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Show Two HQore Bie in Basin Truck Wreck The death of a 16-year-old boy and a 50-year-old man from Vernal and Ouray, respectively, late last Sunday night, swelled the death toll in Utah and the Uintah Basin for 1951. They were killed when a truck they were riding in went out of control con-trol and crashed about 2Vz miles west of Vernal at 11:30 p. m. Sunday. The victims, both passengers in the truck, were: Don Burke, 16, Vernal Glen Reid, 50, Ouray Escaping with a lip injury 1 was the driver, DeeWard Murray, Mur-ray, 17, Vernal, who was treat-! treat-! ' ed at the Vernal hospital and released. Burke and Reid were thrown from the truck as it left the road and when it came back onto the pavement, it overturned, ov-erturned, the cab crushing the skulls of the pair. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Vernal for the Burke youth, who was a member mem-ber of the Maeser ward. LDS church, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Levonia Clark. Harvey Mc-Kee, Mc-Kee, bishop of the Maeser ward, conducted the services. Final rites for Mr. Reid were held today at 2 o'clock at the Ballard LDS ward chapel, with burial in the Ft. Duchesne cemetery, cem-etery, under the direction of the Dillman funeral home. Roosevelt. |