Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02

tiOn. The second car careened into
another ditch and caught fire.
A triple funeral was held Tues
day at p. m. in Sanford (Va.)
/ Methodist Church for the three
youths who were killed in the Ac-
comack County (Va.) accident on
| Sunday. Interment in Downing
| Cemetery, near Sanford.
Goodwin was the son of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Arva5Gs Goodwin, Jr., of San
lord. In addition to his parents, he
IS survived by two brothers, Arva-
dus Goodwin ii and Raymond z.
Goodwin, both of Sanford; three
sisters, Miss Minnie NJ Goodwin OF
sanford, Mrs. Andrew White of
salisbury, Md, and Mrs. James
Mears of Fruitland, Md
White is survived by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White of Gro
IONS. Va; two brothers. Elton and
Burton White; four sisters, Mrs.
Gertrude Shaw, Mrs. Viola Butler,
Miss Peggy Sue White and Miss
Linda Lou White, all of the GrOtons
area.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Linton, Jr.; a
sister, Mrs. Carlton Marshall, Jr.;
and brother, Joseph William Lin
ION.
At Pocomoke City, Md, two per-
sons were injured critically in addi
| ion to the three killed when Redd's
:ar, going at high speed, swerved
| INTO the middle of the new Route
I3 bridge ovr the Pennsylvania
| Railroad tracks and collided head
On with a trailer truck driven by
Thomas d. Foster, %, of Elizabeth
City, N. G.
Admitted to the Peninsula Gen
eral Hospital at Salisbury, were
Jalude Winfield, SO, father of ore
If the dead youths, and James
Douglas Williams, 21.
Winfield has two fractured legs
md internal injuries; Williams has
| | head injury. Police said Foster
was treated in POcomOke City by
physician for cuts.
Redd died in Peninsula General
| Hospital about an hour after ad
mittance with fractured skull and
body injuries. The other two were
pronounced dead at the scene.
Mrs. Winifred PilkingtOn, E
1eighbOr of the five in Redd's car
| 1t a New York apartment house
said she understood they were en-
route to Richmond, Va, to pick VI
an automobile.
The automobile bus collision
| which killed three New Workers
On Route 40 near North East, Md.
injured five others, two of them
critically.
Two of the injured, Venditti
Phillip, 44, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
md man identified later as George
Muska, also of Brooklyn, are in
serious condition at Union Hospital
The third injured man, Thor Ruh-
man. 49, of Brooklyn, N. Y, was
n fair condition at the same hos
Dital.
Two women passengers on the
Baltimore-bound Trailways bus
suffered slight injuries and were
/ admitted to Union Hospital for OBJ
;ervatiOn. They were Anna Grubb
50, and Louella Luders, 81, both OF
Stamford, Conn.
State police at Darlington said
| the auto was eastbound on Route
40 when it went into a spin on the
rainslick highway, crossed the cen
ter strip and plOwed headon into
.he bus.
Bus driver Norman Thompson,
| Of West Hyattsville, Md, ran his
vehicle into a highway guard rail
in an attempt to avoid the crash.
A Clayton youth struck by a car
near his home at 5:35 p. m, last
Saturday. is in critical condition in
Delaware Hospital after brain sur
gerry.
Robert R. Comegys. 9, son of Dr..
and Mrs. Richard w. Comegys, was
rushed 20 the hospital in an am
bulance from the scene of the acci-
dent at the request of his father.
State police in Dover said the boy
ran out from between two parked
cars into the path of a car opera
ted by Golden G. POore, So, of
Smyrna. Police escorted the ambu-
lance to Wilmington
Seven persons were injured just
west of Harrington at p. M, Sun
day, when a car operated by Dallas
Fry, AS, of Harrington, collided
head-on with one driven by Will
liam Griffith, 73, of Houston.
State police said apparently
Griffith's car was on the left side
of State Route IA when the two We
hicles collided
Police said Griffith was probably
blinded by a heavy rair storm.
Injured were: Catherine Grif-
fifth, 50, of Houston, with a frac-
tured leg; Mr. Griffith was frac-
tured rib; Fry, with contusions and
decorations; James Colburn. 20, of
Denton. Md, decorations of the
head; Nina Hill, 80, Harrington
RID. decorations of the head and
fractured right leg; Lef Bright,
65, of Viola, cOntusiOns of the right
knee; and Willard Thomas, 20, also
4 of Viola, who lost two teeth and
suffered a lacerated chest.