Show Bluebell youth has Bout with black bear A Bluebell youth had a escape on Petty Mountain north Altonah Paul son of and La Von Atwood was treed by a mother brown while the youth was with four who were line-stringing insect-infected trees to be chemically treated on the Altonah District of the Ashley National PAUL WAS HIGH in a pine the br uin clawing r ight after when he became fell from the tree and was knocked unconscious by i The bear climbed the sniffed at the figure then disappeared into the pines to rejoin three Paul was put on a carried for over- a mile t a rock-strewn road and was taken by Duchesne City ambulance by Sheriff George E. during the early afternoon The bear- attack came about 11 a m Paul was being treated in a Salt Lake hospital Saturday for a broken right bitten a cracked rib and numerous cuts and sustained mainly in the fall from the THE VICTIM TOLD this story to a He and four other bug-spray-Ing crewmen the but this was not so as they had seen three or four during the past but they all acted scared and this one at first I Then she saw that the crew-men were between her and her three She started toward and the boss shouted for everybody to get up a The boss is Jerry Who quickly took his own advice made for the top a tall pine Paul was just be- Se- BEAR page 10 I Bear Story from Page hind him in the and just behind Paul was the big black When she got a ways up our we jumped to another one about four feet away Then she started up that and we jumped to the other That bear was as quick as a WHO PLAYS basketball for the Altamont High School was in good physical but all that climbing and jumping got me He soon started trying to fight off the animal with his She chewed off the heel of one then she got the heel off the other Then she chewed off the soles of both shoes and bit my Paul Paul I finally got too tired and I hit a lot of branches as I went and I guess they broke my It knocked me I must have fallen 50 That was a tall They tell me the bear came down an looked at I guess she thought I was because she sniffed at me and walked My being out like a light probably saved my life When I woke two of the fellows were carrying me down the hill on a They got an ambulance and got me out of None of the five men on the crew was BEARS ARE KNOWN for their arm strength and the damage they can do with their but Paul said this one used only her teeth on He said he got in a couple of good kicks in the nose of the bruin before the end of the combat by a Others in the work party were George and Andy both of ML and LeRoy Altamont by Goldie Wilcken |