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From: Lisa <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Clippings
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:31:41 -0500


PLEASE NOTE - The following newspaper clippings are from a collection found
after my great Aunt passed away. She unfortunately made no note of what paper
they came from or the date. I felt they may still provide important clues for
somebody and other listers agreed so I have been posting them regardless.



Sideswiped Car Hit by Truck, 2 Die, 1 Injured

Pair in Auto Hauling Racer Killed as Trailer Rams Rear Near Paulsboro

Special to Herald Tribune

Paulsboro, N.J. June 6 - Two men were killed and a third was seriously injured early this morning on New Jersey Route 44 when their automobile was sideswiped by another car and then struck by a ten-ton truck.

David C. GULICK, twenty-five, a medical student at Temple University in Philadelphia, and Frank LeRoy FLEMING Jr., eighteen, of Oldwick, N.J., were fatally injured. Both were passengers in a car driven by Mr. GULICK's twenty-two-year-old brother, Richard, also of Oldwick. He was taken to Underwood Hospital in Woodbury, N.J., with a broken hip.

The accident occurred at 1:40 a.m. The party was bound from Oldwick to Winchester, Va., where Richard GULICK was going to compete in a stock-car race. They were towing his racer, a 1937 Ford, souped up for speed.

Two miles north of Paulsboro, their car was sideswiped by a vehicle driven by William WILSON, twenty-five, of Blackwood Terrace, Woodbury. The GULICK's car was being closely followed by a trailer-truck.

The truck driver, Raymond E. BELCHER, thirty-four, of Graham, N.C., saw the accident, but was unable to stop or swerve sufficiently to avoid the cars ahead of him and his heavy truck ploughed into the racing car, telescoping it into GULICK's auto.

BELCHER, uninjured, was held in $1,000 bail for reckless killing with an auto. WILSON, slightly shaken up, was fined $12 for careless driving and was also held in $1,000 bail for being involved in the accident. Both men posted bonds.

The case will be heard by the Gloucester County grand jury, meeting in September.

Parents of the GULICK brothers were notified in West Palm Beach, Fla. State Police said that the father, Clarence GULICK, a retired contractor, would return north immediately.



Farmhand Dies Beneath Wheel of Loaded Trailer

Services Held For Victim of Second Fatal Farm Accident in Four Weeks

Oldwick - Funeral services were held Tuesday for David F. REED, 65, of Oldwick, a farmhand who was killed instantly shortly before noon last Saturday, when he was crushed beneath the wheel of a trailer loaded with bales of hay.

The accident occurred on the Webster Todd farm near Lamington, where REED had been helping his employer, John K. RINEHART of Oldwick, bale a field of hay.

REED was attempting to uncouple the trailer, which was being pulled behind a hay baler, and had signaled the driver of the tractor, George RINEHART, to proceed. The heavily loaded trailer evidently did not release from the baler and passed directly over his body, crushing several ribs. One of the broken ribs punctured the heart, causing instant death.

The accident was the second fatal mishap in this section within the last four weeks.



Sarah Van Pelt CROTSLEY, 29, Expires In Hospital

Mrs. Sarah Van Pelt CROTSLEY, 29 years old, died Sunday morning in Somerset Hospital where she was a maternity patient since Sunday, July 1.

Mrs. CROTSLEY was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter VAN PELT of Pottersville where she resided until a year ago when the couple purchased a home near Fairmount.

Survivors include her husband, Charles CROTSLEY of Fairmount; the infant son, ten days old; another son, six years old; a daughter, Charleen, all at home; and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter VAN PELT, of Pottersville. Mrs. CROTSLEY also leaves a sister, Doris VAN PELT, Pottersville, and a brother, Lawrence VAN PELT of the U.S. Army in Okinawa.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in the Pottersville Reformed Church with the Rev. Edwin BROWN, pastor of Lower Valley Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Fairmount Presbyterian Church, under the direction of Daniel J. Coughlin & Son of Califon and Oldwick.


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