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Show Moab Youth Killed Iilled ( , Five Hve Others OthersHurt OthersHurt OthersHurt Hurt ir nfCar inCar Car Crash Near Durango Durcingo DurangoTrip DurcingoTrip Trip to Football Game in Colorado City Has HasTragic HasTragic HasTragic Tragic Ending Endmg When Car Overturns on Highway The trip of a group of Moab Moaband Moaband Moaband and Monticello Sroung young oung folks to toa toa toa a football game at Durango had hada a tragic ending endmg late Friday Fridayafternoon Fridayafternoon Fridayafternoon afternoon when the car m in mwhIch inwhich mwhich failedto whIch they were riding ndmg ridmg faIled to make a sharp curve and over overturned overturned overturned turned about eight miles west of . Tibbetts Tlbbetts Durango ofDurango Jimmie Willard Tlb Tib , MrsJames betts 16 son of Mr and Mrs James W Tibbetts of Moab re recelved received received celved ceived injuries mJunes from which he dIed hedied at Mercy hospital in m Duran Durango Durango Durango go Saturday morning mornmg Five other otheryoung otheryoung otheryoung young people pcople were injured 1I1Jured twoof twoof two of seriouslyLois them seriously ofMr Lois Fuller 15 daughter of Mr and Mrs Lewis Fuller of ofMonticello Monticello was the most sen senously sen senously senously ously The10th injured mJured of the five The 10th grade high school studentwas studentwas student was in 111 a semi conscious condl coridi tion tlon condltlon coridition legone for several scveral days One leg one arm and her mouth were werebadly badly cut her face was bruIsed bruIsedand bruisedand bruisedand and there was a bump on ocx her herhead head headOthers herheadOthers Others hurt werelVIrs WereMrs were Mrs lVIrs Lucile Cash 20 Monticello Monti cello Cortez wife of Glenn Cash Cor tez anddaughter serving Servmg in the navy . , , , and i daughter Garland of Mr and Mrs Gar land Douglas Monticello backmJury backinjury back injury mJury expected to be in m cast forSIX forsix for six weeksCecIl weeksCecil weeks gradeMontIceUo gradeIvtonticello Cecil Bright 16 llth 11th grade Monticello MontIceUo Ivtonticello high school student studenf studentdaughter studenfdaughter daughter of Mrs Fern Bright Bnght BnghtRIchey BrightRichey Richey dislocated collar bone , facial scratchesRoss scratchesRoss scratches Ross Hicks 17 Moab ownerand ownerand owner and driver dnver of the car and grandson grand son of Mrs Amy Allred Alired Moab Ibach MoabIbach IbachmJury back Moabback backinlury scratchesGall scratchesGail injury mJury inlury facial scratchesI scratches Gail Gall Tibbetts 15 brother of ofthe I the boy kIlledand killed and cousin cousm of of.Ross ofRoss Ross .Ross . Hicks bruised eye bloodIvessel bloodvessel blood vessel Ivessel cutI cutThe in 111 arm cut cutThe I The accident occurred about , about4 4 20 Friday Fnday atfernoon when whcn whcn'young . . young 'young ' fourdoor Hicks car a 1936 four door Ford sedan failed to make makea la makela a curve on . the Hesperus Hosperushill HcsperuS-- HcsperuS HcsperuSlll - _ hill hillabout lll lllabout about eight miles west of Duran Durango Durango go ' Young Hicks said after the theaC'ldent accident aC'ldent aCldent ( ' that he wasn t certam certain certamwhat certainwhat what happened but he thought thoughtthe the v . wheels ihee1s heels must have got caught gotcaught gotr'miM r'miM rmiM r'miMin ' In in som rn- rn rnc - , ' rllt . , , < : + c Police I Patrolmen PatrolmenLon I whoI ' Lon Dufur and John Dufur who whomvestlgated , ofthe investigated mvestlgated said it was one of the everseen worst wrecks they had ever seen seenThey They reported that the car landed carlanded upside down on top of a fence afence post 150 feet from the spot where spotwhere it left the highway HIcks HIckssaId Hickssaid Hickssaid saId between the post was sticking stlckmg up be- be - tween a rear wheel and fender Passing Passmg fenderPassmg fenderPassing motorists motonsts took the m in jured lured mjured inlured DurangoMr to the hospital at Durango Mr and Mrs Tibbetts par- par - ents parents of the Tibbetts brothers , . were notified of the aCCIdent accidentFriday FrIday evening evenmg and left at once for oncefor Durango Jimmie died short- short - ly shortly thereThe before they reached there The body of the young man manwas manwas manwas Saturday-evening Saturday evening Saturdayevenmg Saturdayevening was brought to Moab Saturday - evenmg evening and funeral serVIceswere serviceswere services were held Tuesday afternoon afternoonat at the LDS ward chapel Therewas Therewas There Therewas atthe was a very large attendance at the services andscores and scores of floral floraloffermgs floralofferings offerings offermgs Bishop Howrd Lance LancepresIded Lancepresided presided at the rites ntes which werevnr,7 were wereIvery , , Ivery vnr,7 vnr7 TaW ImnreSSlve irrtyifQoonrrt mnVpvQ1r The opening of- of of-- of . offered prayer was - - - fered by Wayne R McConkle McConkie , . , followed folIowed by a mixed mned : quartet quartetwhich Beautlfull ; which sang There s a Beautiful Beautlful BeautifulLand l , Land Members of the quartet quartetwere were Mrs Tom Taylor Mrs C J J CJ ' Meador V P Walker and andn andEdd Edd E Provonsha Mrs V P : P2 PWalker Walker accompanying accompanymg Thele Theie Thelewas Theiewas was a scriptural reading readmg by . byBishop MrsPhIlander Bishop BJshop Lance after which Mrs Philander Maxwell " . ind 1.nd 1nd md MrsJohn MrsJohn Mrs John G Johnson sang When Whenthe . . the Roll RolI is Called CalIed Up tip YonderMrs Yonder ' Mrs Clarence Holyoak accom accompanymg accompanying panying panymg Superintendent Supermtendent ofSchools ofSchools of II Schools Helen M Knight Kmght and andBIShop andBishop Bishop W R McConkie McConkl MeConkid were werethe werethe the speakers telling telImg of their acqall1tance acqaintance ac qamtance qall1tance qaintance with the departed departedyouth departedyouth youth and offering offermg words of ofcomfort ofcornfort comfort corn-fort corn fort - to the bereaved parentsand parentsand parents and family The mixed mL'ted mLted mLxed - - ' quartet- quartet quartetsang quartetsang - sang There s No Dlsappomt Disappoint Disappointinent Dlsappomtment ment inent in 111 Heaven The cloSIngprayer closingprayer closing ' arayer prayer was given by John W WSullIvan WSullivan SullIvanJImmIe Sullivan Jimmie Willard was born Oct 27 1928 at Santa Fe N M Hecame Hecame He came to Moab with his h15 hi parents parentsseveral parentsseveral 1 . _ , . _ - - - - - - - - TT - several years ago He lIe was a - very veryIbrIght - - - - bright verybright young man exceptionally e.ceptlonaI1y eceptlonaI1y e.ceptlonaI1ypopular exceptionallypopular , . IbrIght popular with his schoolmates schoolmatesand schoolmatesand and fncndh frIend friends : . His Hx death i b is a shock shockto Ito shockIto to tragice tragICblow the community and i 1 " . i tragIC blow to the parents who have havethe have.the havethe the .the . sincere Sll1cere sympithy symp"1.thy symp1.thy symp1thy " . of theIrmany theirmany their ! many friends friendsJimmie , Jimmie is survived by hIs hIsparents hisparents parents Mr and Mrs JamesTibbetts James Vv VvTIbbetts Tibbetts and three brothers brothersIWIlham brothersWilliam IWIlham William R who is in 111 the US USnavy U S Snavy navy and arid Gail Gall and Raymond Raymondn RaymondTIbbetts [ Tibbetts Moab |