians. Companion feature is "Pas sion", starring Cornel Wilde and Yvonne DcCarlo. KEEP THEIR PROMISE San Francisco-flJPD-Officials at the Presidio Army post promised Lt. Bill Nieder a gold shot-put when he broks the world's record with a 65 foot, 7-inch throw at Dallas. They were stunned when the Item was priced at $11,000. Col. M. M. Brown presented Tlicdcr on Wednesday with gold shot-pul-a regulation one painted gold, that is. k is their only contact with the j world outside for months at a time. To them all, he brings j their mail, including the pre-' cious mail order catalogue, and the food, clothing and other supplies ordered from town. I On the return trip, he may have a load of livestock from ' one of the ranches or his decks may be piled high with wool. It was a load of wool that brought Rivers the clos est he's come to a dunking in four years of operating his own boat. The Snake was at its most treacherous and Rivers was bringing out a load of 2 tons of wool alone. "She was really piled high," Rivers recalled. "The current . caught me and she started to dip. She leaned so far the wool scraped that rock t h e r e." He pointed a brawny arm toward a sheer wall that formed the river bank. "I thought she was gone," he said. But Rivers righted the little craft and both he and the wool made it safely to Lewiston. Navigating the Snake is a tricky job. There are no navi gational aids and the river level fluctuates widely from season to season, giving a safe clearance at a point one week and forming a danger shoal the next. Rivers guides his boat by sighting landmarks along the river bank-a rock formation here, a gnarled tree there, "o wild is the Snake that at cer tain seasons his upstream run takes two days and the down stream run takes a half-day. Normally, it's a long day up and a short day back. Rivers usually spends the night at his camp near the southern end of his route. He has facilities there for hous ing the hunters, fishermen and tourists he takes into the area. Rivers grew up at Asotin, Wash., and began working around the boats that then still were frequent sights on the river when he was 17. , Mad Boats His Job For IS years he worked as a logger but said, "I spent all my spare time around the boats, so I figured I might as well make them my Job." He went to work for the owner of a large vessel, the only other cargo boat now plying the middle Snake at all. Four years ago he bought a 32-foot tug and was on his own. He replaced the tug with the stubby Queen two years ago and next year hopes to replace her with a sleeker1 and faster aluminum boat. For a man who declares that anyone who continues to fight the Snake river year after year must be a little crazy, Rivers is making re markably long range plans for his charter boat business. And with a grin he'll admit, "I guess I just couldn't get away from the river if I wanted to." M&M MARKET So. Stage Griffin Rd. B 2-lbs. SJ5129 jTDBIEIE nMSTTmiLATndDM! 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