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Show r 3Q Ihe Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, July 1, 1962 mnyji X siy ' X f . hi - aw 3 i i " . 1 'V t - ,JiM- - jjArliKimmwirn mn La Vera Griffin, left, and Glen Hatch load survey equipment for lift to mountain top i nn i J in western Utah. man-hour- Helicopter saves many in this wild and rugged terrain, s Richard Greenland, left. Bureau of Land Management offi- eer, and Craig Sylvester study plat of surveys area, With pilot Martin McGuire at controls, hell copter aldma mountain ridges where BLM 1 I survey Is under way. Before helicopter, such areas were termed Inaccessible for survey. ; t If i Survey crew chief Glen Hatch bids radio farewell to helicopter pilot on wsy down mountain to pick I I Ferret Reynolds, Murray, takes sighting on transit as Jeffrey Campbell (with ax), Salt Lake City, trims limbs to clear surveys line of sight up two more crewmen, from base camp 8,000 feet lower. Round trip of five miles takes eight minutes, Lonely Crews in Sagebrush Country Survey Tames Uncharted Utah By Robert H. Woody Tribune Staff Writer n Early each morning a helicopter . roars to life on the sagebrush Hats south of Ibapah in western Tooele County. A COUPLE OF men, with a brace of canteens buckled to their hips, seat themselves on either side of the pilot The helicopter rises quickly in the cool morning air and is soon lost against the shoulder of the mountain to the ea; JN FIVE MINUTES ttjias reached the cresKof the mountain nearly three miles away and three thousand feet higher than the point of take-ofThe two men and equipment are unf. loaded. The helicopter pilot points his craft down mountain. In three minutes he Is back at point of take-off- . Two more men clamber aboard. They, too, are airlifted to the mountain shoulder. 7 each (a section is one square mile) township within Its boundaries. If any of those sections generates money through mining, grazing or whatever, the state can claim a bite which goes to the state school fund. Unless the area has been surveyed, the state has no title. More than 11 million acres of the states 54 million acres are still unsurveyed. THERE ARE advantages for the Bu reau of Land Management: Cattle and sheep grazing allotment boundaries can be defined exactly. Stock wells can be pinpointed. Fire burn reports can show accurate description of extent and loca tlpn of damage. Timber sale contracts can be firmed by exact definition of contract areas. The helicopter survey techniques got in wake of the their start In the mld-50- s oil and uranium boom In Utahs rough and wild southeast Here were thousands of undefined acres swarming with prospectors and the like. But these were not areas that could be surveyed quickly or easily by ground parties. THE COPTER Is back In eight min--' utes. Two more men also are taken to .the mountain top. The six men are one of two crews THE STATE BLM offices engineernow surveying thousands of previously division tried a helicopter survey in ing acres Utah. in unsurveyed the rough terrain and matched it against BEFORE 1910, the government con- the performance and costs of ground tracted for survey services. Those sur- crews. O. P. DeJulio, chief of the division of veyors walked or they rode horseback. And there were plenty of places where engineering, reported the results: cost neither man nor beast could go. On the of survey was cut by about by old survey plats, these places were sim- use of The helicopter. ; ply marked inaccessible." WHERE SURVEY parties, might ,It is these inaccessible areas that are now being surveyed by helicopter-,born- e have spent six hours hiking to and from crews of the Bureau of Land Man-- i a point, they are now ' whisked there in . minutes. agement Because they are' fresh when they . WHY IS IT "important to survey in- arrive, accident danger is removed. They accessible areas? can spend most of their time In actual Utah has a big stake in the survey, survey. notes Richard 'Greenland, manager of a MUCH OF THE need for 2,660,000-acr- e spread of public land that triangulation for crossing of extends from Soldier Summit In the east canyons and drivers is eliminated. to the Utah Nevada line. Helicopter or no helicopter, life on a UTAH GETS titfeto four sectioned survey crew can still be a Spartan affair. one-thir- d g Thief Repeater? Has Door Key Doug Reece, 924 H E. 2700 South, Saturday reported to police that a burglar had enTHE 14 MEN who are doing the sur- tered his apartment through an unlocked doorway. vey In the mountains of wester Utah r STOLEN WERE a radio, a live in a village set up in the travel bag and an alarm clock, base. at mountains the sage $21 total Value; two magazines Survey party chief is and the key to the apartment Craig Sylvester. Hes been in the field for about half of his working years. He sees his two sons and two daughters In Elsinore, Sevier County on weekends and during winter months. j four-traile- sun-crease- GLEN HATCH. 27. Salt Lake City, a survey crew chief, has been with the BLM for four and a half years. He, too, has spent about half of that time in the field. Many of the others are college youngsters, Just working a summer hitch N for the BLM. Recreation In camp: Gall Reynolds, 19, puts edge on ax for next days work. Crews live and eat in trailers. Yugo Girls By Millie Bergland .Tribune Staff Writer It may be difficult for most people to face the time when they must leave mom and dad behind, but that difficulty All American9 6 IT WAS, HOWEVER, a difficulty overcome and surpassed by two frightened little girls who came to the United States from Yugoslavia four years TODAY THE GIRLS speak English fluently, have many could seem almost Impossible When Joze and Davorka friends and are thoroughly acIf It comes when youre only Koulls came to the United quainted with American school 4 or 9 years old. States In 1958, they could speak , - day customs. In 1956 Mrs. Koulis, a widow since 1939, visited her nephew and his family in a small town on the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia. ago. - SHE r. THROUGH THE proper Yugoslavian authorities, Mrs. Koulis adopted the girls, then, with the help of Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, she had Congress pass a special act to get the girls here. could In six months,-Joz- e speak English. Davorka learned from her older sister, and when she entered kindergarten the next year, she had no difficulty speaking Eng lish. - ROBERT LEVERE, 19, and Calvin their bothPaysoiv-sito- n bunks and talk. A stereo record player fills the trailer with the voice of Johnny Mathis. In his trailer, Martin McGuire, the helicopter pilot, a lanky North Carolinian, tallied the days time. His company charges $88 dollars an hour of flying time on a contract to the BLM. Maraccount tin has made a of the days trips in his registry. Gleave,26r - LEARNED had been struck with poverty and that her nephew was finding it difficult to support his wife and five daughters. Mrs. Koulis wrote to her nephew and asked if she could adopt two of the girls, to which she received an immediate reply of yes. THERE ARE some regulations: No alcoholic beverages. Otherwise, the men are pretty free to do as they please. But around Ibapah, there Isnt much to do as the sun drops hot and fiery In the west in late afternoon. Nineteen-year-old Gall Reynolds, Elon the sinore, squats shady side of his axe. trailer, filing the edge of double-bi- t He will be using it the next morning. minute-by-mlnut- LATER that the fanning community EACH TRAILER is equipped with six bunks and a shower. The men are Sherfed in two shifts at a man Nance, Salt Lake City, Is the cook. cook-traile- no English. They had only once met Mrs. Pauline Koulis, the aunt who had adopted them. JOZE, WHO IS 13 nowTis In the ninth grade at Hillside Junior High School (She was promoted from the fifth to the seventh grade to catch up with the other students of her age.k Davorka is now 9 and a fourth grader at Curtis Grade School MRS. KOULIS Is planning to 5f take the girls to Yugoslavia in July, 1963, to visit the parents, sisters and a grandmother they e ? ?' A COUPLE OF the boys pile Into their small foreign car and hit the dusty trail for Ibapah. Maybe theres something doing there. Davorka Koulls displays her reading progress to bln. Pauline Koulls, while sister Joze looks on. Mrs. Koulis adopted girls when they came from Yugoslavia In 1958. left behind in 1958. Have they been homesick? Never once," said Mrs Koulis. j Snakes Alive! Time to Keep Sharp Eye Out for Fangs X On one recent Sunday morn- ing, a mountain climber was amknoll Just bling over a below the snow field that spreads like a carpet under the Dromedary Peaks Just a few miles east of Salt Lake City. sun-bake- d IF HE HAD NOT been watching his feet, he would have stepped right among three large rattlesnakes that lay polled leth... argically on a rock. It was a shocking encounter. . No one had expected to find rat- - - i . tiers this close to the snow line. A half an hour later two other climbers spotted a pair of rattlesnakes and killed them with their Ice axes. THERE WILL BE MORE en- counters between man and snake this year. For as warm weather and summer brings us out of doors to soak up sunshine, so does it bring out the snakes. Fortunately Utahs only poisonous snake is the rattler. There are two kinds: The Great, Basin rattler, which Is found over all the state, and the sidewinder, : " - which inhabits" the southwestern corner. - around the bite swells and becomes discolored. The victim Is pale, weak and nauseated. He must have help Immediately. -- TJIE AMERICAN .Medical Assn.'has some comforting information lor those who five in dread of snakes. Of tKe whd are bitten each year, perhaps 10 to 20 die of the bite. However, every bite is a medical emergency, the AMA emphasizes. When a snake strikes, It uses its fangs as hypodermic needles to puncture the sklnTand inject, venom. Imediately, there is intense burning pain. The flesh -- -- A 3,000-person- - s AMA RECOMMENDS quick' emergency action: First, kill the snake. Then have the victim lie down and remain quiet to slow circulation and retard absorption of the poison. Tie a tourniquet above the Tang marks to dam off the poison from the rest of the body. BE CAREFUL .THAT the tourniquet does not cut off circulation of blood, and be sure to remember to loosen It for one Interminute at 10 to vals. Sterllze a knife tip or razor blade with a match flame and make a cut lengthwise of the limb through each fang mark. Press the wound to encourage free bleeding. IF YOU HAVE A snake bite kit, use the suction cup to draw out the poison. If you have no kit, suck the poison out with your mouth and spft it out You will be in no danger, unless there is a cut or sore Inside your mouth. Continue the suction treatment for half an hour. Keep the injured person warm. Use blankets, and give hot tea or coffee. Do not use whisky. It ban be harmful AFTER FIRST AID, It Is very important to get the victim to a doctor or hospital for antlvenin,. Do this with as little movement on the part of the patient as possible. If he must walk out of the woods, have him walk slowly. Use a stretcher if you can. As soon as you' can get to a phone, call the doctor and let him know you are comiag. He mayv have to get the antivenin fromr a distance. , HE WILL NEED TO know the size of the snake to know how much to order. The bite of a tattler in a 'big diamond-bacsmall child may take six or eight tubes. Most important: Dont panic. Remember that few persons in the US.' die' of snake bite. Keep-thpatient quiet, give first aid and get him to a doctor.. k e |