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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNEMEDFORD, ORE.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1960
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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