Show Did Octopus Climb Clim b Rapids Or Was It Only Fish Story PORTLAND Ore March 16 AP A AP A government biologist left today for central Oregon to learn whether a fisherman had pulled a o new lie scientific discovery from the river or just come up with another fish story etory The central figure is an octopus which Jack McDaniels of Redmond Redmond Red RedS mond said he caught In the river several hundred miles from th the ocean cean Stanley G. G Jewett Read head of the United States Biological Survey in Oregon left Portland to investigate Willi William m L. L Finley Oregon naturalist naturalist nat nat- and vice president of the National Wild Life LiCe conference I suggested someone might be trying to beat the story of the sea lion in the tile Willemett The sea lion was recently caught by state troopers In a agrain agrain agrain grain field miles from the ocean It climbed one fish ladder on Its journey up the Willamette river from the ocean to the grain grai field An or a squid or whatever it may prove to be Finley said sald- possibly tr travel trel el up tip the ie Columbia over the Cascades a and d the Falls and up over the the falls of the Deschutes Into the Metolius Those things arent aren't strong swimmers and they cant ant nt jump like salmon If its it's an tan and was in the tile Metolius somebody must have put it there unless there is such a thing as a fresh water ater cephalopod and if so ita Its absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab new ew to science nce |