OCR Text |
Show Paj-- e THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, December 3, 1995 K8 100 years ago, Utah Marine survives 2 days and nights afloat in By MICHAEL E. RUANE statehood WASHINGTON Screaming would have been futile. With the wind and the w aves and the rumble of the ship, Marine Lance Cpl. Zachary R. Mayo's puny cries would never have been heard, superiors would say later. About all he could do after tumbling into the ocean from the deck of his aircraft carrier was watch in horror as the 81,000-to- n vessel receded into the darkness, leaving him alone in the vastness of the Arabian Sea. He might also have prayed, for the odds of his survival were nil. But last weekend Lance Cpl. Mayo, 20, the only child of an Osburn, Idaho, silver miner, kept his cool, inflated his uniform into a life preserver, and floated for two days and two nights until he was picked up by a Pakistani fishing boat. Out of the blue, he telephoned his distraught father at 4 a.m. Wednesday. "Hi, Dad," he said, "How you doing?" "I'm doing fine," he father, Stanley, 43, replied. "Where the hell are you?" Thus ended what the Marine Corps said mminent Each week The Daily Herald :.if-- , a look at Utah County's past through the pages of its back issues. 100 years ago 1S4'5 With only a month to go until statehood, Utah is busy with plans to celebrate admittance into the union on Jan. 4. Dec. 3 Tramps get drunk and begin breaking up the Provo railroad station. Police officers respond and a brawl ensues, which results in injuries to the officers and a city jail filled with hobos. Robert Kirbv ' V "-'- 1 was an almost unheard of case of spunk and good fortune. "This doesn't happen," said Lt. Scott NL Gordon, a spokesman at Marine headquarters in Washington. Usually in such cases, "you're d Newspapers Knight-Ridd- dead." Mayo's extraordinary passage began early Nov. 24. An av iation maintenance expert ca's escort vessels were sent to retrace the ship's overnight path. Gordon said the search was hampered because no one knew father said. "Next thing he knows he's floating in the water." Mayo told his father he treaded water until he got his uniform off, and then following Marine survival techniques, fashioned crude iife preservers from his clothing. "He tied knots in the legs and arms and "He went out to get a little fresh air. Next thing he knows he's floating in the water." Stanley Mayo, father assigned to a Marine air squadron aboard the USS America, he had left his berth to get some fresh air. Gordon said that at the time the America was cruising in the northern Arabian Sea, which is flanked by the coasts of Oman and Pakistan. It was not clear where on the ship Mayo had gone. But he told his father that a door either blew or was pushed open, and knocked him over the side. "He went out to get a little fresh air," his sea swished them in the air and made a kind of balloon out of them," the elder Mayo said Wednesday in a telephone interview from his home. He continued treading water. And he waited. Meanwhile back on the carrier, Mayo was discovered missing at the 7 a.m. muster the next morning. A search was first conducted aboard the carrier. And when he did not turn up, it was presumed he had fallen over the side. Four helicopters and two of the Ameri exactly when Mayo had fallen in. Later that day a Marine delegation visited the Mayo home in the rup - '1 mining counTO miles south try of northern Idaho, abo of the Canadian border. "1 uey came ... to let us know that our son could possibly be overboard or lost on the ship somewhere," the elder Mayo said. "It was a mystery to them." The search continued over the weekend in vain. Tuesday afternoon Marines returned to the Mayo home to tell his father and mother, Cindy, that there still was no sign of Zack and the search had been called off. After 36 hours of floating and treading water, Mayo was picked up by the fishing vessel. The crew, which spoke no English, carried Mayo to the Pakistani port of Gwadar, near the mouth of the Gulf of Oman. Gordon, the Marine spokesman, said Mayo had some trouble finding someone in authority who could speak English, but he finally made contact with officials in the Pakistani capital of Karachi. Flashback Harry Hayes of indicted for the Pelican Point murders. In February, the bodies of three young men, one of which was Hayes' stepson, were found floating in the waters of Utah Lake. Hayes was known to have an adversarial relationship with his stepson. Hayes pleads not guilty to three charges Dec. 4 Eureka is Zions li ome Banking ws you to VloVV Viol ances, transfer do and ; Lit eve abo rvminff just 11 ice-fill- of murder. The patented medicine Manly Vigor is guaranteed to restore lost male vigor and to cure all manner of sexual weaknesses. Failure is impossible. Pork costs 4 cents a pound. 75 vears ago WORLD NEWS: On Dec. 1920 8. Wilson gives his last annual message to Congress, urging America to set a democratic example for the world. An unidentified Dec. 4 man is found frozen to death in a boxcar in Lehi. The man, who apparently drank himself into a stupor before freezing to death, may have ridden the boxcar from Montana. Dec. 5 Provo Elks hold a in the Columbia thelarge meeting ater. Wilson and HarriDec. 8 son Conover are run over by a car while riding their bicycle in a storm near Ironton Hill. The two escape injury w hen the car pushed them into the mud rather than crushing (hem. Both are taken to a nearby hospital. Dec. 9 Dowling's Chicago S ncopator's. a jazz band, performs in the Provo Armory. A large box of Post Toasties costs 20 cents. Oranges cost 78 cents a dozen. 1 VOU COUIQ DOSS1D wa: y with your money. 50 vears ago WORLD NEWS: On Dec. 1945 1 3, President Truman asks Congress lor new legislation to curb a wave of (Sorry j it doesn't slice, dice, or make julienne fries.) labor strikes across America. On Dec. 4. the Senate consents to the treaty by which the U.S. agrees to join the United Nations. On Dec. 6. the U.S. agrees to write off $25 bile aid to the British. lion in Lake-- v A Dec. 8 ievv man is killed in Provo when his car strikes a bridge abutment. I Dec. 9 A heavy snow storm strikes Utah County. Dec. 9 More than 3(K) German prisoners of war living in Orem are transferred back to camp in Ogden. The POWs had been sent to Utah County to help with the crop harvest. Robert Walker stars in What's AV7. Corporal Hargrove? at the lend-leas- ld . ($2.95 per month for Gold and PC Banker is here. What that means is Super Gold Accounts). All you you need to provide is a can do just about all your PC with Windows, a banking from home on a Paramount. A loaf of Wonder bread costs cents. A can of Campbell's tomato soup costs 8 cents. 25 vears ago WORLD NEWS: On Dec. 197(1 4. "labor leader Cesar Chavez is arrest for organizing an illegal national boycott of lettuce. On Dec. 8, General Westmoreland ends the Army's practice of playing reveille every morning. On Dec. 7. West Germany signs a pact transferring 40.000 square miles of former German territory to Poland. Utah County raises Dec. 8 the tax rate from 9.7 mills to 1.5 modem, and a soft, fully secure system. No more 11 lines. No more hassles. Just k - - V cushy chair to relax in ds:lZJ while you direct your financial the familiar, warm, glowing resources0. PC Banker is secure, convenient, and user- - screen of your computer. kind of like that chair. For more information, visit Available any hour of the day, friendly any day of the year, PC Banker lets you view account any office of Zions Bank, call information including account history up to one year, our Internet site on the World Wide Web at account balances, current interest rates and terms, and http:www.zionsbank.com. or check out 1 mills. . Dec. 9 Springville High School organizes a campaign to write letters to Hanoi expressing concern about the fate of American prisoners of war. A steak costs $ .29 a where cusat Albcrtsons. pound tomers receive Gold Strike stamps w ith each purchase. Peter O'Toole and Katharine I lepburn star in The Lion in Winter at the Paramount. : more. Plus you can transfer funds from one account to another and pay all your bills, from utility companies to department stores to loans. 1 Popular songs include "Amazing Grace" by Judy Collins. "Black Night" by Deep Purple. "Born to Wander" by Rare Earth, and "Bridget The Midget (The Queen of the Pines)" by Ray Stevens. When you sign up with PC Banker, the software from . Zions Bank is free. And there's no monthly service fee through April 1 . 1996. After that. PC Banker is just $5.95 a month To . f &.' Aw PC h.mk(r. M S MH R.VI rr,;mmoiM). htller, '( I Awry. . I nviw'f (' rt V6 tLII tvmp.ilMt PCM IWS i.t lflMHfitr,m)i,mrli)ni.'k, nunkm. nti'mUr, (ivMiitinln-- . thit Miir a nunwe. 4.UH tir.itcr, U Kill (4X6 PC VmUii '. ZIONS BANK .Member K I) I C S.lur "r tvtn AiAVny iikutt. |