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First Traffic Fatal From First of 3 OnFirst- traffic fatality in Kim-| hie this year resulted from the first of a series of three one-vehicle accidents in Kimble in a 17-hour period during the weekGirl Scouts Plan To Observe Their 43rd BirthdayObservance of the 43rd birthday of the Girl Scouts of America was planned for local troops I at a meeting of the LeadersI Club Tuesday in the home ofII Mrs. Wilson White.Each troop will arrange a dis-*' play in a downtown store window for all of Girl Scout week,I March 0-12.Troops, theme of display and I window, respectively, include first year Brownie.-, church d v. Junction Hardware Co.; second year Brownies, home-i making. |»ost office: third year Brownies, international friendship. C Maye's Shop: fifth grade Girl Scouts, outdoor Scouting. Hodge- Co.; Robin Troop, citizenship. Brewster’s Boot Sh u,| and junior high school Girl I Scouts, arts and crafts. McKin-| ney's Department Store.' Names of churches drawn bv trops for church attendance I suiui.iy were announced. They include Methodist Church, first year Brownies; Pentacostal Church, second year Brownies: ICh St. Church of Christ, third vear Brownies: PresbyterianChurch, fifth grade Girl Scouts:ty Of Year Results Car Accidentsend, J A. Sikes, highway patrolman, who investigated themishaps, said.Luke Murr, 30, was killed outright when the 1952 Ford belonging to V. H. Skaggs, overturned 2Vz times on Highway 83 two miles north of Junction a-bout 8 p.m. Saturday evening. Skaggs, who suffered a shoulder injury in the accident, was admitted to the Kerrville hospital after an ambulance trip. He returned home Sunday.About 12:45 Sunday morning Fredrico Calenda Ruiz, 17 of Rocksprings received serious head injuries and a broken collar bone when the pickup he was driving failed to negotiate a curve and overturned going to Little Mexico. He was taken by ambulance to the Edwards Co. Memorial hospital for treatment.In the pickup, a 1952 Chevrolet, were the owner, Lupe Maldonado. 18, and Yense Lalo A-rispe, 17, both of Rocksprings. They accompanied Ruiz to the hospital and were dismissed without treatment.Carl Cooper of London was treated for a broken nose and other head injuries received when the 1?*53 Chevrolet sedan, owned and driven by Joe Bailey Coopt'•*, overturned about 12:10 p.m. Srnday on Highway 377,two miles .vest of London.All three' vehicles were brought to Junction. The Ford was damaged lyonri repair. Sikes estimated the damage tc^ pickup at approximately pm and to the Cooper sedan at c^o.
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Junction Eagle
Junction, Texas, US
Thu, Mar 03, 1955
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