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Show Deer Hunters Rescue Riders The adventures of Kit Carson had nothing on three young Iron-ton Iron-ton boys, who set out Saturday morning on horseback to explore the hills northeast of this city and found themselves trapped in the rocky and rugged terrain of the area when night fell. ( Tired, hungry and lacking even coats to keep ,the cold out, the, three huddled into a small dugout in the mountain and spent a cold and fearsome night as they waited for sunrise, they told Utah county officers, Sunday. With the coming of morning, the three, Jimmy, 13, and Johnny !Hutson, 11, sons of Mrs. Annie Hutson, a widow living on the' Springville road, and Gregory Fallowfield, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bruce Fallowfield, also of Springville road, proceeded on toward home. The terrain, however how-ever became more rocky and rugged. rug-ged. Finally they found themselves them-selves in a narrow gully or crevice from which they could not get their horses to climb. Cold, hungry and tired, they waited for help to come and after eight hours Ronald T. Day, Luke Day and his 12-year-old son, Clark Day, deer hunting in the vicinity found them, Sheriff Thereon Ther-eon S. Hall, Springville, reported, j The men pushed the horses up , over the huge rocks and Ronald i and Jimmy rode tHem on down i the. ' rough canyon to Sheriff : Hall's home in Springville. The other two boys went back up the mountain with Luke Day and son and obtained the Day vehicle to ! come home. I The youths were none the worse for their experience, the sheriff said. However, he added, if the deer- hunters had not found them, it might have been sometime before be-fore a posse could have located them." |