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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated March 20, 1963 reads, "Stephen Perry, 15, of Sunland, reads an account of his heroic rescue of 3 1/2-year-old Donald Evans Jr. Stephen, a 10th grade student at Verdugo Hills High School, pulled the youngster from the swirling waters of Tujunga Wash Monday and revived the boy with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation before firemen arrived. Stephen scaled a chain-link fence, plunged into the water and swam across the wash to aid the drowning child."
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Valley Times (Firm) Lifesaving--California--Los Angeles Drowning--Resuscitation--California--Los Angeles Children's accidents--California--Los Angeles Teenage boys--California--Los Angeles Newspaper reading Community newspapers--California--Los Angeles American newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.--Front pages Sunland (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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