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Show Mayor Nielsen To The Rescue ) A lucky Air Force corporal md his wife had Mt. Pleasant's Mayor S. M. Nielsen to thank lor a quick rescue following an iirplane accident last Saturday. Mayor Nielsen, accompanied Dy his son, Grant, spotted' the plane which the corporal, ' How-ird-Richards, had crash-landed, js they were driving through rule valley, west of Delta, en-oute en-oute the Nielsen sheep camp. A small single-seated Cessna, Lhe plane was sitting in among some greasewoods, common to he area, when the mayor and his son saw it. They left their car and approached ap-proached the plane to find Sergeant Richards and his wife sitting in it. The sergeant told Mayor Nielsen Niel-sen he and his wife were en-route en-route Hill Field, where he is stationed, from Las Vegas, Nev., ,vhen his compass got off and he was lost. He said his engine juit and the landing was made vithout any control. He also laid the landing had been made ibout 20 minutes before the nayor and his son discovered he plane. The plane, by a minor miracle vas undamaged. The air force i.ent a jeep to Tule valley to pull jit from the greasewoods after "Ivhich it was flown off of a travel road. Mayor Nielsen took rorporal Richards and his wife lo Delta where they were picked f ip by a Hill field plane. |