Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-09-03 | Page 19 | Drowning Girl Saved by South S. L. Youth

f. f i A 4 L iI 1 i. i L F i I c 44 Q 4 p t S 4 r 4 4 ri 4 I rv t. t fr t A t. t 4 f w i A w v-w f. f aJ t. t k r J J i 1 Tune une Phot Cr Gray lIap Happy over her rescue Frida Friday morning I is Betty May Anderton 2 j held lit In the arms of 14 year old ear Dale Christensen who rescued I her lite two t were swimming In an Irrigation canal with friends Tragedy Averted Averted I Drowning Girl Saved d dBy I By South S. S L. L Youth I Timely work by a young Salt Lake boy Friday saved the life of a youthful girl who nearly drowned in an irrigation canal which runs in back of their home Dale Christensen 14 son of Mr anc and Mrs Clyde Christensen E. E South said he saw the young girl Betty May Anderson 2 same address floundering in the water at their swimming hole holc I watched her while she went down three times trying to grab grabher grabher grabher her by the hand So then I jumped into the canal and dragged her herout herout herout out Dale said The swimming hole to which Daje Qa referred is about a hundred feet northeast of the house in which h the two families live At Atthe Atthe the thc time of the acc accident dent there were five other children in addition addition addition addi addi- tion to Dale and Betty May swimming swimming swim swim- ming ruing at the hole This is the second mish mishap p of ot its type that has occurred at the hole Last month Dales Dale's quick work saved a young nt neighbor from irom drowning in the canal