Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Sixty-Second Year - Number 215
Marlin, Texas, Monday, December 24, 1962

MARLIN WOMAN RECEIVES HEAD
INJURY IN CRASH

A 1957 Plymouth passenger car driven by Mrs. Ethel B. Hodge of 511 Potomac Street in Marlin and a Mac truck and trailer driven by James W. Baker of Dickens, Texas, were in collision here about 3 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Clay Street and State Highway 6.

Mrs. Hodge received a head laceration in the accident and was removed by ambulance to a Marlin hospital, where she remains a patient.  Her condition is reported to be improving and she is not considered seriously hurt.  No one else was injured in the mishap.

Marlin Police Chief Woodrow Powers and Asst. Chief Billy Roberts investigated the collision.  The car was traveling west on Clay street and the truck, north, or toward Waco, on Highway 6.

Roberts said the left front of the truck struck the left back side of the passenger car, spinning the latter around and heading it in the opposite direction.

The truck driver told Roberts he hit his brakes just before the impact.  The sudden application of the brakes caused the truck to begin to jackknife and the truck driver released his brakes.  After hitting the car the truck and trailer left the highway on the driver's left, crossed the right-of-way embankment and came to a halt at a fence.

The truck driver told Roberts he was returning empty to Dickens after delivering a load of cotton to South Texas.

The passenger car received heavy damage to its left rear.  The truck received lesser damages, including a blown-out front tire.  Neither vehicle turned over nor was anyone thrown from them.

In the car with Mrs. Hodge were two nieces, Polly McKinley, 10-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Frank McKinley Jr. of this city, and Elizabeth Wardlaw, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Wardlaw of Lubbock, who are in Marlin for a Christmas visit with Mrs. Wardlaw's parents.  Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKinley Sr. Mrs. Hodge and the girls had left the of the Frank McKinley Sr.'s and were en route across town to the of Dr. and Mrs. Frank McKinley, 417 Norwood Street.  Mrs. Hodge and Mrs. McKinley, Sr. are sisters.

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