Seven years ago, Bryan Untiedt, 12, became a U. S. celebrity when, by building a fire and giving up his own clothes, he helped save 14 children from freezing in a school bus stranded in a blizzard near Towner, Colo. Afterwards he visited Herbert Hoover at the White House, told the press he hoped to go to West Point.
Last week, Bryan Untiedt was not in West Point but in jail at Golden, Colo., unable to pay a $13 fine for driving a truck without a license. Said Hero Untiedt: “Just because people once said I was a hero doesn’t make me any better than the next fellow. I know I should have had a license but I’ve had a lot of trouble making ends meet and I couldn’t spare the money.”
Day after Hero Untiedt’s plight was revealed in Denver newspapers he was rescued—not by one of his former schoolmates but by Denver’s 87-year-old Lawyer A. L. Doud, who wired $7 to pay the remainder of his fine.
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