Show mard rm anh n an fn alft ly in mouth U jay thompson pehrson 29 was killed instantly when his car left the highway about two miles south of la sal junction between moab and monticello Montice i we late sunday night or early monday morning mr pehrson n was ya re resuming abone from atte attending nullis the junior prom in mo maib ib when i his car plunged through the I 1 I 1 guard rail marking a curve and made several loops to land in I 1 i me bottom of the sh ilov c can in 1 yon near looking glass rock jay was thrown biear of the barj and appearances landed I 1 head first on stick slick rock that ausnes his head the boctor sai sail i he could not have oci i i on ori cious atter alter the blow altho there is evidence of a struggle si ruggle which was ajie I 1 lor nis his body having ita and to a lower elevation in the canyon wall sheriff T R harvey who in investigated vesti gated the accident state that there was no indication of speed but that every thing pointed to the driver having dozed at the wheel just as he approached the turn and a short dugway leading down to the little canyon the car could easily have been overlooked from the highway and was not discovered until approximately monday morning ing where when H 11 T hutchinson and mrion marion hazelton both of monticello teles tele phoned into monticello that here had been an accident mr hutchinson telephoned from the hole in the rock diner at kane spring while mr hazelton tele phoned from lasal each of them had made the discovery independent of the other this marks the third traffic death for san juan in less than a month thell black was killed march 13 when the car in which he was riding went out of control and skidded directly into the path of a large ore truck morgan A barton was killed early on the morning of march 18 when the light pickup truck which h he e was driving plunged over an embankment into coyote wash just a little over three emilei miles from the scene of the last fatality like the pehrson incident the car was obscured from easy sight from the highway and it was several hours before beford it was discovered the time of the accident in in which young pehrson was killed has not been definitely de ter mined since he had gone to moab alone and had left left alone after the dance there is is no accurate check on time the doctor estimated that he had been dead from three to five hours when discovered jay thompson pehrson was b born orn in monticello march 29 1922 the third son of mr and mrs J unius junius T pehrson of monticello ti he had lived in monticello all his life attending public schools and monticello high school there he had been en aged in farming since reaching manhood he is survived by his parents three brothers evan and dale both of monticello robert with the armed forces and stationed at camp roberts in california and one sister mrs donna hendrickson dr of salt lake city jay was a member of the monticello ward of the church and at the time of his death he was a member of the second quorum of elders there ai |