Skindivers Nearly Lose
Lives in Attempt to Raise
Body of Drowned Fisherman
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and signalled him to go back up
before he noticed that Swift was
unconsc ious and was entangled in
the lines, with his mouthpiece
floating free. Koplan plunged
down deeper in the water and still
without air cut Swift free from
the lines and took him back to
the surface.
Swift was believed to be dead
at first but water gushed out of
his mouth when he was rolled ov
er on his stomach after reaching
the surface and he soon respond
ed to artificial respiration.
State Police said the divers re
sponded at once to the call for
assistance, and not only risked
their own lives but worked with
out pay, donating their own time,
supplying their own equipment
and driving their own cars back
and forth to operations at the
lake.
The accident which claimed the
lives of the two Anchorage men
occurred at about 7:45 a.m. Sat
urday when the men had gone to
Hidden Lake, near Skilak Lake
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on the Kenai Peninsula, to go ice
fishing. Stevens was an assistant
hydraulic engineer for the city
of Anchorage and Hackney was
an employee of Post Engineers at
Ft. Richardson.
State Police in Kenai were no
tified of the accident by Orion C.
Woolsev, who with his father Col
on C. Woolsey, both of Anchor
age. were also going ice fishing
but were not traveling with the
other men.
According to the police report,
the Woolsey vehicle was following
approximately 200 yards back of
the other vehicle when they saw
it break through the ice by the
lights of their car. Both vehicles
had driven about two miles on
the lake ice and were approxi
mately two miles from the Hidden
Lake campground area. It was
foggy at the time.
The Woosley vehicle skidded to
a stop about 05 yards from the
thin ice. The younger Woolsey
noticed one man bobbing to the
surface and attempted to attract
his attention to a hand line which
he flung toward the man in the
water. The victim sank before
they could get a line on him so
they turned their car around and
drove to Kenai to report the acci
dent.
Funeral services for Stevens
were conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday
in St. Mary’s Episcopal Church.
Anchorage.
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Nurses Meeting
Dr. Victor Yore of Wildwood
Station will speak upon the topic
of “New Medication” when he ad
dresses the Kenai Area Nurses
Group at the organization’s reg
ular monthly meeting on Wed
nesday, Feb. (>.
The meeting will be held in the
Officers Club at Wildwood Sta
tion, beginning at 8 p.m. An invi
tation is extended to all nurses
in the area whether or not they
are currently engaged in the prac
tice of their profession.
TO LUMBERMEN’S MEET
KENAI — Jack Thompson of
Superior Building Supply was in
Washington last weekend at
tending the three-day annual con
vention of the Western Retail
Lumbermen’s Assoc-., which open
ed Friday in Seattle. He will
be Outside about three weeks, go
ing from Seattle to Portland.
Ore., on a buying trip to order
lumber and supplies for the sum
mer building program. He made
the trip out by plane but will be
returning over the Alaska High
way driving a new truck to be
purchased in Portland.
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Trio Hurt In _
Head-on Collision
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bert E. Bynum, Jr., of Fort Rich
ardson, who was reported as
alone in his car. a 1963 Oldsmo
bile.
Sergeant Major Bynun. was the
most seriously hurt of the three.
According to investigating offic
ers of the State Police, Bynum
received a fractured right leg and
elbow, cuts on face, possible head
injuries and possible other injur
ies. He was given emergency
treatment at the clinic at Wild
wood Station and then evacuated
by the Army to the 5040th Air
Force Hospital at Elmendorf.
Boyer, owner-operator of the
Kenai Hotel which he plans to en
large extensively into a tourist
attracting hotel in the near fu
ture, received broken ribs, a cut
right knee and cuts and bruises
on his face and nose. Mitchell suf
fered a cut on his throat, lacera
tions on the forehead and bruises
on the body. Both were taken to
the Central Peninsula Clinic in
Soldotna, received t r e at ment
there and were then released.
According to the police report,
Sergeant Major Bynum had gone
to Seward from Anchorage to
pick up his new car at the docks.
Enroute back to Anchorage he
got lost and took the wrong turn
at Mile 38 Sterling Highway. He
was headed toward Soldotna in
stead of to his original destina
tion when he met Boyer’s car
head-on.
Further investigation of the
accident is being delayed until
Bynum is recovered enough to be
interviewed.
BACK FROM TRIP
SOLDOTNA — Mrs. Thomas
Denman and son, Owen, have re
turned home in a new car which
they drove up the highway. They
said they encountered lots of rain,
wind and ice but very little snow.
While in California, they visited
in Baldwin Park with Mrs. Den
man’s daughter and family and
also in Tulare, where they were
asked of news about Dr. Elmer
Gaede. who formerly was of that
area and now lives at Soldotna.
They went on to Texas to see
Denman’s sister in Houston and
on to Dallas to visit Mrs. Den
man’s family. They returned to
Los Angeles by plane before mak
ing the drive back to Alaska.
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Diane Rohweder, 17, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Rohweder
of Soldotna, is reported as recov
ering satisfactorily in Providence
Hospital, Anchorage, where she
was evacuated late Monday night
when it was feared that her ap
pendix had ruptured.
The emergency flight was pilot
ed by Maj. Glenn Kipp, command
er of the Kenai Squadron of the
Civil Air Patrol, under adverse
weather conditions. All airfields
at Anchorage were reported as
fogged in when the plane took off
from the Kenai Airport and were
still fog shrouded when the plane
reached Anchorage. The fog lift
ed briefly, however, and the land
ing was made on the helicopter
runway at Bryant Field at Ft.
Richardson.
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