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☆Fatal Wreck Takes Place LastNight On Alternate 30; BothDrivers Suffer Broken BonesA car driven by a Dixon youth, who only recently wastermless homicide charge, rammed head-on into a car driven« mr «■** A r* ^ i * * « i ■ m • ^llvireowby Frank Harts of Sterling and the lives of four womenA A % A 1 t y % t A A a- HR I - yr-n — _ _ ^--— — — —from the Sterling-Rock Falls area were snuffed out by the8art■tinive)il!allid-iseterrific crash.The dead were all employes of the Dixon State School and were en route in Harts’ car to their wTork when the crash occurred on Alt. 30 about three miles east of theWhiteside-Lee County line at approximately 10:45 p.m.last night.Bands Playing Andchi’sGuns Booming Greetdea?n.ofenPresident De Gaullesn-i.edis-;ale-htenntngnsBy JOHN M. HIGHTOWERWASHINGTON (AP — With bands playing and guns booming a welcome, President Charles de Gaulle of Fiance arrives todayfor high policy talks with Presi-The women, all of whom westpronounced dead on arrival at Community General Hospital, where they were taken in Melvin and Allen ambulances, are:Mrs. Agnes Beckman. 43, mother of four children, who lives at 1012Avenue K, Sterling;Mrs Ronald (Virginia! Anspach, 47, mother of two children, who lives at 503 9th Ave., Rock Falls;Mrs. Verle (Ida) Weigant, mother of three children, 1102 8th Ave., Rock Falls:Mrs. Frances Smith, mother of two sons, 742 Wallace St., Sterling. Frank Harts, 1509 W 9th St.,dent Eisenhower in advance of —next month’s summit conference was n^t thrown from his car by theEisenhower arranged to greet De ’ ' u'“ .....Gaulle personally at National Air-1 port at noon and lead him through 1t 9onorid-t,ndiseteaistb-ral:e.BC-ina colorful military reception com plete with a 21-gun salute.The President was then to escort De Gaulle and his wife in a slow mo\ ing motorcade to the of-: ficial guest house across from the White House where they will stay j during their four-day state visit, jFlags Line RouteThousands of flags lined theparade route and thousands of government workers were assured of lunch hour time to crowd thesidewalks.Seventeen bands were assigned positions on the route and thou- j sands of French and American flags decorated the lamp posts. Units of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps were as-impact and his injuries are not believed to be critical although he does have a fractured right leg. He is also at patient in Community General Hospital, where authorities today said his condition was satisfactory.I)i\»m DriverThe Dixon driver involved is 25-year-old Philip Sofolo, 1303 W. 1st St., who is confined in Community General Hospital. It is not believed that his injuries are serious. Sofolo refused a request by State Trooper Kenneth Fischback and Lee County Coroner Robert ^reston who talked with him in the hospital shortly after midnight to take a blood test to determine his sobriety.Sofolo was the driver of a car in August 1955 in which a youth waskilled. Details of that accident were not immediately available but* 4 1ft m a* * * W * 1*^ VV C A v CAC3* j t • • . . « - -signed to participate in the air- j ‘ ^port ceremonies parade De Gaulle came heref A1 1 V _ A 1 * fM CH t A fl fl Aand in thebecauseevidence indicated that Sofolo wasfrom ai a «« i4 a i f(Continued
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Sterling Daily Gazette
Sterling, Illinois, US
Fri, Apr 22, 1960
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