| Summary: | Glacier Priest Has Near Shave: Saved From Rock In Rapids By Noted Lady Musher. GLACIER PRIEST HAS NEAR SHAVE Saved From Rock in Rapids by Noted Lady Musher. By Associated Press. JUNEAU, Alaska, July 13.-A chance arrival of a motorboat fishing party led by Mary Joyce, famed dog team musher, Father Bernard Hubbard said today, aided in saving the "Glacier Priest's" life as he was marooned on a rock in the roaring Twin Glacier river rapids last week. Miss Joyce, who mushed 1000 miles last mid-winter from Taku, B. C, to Fairbanks, and her party had driven their motorboat down the river to view the rapids. Leaped Into Boat. "He jumped in and piloted it downstream. I leaped into it as it swirled past, and we soon were safe below the rapids." Father Hubbard, describing the wrecking of a river boat from which he and Ken Chisholm, former Santa Clara football player, had leaped "by almost a miracle" to the rock, said it was the first serious mishap in his 10 years of Alaskan exploraion. His specially built light-weight steel boat and valuable equipment was lost. He ordered a new one shipped here but planned to return to the scene with a heavily built wooden riverboat he bought here. "With the high water aiding us, we had gone throught the rapids both ways several to this and all but the last load of on tons of equipment were safe at our island base camp," Father Hubbard said. Set Dogs Free. "The last trip, our propeller sheared a rock. Our heavily-loaded boat hit and turned over. We managed to unsnap the chains of Mageik and Magook, our sled dogs, and jumped." Ice floes were swirling down the rapids and their position appeared precarious. Chisholm volunteered to try to swim the rapids. Taking off his boots and shirt, he received the priest's blessing and plunged in. "He went under twice, but made shore and ran through the forest to camp.' His shouts aroused Nicholas Cavaliere, cameraman, and John Dimond, his assistant, and they returned with ropes and axes. With night coming, Miss Joyce's boat appeared.
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