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Show OH?? 'Utahn Describes Rescue of Airmen From Downed Craft in Eureka J&ppnrtre ART CITY PUBLISHING EDITORS NOTE i The following letter written by n Utahn, I A. Commander 6. M. Nielson to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nielson In Fklrvlew, Utah, wUl Im read with Interest by everyone. Deserlb-In- g the heroism and unselfishness of men in the armed forces, he paints a vivid picture of the dangerous rescue work of navymrn as they pick up two airmen who had been In the water over 40 hours, after their plane crashed in COMPANY SnuNOvnxij Utah matter February 10, 1948, at the "Entered m second-cla- s poet office at Eureka, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879." Subscription In Advance, Per Year, $4.00; Per Copy, 10c Editor and Manager Reporter Hauuson Conovh ... Maa. Belli Corrzv . mid-IaeJf- lc. IDITORI AL 5Elh5'fr Wo will arrive Honolulu tomorrow morning. We should have arrived there last Sunday, but were delayed a couple days while we participated In the search and rescue of the Flying Tiger air- xl n. Business Column Market Phones 58 or B9 FOR SALE FOR SALE Turkey, Oven, ready, wholesale, 44c per lb. Will delivery. McMullin'a Orchards, In d30 Genola. Phone Payeon 442 SALE Bassinet tor practically new, used only two months. Call 488, Eureka. d30 FOR position given billfold, green plastic,' containing personal papers and pictures. Reward tor return. Call 593, Eureka, Mrs. Doyle Hansen. REPORTER 84.00 per year PHONE 108 SubacriptioB Service Station Legal Notice Probata and Guardianship Noticas Consult Cuunty Clerk er Ike Respective Signer far further Inform tie Notice to Creditor Administratrix of the estate of Antonio Echevarrieta, also known as Tony Echevarrieta, looted.. dis-stan- ce Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Griggs Deceased. drove to Salt Lake City over the weekend and enjoyed Christmas Ray 8. McCarty, with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Attorney for Administratrix Day 400 Boston Building, Bauer and eons, and Mr. and Mrs. Lake Salt C. A. Peterson and family. City ll.Utah. Published in The Eureka Reporter, Dee. SO, 1055, Jan. 8, IS, 20, I960. Mlaa CoDeea Barraatoa, who Is attending business college in Salt Apocryphal Books Bridge Gap In Bible History the Old and New Testaments Is one to which comparatively little attention Is paid by Bible read-e- n, but it was of great import tance in the development of Judaism and in the preparation for Christianity Over 400 years elapsed between the last writing of the Old Testament end the first writing in the New. The period was not without religious writing, as readers of the Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament well know, but the 14 books, varying in value, were not a pert of the Hebrew Canon, which dosed with the Book of Malachl. This period of over 400 yean saw the rise and fall of the Persian empire, its overthrow in the world conquest of Alexander the Great and the ascendancy of Greece, and the domination of . the world by Rome, completed By Lake City was home tor the holidays visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Burraaton. Alonso Snndstrom left Thursday tor Newcastle where he will spend n couple of days with Mrs. Bandatrom'a mother, . Mrs. John Tullls. it was getting dark. In addition the sea was beginning to get little rough and we ran into a couple of rain squalls making visibility poor. Tha search continued during the night. If the surviv ora had been able to launch a Ufa raft they might have signal flares. Also their life Jackets would have smaU lights attached that would enable ue to see them. Saturday morning dawned and till no results. Tha sea had become rougher during the night and heavy swells made it difficult to spot anything nt a distance. The heavy swells would make It Impossible to land a Flying Boat on tha water, and would make Patients Have Happy Christinas Due to the unselfish efforts of a large number of people, oyer 600 patients at the Utah State hospital were pleasantly surprised by receiving lovely Chris tmM gifts, given under the sponsorship of the Utah hospital council of the American Red Cross, and with the cooperation of tha officials at tha Utah State hospital, according to A. L. Thorpe, Springvllle Red Cross chairman. Gifts consisting of several nice personal Items, m well m candy and cookies, were given to ths patients. sea-manli- ke 13 trying to get the motor running the other men were manning tha oars. And then ws reached ths first survivor. While a couple men stayed on the oaras to steady the boat, tha others pulled the man a crash, out again and crash, again and gain. Hm boat was stopped level with the main deck and the boat lashed to the ship. The survivors were taken by stretcher to the ships hospital, which la nothing mors than a spare room, a couple hunks, and a medicine chest none for the holidays were the Centennial Development Company employees, who are working at Mt. Wheeler. Nevada: BUI Roberta, Elden Nelson, Franks Ewell, Jim Maxwell, Hebe Fields, Lynn Carter and Harold Sorenson. Faith in Future Shown Past Year Monday Machado and Hightower were confined to their room all day, but with the doctors permission wa visited with them aad talked with them. They told of how there wm only throe Jackets tor the four survivors (Machado had not had time to put hla on). One survivor, Oln, wm a small guy, and his Jacket wm much too large. As a result he had a hard time keeping hie head out of tha water. The first night ths sharks hit them, hung around and nipped them from time to time. Their hands and Hightowers ban feet atneted them the most, and they kept togeher and Machado kept their spirits up, swimming from one to the other. Olson wm badly bitten on one hand, non wm helping Oln to kaep hie head out of tha water and did not complain about hie bitten hand. When morning earns they mw Olson had lost a hit of blood and put a turniquet around his wrist to stop ths bleeding. AH morning ths planes flew over them and didn't sea them. Tha second night wm had. They couldn't see tha sharks and wets bothered quite a bit. They were getting tired and Olson and Oln were getting weaker. Hightower wm Olson and Machado helping Gin. Olson got too weak to do anything and Hightower held him In hie arms When daylight cama they saw he wm dead. So Machado took his life Jacket and Idrntiflcatlon papers and let him go. Gin wm gating delirious and Machado kept trying to keep his spirits up. In ths middle of the morning Oln slipped out of his Ilfs Jacket end 01-B- Business allowed Its faith in America's future during 1055 by record outlays for plant and equipment Estimates of planned business spending, one of the moat Important sign poets of economic activity, had to be revised upward. Government agencies reported In September that business men planned to spend three per cent more for new plant and equipment than had been expected In the beginning of the year. Tha commerce department and tha securities and exchange com- shortly before the Christian era, which was to continue throughout four centuries of Christian development. That faith and hope end good ness, and devout expectation of the coming of the Messiah, could persist through all the persecutions end cruelties, the murderous rivalries and struggles for power, and the repeated end mission said that business intended determined efforts to pervert the to spend 827,300,000,000 for factor-tiepurity of religion, ought to give and other producus faith that out of darkness tion machines, equipment bound In our own a new era of truth and love and righteousness Engineer Shortage will dawn for mankind. Tha nation-wid- e shortage of engineers was at a peak Then there was the diner in n In eiriy October and Is still Into James I Chinese restaurant who, when he creasing, according Loopened his fortune cookie, read, Mitchell, Secretary of Labor, cal public employment offices In '. "Don't eat ths soup. (Signed), early October were aeeklng appliFriend." Leisure time la tha finished pro- cants to fill employer Job orders for 4,600 engineers. duct of greater efficiency. State Hospital According to Mrs. Guy Callahan, county hospital Christ nuu committee chairman of ths American Red Cross, chapters and branches from Utah county, Springvllle, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, Cache and Wasatch counties this very contributions also coming i Junior Red Cross activities. Many hours of volunteer work were put Into this project according to Mrs. Callahan, who wm ably aboard and wrapped him InOsank. A couple of hours later assisted by Mrs. J. M. Grover, Mrs. blankets. (This was Chief Pilot they mw our ship. Myron Fulrath, Mrs. W. D. HarriThen back at Bo ends the story. And if son, members of the committee, Tony Machado). tha oars and over to tha second then must be a hero, it WMby all and Mrs. Fred Hafen, Red Croas man (Copilot Bob Hightower). odds Chief Pilot Tony Machado. gray lady volunteer. As wa neaied him ha shouted A Putting It in ha words of a plain Mrs. Callahan and tha committee shark just got me. Tha shark seaman, that guy had guts. With- expressed their many thanks to was under him and ns we pulled out him, I doubt any would have all those people who participated in him aboard it followed him up. survived. His handling of the the Christmas program, especially The Mate had the Captains re- pinna at the moment of crash wm to the many clubs and various orvolver along and after we got the near miraculous considering he ganizations within Utah county man aboard ha emttled the re- had only one engine. And disre- and other participating counties. ws garding hie own safety he helped As volver at the shark. Games, candy and cookies were wrapped the second survivor in all the survivors out of the plane, also distributed to the Utah counblankets he told ue that the oth- including releasing two men who ty infirmary, and to tha Utah ers were dead. One men had gone were pinned by the cargo, and State Training School In American down with the aircraft and the then swam back In a futile at- Fork. others had died that morning. tempt to get the lMt man out. This outstanding program could The shark had bitten Hightower And in the water it wm Macha- not have been carried out had it In the foot. In addition he had do who kept them together and not been for the unselfish efforts been bitten seven times ths first kept up their spirits. As High- of many men and women throughtower told us later, "I kept saying out the state who have spent many night and appeared in bad shape. to if he can do It, then I hours In the work and the planto rowed As ws the back ship, canmyself, do it." ning of this program; which, of got to the boat another thought it in turn kept going sway from truck me I cant swim and us, so we rested and waited for Yesterday we received a mas- course, made ChrlstmM Day a ran back for my life Jacket. from the Coast Guard in little more Joyful for those forship to come up to ua. The sage Honolulu. gotten patients nt tha hospital. It wasn't necessary to ask tor the waa the maneuvering volunteers to man the boat There Captain "Commander Fourteenth Coast In to to which lee a form hip were more men there than could retrieve Too many of us, when we acthe boat Tha sky now Guard Districtfordesires to express actions complish what we set out to do, possibly be used, and they were seemed toll of planes and prompt appreciation only and already climbing In the boat The an hour before there had been seamanship In the search tor explain, "See what I have done!" In and rescue of survivors of Flying instead of raying, See where I launching greatest danger In an occasional the aircraft only 433." would be when the boat hit the distance. have been led. Henry Ford. came up Tiger As To which the Captain appended water, when it might capsize If it to us It was the ship One badly. was no properly handled. So on- moment aboutrolling all we could see the following: "I would like to If Jesus were to return to earth ly a few men were assignel to be was the rad painted bilge keel, add my thanks and appreciation again, there la a good chance the In the boat during the lowering. the splendid cooperation of religious fanatics and reactionaries as the ship rolled back tha for all hands, officers and men, tat would attempt to remove Him It was actually necessary tor the and was deck awash. main nearly Chief Mate to order men out of Never did assistance In the search for from the scene again. so huge their he missing men, recovery of dethe boat, aa there were more men and a boat aso ship look to I thought tiny. In It than was safe to launch with. we would never be able bris and rescue of survivors; in Personally, wa do not care much unselfish eacrafices of the As the boat waa being lowered myself to get the boat back aboard. The their what any general thought about we started up tha motor to have hip hove to close by and we time and energy and tha under wartime circumway in which the rescue Russia it ready when the boat reached rowed to them. As the men stances and conditions which the water. As the ship railed to swung tha oars in to prevent them wm accomplished and boat re- made fob varying considerations, weaunfavorable trieved, despite would Starboard tha boat swing toom being smashed between the all In keeping with pertaining to tha possibility of savout away from the ship, and when boat and tha ship, those on the ther condition; of the Ameri- ing U. 8. lives. radltlons the ship railed to Pint tha boat Starboard side kept rawing to highest can Service." Merchant coma back keep the boat under control. The would swinging against tha ship with a crash. swells would alternately throw us 21 Some of the crew were lowering toward the ships side, then pull us a rape fenders, trying to keep them sway. Soma of ua grabbed the The sums of money required for between the ship and tha boat to rope along the ships side to try investment In our countrys absorb the shock. Even so, there and hold the boat steady. It' was capital lustriml expansion, and tor the were a couple of bad Shocks be- hard to oold and the boat broke creation of new Jobs, will he availfore we reached the water. Then away several times before we able only if Individual Americans we wen. afloat, tha boat falls re- succeeded, and once nearly pulled are free to save and If corporations leased and swinging dangerously one of the men overboard. He have a chance to earn a profit that around our heads. These falls are was saved from being crushed be- makes them willing to assume the heavy cable sheaves with a few tween the boat and the ship by one necessary risks. Another requirelarge chain links to connect with of the other men who grabbed ment is that a fair share of the the boat, and in rough weather him around the legs and pulled earnings can be retained and not can be positively lethal. But the him back aboard. confiscated by discriminatory tax motor waa running and aa soon and double taxation of diviAa some of ue held the boat rates aa the falls were released we endends. Takd away these Incendves out from from away swinging gaged the clutch and backed away and tha whole fabric of tha econ- 226 So. Univ. Ave., Provo from the ships side. The Mats and the Bosun forward were try-th-e omy which hM already given ao ship, others with ths Mate aft much to so many millions of us then ordered slow ahead to take FR us down to ths ladder over the ing to connect the boat falls. Ths Is endangered. ships side to pick up additonal third try hta falls held and we men. While going ahead tha mo- were being hoisted aboard. But tor started coughing and then the winch raises slowly, and the gave up. We tried In vain to get next swell caught us, llfed us up it started again. But wa were at and then dropped from under us, it tha ladder and more men came badly Jerking the brat M aboard. Tha Mata ordered the caught in the falls. But now the oars broken out and wa rolling of the ship waa swinging us out away from the ship and away. As the 2nd Engineer and I were then back against the side with On Friday of last week, Darwin Larson of Spanish Fork was a visitor at tha home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Gartty. On Saturday their son. Bob, of Provo paid surprise visit to hie parents. s, two-ye- George life boat exteremly hazardous. Noon came and stlU nothing. Any survivors would now havs been In the water for around 40 hours. That is a long time and It is a big ocean. A Naval vessel had now Joined the search and was about 10 miles from us. Even so, we had begun to lose hope of finding any survivors. At about this time we spotted and retrieved another piece of wreckage. It was a piece of plywood, aluminum covered, and obviously tom from the wrecked plane. We radioed this Informs ton and tha search waa now concentratd around us. A few hours later someone spotted the first man in the water. All at once everyone was shouting. was And then a second man spotted. I never did see either of them, but I vould hear one of them whistling. Everyone waa shouting and waving to let them know we had spotted them. I recall someone shouting We see you, repeatedly, and someone else, "Hang on Buddy, well have you out of there in a few minutes." Even In the confusion nearly everyone seemed somehow to be doing the right thing. The Captain was already giving orders to tha helmsman so tha ship would form a lee to launch our Starboard llfeboard (the only one that has a motor). And everyone else seemed to be running tor the lifeboat including me. ' As I have already mentioned, we were In heavy swells some of them 15 or 20 feet hlght and tha hip was rolling considerably. My Job (as 1st Asalstan Engineer) would be In charge of he lifeboat motor. From paat experience I know that lifeboat motors arc peculiar things when you need them moat they won't work. So on my way to tha boat I stopped off in my room and grabbed an assortment of wrenches, screwdrivers and pliers. And when I son-in-la- ECHE-VARRIET- A, also known as TONY ECHEVARRIETA, Deceased. Creditors will present claim with vouchers to the undersigned at Eureka, Utah, on or before the 2nd day of May, A. D. 1050. MARIE ECHEVARRIETA, THE period between Honolulu we sighted a smoke bomb that had been dropped by one of the search planes and checked the Arvicinity but found nothing. ound noon we reached the area, to instruction beMr. and Mrs. David Pickett of and according our search The gan pattern. Alameda, Calif., were in town on weather was The sea very Friday and Saturday visiting with was as smooth as good. molten glass their daughter and family, Mr. and excellent There vlsibiliy Mrs. Wm. Roberta and Ann. When and were few clouds and in the to returned Lake Salt City they an occasional small ' rain on Sunday, Mr. and Jdrs. Roberts quail. The ships regular lookaccompanied them, and attended outs were on duty and extra lookfamily dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Panek. A outs assigned to stations. In adduty were alster of Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. dition, all hands nowon scanning the ocean and Panek accompanied the Pickets anxiously every available pair of binoculars from Alameda, Mr. and Mrs. Bill was In use. Occasional planes Stever and daughter Karen, and overhead Air Force, Navy passed were also dinner guests of they Coast Guard and commercial. Althe Paneks. together there were a couple dozen Mr. and Mrs, John Andrew and planes In the search area. But wa Mr. and Mrs. John Connor and was ths only surface vessel. That afternoon one of the lookmall son, Brent, of Durango, Colorado, who has been visiting at outs ajiotted something in the Inspection the Andrew home, drove to Salt water and closer Lake City Christmas Day and showed It to be a wooden crate. Since the were dinner guests of Mr. and missing aircraft was a Mrs. George Forsey. Other fam- cargo carrier It was possible that ily members attending were Mr. this was part of the wreckage. A and Mrs. Morris Bushman and grapllng hook was readied and in addition a ladder was lowered over children of Provo. the side. The Bosun climbed the Mder.ln case tha grappMrs. T. D. Kent of California down hook should miss, but the la spending the holidays at the ling hook caught and the crate was home of her daughter and It was waterlMr. and Mrs. Howard Mc- brought aboard. ogged and had obviously . been Intyre In Mammoth. abandoned quite some time. But Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bade richer nt least It was aboard and would be mlatkenly spotted as part and small son were in Salt Lake not of ths wreckage by one of the weekend over tha spending City planes. the holidays with Mr. Badertch-er- a search It was getting late, and by tha parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray- time we reached the search area mond Badertcher. YlewS or Local News Local Sports Local Society Local Advertising (2045 time) the aircraft had an altl tilde of 500 feet with three engines out and that there was a crew of five aboard. At the time we were doing about 18 Vi knots, At that speed it would take ue about 14 hours to reach the last reported position of the aircraft The next morning nt about 1000 LADIES EUREKA Estate of ANTONIO HOME on Church St. Price $8500 or will rent to dependable party C. O. Hogan, Lynndall, Utah. s23tfo LOST Newspaper FIRST craft that crashed about a thousand miles West of Honolulu. Friday night, September 23, Sparks received a distress signal that Flying Tiger was down nt 20 deg. 22 min North, 175 deg. 45 min. West and requesting nU hips within 500 mUes of that location to send in their position. At tha time wa were about 260 mUes east of there. Wo sent In our position and were notified by the Commander, Hawaiian Sen Frontier that we were the closest vessel to that position and requested us to divert immediately. We acknowled and nt 2125 our time we urned around and headed back west. Further Information wa received was that at tha last J. LAIRD'S MARKET Freeh Meats, Groceries, Daily Fred sets aad Produce Frosea Foods Free Del. Service to your homo Ticklers Mid-Pacif- ic PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT EUREKA, UTAH Printed By NATIONAL December 30, 1955 The Eureka (Utah) Reporter Page Two ar . SMMKS MBfT JUST sunns owe sunny TMKT SAWV anp ei-- n MASS I . WU.UOCS IM Because wav rNa ins aae imnv miXM SCM ftMMKIAL MOSiSMS ut Jjptfiing fa it fife $eum-Uj- )! 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