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Show TRUCK MISHAP FATAL TO BEN ARP JR. WED Careening 600 feet down ;J sheer incline in a pickup trui'k, I Bernard (Ben) Arp Jr., 33, sup- i erintendent in charge of sh ift finking fur Utah Construction i Co., was killed instantly on T-l.-l graph hill in Coppert'ield Wtd-I I nesday afternoon about 5:20 n m ! ; Mr. Arp's truck apparently! went out of control alter it hit a soft shoulder on the county load, -police said. The truck was demolished. He was enroute to one of the company's projects at1 the time of the accident and was traveling downgrade. i A son of Benjamin and Minna1 Hirz Arp, he was born May 5, 1916 in San Diego, Calif. In Sep-' tember 1938 he married F.sthci Newman in Oakland, Calif. He was educated in San Lean- uiu, iaiu., scnoois and a graduate grad-uate of San Leandro high school. I After his marriage he moved to I New York where he resided four years and had also resided in North Carolina and other localities. locali-ties. H was superintendent of the Duchesne tunnel project in 1942 and was with Utah Construction Con-struction Co. when the Davis dam was constructed in Nevada, and in Kingman, Ariz., where lie was fo' cman of excavation. He j and his lamily came to Bingham in February, and moved ..! Lark three wTeks ago. ! Survivors include his wife, and daughter, Janice Arp, of Lark;1 his parents of Lark; his grand-1 parents, Mr. and Mrs. George. Hirz of Elberta. Ala., and a bro-, ther, Fred Arp of West Jordan. I The body will be shipped to! San Leandro, where funeral ;r-! vices are tentatively set for Sat-' urday afternoon at the Seramurj funeral home. Burial will also be! in San Leandro. I |