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A-6-Santa Cruz Sentinel Sunday, Aug. 7, 1983 Lost boy was Veady to give up' QUINCY (AP) A husky 10-year-old boy who survived a week in a rugged steep-walled canyon of the Sierra Nevada wilderness, sipping water from a stream and feeling "sad and ready to give up," enjoyed his first meal in seven days a pizza. The youth, Gary Lee Chavoya of Sacramento, was rescued Friday after his stepfather, one of 60 searchers combing the Plumas National Forest 180 miles northeast of San Francisco, spotted him in the underbrush at the and yelled his name. Chavoya "ran into his father's arms," said Plumas County Sheriff's Sgt. Wayne Wright.

The 110-pound youth, who lost six pounds during his ordeal, suffered scratches and showed minor sips of dehydration and starvation, said Dr. Tom Buckley of Plumas District Hospital, where Chavoya was taken by Highway Patrol helicopter. "I expect him to recover quickly and completely," Buckley added. The boy, who calmly sipped a soft drink during the brief helicopter trip, was kept in the hospital overnight for observation. "I felt pretty sad and ready to give up," Chavoya said after his rescue.

"I was kind of lonely and couldn't get very much sleep. I was just hoping someone would come and get me." He said this "was the first time I had ever been out in the wilderness camping and I don't want to do this again. I noticed the (rescue) helicopter quite a bit, but I couldn't get their attention. For a while, I thought I was imagining it, I thought my mind was playing tricks. I kept yelling at it but no one answered." His first request after being found was for a pizza, which rescuers provided at the hospital his first food in seven days.

Chavoya had been missing since July 30, when he wandered away from his campsite in search of stepfather Steven Avery at the about 12 miles southeast of Quincy, a town of 5,000 inhabitants on the easter slope of the Sierra Nevada. He was disovered about a mile from the site. "Gary was spotted by his father it was really great," said Plumas County sheriff's deputy Bill Schroeder, who led the searcfi team. "His father called out to him and he called back to his father. His father ran right up through the brush and grabbed ahold of his boy.

I can't describe the feeling when they radioed back, 'We got him. He's alive and It took two hours to lead the boy out of the steep-walled canyon, when he was picked up by the rescue helicopter, said pilot Gary Wright. "We had slopes that exceeded 60 degrees," Schroeder said. "He's in good condition," added Schroeder. "His legs are a little scraped up because of the Manzanita (brush) on the ground, but that's all.

He's in good shape." Chavoya told his rescuers he "did not eat anything, no berries or anything. He made a small cave area out of leaves" for protection, Wright said. The boy was discovered near streams "and had plenty of fresh water," Wright said. "I went to find my father and I tried to find the trail back to camp, but I got lost," the boy said. "I walked down this other creek.

I just stayed put right there." The boy's parents participated in the search and provided food for many of the searchers. On Wednesday, ground crews reported they heard a child's cry for help in the area, but were unable to pinpoint the location. A pair of the boy's socks were discovered Tuesday. Authorities said nighttime temperatures in the area ranged in the 50s. "We'd like to have Gary come on over and sit down and tell us all what he did, what he was thinking about," said Schroeder, "just so we can learn from his experience." Chavoya said he "didn't eat anything.

All I did was drink a little bit of stream water. I tried to stay warm by cuddling up in my was just hoping someone would come and get me." Searchers included U.S. Forestry Service crews, sheriff's deputies and volunteers. PHP 1 10 Scientists await Halles Comet International Halley Watch. The IHW is an ambitious team effort by 664 scientists from all over the world who have been recruited to serve various roles in the project.

While N- wburn's team at Jet Propulsion Lab will coordinate the study in the Western Hemisphere, a team led by West German astronomer Jurgen Rahe of the University of Urlangen-Nurnberg at Bamberg will compile data for the rest of the world. The Eastern and Western teams plan to bring scientists and laymen a better understanding of the mechanics and characteristics of comets by capturing Halley's Comet on film and video discs for easy access. Former JPL scientist Louis D. Friedman proposed the coordinated effort in 1979 and two years later the National Aeronautics and Spaces Administration approved funding for the American portion of the project. PASADENA, Calif.

(AP) Its rare appearances across the skies have been recorded since before the birth of Jesus. The celestial visitor has sparked fear, superstition, panic and zaniness in humans, who have attributed disaster, death and the falls of empires to the heavenly phenomenon. Halley's Comet, that streak of ice and dust that visits Earth every 76 years, is returning in 1986. The prospect has sparked the imaginations of scientists gathered here at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who are preparing to collect and analyze data from Halley's Comet more completely than ever before. The 1910 approach of the comet led to a largely uncoordinated and incomplete study by stargazers then, and much of the data collected was never published, said Ray L.

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