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Show Reuben Pectol, 22, Succumbs to Injuries From Car Wreck Reuben Pectol, 22, son of El-Roy El-Roy and Jolley Pectol of Washington, Wash-ington, Utah, died Monday night at 7:30 in the local hospital from injuries received when the car in which he was riding went over a twenty foot embankment and threw his body into a cedar tree, last Sunday at approximately 11:30 p.m. With him at the time of the accident, which occured about three miles south of Veyo, were Kenneth Hall, IS, of Washington, Washing-ton, who was driving, and who suffered bruises, but is thought not seriously injured; Denzil Sproul, also of Washington, broken collar bone, and bruises about the head; Virginia Chadburn, IS, of Veyo, and a daughter of one of the CCC men of the Veyo camp who identity iden-tity is not known. Both of the girls were bruised but not serioas-ly. serioas-ly. Members of the Veyo CCC camp discovered the accident and pro- viaea streicners on which the injured in-jured were carried up the embankment. em-bankment. This according to L. D. Hartford, commanding officer of the camp, required considerable consider-able effort from the boys as the car and injured were in an awkward awk-ward position. The boys took the accident victims, to the camp where they were given emergency emergen-cy treatment and then brought to j the local hospital. Mr. Pectol never regained consciousness after af-ter the crash. John Cottam, sheriff of Washington Wash-ington county, reports that he was notified of the accident when I the victims were brought to the ! hospital and he immediately started start-ed an investigation from which he concludes they were driving fast and failed to see the curve in time to negotiate it. According to Sheriff Cottam, the boys had been working at Pio-che, Pio-che, Nevada and had made the trip down to Veyo, where they visited, and then the group decided de-cided to drive to Washington and see the boys' relatives. It was ' on the return journey that the j accident occured. I Funeral services were conduct-! conduct-! ed for Mr. Pectol, Tuesday at 4 ! p.m. in the Washington L. D. S. j Ward chapel by Bishop Wallace 1 Iverson. Interment was made in the Washington cemetery. ' He is survived by his parents, widow, Mrs. Lucille Stapley Pectol, Pec-tol, and nine brothers and sisters of Washington. |