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Show , ... i i iiiihmii. ' l ii In ' iiiiw.imHii-hiiiii ''n' o?? &&Stovtieiai9tAA nAx&. Ti 1 1 'i n 1963 Chevrolet driven by James Mountain. Plymouth car driven by Stanley Young. Four Duchesne youths, a Salt Lake City girl, and a 59-year-old Duchesne man were injured in a head-on collision colli-sion of two sedans about 5 p. m, Sunday just west of Herman Freeman home in Utah on Utah Highway 35.. Injured: Stanley Young, 16, driver and James Mountain, Moun-tain, 59, driver. Billy Bailey, 15 12, Duchesne; Roger Cowan, Co-wan, 17 12, Duchesne; Brent Bailey, 17, Duchesne; Colleen Fitzgerald, 16, Salt Lake City. All were examined at the Roosevelt LDS Hospital. Billy Bil-ly Bailey, who suffered severe se-vere facial lacerations and other head injuries, when the force of the collision flung him into the windshield, was transferred to the Cottonwood Hospital in Salt Lake City for treatment and surgery. It is reported by family members he was in surgery Monday morning for nine hours. Tuesday, the family reported he is expected to be released from the hospital hos-pital later this week, James Mountain, 59, Duchesne, Du-chesne, was eastbound, driving dri-ving a 1963 Chevrolet Sedan, owned by his son-in-law, Thomas Appah. He was traveling tra-veling at a minimum speed of less than 30 miles per hour, the report of the Utah Highway Patrol indicates. The impact of the Plymouth Sedan carried the Appah car back up the road 38 feet, before be-fore it struck the roadbed. Mountain suffered a broken left leg, above the ankle, a broken nose, and chest in - juries, cuts, abrasions and bruises. He was treated at the Roosevelt LDS Hospital, then transferred to the Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake City for further medical attention. Highway Patrol officers have had the report he is expected to be released the middle of the week from this hospital, and possibly transferred to the Roosevelt Hospital. Stanley Young, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Young, Duchesne, Du-chesne, and Brent Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Troy Bailey, Duchesne, was released from the Roosevelt Hospital Tuesday Tues-day morning. Roger Cowan and Miss Fitzgerald were released re-leased from the hospital Sunday Sun-day night. j The investigating officers report the Plymouth Sedan, driven by Stanley Young, 16 , Duchesne, was traveling at a speed in excess of 75 mph at the time of impact. Skid marks were measured for 202 ft. The place of the accident is described as a blind corner, due to the rather sharp, 45 degree de-gree angle turn and the growth on the right-of-ay. Elvin D. Rasmussen, the investigating official Highway Patrol, and who will file the official report of the accident, said a reckless driving citation would be issued against Stanley i Young, and this would be sent to the Utah Highway Patrol along with the official report, and the citation would be referred re-ferred to the juvenile court authorities for handling. The accident was investi gated by the Highway Patrol officers and Duchesne County Sheriff George Marett and Deputy De-puty Bernard Hadden, who wert all at the accident scene. Harold Thomas, the city mar-shall. mar-shall. The ambulance from the Stewart Nursing Home in Roosevelt transported the others, as this vehicle arrived after the Duchesne City ambulance am-bulance had left. The two vehicles are listed list-ed as a total loss - about $1, 800 for the Plymouth and $1, 600 for the Chevrolet, as shown on the report form of estimated value and loss. The Bailey youths are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Troy Bailey, Duchesne; Roger Cowan is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Reed Cowan, Co-wan, Duchesne; Stanley Young, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Young, Duchesne. All are students at the Duchesne High Continued on page 8 LOCAL ACCIDENT INJURES SIX Continued from page 1 School. Miss Fitzgerald's family has bought a ranch in the Utah area, but still reside in Salt Lake City. Troy Bailey was telephoned at Grand Junction, Colorado, where he had driven that afternoon to attend an electrical elec-trical school. He took a plane to Salt Lake City shortly after receiving word of the accident. acci-dent. He returned Tuesday to Duchesne and brought Mrs. Bailey home from the Cottonwood Cotton-wood Hospital, where they had been staying with their son during the operating period and for the time he was in the recovery room. Mr. Mountain told the investigating in-vestigating officer he did not see the Young car until it was just in front of him - maybe 25 ft. ahead, and that it was on his side of the road, in his path. Billy Bailey was a passenger passen-ger in the front driver, seat, with the Young youth. The other three, Roger, Brent and Colleen, were riding in the back seat of the sedan, the report showed. Shortly before the accident, Terry Swope had left the vehicle ve-hicle to ride in a vehicle driven dri-ven by Miss Vickie Broadhead, . and the Fitzgerald girl had given up her seat in the Broad-' head vehicle, to Swope. The transfer of passengers had been made near the intersection of the highways on Blue Bench. Billy Bailey and James Mountain were taken to the Roosevelt Hospital in the Duchesne Du-chesne City car, driven by |