Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-12-10 | Page 3 | Lake Hunt Starts for 4 Youthful Texas Boaters

Lake Hunt Hunk Starts for 4 Youthful Texas Boaters POTTSBORO Tex Dec 10 UP UP Texas Texas and Oklahoma officers officers officers of of- and members of the Army Engineer Corps were set Monday Mon 1 day for a methodical search of huge wind swept Lake Texoma for the bodies of four high school youths believed drowned in a hunting mishap Saturday Only one in a group of five youths was known to have survived survived sur sur- and he was in a Denison Tex hospital Monday londay suffering from exposure and shook after clinging to his overturned boat for some nine hours The tragedy wasn't known Until until until un un- til Sunday when a fisherman chanced upon Robert R R. Davenport Davenport Davenport Daven Daven- port year old Odessa youth louth who had collapsed on a foot 15 sandbar five miles mile's from n Taken to the hospital he told fold officers of the Saturday accident in which the boat he and four were riding to an n island duck duek blind was vas capsized by the stiff wind Davenport told of w a ate t c h i n g ghis ghis ghis his four companions release their grip on the upturned boat and dropping one by one into the chill water after tortuous hours liours of trying to spot land Those still missing were identified identified iden iden- identified as Jerry Herrod Robert Reed and Shirley Thomas of Odessa and Harry Kirklin of Abi Abi- lene Texas Game Warden Varden Hill Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence said several large boats and possibly spotter airplanes would be used in Mondays Monday's search Army Engineer personnel personnel person person- person person-I nel conduct most rescue work on the giant lake which is located on the Texas Oklahoma border and Lawrence said they'd probably probably probably ably direct the search