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*reast lt;i irom w to IH1; km\*^Collision Kills 3Near Tallulah;Five Are Injuredb!ViSiVIsi« *News-Star \**hs ServicerALLULAH —Three per- d sons were killed in a head-on i collision earh today on U.S. HO near here and five others were ri injured, one critically, accord- ain to Slate Police. !vOfficial- said a Jackson, t Miss, couple, Mr. and Mrs. Rob- -ert E. Byrd, were rounding a curve in a non-passing zone ii heading west when their car i;collided with a pickup truck ; driven by Eddie Beckwith, 54. tof Tallulah.The couple and a passengerin the truck, John I,. Dykes, 50. of Tallulah, all were killed. Beckwith and four otherpassengers were taken to aVicksburg, M i s s., hospital, where officials said Beckwith wa^ in critical condition.Others injured included Barbara Gravely. 29, whose condition was described as good;Herman L. Given. GO. fair; Theodore Ash, 1H, good: and Janies If. Huddleston, 25, good. All are of Tallulah,Police said the collision occurred at 0:13 a.m. about one mile west of Mound. It was the second fatal head-on collision in the area this week. A Shreveport man and a Garland, Tex woman were killed Sunda on the same highway. ;
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Monroe News Star
Monroe, Louisiana, US
Thu, Aug 23, 1973
Page 51
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