60 years ago, March 20, 1961
Intersection Crash Hurts One Woman
A Tonkawa area woman received painful bruises Thursday afternoon when a car in which she was a passenger collided with a truck at a corner intersection a mile west and two miles north of Tonkawa.
Mrs. Glenn Deem maintained a severe facial bruise that blackened her eye for the only apparent injury in the car occupied by her husband and daughter. She was taken by Mix ambulance to Blackwell General hospital for treatment.
Patrolman John Bridwell said the Deem vehicle, a 1961 Ford, was struck at the front by a skidding truck driven by Hubert W. Penka, 41, and owned by B & H Trucking company of Blackwell. The car, driven by Miss Glenda Sue Deem, 20, entered the intersection from the east and stopped with the front of the car just into the crossroads.
Bridwell said the northbound semi-trailer truck driven by Penka struck the Deem vehicle with the rear of the tractor after Penka applied the brakes to his unit which was traveling at approximately 50 miles per hour. The driver averted the car with the front of his truck but the vehicle jack-knifed, throwing the tractor sideways into the left front of Deem’s car. The trooper measured 117 feet of skid marks made by the braking truck.
The truck came to a stop in the west bar ditch on the north side of the intersection with the impact of the collision spinning the Deem car into the ditch on the east side of the road, also on the north side of the cross-road.
The trooper listed as a contributing factor to the accident a heavy hedge growth around the field at the southeast corner of the intersection which rendered the crossing almost completely blind from the directions the vehicles were traveling.
Damages to the Deem automobile were estimated at $1,000. The truck’s front axle was broken when it smashed sideways into the ditch.
6 Local Teachers Attend Workshop For Math
Six teachers from Tonkawa’s three schools Saturday attended a mathematics workshop held at Stillwater in which was emphasized the “modern program of teaching mathematics.”
Attending the conference were Mrs. Fern Weber, Mrs. Hazel Schwab and Mrs. Amelia Aisenbrey of Washington school, Mrs. Doris Gingrich and Mrs. Ruth Klufa of Lincoln school, and Miss Linabel Lucas of the Tonkawa junior high mathematics department.
Teachers were impressed that the modern program of mathematics was in point of view rather than ...
