A. Truck

     Report from Clovia police with a fatal: Irwin Soto, 22, of Clovia, was killed instantly at noon on access road four miles west of Clovia. Police say he apparently had a flat and had stopped to change tires, propping up his pickup with a bumper jack. Somehow he got under the truck, it slipped, and he was crushed. Severe chest injuries, says Dr. Wayne L. Stapleton of Fairlawn Hospital.
     He is survived by parents, Jack and Eileen Soto, of Clovia; his widow, Alice; and an infant daughter, Adeilada. Funeral services pending. Body at Heavenly Rest Chapel in Freeport. He was a local boy who played in all the high school sports and was a star sprinter. He spent two years at the University of Tennessee on a track scholarship but came home to run his father's dairy farm two years ago.

B. Speed

     A Freeport patrolwoman you know tells you that there was a strange accident early this morning on Massachusetts Avenue. Several cars were struck by a teen-age driver, she says. The records and a conversation with the investigating officers, Sam Ratcliffe and Brut Kazazian, disclose the following: At 2 a.m., a car driven by George R. Dugan, 17, of 89 Georgia Ave., struck six cars on Massachusetts Avenue, southbound lane. No injuries, although Dugan's vehicle was demolished. The six cars were parked along the street when Dugan drove by.
     "He just tore through town, probably at 70 or 80 and lost control, near as we can figure," Kazazian says:

     Dugan doesn't remember a thing. Not that he's hurt. We took him to Fairlawn and all he has is a headache and a black eye. But he has got a lot to worry about: driving without a license, speeding, reckless driving citations. He told us he had never driven before two days ago when his brother started to teach him to drive. He said he took the car belonging to his brother Ralph and decided to go on a "solo" trip to prove he could do it.
     He says he was at a party with some girls and other guys and they made fun of him because he was 17 and couldn't drive, so he took off and got the car to show them up. No alcohol or drugs present.
     The way he went through there his car was like a Ping-Pong ball, banging this way and that. He also smashed a lamp-post. It's lucky no one was on the street at the time.