Show S Oil i Dots In Desert Bring Rescue Re cue I I ITo To Three Amateur Prospectors I I 5 1 t k kg g 4 Harold We Weight i r rA A dust covered car its engine A knocking limped into int Twenty TwentyNine TwentyNine TwentyNine Nine Palms California with its oc oc- occupants occupants oc- oc occupants the victims victim of oC a freak auto auto- automobile automobile automobile mobile accident that nearly ne in disaster The driver of oC tho the ear car Harold Weight of Pasadena Pasa ena had gone into the Rainbow Canyon Canon section with S Us his parents to search for mineral minera S deposits He drove about 30 miles out on a dead end road through I desert country and failed to start back baek until after alter dark The road was only a n trail and aid hiscar his hI hIcar I car was so heavily loaded that the th o oil opan oil pan rode on the sand and rocks rock b he tween the ruts After a few pow mlles miles I the tho motor began to knock I stopped Weight said and crawled under What I saw told mo me we were v. W fP in A tight spot The crank crank- crankcase ease case plug was wa gone gone and and with 14 it all our oil i c We WP wre w rc 27 miles from a town tOwn tOwn-I i iJ J I was vac all in n lid had ad bc been n walking walkin since morning There was wa no chance that another car roar would come along per along per per- haps laps for days We hadn't much food and water left len It would be too bad if f we were caught there when the sun came up There was only one chance chance I I had to track back the oil trail the leaking pan had made and try to find the plug before the wind covered it with sand If I Iwas was lUcky we might make snake it to town I had two extra quarts of oH oil along J I JIt It lilt wan WM a real desert road that 1 tracks divided every hundred feet I or so and then came together ther ahead I couldn't remember which ones Id I'd taken I started back backi though spotting the trail with my flashlight Id I'd been using the light lighta a lot but the batteries were fresh when I put them in and the light was still strong enough to keep leep me I IL the trail on After following folio the oil streak for about at a nile mile I came to a placa where the ue oil oit bad poured out in at a abig big spot I J began beJan hunting every evry cv ry inch of sand around there and at loot last came on the It was half lull buried in a rut I felt as s though Id I'd found a thousand doUr 3 s. I Weight made nd hIs bis way back bock to the 1111 car got t the plug in place and I poured pouf d in his hi I spare 8 are oil Stopping every mile or o c so to make sure suro that tho the plus plug was still there Weight and an I his bis family finally got to th destination dc I I |