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Show 'Youth Rescues Boy From Dangerous Main Street Ditch Quick thinking on the part of a young fellow, in snatching a 21-month-old boy from the irrigation stream on South Main street Monday Mon-day night, was being praised this week by neighbors and on-lookers as those seme people were devising means of making the ditch less hazardess. The hero in the story was Scott Hutchings, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hutchings, who with two friends, Ivan Russell and Verl Van Patten, were walking along the highway when little Rickey Aver-ett, Aver-ett, 21-month-old son of Mr and Mrs. Harold Averett, tumbled off the foot-bridge into the stream at 600 South Main. The current carried car-ried him about 20 feet before he was rescued from the water. Neighbors report that the stream is a treacherous one with water often measuring five feet at various places. It runs along the highway and one or two children are pulled from the stream each summer, they state. It is especially dangerous after dark, as about a year ago, a motorist stepped from her car into the water not realizing the stream was so close to the curbing, and was thoroughly drenched. The Springville Irrigation company com-pany owns the ditch, which is lo- cated on the state highway in the city's business district so it seems that no one will take the responsibility respon-sibility of covering the stream or diverting it through less-populated areas, neighbors report. Incidentally, it was the second time in two summers that the Hutchings youth had the experience exper-ience of saving one from drowning. He was at Park Ro-She last summer sum-mer when he rescued a small boy from the pool and received special thanks from the boy's brother and others at hand. |