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Show Miner sville Youth Dies From Accidental Gunshot Wound Melvin M. Carter, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.' DeWayne Carter, died in the Milford Hospital at 10 o'clock Wednesday night of an accidental gunshot wound. Melvin shot himself in the abdomen while hunting rabbits south of Miners ville. Accompanied by Dale and Gordon Eyre, Gary Marshall Mar-shall and Dean Carter, Melvin was hunting rabbits just before dark in the fields south of Minersville. Sighting a running rabbit, Melvin ran ahead of the other boys to get into position for an open shot. He apparently stumbled stum-bled over a piece of field equipment, twisting as he fell, and the gun, a .22 rifle, discharged. The slug entered his IaW i i. a. ; l i i u n 4. , left side about two inches to the left of the breast bone, passed thru the liver, and emerged on the right side. Immediate cause of death was hemorrhage from the liver. The injured youth was rushed to the Milford Hospital in the Frank Williams car. He died on the operating table as Dr. Davie and hospital attendants were working over him. Blood donors were Gilva Myers My-ers and Ross Patterson, and many others who were typed in the Civilian Defense program offered blood if needed. Melvin M. Carter was born in Minersville, Jan. 21, 1936, a son of DeWayne and Vivie Marshall Carter. He was active in the Boy Scouts, and was a teacher in the Minersville L D S Sunday School. A student of Beaver High school, he was an excellent student, stu-dent, receiving an A rating in all his studies last year. He was well liked and respected by all his friends, ana was a courteous, cour-teous, friendly, serious-minded young man. Survivors, besides his parents, par-ents, are two sisters, Jeannine Carter Bohn and Marsha Carter, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hall, and Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Carter. Funeral services were tentatively tenta-tively set for Sunday afternoon, in the Minersville LDS Chapel. |