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- Lockport Union Sun - Monday - 8/22/1960
Six Others Have Injuries;4 In Hospital
Motorcycles figured In two collisions over the weekend which brought death for a Lockport youth who was driving his own machine at Medina, and a Tonawanda boy who was riding on the "buddy seat" of a cycle involved in a pile-up with two others in the Town of Pendleton. Six other persons were hurt in the two accidents.
The dead are:
Douglas R. Schulz, 20, of 2 Walnut St., who was killed near Medina when his cycle struck a car. He suffered a compound skull fracture.
Charles A. Nichols. 14. of 60 Gibson St., North Tonawanda who was killed in collision with an auto on Tonawanda Creek Rd. in which two other cycles piled up.He suffered puncture wounds of the chest and internal injuries.
The Nichols youth was a passenger on a machine operated by Roy Grant, 16, of 560 Young St.,Tonawanda, who told deputies he had been driving for only the past three weeks.
The injured include:
The Grant youth, who was treated for laceration of the right finger end right leg at De Graff Memorial Hospital.
Paul Pederson, 19, Oakville.Ont. admitted to De Graff with a broken wrist.
Miss Sharon Burns, 17. Toronto,Ont., a passenger on the Pederson cycle, treated for lacerations of the face.
Lloyd Henderson, 19, Toronto,left shoulder injury.William Broome, 22. Buffalo, admitted to De Graff with possible internal injuries.
Miss Bonnie Ann Male, 15, Medina, a passenger on the cycle operated by Mr. Schulz, admitted to Medina Memorial Hospital with head, face and leg cuts, in fair condition.
The Schulz cycle was involved in a collision with a car driven by Miss Joan Herdendorf, 21, Medina, at North Ave. and Main St. Miss Herdendorf was not injured nor was an unidentified passenger in her car.
Dr. Walter Shifton, Orleans County coroner said that Mr.Schulz died of a compound fracture of the skull.
The accident happened at 11:45 Saturday night, according to a report by Sgt. Fred Goodsell and Patrolman Donald Vanderlaan of the Medina police, when the motorcycle drove eastward from North Ave. into the path of Miss Herdendorf's car, which was southbound on Main St.
THROWN 60 FEET
Miss Male, the daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Waiter Male, 208 Pleasant St., Medina, was thrown about feet by the crash. Mr. Schulz was hurled from the cycle through the windshield of the auto which is owned by the Chichocki Auto Service Station of Medina.
Miss Herdendorf told police she was driving about 15 m.p.h.Police said two witnesses, Glenn A Fuller of Shelby Center and Mrs. Dorothy Sargent of Medina,told them the cycle drove from North Ave. onto Main St. into the path of the car. North Ave ends at Main St. but there is no stop sign there.
BRAND NEW CYCLE
Mr. Schulz was born In Niagara Falls, Dec 20, 1939, the son of Otto and Anna M. Reynolds Schulz.
A member of St. Patrick's Church, he was a 1917 graduate of De Sales Catholic High School and was employed at Norton Laboratories since July 1936. He had bought his foreign-make motorcycle three weeks ago.Surviving him are his mother,Mrs. Otto Schulz; a brother, Timothy and a sister, Miss Judith Ann Schulz.A prayer service wiII be held Wednesday morning at 8:39 at the Taylor A Reynolds Funeral Home, Niagara St., at N. Transit St.. and a requiem mass will follow a' St. Patrick's Church Bur-
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