(Taken from The Lethbridge Herald -Wednesday May 27th, 1970, pg 1)
4 Killed
In Road
Crasli
'• Four'persons were'killed and
one person was critically injured
in a two^car collision
five miles southwest of Medicine
Hat Tuesday.
RCMP identified the victims
•as Jacob'Hofer, 68, of the Winnifred
Hutterite Colony, Winnifred,
John . Needrum, 57, his
wife Margaret, 51, and their
son Mark, 10, all of the Medicine
Hat .district.
In critical condition in Medicine
Hat General Hospital is
Brenda Needrum, 6.
A small van-type vehicle
driven by Hofer and the Needrum
truck were in collision at
a rural intersection.
Coroner Dr. E. G. F. Skinner
of Medicine Hat has not decided
whether there will be an
inquest.