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Show CHILD KILLED IN FALL FROM TRUCK A fall from the bed of a moving mov-ing truck driven by her mother killed Alice Rollins, 6, on highway high-way 21 eight miles southeast of here, about 9:30 a. m. Wednesday. Wednes-day. Mrs. Myrtle Griffiths Myers of South Milford was driving a milk truck toward Milford when the accident occurred. Alice and her 5-year-old brother, Robert Rob-ert Allen Rollins, were riding on fhe truck bed while her sister, Jeanette, was in the front seat with Mrs. Meyers. Mrs. Myers looked around to see if the two children were all right, and the truck swerved, hitting loose gravel and continuing into a borrow pit on the side of the road." Before she could regain control, the car crossed the road into the borrow pit on the other side. Both children on the back of the truck were thrown to the highway. Alice died almost instantly, in-stantly, and Robert suffered a cut on the back of the head. The children and Mrs. Myers were rushed to tne Milford hospital, hos-pital, where Robert's head was dressed, and Mrs. Myers was given a sedative .Tay RoJIins, father of the children, was confined to the hospital at the time with an infected in-fected knee. I Alice Rollins was born Dec. 14, 1942, in Panaca, Nev., a daughter of Jay and Myrtle Griffiths Rollins. Surviving, besides be-sides her parents, are her stepfather, step-father, Orrin Myers; two brothers. broth-ers. David J. and Robert Allen Foi'ins, and a sister, Jeanette Rollins |