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Show Newspaper Publicity Given River Trip Leads to Reunion of Brothers An Associated Press dispatch of the experiences of the river party led by Dr. Russel G. Frazier on the Salmon river in Idaho recently will result in the reunion of two brothers broth-ers who had been separated for 54 years. The Associated Trcs; story ( gave an account of the interview Dr. Frazier's party had with Earl Parrott recluse of the Impassable canyon on the middlefork of the Salmon river. This week Dr. Fra-dier Fra-dier received a letter from A. B. Parrott of Portland, Oregon. Mr. Parrott wrote that a news item in the Portland Oregonian containing con-taining an account of the river explorations ex-plorations of the Frazier party and mentioning the visit with Earl Par rott had come to his attention. The I letter said in part: "This man, Earl K. Farrott. is my brother. I have ' not seen him in 24 years." Mr. Par-j ' rott endo-cd a map with his let-: trr T.kinr Dr. Trazicr to mark it that h3 m'ght hr.o r ,-oper direction in the cis'e:; roix r the Impassable Impassa-ble canyon for a visit with his brother. Dr. Frazier sent full directions to Mr. Parrott, but was skeptical a-bout a-bout the warmth of any welcome from the eccentric Earl. Called the "Hermit of the Impassable canyon" Earl Parrott dislikes company partly because of a claimed susceptibility to infections. Mr. Parrott told the river party that he "never received mail, disliked reading newspapers because accounts of worldly doings "made him mad", and made only yearly or semi-annual trips outside for the limited supplies he desired: tea, salt, tobacco, and Levi Strauss overalls. Dr. Frazier in telling of the visit to Mr. Parrott related how they found the isolated and cleverly hidden hid-den cabin of the hermit. Parrott was not in his cabin, and the party sat down to wait his coming. After' sometime a voice from a tree close to the cabin demanded to know what the men wanted, and Parrott slid from his observation point in the tree, one hand on a 12 inch barreled 45 pistoL i |