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Show TWO MILFORD VALLEY YOUTHS ARE ACCIDENTAL GUNSHOT VICTIMS JUNIOR DAVIS SUFFERS SHOTGUN BLAST Junior Davis, 16-year-old Milford Mil-ford High School student, is recuperating re-cuperating satisfactorily in the Milford Hospital after suffering critical injuries Saturday evening eve-ning when a shotgun accidentally accident-ally discharged. Young Davis was hunting rabbits with two school companions at the Yal- i low Banks, ll-2 miles northeast of Milford. Junior . Davis, Tommy Brad-field, Brad-field, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fay I Bradfield, and Ray Mclntyre, ' son of Mr. and Mrs .A. A. Mclntyre, Mcln-tyre, were preparing to return to Milford after the rabbit hunt. Davis entered the truck, driven by Young Bradfield, and placed the three shotguns butt down, between his feet. As he changed the position of the guns to make room for his companions, one of them discharged, and he re- I ceived the full force of the blast I in his left shoulder, the shot entering en-tering above his heart and ranging upward and outward. He was rushed to the hospital, where Dr. Fowler and Dr. Busch gave him immediate surgical sur-gical attention: ! Junior is a son of Lewis Davis , of California. He has been living liv-ing with his grandmother, Mrs. I La Verne Davis, and attending the Milford High School, where he was an outstanding football player this past season, and was expected to be a "regular" on the Tiger basketball squad this season. He will be confined to the hospital for several weeks. |