Tractor-Trailer Flips; Large
Beef Load Transferred
Ronald Chipwood of Resaca,
Ga., flipped his
tractor-trailer rig last Friday
morning to avoid a
collision with another rig.
According to Trooper Bill
Palmer, Chipwood was
travelling east on 158
by-pass about 9:30 a. m.
Friday morning when he
approached the intersection
with 158 business. Another
tractor-trailer was preparing
to turn at the intersection
and Chipwood's brakes
failed. To avoid a rear-end
collision he swerved to the
right and overturned.
The rig was loaded with
39,000 pounds of beef which
were not damaged. Palmer
estimated damages to the
vehicle at $11,000.
The beef was transferred
to another refrigerated
vehicle before the rig could
be righted.
Chipwood received only
minor injuries in the
mishap.
Two Motorists Cited
Two motorists received
citations for careless and
reckless driving following
two separate accidents this
week.
Walter Morris Taylor of
Rt. 2, Littleton, was injured
in an accident Sunday about
1:30a. m. about three-tenths
of a mile from Littleton on
RPR-1509
According to Trooper A.
M. Bennett, Taylor was
operating a 1971 Chevrolet
when he failed to make a
curve due to a high rate of
speed. He ran off the
shoulder, skidded down the
highway sideways and
struck an antique wagon
wheel marking an entrance
to a private drive, crushing
the wheel and overturning.
The trooper said the skid
marks measured 370 feet.
Taylor was treated and
released from Halifax Memorial
Hospital in Roanoke
Rapids. Damages to the
automobile were set at $900.
He was charged with
careless and reckless driving.
Lorenzo Darnell Ball of
239 Swain Street in Henderson
was also charged with
careless and reckless driving
after he failed to make a
Legalized Last Requests
Can Hold Willful Surprises
For millions of Americans their last will and testament
is also their first-if they have one at all.
Lawyers say that about three out of five people who die
with anything to leave have wills, with the fewest wills
among single people, especially women.
Another estimate: About 40 percent of American
business owners as well as others who own considerable
tangible assets haven't yet both'" ed with wills, despite
warnings from family and legal advisors.
All this, lawyers say, is a mistake that could cost loved
ones dearly. Without a will the family fortune, however
humble, could end up being split all sorts of ways never
intended.
Lawyers may be advisable, but are not legally
necessary in making out a will. Two «r three witnesses
are, and they have to know they are signing their names
to a will.
Judges have ruled you can't keep your widow from
remarrying under the threat of being disinherited. But
you can get even, as one disgruntled man did, bequeathing
in his will:
."Jortiy life, I leave her lover, and the knowledge that I
wasn't the foal she thought I was. To my son, I leave the
pleasure of earning a living. For 25 years he thought that
pleasure was mine. He was mistaken. To my daughter, I
leave one hundred thousand dollars. She will need it. The
only good piece of business her husband ever did was to
marry her."
Strings Attached
All kinds of strings are attached to bequests people
leave in their wills. Here are a few of them:
Auburn University will get what is left of $14 million in
about 20 gears after death claims the last of the prime
beneficiaries, 150 pet dogs who survived their loving
mistress, an elderly Florida widow.
A stage-struck Buenos Aires businessman, who in life
never made it to the action side of the footlights, left
$50,000 to a hometown theater-providing his skill be
used in future productions of Hamlet. Alas, poor Yorick,
there is no report on whether he got his wish.
Herbert J. ftlchardsea aad Mr*. Kathy Wilson. 4-H
leader* for the Hallwt 4-H Chib show $25 U. 8. uvingi
bead, trophy u4 certificate recently received by the
dab for tbe meat tads raised la tbe Easter Seal
campaiga. (Staff Pboto)
curve and lost control of the
vehicle he was operating.
The mishap occurred about
1:05a. m. Monday about 5.6
miles north of Norlina on
RPR 1211, a loop road which
was the old section of U. S. 1.
Trooper A. M. Bennett
reported that Ball lost
control of the auto in a
curve, hit a ditch bank and
came to rest in a beanfield.
He was not injured but
damages were estimated at
$350 to the vehicle owned by
Barbara Jean Branch of
Warrenton.
Deer, Cow Held Responsible
For Pair Of Warren Wrecks
A deer and a cow were
blamed for two separate
Warren County accidents
last week.
Herman Delane Person of
Rt. 3, Warrenton, was
driving a truck owned by
Jan Warren Pittman, also of
Rt. 3, when the vehicle
struck a deer which ran into
the roadway. The accident
last Wednesday occurred on
State Road 1509 about five
^i^—■
miles east of Warrenton,
according to the State
Highway Patrol.
The deer was killed and
the truck had about $400 in
damages.
Trooper W.C. Palmer
reported that Selver Sylver,
21, of Rt. 1, Warrenton, was
driving south on Rural
Paved Road 1200 about six
miles west of Norlina when
he attempted to pass
another vehicle. A cow ran
into the roadway in his path
as he was passing. Sylver
veered to the left to avoid
the animal and struck the
ditch embankment.
Palmer reported that the
driver and Ace Eugene
Sylver were injured but did
not require immediate
medical attention. He set
damages to the vehicle at
$400.