Newspapers: Auto Accident C.R. Knowles, Ted Von Stein, & Eugene Dunagan: Medford, Jackson Co., Oregon *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elizabeth Oct 2002 ************************************************************************ KNOWLES, Chester Roy, Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Thursday, 12 Nov 1942, p. 1 -- Three Boys Hurt When Auto Hits Highway Culvert -- Chester Roy Knowles died early this afternoon of acute shock and a head injury. Three Medford youths were confined in Community hospital today with injuries they suffered when their automobile, a Ford V-8 sedan, crashed into a concrete culvert on the Crater Lake highway about a mile northeast of the McAndrews road intersection shortly after 4 a.m. The boys were Chester Roy Knowles, 16, and Ted Von Stein, 18, both of 539 West 10th street, and Eugene Dunagan, 18, of 224 West Clark street. Dunagan, driver of the car, told George Davis, driver of Perl's ambulance which removed them to the hospital, that he went to sleep at the wheel as they were returning from Shady Cove. The automobile was totally demolished. Knowles and Von Stein were the most seriously injured. The former suffered a long laceration on his head and a cut left kneecap, and the latter received a lacerated forehead and severe cuts on the lip. Dunagan suffered from shock. The attending physician said that the condition of Knowles and Von Stein was "serious." They were both badly cut up and lost considerable blood. X-ray pictures were to be taken as soon as their condition improves sufficiently, the doctor said.