Show Black Friday June a day of tragedy and records June 24 will go down in the history of Roosevelt as one of the blackest days in the memory of old-time residents in this community It was also a day that saw some kind of a record for ambulance use established in the area NOT ONLY did tragedy strike into the heart of two well known and respected Roosevelt families and snuff out the lives of their loved ones in a flaming truck-auto but two other residents of Upalco and Bluebell were painfully injured in off-highway The story of the horrible traffic accident that wiped out a complete family of Keith the the Debra their sweet little has been told over and over and lived a thousand times in the minds and hearts of the parents and grand-parents of this young family More details will be found in another story and in pictures on Page RAY DC It FEE of received a fractured jaw and other injuries when he was hit by a falling pine tree he was cutting in the Mos-by Mountains about 50 miles north of Roosevelt No one saw the but Ole a fellow of the Great Lakes Timber Oo hoard him call for help and went to his aid He is listed in condition in the Hospital in Salt Lake James Bird of Buffered hip and neck injuries when thrown from the top of a hayrack about noon Witnesses said the accident was caused when the coupling pin came out of the tractor Which was towing the This allowed the wagon tongue to abruptly halting the hayrack and tossing Bird from it He was taken to the Salt Lake Veterans Hospital whore his condition was ON THAT BLACK June the Mortuary who offers ambulance service to the entire western part of the Uintah reports a record for trips made by their ambulances to and from the Salt Lake Within the five trips were made to Salt Lake hospitals to transport injured or to bring back to their Roosevelt bodies of local residents who had died in the Salt Lake According to Ted manager of the local funeral the past ten or June IS through June they had made ten trips to the capitol On June 18 they rushed Kent to the hospital following a freak baseball Later that morning Nettie who had sustained a hip was taken to a hospital for THE NEXT TRIP was Tuesday June when Scott who sustained a frac-tui-ed leg in a softball game was rushed to the hospital for an Then came that black Friday when they-were called into service five three to make rush trips Sw JENE 24 Back Page June 24 from page Roosevelt to secure medical aid in Salt Lake for James I. Bird of Next was little Debra Lynn who was fatally burned in the accident that saw her parents die in a flaming cement The third ambulance passenger was Bernard driver of the car that crashed head-on into the cement mixer that claimed three lives The other two ambulance trips were made from Salt Lake to Roosevelt bringing the bodies of Elizabeth J. M. Lyman and Herbert Barlow who had died in the city and were brought home for I funeral services and bur THINGS SLOWED down for a couple of days until when this was again j called to aid the the afflicted and the They made it three on June 27 One was to rush an injured man who had one of his arms caught in some kind of a machine on the road construction job east of Roosevelt to a hospital for The next trip west was to take Van Roosevelt pioneer and out for medical at- j The third trip was this way to bring- the body of Orville Atwine who was killed near Saturday in a highway accident ARE GLAD to serve this area and are happy to have the equipment in our and Roosevelt places of business to do a but we do hope things slow down a Ted remarked when called for information for this story As a final thought perhaps a bit of editorializing might be in order at the conclusion of this feature The Basin is fortunate to have Ted as one of its citizens Not only does he do an outstanding job in his chosen but he is a real public-spirited citizen in the work he is doing for his community and church |