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Show HILL TOP TIMES Page 30 Father and Son Save Lives Of Boaters at Flaming Gorge Summer Camp Some 500 Utahns will swap business suits and other civilian wear for Air Force blue when the 945th Military Airlift Group (Reserve) at Hill AFB holds its annual summer 9. encampment, July Most of the reservists will train at Hill AFB in the jobs they are assigned to. About 35 will report to March AFB, Calif., for supp'y systems computer trsir.ir.vr while some 20 others will go t AFB. McChord in training tions. Wash.. fr at various times during the year supporting actual flying missions. A highlight of the encampment will be a visit by Maj. Gen. Tom E. Marchbanks Jr., Air Force Chief of Reserve, training y who will It happened to David Martin, son of Charles the Martin, a mechanical engineer in Procurement. On the evening of July 5, about 6:30 p.m. the father and his son were quietly cruising south at the entrance to Horse-ho- e Canyon on Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Reinell cabin Their cruiser, the "Charlie Brown," approached a fast speedboat. At a distance of about 50 yards to their horror the Marsaw the tins speedboat go out 22-fo- func- Officials of the 945th said that the group has about 1,000 officers and airmen reservists on it3 roles. The remaining 500 are involved in flying and aircraft maintenance areas and have performed their annual 15-da- Sometimes the long finger of Fate reaches out, and without warning, gives a boy a man's job to do. g. aerial port two-wee- k ot of control and veer sharply at right angles into the sheer cliff! Boat Smashed The boat seemed for a moment to climb right up the cliff, then dropped back, its bow smashed, motor torn loose and seats ripped up, but float- ing free. The two men in the boat, another father and son, Jess and Boyd Christensen, of Salt Lake County, still sat in the inspect the summer sometime during encampment the period. boat, dazed from shock and severely lacerated from the impact. They were not wearing life jackets. Dave Martin, watching from the crusier, grabbed a life preserver, put it on and jumped into the water to help. The speedboat tipped and sank to the bottom of the gorge leaving the injured men struggling for their lives. Drawing near to the men in his boat, Mr. Martin threw four life jackets toward the victims and Dave swam with them to the Christensens. Next the father threw Dave a stout rope and the men finally caught on and were helped to the "Charlie Brown." . Helped Men ladder dropped down the side enabled Dave to help the injured men to safety. His father said, "I could never have done it myself." If Dave was "chosen" to be at that place at that moment, there is at least a good reason. He is six feet - one, weighs 215 A n V THE -: ro.,yc "laniu wen; . . . . . ana nis father Charl Martin, a mechanical engineer in Procurement, point to Horse shoe Canyon on a Flaming Gorge map, where Dave leapt into the water and effected a timely rescue of men in a wrecked speedboat. Father and son fished them into their cabin cruiser and eventually turned them over to the care of Rangers CPOT v M-- and expects to play football for Olympus High next season. He learned to swim as a Scout, and likes water and snow skiing. 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