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Show AFTERMA TH OF' PL A NE AID ENDEAVOR STIRS LOCAL IRE THE insinuation of Sheriff Frank L. Narramore, Uinta County, Wyoming that Roosevelt rescue parties had pilfered clothing, cloth-ing, sleeping bags, gasoline stoves ana other articles from the plane of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Dykes while it was stranded hign in the Uinta mountains, brought angry protests, last Saturday, from the citizens of Duchesne County and Roosevelt. Sheriff Narramore released the ire of the Utahns when he iUggesied that members of rescue res-cue parties who reached, ,the Dykes' plane from the south side of the Uintas turn both air force and privately owned items :aken from the plane to either sheriff or Forest Service officials in Utah. "This charge is rediculous," commented Duchesne County Sheriff Arzy Mitchell. "Members "Mem-bers of the Roosevelt rescue parties par-ties who climbed the south slope of the Uintas, in an effort to reach the Dykes family were on an errand of mercy, not a pilfering pilfer-ing expedition. There is no evidence evi-dence that the Uintah Basin rescue res-cue parties returned from the hazardous mountain trip with any article belonging to the air force or a private individual. i "THE people of Duchesne County, and particularly members mem-bers of the ground rescue groups are justified In their belief that this insinuation is a pretty small reward for a county-wide effort to save human life." Roosevelt City Marshal Jack Boren, the last man to leave the marooned plane after Dr. and Mrs. Dykes were safely on their way to Evanston, Wyoming, stated: stat-ed: "It's embarrassing to a law enforcement officer to have to undergo the careful scrutiny of the county sheriff so that the unfounded un-founded charges of a man who wasn't even at the scene of the near disaster might be refuted. I I was the last man to leave the uyKes plane, and I can assure i you that the Utah men touched nothing that belonged to the plane, to the air force or any individual. in-dividual. Any thought that Sheriff Sher-iff Narramore might hold that the Roosevelt rescue parties re-i travelled-the dangerous route over tne Uintas to steal articles from or around the Dykes' plane is without foundation." From the Roosevelt Flying Service, Ser-vice, whose pilots were the first to d.roi) blankets and needed s ip-plies ip-plies to Dr. and Mrs. Dykes, trapped 12,000 feet in the Uinta mountain wilderness, came the comment that one of the ground rescue parties might have picked up blankets, originally flown from Roosevelt. ' By this week's end the feeling in and around Roosevelt had not subsided. The fact -that the searching and rescue efforts oi local parties had gone unheeded, plus Sheriff Narramore's invitation invita-tion to Basinites to return the articles ar-ticles they had tajcen from the Dykes' plane aroused a public sentiment verging on "down right madness." |