The Washington times., 1928-07-30
HOOVER DRIVES.
$50 MILES
To FISH
By WILLIAM Il. HUTCHlNsON
international News Services

~ ase,r,,ia home Herbert Hoover
today was placidly fishing LOT
steelhead trout. in the icy 49,. .!.,' Z
OF the Rogue River. 10 miles n0i'n
east OF here. 1900
The Republican nominee stopp s,
off to seek the CANISTER Ilsn 49, 49,
en- route to his favorite Ilsn ne
grounds in the headwaters q LIZ
Klamath River. near Hornsprook.
calf. He will move on later .ouay
to the klamath stream, hlsh ~
the Siskiyou Mountains.
a dozen members OF the Hoover
party. which include PERSONA
friends OF the nominee, newspaper,
men and photographers. listed
with him in the winding Rogue
Hoover was up with the naWh'
pulling on waist-high rubber Doo.s,
and went fishing alone.
Likes Solitude
The nominee has declared ire
uuentIy that solitude gives him his
greatest joy on q fishing trip. re
used & fly with d heavy line Pc
cause the steelhead Is one Of tne
Afightingistn fish on record, doins
fIipfIops many feet out OF the wa
ter when hooked.
Hoover brought his party mere
after two-day motor ride IRON
Palo Alto.
The nominee drove $50 miles up
the California coast Saturday %
Bull Creek Grove in the midst OF
forest Of giant Redwood trees
The party camped out beneath the
trees, ate dinner at d campfire, ana
slept on cots. out In the open, Pc
meath the skies.
The nominee arose at $50 Sunday
informing. shaved himself beneath
3OO-foot high redwood, ate g ham
and egg breakfast and carried his
party another ESQ miles up the
coast and across several mountain
ranges into Oregon. The route lay
through priimeval forests, past giant
redwood groves, along hazardous
one-wav mountain trails and out
along cliffs Overhanging the PaciIlc
Dangerous Trail
At one spot the trail hung along
the face OF towering cliff Loo
feet above the Pacific Ocean. A
skid Of two feet would haye thrown
the nominees car catapulting into
the ocean. His party. however, got
an airplane view OF the Pacific.
Young Allan Hoover, son Of the
nominee was N one n1ishap. The
car. n which he was riding with
III. A1onzo FavIor. 4 Stamford pro.
lessor, and two newspaper men
3 Irvsldad ~, j sro,d under construction
80, vve,,t int ditch after giving
tl,e nccus,aI,ta a bad scare. No one
va Z iIIiI1red THE car was hauled
mt ~ fhe ditch bv tractor Al
work On sfl,e road. Hoover didn't
learn M the n1fshap until the end
81 the days pun
The party lunched in another red
wood grove at noon Sunday, eating
b picnic luncheon beside q 2 900
year-old tree that nssa assured 6S feet
around the base cover ar saa ssa s
Wiches and md ms, drank cold cot
Zee ard water. bat refused PIE.
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T ter Iu NC f1oVper lOVk MS pa ,.
~ s ssn, anil p1sn Ra ssA'. ana into
Oregon. Near Medford he detoured
to reach the fishing camp on the
Rogue River.
Most ~ fha Journey was over
navad roads hnt while Il California
IL marty w. forced IL make \
number her Of detours over perilous
trails, which twisted along the
slopes of mountains, AT one point
ne asked = mountaineer how the
roads were .un aheada after one
nerilous stretch and laughed heart.
n, 81 ths realy. .s,rhev have that
french disease .desours ~
the NOMINEES silent last night in
1 FISHING lodge on the Rogue! while
nosf ~ his marty came on into
Medford. some az the friends &C,
eor, a. v,,o bin, u,ara Asa,atant At.
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