Miscellaneous Clippings, Garland Co. AR

Obits for: BECKWICK; DEW; THORNBERG.
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Date: 23 JAN 2003

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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.
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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.
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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.
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