OBIT--Roy White

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Roy White

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Ashland, Ky.

     Worker Electrocuted--Roy White,33, above, veteran employee of the 
Ashland plant of the American Rolling Mill Co. met tragic death late 
Tuesday afternoon, when he came on contact with a high tension wire in the 
blooming and bar mill. 
	Armco Man Is Electrocuted At Plant.(Roy White,33 is Victim; Funeral 
Rites Will Be Friday Afternoon.
       Roy White, 33, of Summit,Ky., a veteran millwright at the Ashland 
plant of the American Rolling Mill Company was electrocuted while working 
in the Blooming and Bar Mill department yesterday afternoon. The accident 
occurred at 5:05 o'clock and fellow workers immediately applied artificial 
respiration.
     This emergency treatment was continued at the scene and while White 
was being rushed to the King's Daughters' hospital in a John Steen Funeral 
Home ambulance.  A mechanical respirator was used at the hospital but all 
efforts to revive White failed.
     W. A. Jordan, plant safety director, said that White was electrocuted 
when his hand tounched a wire carrying 440 volts of electricity.  White, 
preparing to repair a piece of equipment, had thrown a switch and believed 
the wire dead but had thrown the wrong switch, Jordan said. When White came 
into contact with the wire he received the full force of the current.
     Armco officials said the fatality was the first lost time accident in 
the local plant for 86 days. 
     FIRST CONMTTEE DEATH --- White who had worked at the plant for 15 years, 
had recently moved to Summit, a suburb, after living in Ashland for 10 years.  
He was one of the committeemen of the Ashland Armco Employee Representatives 
and his was the first death of one of these committeemen.  He was a member 
of Poage Lodge No. 325, F.& A.M., of Ashland.
     The son of Mr. and Mrs Joe ( Continued on page 8, Column 6         

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White., he was born at Adeline, Ky., Feb. 16, 1909. He is survived by his 
wife, Mrs. Ethel Jarrel White, two sons Robert Gene, 9 and Roy Thomas, 3; 
his parents who reside at Adeline; five brothers, Frank and Arthur, both 
with the U. S. Navy; Joe White Jr., of Adeline, Clarence White and Curtis, 
both of Buchanan, Ky.; and four sisters, Miss Goldie White and Mrs. Andrew 
Noe of Ashland, Mrs. Nora Rankin of Buchanan,Ky., and Mrs. Arvilia Bluebaum, 
of Adeline.
     The body was removed from the John Steen Funeral Home to the residence 
at Summit at I P. M. today.
     The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 at the 
Missonary Baptist church in Catlettsburg.  Rev. Sam Sloan will be in charge 
and will be assised by Rev. Bernard Kouns.  Burial will be in the Rose Hill 
Burial Park. 
     The active pallbearers will be Joe Riddle, Jr., Charles White, 
Fred Thomas, Grover Anderson, Alfred Yost and Bill Prichard.
     The honorary pallbearers will be Si Queen, Ralmond Graham. Tom Smith, 
Paul Greer, Ellis Hall, Thomas Johnson, James Ward, Sam Parnell, D. T. Clark, 
J. P. Ratcliff, Guy Bentine and Noah Wellman.
     The Masons will have charge of the services at the grave.