Obituaries:  Talbot Ward, Sabine Parish       W-630
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 15, 1968
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Talbot Ward

  Sabine Parish recorded its third and fourth traffic fatalities
of 1968 in a grinding car-truck head-on crash Sunday night, about
5:45 p.m., just north of Many, on U. S. Hwy 171 near the KWLA
radio station.

  Killed at the scene was a passenger in the pickup, Sam M.
Richard, 61, of Many. Talbot Ward, 47, of Many, driver of the
truck, died about 10 p.m., Sunday, at Fraser Hospital.

  According to Sgt. C. J. Miller, and Trooper Wingate Dowden, the
investigating officers, Garthe Wright, 18, of Many, was traveling
north on Hwy 171 at about 35 mph. Ward was driving the pickup
south at about 50 mph.

  The officers said that Ward's pickup crossed the center line,
hitting Wright's car about seven feet across the center line.

  The officers said that Ward was apparently intoxicated.
Witnesses told officers that they saw Ward drive the truck across
the center traffic line several times before the accident
happened. Richard's brother told the officers that Sam and Ward
had left to go to Zwolle to get some beer. Several cans of beer
could be seen in the trunk, and as Richard's body was pulled out,
they rolled to the ground.

  It should be pointed out that the Police Jury has an ordinance
against beer and liquor being sold on Sunday, but apparently the
ordinance isn't being enforced.

  Young Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Wright of Many, was taken
by ambulance to Fraser Hospital. Mrs. Wright told the INDEX
Tuesday afternoon, that Garthe is "doing real well", and that he
is going to be alright.