James Robert Young, 9, Hollister, Mo., drowned Monday at Courtney Davis Lake, north of Wichita.  The boy was vising his grandparents in Wichita, Mr. and Mrs. R.T. Young.  He had been fishing off a bridge with his grandmother but apparently wandered down the bank, slipped and fell into the water.  The body was recovered in four feet of water.  A sister, Cynthia, was swimming nearby.  The Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan Kansas.  Tuesday, June 30, 1970.  Page 10.

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