NEW -- Five Perish in Accidents
By United Press International
A McClain County man was killed in a car-truck collision today and four died in two accidents on Oklahoma highways Monday. The state's 1964 traffic toll rose to 668, compared with 644 a year ago.
The dead:
Daniel Mecley, 24, Ryars.
Ocie C. Holliman, 34, Tulsa
Neva Hulliman, 32, his wife
Debra Hulliman, 2 their daughter
Carl A. Jackson, 54, Muskogee
Mecley was a passenger in a car driven by Joe P. Davis, 28, of Albaquerque, N.M., when it collided with a loaded semi-trailer truck driven by William Story, 40, of Pauls Valley. Davis was critically injured. Story escaped injury. The accident occurred on U.S. 77 just south of Purcell.
The three members of the Holliman family died in a two-car head on collision on S. H. 51 east of Broken Arrow. Their auto collided with a car driven by Verra Boatright, 71, of Tulsa. Mrs. Boatright and Holliman's 4-year-old son, Gregory were critically injured. Holliman was manager of operations for the du Pont Co. in Tulsa.
Jackson was killed when a car in which he was riding stalled on the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks in Fort Gibson and was struck by a train. The driver, Jess Lavour Body, 58, of Muskogee, suffered minor injuries. The train's engineer was Claud Samuel Wofford, 62, of Van Buren, Ark. He was not injured.
[Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Oklahoma) October 10, 1964, Submitted by Nancy Piper] |
