Show lost found by Tabby George Marett directed search SEARCH Sheriff George Duchesne directed and organized search In Mirror Lake for young Boy Boy Scout who strayed from Standard reporter writes story Of harrowing experience Encountered by boy EDITOR'S NOTE The Standard's Goldic Wilcken of lias constructed a very interesting story of the lost Boy Scout from Kearns who strayed away from his buddies and became lost in the Mirror Lake of the High A Tabiona Larry member of the searching found the Sheriff George Marett organized and directed the search for the Following is Wicken's by Goldie Wilcken he is what old Larry Price said when he saw the lost boy lying on his side on a rotten log near Mirror Lake Sunday HIS STATEMENT ended a three-day search for Keith Henry Reams Boy Keith J. father of the who was one of the bounded a few steps to the boy's gathering him into his arms as he anxiously you all LARRY son of Gale said the boy was asleep on the log when he caught his first glimps of but his outstretched had was as from so Larry knew the boy still Larry's he awakened the who tried to raise his but it fell back to the as if he were to exhausted to sit Fred another Tabiona was next in line to spot the Larry was We didn't think we would find the scout alive after being lost in that country for three The rescued scout told his knew you'd find THE TABIONA youth said the dressed in his green scout uniform and gym was lying on this log in an area that was as near out in the open as it could be in this Those canvas shoes were indicating the boy had done a lot of He have a fishing pole or his scout pack with as it was Larry gave the scout a drink from a canteen which he borrowed from a nearby airman from Hill Air Force a member of the search The boy had become lost late Thursday afternoon while fishing about a quarter of a mile from his scout troop Sheriff E. Marett said it was reported to him that a few scouts were hiking in this small meadow near the camp and the little when the boys saw fish jumping in the Keith said he was going back to camp to get his fishing He was not seen again until found about a.m. SOON AFTER the search party made a stretcher Seo LOST back page ilk Lost Scout from Tage of poles and coats and carried the boy about one-hlf mile to a waiting which took him to a Salt Lake City Duchesne County Sheriff G. E. Marett was notified of the missing boy about p.m. about 24 hours after he was TELEPHONE service to the Mirror Lake had been disrupted Thursday because of the which blanketed the area with more than an inch of This is attributed to one of the reasons for the delay in reporting the boy missing and that it was hoped he would be found or would turn up any Larry Wasatch National Forest Ranger at told Sheriff Marett about the disrupted telephone service when he called late Although Mirror Lake is quite remote from it is within the county and under the jurisdiction of this sheriff's SHERIFF MARETT said it was too late for him to make any search that but he began at once to the search for the first break of dawn He called Ferrus M. deputy sheriff at and talked with him about guiding a group of mounted searchers up the North Fork of the which heads at Mirror Ferrus and six other horsemen started out before it was light next from Defa's Dude These riders were Oran E. James and Lee Giles and Don Next Ferrus and another group went in two cars to continue the search on Larry Price was in this which included Ferrus and Dale Peter W. Stephen Dale and Clyde Ray Art Duane Fred and Rulon Wool SHERIFF MARETT notified the Salt Lake Mounted Posse and the County Mounted Posse and others who helped with the Then the sheriff left around midnight to be at Mirror Lake at about 3 a.m. He and Ranger Larry Colton and Rex Walker of the Forest Service directed the search Saturday and About men participated in the search and by Sunday more than were fanning out for the ground with searchers walking about 10 feet from the south of Mirror This search had been underway more than four hours when Larry Pierce laid eyes on the lost The Kearns boy was found some three miles or so from where he was camped with the other scouts of the Kearns Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SHERIFF MARETT Keith was found in the roughest country the sheriff thought the boy had been without food since he was Keith said he would go down to the little lake to get a then would go back to the log to He slept during the day and would walk at night to help keep This may have kept him but it is believed it hindered the search and lengthened the rescue as searchers report they walked within 20 feet of this spot the helicopter employed in the aerial flew over the area both Saturday and Sunday a number of The boy told Sheriff Marett that during the he heard a lot of and he said Saturday he waved his arms as the helicopter chopped over but failed to gain the attention of the I Sheriff Marett believed the boy to have had periods of while suffering this as some of the boy's statements appeared to be beyond I THE YOUTH WAS found about 40 yards south and west of Scudders and there i was a forest service trail about a quarter-mile from where was Such a trail is difficult to find In such a heavily-wooded The boy said he spent most 1 of his wait near the two fallen 1 tree and used the heavy brush for SEARCHERS from Duchesne included Dave Thomas and Bruce Jensen of the Utah Fish and Game Department who headed a group up the Soap-stone and E. J. Baird A. Jack Duane C W. Sam who went to the area The searchers also included members of the Salt Lake County Jeep the Weber County Jeep the Davis County Sheriff's Patrol and the Bountiful Jeep A crew of some 40 men from Hill Air Force Base were utilized in the as well as volunteers from Kearns and other areas of the were making an underwater search of a section of Mirror when news of the rescue was WITHIN AN HOUR and a half after he was the scout was in Latter-day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake and later was transferred to the Primary Children's An examination revealed he was suffering from exposure and slight He had several scratches on his but was in satisfactory THE with his was flown to Salt Lake City in a helicopter piloted by Leonard A. Johnson of that Johnson had landed the craft as close as he could to where the frail boy was but it took rescuers almost 30 minutes to carry the youth the half-mile to the Sheriff Marett and Ranger Colton praised the team effort which resulted in the boy's |