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Oakfand Tribune, Friday, April 1j 1955 DiVers-Recover from Lake Temescal for an hour Continued from Face 1 and a half, from 4:30 to 6 pjn. spent an hour searching for the At 6 p.m. the first four mem Blinil Baby Thrives; Love Gives Parents Eyes AKRON, April 1. A few weeks ago, living in a dark, silent world, Harold and Georgia Hathaway knew fear and despair. Mrs.

Hathaway had just given birth to a son after two years of marriage. Unlike his deaf and body in the brackish water and bers of the Alameda County Sheriffs volunteer underwater then was replaced by Andrews He found the body in 70 feet of rescue unit arrived. They donned rubber skin suits and tanks of compressed airr fitted water near where the shoreline drops abruptly. with mouth hoses, and wore blind parents, little Clarence Hathaway was normal. He diving masks and swimming Gary and two boy compan would be able to see the sun fins.

ions had climbed over a broken The first Into the water was Nightmarish portion of a protecting fence to Orville Burjcham, an fireman aniU-reserve deputy get into the quarry and then clambered 40 feet down a cliff i a Run of Dead sheriff in the underwater unit. With him was Bill Gault, a reserve sheriff's lieutenant. Boy's Body From Quarry i I cr- JLSs 3m7t: A5s23r to a leage wnere me ocnauer boy fastened a 20-foot piece of rope to an outcropping tree. Boy's Play mate rise to warm their small, brown frame 'cottage and bear the coffee pot bubbling on the stove. He would bring life and joy into their existence.

Then, from a Summit-County agency came a notice that the Hathaways might have to give up their child; that a hearing would be held to determine whether they were able to properly care for him. Harold Hathaway, E2, and his The two men dived to 70 feet The youngster swung down depth in the 40degree water, the rope but lost his handhold The pressure gave Gault a and plunged 25 feet farmer nosebleed that filled his face mask and he was forced to come Continued from Page 1 little boy says. "And the rope got caught. I went down and Gary went down and Robert into the chill water. He floundered for a few seconds, his companions said, calling for to the surface.

He reported that them to "get help, men ne limbs snagged on his equipment and the dark hindered the search. Also, he said, along the stayed on top, and held the end. sank from 31-year-old wife turned their friends and neighbors for help. Gary went down on a ledge The two boys with him, Rob auarry wall dirt and rock Using hand-writing to "talk, lower than me and a rock ert Cheroke, 7, of 3600 Gilbert crumbled and fell down on him, dropped in the water and; they -appealed to them to convince authorities that the couple further endangering the recov think he jumped and he fell in. ery operation.

"I heard him crying -for help Kenneth Don and Thomas could rear the child FEAR THF WORST and Terry Parkinson, also 7, of 4140 Gilbert climbed back up the cliff to the dead end of View. St for help; Terry became "frightened and ran home in tears, saying nothing to his while he was drownding Amos, two other reserve depu and I went to find the care They knew, hcwever, that ties, were next in; They dived taker and I couldn't find him their handicap- were big ones and remained submerged 20 Thev couldn't hear the child if minutes, without finding a trace and I kept on running 'andj couldn't find anyone." "1 got lost and then I came of the body. Robert, however, persuaded the first ceoDle he found to he cried and they couldn't see him if he fell. They feared the Meanwhile, the crowd of spec home." worst. summon help and the Fire De partment responded.

AQUALUNG USED Mrs. Parkinson tried to find out what had upset her little boy. He wouldn't say, but was Then came the hearing before Juvenile Court Judge Russell tators grew. On the opposite side of the quarry, lake, where the divers were taken aboard a row boat and brought back to the cliff side, someone built a Ben Larson, 51, a Fire Depart Thomas. The judge heard wel whitefaced and shocked.

Shortly ment engineer, put on a Fire fare authorities explain that in Department aqualung of com afterward, Terry told her after a policeman came to the home bonfire for them to warm themselves. Other divers, including Robert with Mrs. George Schaffer, the case of severely handicapped parents it was sometimes wise to put children in the care of foster parents. He heard friends pressed air and dove in. So did two youths who lived, near by, Paul Waaland, 19, of 4520 Montgomery and Gerry Bartling, Gary's mother.

A. Serack, Frank Pennock and Victor Drobshoff, arrived and "When we went up the hill, also 19, of 4427 View St. The three spent 20 minutes Gary said, There's some ducks and ducks mean danger but I don't care; I'm not But I wouldn't go down on the lower attempting a rescue. put on their gear. They were rowed across the lake and jumped in.

At 6:55 p.m. Drobshoff, of 8544 Fairview Lane, Hayward, reported he had found Gary's body, entangled in tree branches Tribene phoU by Key Williams spot where body was found after an all-night search. Aboard the raft, with the body are (from left) Scotty Chi holm. Bill Gualt, and behind Gualt, Andy Anderson. of the Hathaways offer to help in any way.

they could. The parents, using their handwriting. Towed to do everything possible to give their son a normal life. After hearing all of the discussion and ideas, Judge Thomas made his ruling: The body of 7-yciar-old Gary Schaffer, who drowsed in the BUcer Quarry tragedy yesterday, was brought ashore at 6 a.m. this morning.

in photo marks the "We dove 'to about 20 feet down," Waaland said, "but it was so dark and murky we ledge with him then the rock fell in the water and he went flying in stomach first," Terry said. on a rock ledge only -15 feet "I warned him about not go couldn't see a thing." Waaland and Bartling had no breathing devices. They reported the water was clogged with sunken tree limbs beneath the surface. ing up there," his mother says. The Hathaways could keep He promised me that he wouldn't go to the quarry." On top of the cliff, mean from where the hoy had fallen in.

Drobshoff estimated the depth at 60 feet He had been unable to free the boy by himself so returned to the surface for other divers. NO MORE OXYGEN their child. 3 The judge went further. Society's responsibility, he said, did not end with his ruling. The MAGNIN 279 Nava CO.

while, Robert Chefroke explained he had bejgged Gary "not to go down there." He said Gary was trying get down friends and neighbors. Summit At 7:30 p.m. the skin diving the rope to a small raft float portable generator on the cliff-top. At 8:45 p.m. they halted the operation for the night.

It was the first activity of the unit, formed only two months ago. The' professional divers replaced them. Chisholm and Andrews both were credited with successfully completing theunusual and hazardous task or repairing the ripped bottom of an ammunition ship while the dangerous cargo remained aboard in 1953. The ship was the SS Greece Victory tied up at Port Chicago. Andrews narrowly escaped when the glass vision plate of his diving suit came out during the seven-day operation.

1 crew ran out of oxygen tanks Police appealed to Kelly's Sport ing in the quarry lake when he fell. Gary landed oA his stom Reservists to Face 'Enemy' County as a whole, shared with -welfare authorities the duty of helping the Hathaways bring up the child, the judge said. DO THEIR BEST Today, seven weeks after Clarence was born, everyone is doing his best. ing Goods Store at 25th and Telegraph, which donated 3,500 ach, Robert said, "and he stayed ud about 20 secondsAThen he cubic feet of compressed air and sank. i ALAMEDA, April 1.

A force the cylinders were rushed to the When the sorrowing father of 279 Bay Area Naval Reserv arrived he said "I told Gary if quarry by police. The sheriff's skin divers re ists, leaving Treasure Island to he ever went near the quarry, A nurse from the Summit morrow on tnree aestroyer- God help him." County Visiting Nurse Associa sumed -operations under floodlights dangled from ropes. dVer escorts, will encounter both The firemen used dragging the cliff and powered by a hooks and a rowboat brought tion spends two hours each morning in the Hathaway home. Mary "Knapp, head of the as sociation, reported that Mrs. 1AM PtAMCISeO OAKLAND ''enemy" aircraft and "hostile submarines in the Pacific en route to Mexico.

The "three vessels, serving as a Naval Reserve Training task group, take their part-time sailors aboard tomorrow morning at Treasure Inland to augment active duty crews. They return April 15. i Hathaway is doing a. splendid job of being a mother. The mother's biggest problem is applying the baby powder.

Because she can't see and sometimes fails LA. 1 to get enough powder on the child, be once had a slight case As part of the two-week 1. MAGNIN training cruise, both anti-air craft firing against airborne targets, and anti-submarine warfare are scheduled en route. 4 A detachment of 19 i Bay Area reservists from the U.S. of diaper rash.r After the nurse is gone each day, a neighbor, Mrs.

Kenneth Pipes, begins a series of at least three daily visits to the Hathaways. Pipes is paid $10 a week. When unforseeable problems come up, Mrs. Hathaway hqs only to press a button which rings an, alarm in the Pipe's Naval Reserve Training Center at 2144 Clement Alameda, will be aboard. i and it The vessels are the USS couldn't be proftior Grady, DE 445, Lt.

Cmdr. E. L. Steele, Berkeley, commanding; USS Thomas F. Nickel, DE 587, house and brings her neighbor on the run CLOSE TOUCH Lt E.

T. Rae Berkeley, commanding; USS Georjge A. Johnson, DE 583, Lt John iE. Dutra, Oakland, commanding. At night, Mrs.

Hathaway sleeps Newest fashion excrement for oH the girls, pink one-strap love of a little shoe with pastel disc decoration end a festive oir; to wear with party frocks or Sunday-best outfits; with one hand lr the baby's bassinette. The slightest movement awakens- her, she says In addition to the neighbors, people throughout" the Nation Governors' Choice CONCORD, N.H., April Ned Quint, 81 -year-old violin ist, played, at Gov. Lane Dwinell's have responded to the story of the Hathaways and their fight inauguration. It was the 31st to. keep their aby.

fourth floor SHo 12 sizes, 2H to 3 steei. MM consecutive inauguration recep tion at which he has played for A bank account, in the baby's name, has swelled to $750 a New Hampshire governor Quint first fiddled during the through donations handled by the Rev. James Shoe, court-appointed financial guardian for reception I for Gov. Charles Busiel in 1895. the child.

Gifts fill the corners of the three-room house and range from a layette to an old, II. mr i silver baby spoon mailed from -I I far eity. A company of soldiers, sta tioned in Kansas, wrote individ-ual letters of encouragement to the Hathaways and offered to OAKLAND'S LOCALLY OWNED LOCALLY CONTKOLLSD DAJLX established rebruery U. 174 Supreme on Continental Side of San Francisco Bay Member American Newspaper Publisher Association, Charter Member Audit Bureea of Circulation Complete Associated Press Semes ear Metropolitan Oakland Full United Press Serrloe MEMBER Of THft ASSOCIATED PRESS f'come East right away" if they need any more help. A Cleveland woman volun teered to supply the baby's food for a year, and a similar offer was made by an Akron grocer.

Mrs. Hathaway is proud that she has learned to bathe the roe Associated Press la entitled excto-sively to the use for republication a all the local news printed ia this newspaper as well as ail AP new dispatches. tut TRIBUNE PUBUSatlNO CO. rOBUSBEU baby and can mix its formula "herself. Her husband, equally 1 I KNOW LAND.

Publisher and Editor. pieasea, says ail ne wants is for Clarence to grow up to be a i good man. Mrs. Knapp, the nurse esso ciation head, believes little Clarence has a fine chance, "He's getting as good care as two-thirds of the babies in Akron, she said. perfect red by diaries of the ritz 'OS.

R. KNOW LAND JJL. Assistant Publisher. (VILLI VM r. KNOWLAND.

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