Census Takers Found After 4 Days in Desert
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<i> United Press International</i>
WAGONTIRE, Ore. — Two census takers whose truck ran out of gas were stranded for four days in the remote desert of southeast Oregon before a pilot spotted them.
Harney County sheriff’s officers said Howard Kahn, 67, and his wife Georgia, 66, of Hines, were found Wednesday about nine miles south of the tiny town of Wagontire.
The couple took refuge in a group of unoccupied trailers used by a rancher as a cow camp.
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