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Show Tallage Services Set Friday For Poison Uictim The young victim of a food poisoning tragedy which struck a former Talmage family will be , buried there after funeral services Friday in the Talmage Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints. Gwendolyn Thayne, 9 died in a Craig hospital Tuesday, Octpber 16, after she, her mother, three sisters sis-ters and a cousin were struck by dreaded botulism poisoning. She was born Otc. 3, 1947 in Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friends may call at the Chapel from 11 a.m. Only by a mercy flight from Craig to Denver were other stricken strick-en members of the family saved. A plane from the new Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, and :'. commanded by Col. Levi M. Browning, commander of Lowery hospital, flew Mrs. Thayne, Kath-lyn, Kath-lyn, 15, Linda Gayle, 4, and Diane, 3, and a nephew, Lyman Taylor, 10, to Denver. Anti-toxin was flown from New York to treat the victims. Mr. Thayne and two other children, chil-dren, Taylor, 16, and Johnnie, six months, did not eat any of the bad food. Neither did two other Taylor children, Lynn, 6, and Sheldon, 3. Mr. Thayne, who moved with his family from Talmage last spring, is a mechanic for a Craig uranium firm. i According to reports received by Mr. and Mrs. Melwood Wall, of Altamont, uncle and aunt of the dead girl, the family opened one jar of home-canned beet greens and threw it away after finding that it smelled badly. A second jar was opened and it caused the botulism. Chickens which ate some 01 the first greens also died. Bishop Gail Anderson of the Talmage ward will conduct the services and interment will be in Talmage Cemetary under the direction dir-ection of OLpin Mortuary. |