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• fConMnurd From Pace 9)* had been a trucker with his father J construct mn firm. Hcggip and Son*' Raymond Hcggje, too. was a nmm “ her of the LDS church. He : mourned by lbs parents, his widow J,a nme-mon’h-nld ^on, Dennis, anc l'three brothers. Allan, Ronald aih ' Reed, MJ of Havmrmd.. r Although born hi Magrarh, hr : had been rin^cri and educated u ■; Raymond and rr-;dents nf the towr I looked upon him as a native son., File ST KMC; I ITAs hr stood looking down at Mir completely wrecked aircraft* our ^archer explained that McPlicc, a devoted Hying en-| Uiusirtst. had only recently received his private H ing lire nee. Another added, It was Ray’s first flightA searching aircraft spotted the downed plane shoiLly after 10*30 Monday morning, and guided a around searcher on horse back In the scene. The plane was in the j bottom of a 'JflfMoot ravine—Mank-! cd on either side by strep hills.I 'the wreckage stood nos^in with the encme pushed back into the cockpit. Hrzgie lay over the instrument pane]. The pilot — McPhre —was thrown clear of the cockpit and was under the shelter nf one of the wines. Thr tail end of the fuse In go had partially snapped off and was doubled back.Searchers had several limes been wjrhin a few hundred feet of the nii era ft. but had not seen It. So well was the plane hidden by tlie banks or the ravine Mint Vrier Barfsof. the rancher Jed to the errtsh scene bv the search aircraft, had parsed right, by it am! had to be led bark ncmn by the plane.SAH messageAbove the wreck on the hillside stood the word DEAD tramped out in Mi-foot letters to let the aircraft. which had discovered ihr crash know of the falc of thr. two men.A large group of searchers stood ! silcnMv nround the aircraft, staring nt the bodies of the two friends.A little pup. oblivious of Mir situation inn around barking as a hue of figures rltmbed the hdl and disappeared over the skyline, headed back home.Their search had been In vain. ,
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Tue, Dec 22, 1953
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