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Prominent Attorney Succumbs in Rose Bowl Crash
A station wagon carrying five University of Washington students to the Rose Bowl collided with a big truck on icy Highway 99 north of Eugene Oregon. Four students died and Barbara Jean Hill 21 Seattle was in critical condition. The driver Derwood Burr Nordin 23 Palos Verdes Estates Calif and Myra Lee Taylor 21 Tacoma Evelyn Joy Simmons 20 Shelton Wash and William Robert Moser 22 Tacoma died. The truck drivers were not seriously hurt. The attorney Joseph Franklin Marshall 63 of Long Beach California died the crash occurred in fog before dawn. He practiced law in Long Beach since 1926 and belonged to local organizations. Funeral services set for Saturday.
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Eugene
Ore
University of Washington
Here
Barbara Jean Hill
Seattle
Derwood Burr ‘Nordin
Palos Verdes Estates
Calif
Myra Lee Taylor
Tacoma
Evelyn Joy Simsons
Shelton
Wash
William Robert Moser