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The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 57

Publication:
The Timesi
Location:
San Mateo, California
Issue Date:
Page:
57
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New Dishwasher aV not only ends water dissolves 7 of the most stubborn spots They Climb Mountains to Save Lives BY JOHN Q. COPELAND All suburbs have their good Samaritans but few undertake such dangerous assignments as these Californians 5. IUFI lTUEttllt WHO "The highest and most difficult operation in our history," says Bill Wark, team historian and chief tracker, "was in recovering the body of a Sierra Club hiker who was killed in a 300 foot fall into a crevice of the Middle Palisades Glacier in the California High Sierra On that assignment, members of the team were flown in an Army plane to Bishop, California, and subsequently hiked to an altitude of 13,500 feet, where volunteers were lowered on ropes to recover the body. National news coverage was given to the team in 1958, when they responded to a call from the San Bernardino County Sheriff to attempt the rescue of a 13 year old boy who plunged 1 ,000 feet off an icy trail below 1 1 ,485 foot San Gorgonio. After several other crews had failed, Fred LaLone, founder of the organization, and Jon Mathews, a Callech physics professor, were lowered to the boy's previously inaccessible ledge by long nylon lines.

The boy was dead. But wherever there is hope for life, Sierra Madre's Search and Rescue stands ready to try for a miracle. On nearly 400 expedition into the western mountains, they've made the miracle work. You've heard it explained that men climb mountains simply because the mountains arc there? That doesn't apply to the volunteers of Sierra Madre's Search and Rescue Team. They climb mountains to save lives.

Robert Harrington, a 20 year old Altadena hiker, owes his life to the keen scent of bloodhounds put on his track last summer by Miner Harkness and Don Colbert, of the Southern California rescue team. Harrington lay for 36 hours, where he had fallen off a trail in the San Gabriel Mountains. He was near death when the dogs located him. Back in the winter of 1958, Boy Scout Jerry Sharpen, 14, fell off a cliff while hiking at the 7,000 foot level of the same treacherous mountain range, which traps the smog on the northern fringe of Los Angeles' suburbs. Search and Rescue men located the seriously injured boy and hacked out an emergency landing spot for the sheriff's helicopter to land.

Jerry was airlifted to a nearby hospital, and he survived his ordeal. Sierra Madre Search and Rescue Team is one of five such emergency volunteer outfits deputized by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. It's called into action far afield from Los Angeles County. MP COFFEE STAINS Guarantees spot free washing, the most spot free glasses, silver, dishes any dishwasher can wash or your money back! New improved Dishwasher aZ'Ssuper penetrating solution gets in and under spots, lifts them off and floats them away. Dishes come out sparkling clean even after being stacked for hours in your dishwasher.

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