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Resisting U.S. efforts to move them out of Oregon's Wallowa Valley and resettle them on an Idaho reservation, some 750 Nez Perce men, women and children led by Chief Joseph had staged an incredible 1,700-mile retreat across four states, fighting off 2,000 U.S. troops along the way. Finally, seeking sanctuary in Canada, they were within 35 miles of their goal when they were surrounded, and Chief Joseph decided to surrender. With his surrender, the last major Indian resistance to the encroaching white man in the Northwest was broken...
...That's Not News." Whether in the lumber camps of Wallowa County or the fishing settlements along the McKenzie, Wayne Morse is working with tireless, effective energy. Arising as early as 4 a.m., he looks worn and grey as he steps forth, topcoat collar turned up, hat pulled down, into the morning mists., But he sheds his years as the day progresses. "I," he cries in martyrdom, "am the man who has been marked for a purge by the Eisenhower Administration." Instead of discussing issues, he complains, Doug McKay is merely telling everyone who'll listen how much...
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, after two months of wild boar and gazelle hunting in Iran and the Himalayas,was back home with some wildflower seeds for his Wallowa mountain hideout in Oregon, and some traveler's impressions: "India is bristling with ideas, projects and programs. It reminds me very much of the first term under Roosevelt...
...biologists at Uncle Sam's Fish College think the plan will work for virtually all the Columbia's estimated 240,000 Chinooks-though it may result in a punier breed of fish. But oldtime fishermen are skeptical. Said Forest Ranger Grady Miller, gazing moodily at a Wallowa Lake dam that has completely destroyed a once-great salmon fishing ground: "Civilization and salmon...
Associate Justice William Orville Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court came down out of the Wallowa Mountains to Portland, Ore. He confessed that, during nearly three vacation months in his cabin, whose radio is busted, he had read "about six newspapers," had no idea what was going...