The State - News from Feb. 7, 1985

Searchers on snowmobiles reached the wreckage of a small plane in the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon and reported all four people aboard were dead. The private Cessna 182 had disappeared from radar after the pilot reported icing problems on a flight between Medford, Ore., and Redding, Calif. The bodies of the four men, all of Medford or surrounding Jackson County, were being brought out of the snow-covered mountains on a special machine. The victims were tentatively identified from the flight plan as pilot J. R. Goerke, 42; Ronald Rue, 46; Jason Scott, 18, and Chuck Creech, 40.