Miscellaneous Clippings, Garland Co. AR Obits for: BECKWICK; DEW; THORNBERG. ************************************************** Submitted by: Barbara Stainback Date: 23 JAN 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************** Hot Springs, Ark. newspaper clipping Saturday, Dec. 14, 1957 Vol. XLII--No. 2999 page 1 and 2 WOMAN KILLED, HUSBAND BADLY HURT IN WRECK ON HIGHWAY 70 NORTH A Garland county woman was instantly killed and her husband cricically injured shortly before 6 a.m. today when their car collided with a pickup truck and then struck a tree five miles north of Hot Springs on Highway 70. Mrs. JULIA ANN BECKWICK, 42, pinned in the car, died of a head injury, according to Dr. D. C. Lee, Garland county coroner, who went to the scene immediately. Her husband, Floyd A. Beckwith, 56, foreman at Jones Mills plant of Reynolds Metals company, is in St. Joseph's Hospital with chest, leg and possible internal injuries. He was driving the car and was partially thrown from the vehicle, which was demolished, State Trooper Glen Minton, investigating officer, reported. S. W. Guinn, 52, route 4, identified as driver of the pick-up truck involved in the accident, was uninjured. Minton quoted him giving the following version of the accident. He said he was traveling north on the highway, came up behind an empty log truck belonging to Wilson Lumber company and driven by J. E. Brinkley, 52, Hot Springs, which was parked on the highway, also traveling north. Guinn said that when he applied his brakes to stop behind the log truck the rear end of his vehicle skidded to the left toward the center line where he was side swiped by the Beckwith car which was traveling toward Hot Springs. Minton said the collision between the Guinn truck and the Beckwith car occurred at or near the center line, judging from evidence at the scene. The Beckwith car then traveled 300 feet, crossed the highway, and stuck the large shade tree in the yard of the Sam Sargo home. Sargo notified officers immediately. The right side of the car, which hit the tree, was caved in the front seat in which Mrs. Beckwith was riding was pushed back against the rear seat, pinning her in. Minton was conferring with the prosecuting attorney's office at noon relative to possible charges growning out of the accident. Brinkley and Guinn would both be questioned, Minton said. Minton said Beckwith was apparently bringing his wife to work in Hot Springs when the accident accourred. She was employed, part time, as a waitress in a hotel dining room here and was expected to report for duty this morning, it was said. A Caruth Funeral Home ambulance brought the victims to Hot Springs. The woman's body was later transferred to Gross mortuary. She is survied by her husband; four sons, Kenneth, Leonard, Larry and Eugene of Hot Springs; two step-daughters, Mrs. Ernest Holland of Hot Springs, and Mrs. Betty karen of Detroit, Michigan; a brother, Alfred Bailey, of Helena; two sisters, Mrs. Flora Tucker, of Newport, and Mrs. Henry Bailey, of Tuckerman; four grandchildren. She was a native of Newport and had lived in the county 15 years. She was a member of Oak Hill Baptist Church and was prominent in Garland county Home Demonstration work. Today's highway fatality brings this year's total for Garland county to 13, the number killed during 1956 in automobile accidents here. With the two-week holiday vacation period coming up, Minton expressed concern that this year's fatality list might surpass last year's which was the highest in four years he has been stationed her. ----------------------------------------------------- MRS. MYRTLE THORNBERG Mrs. Myrtle Thornberg, 59, a visitor to Hot Springs from Summerland Key, Florida, died this morning at a local hospital. She was born aug. 18, 1898 at Mr. Pleasant, Iowa. Survivors include her husband, Claude Thornberg of Summerland Key; and one brother, Gilbert L. Briggs, of Ottumwa, Iowa. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Gross Mortuary. ---------------------------------------------------- CLYDE L. DEW, Former Editor of Gazette, Dies. HANOVER, MICHIGAN,--(AP) Clyde L. dew, 75, former managing editor of the Arkansas Gazette, died yesterday at his farm home near here. Dew, who retired from the Little Rock, Ark., newspaper in 1948 after 39 years with the Gazette, had been in ill health in recent years. He returned to his native state in 1950. (Part of this one missing. There is another one, but it only has survivors name and Funeral home name. -------------------------------------------------- All these in same paper