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Show MO NT VJ ELL May L. Mower Drowning Averted By Quick Action About two weeks ago a near tragedy was averted by the quick thinking of a 14-year old girl A group of children and teenagers teen-agers had gone swimming in the James Hamblin pond- They were almost ready to leave when little Ellen, Larsen, 7, stepped off the shallow edge into a hole over her head. She was strangling when her aunt, Reita Lynn Hamblin, laso 7, began to call for her to come back. Reita's cousin, Vivian Hamblin looked back to see what she was yelling abuot and saw the Larsen girl going down again. She jumped in from the bank and got , the little girl out safely; Vivian is 14 years Old an is the daughter of Morely Hamblin, and Ellen is the daughter daugh-ter of James M. and Ila (Hamblin) Larsen. |