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The State Division of Highways said Thursday it is alert to the two “wrong way” collision deaths at the same curve on Highway 50 near Castro Valley in less than a week. “We will do anything we can to prevent any more such tragedies,” said Charles Nordfelt, district traffic engineer. Nordfelt said his office is […]

Bernard Cole, 40, Mentone, died Tuesday [March 10, 1964] at 8:15 a.m. in Parkview Hospital at Fort Wayne after an illness of three weeks. Death was due to cancer. Born March 14, 1923, at Wabash, he had moved to Mentone three years ago from Tipton, where he resided most of his life. His marriage was […]

CADILLAC (UPI)—A second life was claimed late Monday [December 30, 1963] in a two-car collision at the intersection of M-55 and M-37 in Wexford County. Raymond J. Nowland Jr., 44, Charlevoix, was dead at the scene. His wife, Margaret, 40, died several hours later. Four others were injured in the wreck. Among the injured were […]

Four accidents, including the plunge of a truck over a 600-foot embankment, killed five persons in Oregon Thursday night and brought the state’s highway death toll close to a 0ne-year record. The toll stands at 497 in the Associated Press tabulation, only one below the record set in 1961. There have been 27 traffic deaths […]

MANCHESTER (Special) – Dr. Robert J. Walsh, 42, of South St., Coventry, Manchester’s first oral surgeon, died Saturday [September 21, 1963] at Hartford Hospital after a long illness. A longtime resident of New Britain, he began the practice of exodantia and oral surgery here in 1951. He was a past president of the Manchester Dental […]

Services will be held today at 7:30 p.m. in Hubbard Mortuary for Hurshel Helton, 57, of 162 Mankato St., Chula Vista. He died [September 15, 1963] in Lake Tahoe. A veteran of World War II, he was a member of San Diego A & FM 35, Masonic Lodge. He was a native of Tennessee and […]

WABASHA, Minn. (Special) — Bernard F. Raimer, Jr., 38, Greensburg, lnd., died of a brain tumor at Veterans Hospital, Minneapolis, at 8:30 p.m. Sunday [August 11, 1963]. He had been ill six months. He was born Nov. 8, 1924 in Chicago to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Raimer Sr. He moved lo Wabasha in 1947. He […]

Capt. Clarence C. Tessman, 49, of the U.S. Navy, died Saturday [August 10, 1963] shortly after his arrival in Saigon, South Vietnam, where he was reporting for foreign assignment duty. He and his family had recently visited Mrs. Tessman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Ames, 463 Magnolia Ave., San Bernardino. A native of Wisconsin, […]

Fifteen-year-old John Ksioszk, a student at Antioch Community High School, is being held in the County jail after shooting and killing his father, Felix. B. Ksioszk, Rt. 2, Antioch, last Friday [July 26, 1963]. State’s Attorney Bruno Stanczak said Judge Minard Hulse refused to authorize the transmission of the youth to the Juvenile Home, because […]

William W. Schreiber, 40, of 3701 West 96th, Overland Park, was pronounced dead late yesterday [June 6, 1963] at Providence Hospital. He apparently had suffered a heart attack at the Katz Drugstore, 954 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, where he had been manager three years. Mr. Schreiber was born in Tulsa and moved to Kansas […]