Iron County Record | 1962-03-29 | Page 2 | County Jeep Patrol Practices Lost Airplane Search

County Jeep Patrol Practices Lost Airplane Search "We didn't reach our target, but we sure had fun." That was the comment of Charles Cooley, commander of the Iron County Jeep Patrol following fol-lowing a simulated airplane search in the vlcinty of Kane Springs north of Parowan Saturday. Satur-day. In the forenoon a target to w. . ulate a crashed airplane was dropped in the area and the Patrol Pa-trol had undertaken a project to search out the target. The search was set in the Kane Springs area to help the members of the Patrol Pa-trol become more familiar with (he backroads of the county, and new maps which have recently been put into service by the Patrol, Pa-trol, were also used, according to Cooley. The Patrol found that many of the backroads of the county are not too passable in the early spring thaw. Nine men and four Jeeps participated par-ticipated In the search program. At Parowai; the group split into two units, each taking a separate separ-ate road to the general search area. Only two of, the four reached the rendevouz point. Those-' two vehicles attempted to go on to the search area but became stymied in crusted snow approximately approx-imately three feet deep. The other two vehicles bogged down in the mud In the lower elevations eleva-tions and failed to reach the search area Cooley pointed out, however, that a Miowcat is available to the Jeep Patrol and if it had been necessary to continue into the higher elevations this additional addi-tional equipment could have' been used.